Student Success Statement

                          "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. The slogan "Press On'

                   Has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race."

                                                        - President Calvin Coolidge

What I think that President Calvin Coolidge was stating was that if you don't have the persistence to keep going in life no matter if you are talented or genius or educated or not you will be a failure. Persistence is what gets you to where you want to go, it gets you to success because success never comes easy. You may have a talent, but someone else may have the talents as well and if you want to be successful with the talent you won't give up on it, you'll have the persistence to keep on going until people recognize your talent. For example many are great singers and many record labels tell them no, but if they don't give up in the end they find a record label that wants to sign them on and then they become number one artists and those other record labels that said no start to regret it.