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Most people give up just when they're about to achieve success. They quit on the one yard line. They give up at the last minute of the game, one foot from a winning touchdown. -
H Ross Perot
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Lots of people limit their possibilities by giving up easily. Never tell yourself this is too much for me. It's no use. I can't go on. If you do you're licked, and by your own thinking too. Keep believing and keep on keeping on. -
Norman Vincent Peale
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I've always made a total effort, even when the odds seemed entirely against me. I never quit trying; I never felt that I didn't have a chance to win. -
Arnold Palmer
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Endure and persist; this pain will turn to good by and by. -
Ovid
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Many drops make a bucket, many buckets make a pond, many ponds make a lake, and many lakes make an ocean. -
Percy Ross
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Resolve never to quit, never to give up, no matter what the situation. -
Jack Nicklaus
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Continuous, unflagging effort, persistence and determination will win. Let not the man be discouraged who has these. -
James Whitcomb Riley
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The most essential factor is persistence -- the determination never to allow your energy or enthusiasm to be dampened by the discouragement that must inevitably come. -
James Whitcomb Riley
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I do not think that there is any other quality so essential to success of any kind as the quality of perseverance. It overcomes almost everything, even nature. -
John D Rockefeller
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Some people plant in the spring and leave in the summer. If you're signed up for a season, see it through. You don't have to stay forever, but at least stay until you see it through. -
Jim Rohn
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To have striven, to have made the effort, to have been true to certain ideals -- this alone is worth the struggle. -
Sir William Osler
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Many strokes overthrow the tallest oaks. -
John Lyly
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If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew to serve your turn long after they have gone, and so hold on when there is nothing in you. Except the Will which says to them; ''Hold on!'' -
Rudyard Kipling
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Few things are impracticable in themselves; and it is for want of application, rather than of means, that men fail to succeed. -
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
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I am not concerned that you have fallen -- I am concerned that you arise. -
Abraham Lincoln
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