Read the following quotes on persistence before giving up!
"Never, never, never give up!"
-Winston Churchill
"Never Quit. Don't ever, ever quit. Recognize that stopping now, regrouping to try a new approach isn't quitting. If you quit you'll regret it forever."
-Rudy Ruettiger
"Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance."
-Samuel Johnson
"Success seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after others have let go."
-William Feather
"Character consists of what you do on the third and fourth tries."
-James A. Michener
"Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all."
-Dale Carnegie
"A champion is someone who gets up, even when he can't."
-Jack Dempsey
"It's not whether you get knocked down; it's whether you get up."
-Vince Lombardi
"Let me tell you the secret that has led me to my goal. My strength lies solely in my tenacity."
-Louis Pasteur
"If you are going through hell, keep going."
-Winston Churchill
"When you reach the end of your rope, tie a knot in it and hang on."
-Thomas Jefferson
"I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right."
-Albert Einstein
"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 failures. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent."
- Calvin Coolidge, 30th President of the United States
"When nothing seems to help, I go and look at a stonecutter hammering away at his rock perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it. Yet at the hundred and first blow it will split in two, and I know it was not that blow that did it - but all that had gone before."
- Jacob Riis, Photographer and Journalist
"Many of life's failures are people who do not realize how close they were to success when they gave up."
- Thomas Edison, Inventor
"Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off the goal."
- Henry Ford
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