Ron Wendel

“Many of us have gifts and talents but we either do not use them, or if we do we don’t use them to their fullest. Every once in a while we see someone who seems like an average person. They don’t seem to have any great gifts, yet they work very hard, seem persistent, and remain very successful. Calvin Coolidge (1872-1933, 30th President of the United States of America) noticed this when he said, “Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.”
― Ron Wendel, The Scoutmaster Minute: Your Handbook for Inspiring Moments