Do you know that overnight success usually takes at least 10 years? One man said, “My overnight success was the ______ night of my life. I spent many days and nights just getting there! Rome was not built in a day.” Many people are waiting for their ship to come in when they’ve not even ______ it out of the harbor. You see, winners ______ do what losers don’t want to do. And they keep doing it till they get the success. Success is mostly just hanging on after others have let go! So the most important trip you’ll ever make is when you go the ______ mile.

One guy said, “The secret to success is to start from zero and to keep on trying.” Don’t give up trying just ______ your trying times are many. The great inventor, Thomas Edison, tried a certain experiment hundreds of times, but didn’t work. So his assistant said to him, “It’s too bad that we did all that work without any results.” But Edison said, “Oh, we have lots of ______! We now know 700 things that won’t work.”

We can complete almost anything we want ______ we hold on. And the American President Calvin Coolidge said, “Nothing can bring success ______ persistence (坚持). Talent cannot, for there are many talented people who are not successful. Education will not, for the world is full of educated losers. Only persistence and determination (决心) can give you the ______ to succeed.” You see, you can succeed just like anyone else, just keep wanting it enough and to keep ______ for it enough. So why not decide it today to start going the extra mile on the road to your success?