I am suffocated and lost when I have not the bright feeling of progression.
~ Margaret Fuller
The lowest ebb is the turn of the tide.
~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
You give ioo percent in the first half of the game and if that isn't enough in the second half you give what's left.
~ Yogi Berra
Don't get hung up on a snag in the stream my dear. Snags are not so dangerous-it's the debris that clings to them that makes the trouble. Pull yourself loose and go on.
~ Anne Shannon Monroe
One can go a long way after one is tired.
~ French Proverb
The great thing and the hard thing is to stick to things when you have outlived the first interest and not yet got the second which comes with a sort of mastery.
~ Janet Erskine Stuart
Effort only fully releases its reward after a person refuses to quit.
~ Napoleon Hill
If something is boring after two minutes try it for four. If still boring try for eight sixteen thirty-two and so on. Eventually one discovers that it is not boring but very interesting.
~ Anonymous
No one ever did anything worth doing unless he was prepared to go on with it long after it became something of a bore.
~ Douglas V. Steere
I've been failing for like ten or eleven years. When it turns it'll turn. Right now I'm just tryin' to squeeze through a very tight financial period get the movie out and put my things in order.
~ Francis Ford Coppola
In our day when a pitcher got into trouble in a game instead of taking him out our manager would leave him in and tell him to pitch his way out of trouble.
~ Cy Young
I'm a little wounded but I am not slain I will lay me down to bleed a while. Then I'll rise and fight again.
~ John Dryden
The tragedy of life is not that man loses but that he almost wins.
~ Heywood Broun
Where I am today has everything to do with the years I spent hanging on to a career by my fingernails.
~ Barbara Aronstein Black
Courage is fear holding on a minute longer.
~ General George S. Patton
A hero is no braver than an ordinary man but he is brave five minutes longer.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Hope says to us constantly go on go on and leads us to the grave.
Every great work every big accomplishment has been brought into manifestation through holding to the vision and often just before the big achievement comes apparent failure and discouragement.
~ Florence Scovel Shinn
The line between failure and success is so fine that we ... are often on the line and do not know it. How many a man has thrown up his hands at a time when a little more effort a little more patience would have achieved success. A little more persistence a little more effort and what seemed hopeless failure may turn to glorious success.
~ Elbert Hubbard
When you get to the end of your rope tie a knot and hang on.
~ Franklin Delano Roosevelt
It is with enterprises as with striking fire we do not meet with success except with reiterated efforts and often at the instant when we despaired of success.
Saints are sinners who kept on going.
~ Robert Louis Stevenson
We can do anything we want to do if we stick to it long enough.
~ Helen Keller
When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you 'til it seems as though you could not hold on a minute longer never give up then for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
~ Harriet Beecher Stowe
Men do not fail they stop trying.
~ Elihu Root
It ain't over 'til it's over.
Triumph often is nearest when defeat seems inescapable.
~ B. C. Forbes
Don't bother about genius. Don't worry about being clever. Trust to hard work perseverance and determination. And the best motto for a long march is Don't grumble. Plug on!
~ Sir Frederick Treves
Some men give up their designs when they have almost reached the goal while others on the contrary obtain a victory by exerting at the last moment more vigorous efforts than before.
~ Polybius
Never stop. One always stops as soon as something is about to happen.
~ Peter Brook
Many of life's failures are men who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.
~ Thomas A. Edison
Fight one more round. When your feet are so tired you have to shuffle back to the center of the ring fight one more round.
~ James J. Corbett
If something doesn't come up the way you want you have to forge ahead.
~ Clint Eastwood
Fortune is like the market where many times if you can stay a little the price will fall.
~ Francis Bacon
This man Wellington is so stupid he does not know when he is beaten and goes on fighting.
~ Napoléon Bonaparte
He never knew when he was whipped ... so he never was.
~ Louis L'amour
Entrepreneurs average 3.8 failures before a final success. What sets the successful ones apart is their amazing persistence. There are a lot of people out there with good and marketable ideas but pure entrepreneurial types almost never accept defeat.
~ Lisa M. Amos
As long as a person doesn't admit he is defeated he is not defeated-he's just a little behind and isn't through fighting.
~ Darrell Royal
Only yield when you must never give up the ship but fight on to the last with a stiff upper lip!
~ Phoebe Cary
Defeat never comes to any man until he admits it.
~ Josephus Daniels
