"If you are going through hell, keep going."
— Winston S. Churchill

"Never, never, never give in!"
— Winston S. Churchill

"Certain motherfuckers think they can fuck with my shit, but you can't kill the Rooster. You might can fuck him up some times, but, bitch, nobody kills the motherfucking Roster. You know what I'm saying?"
— David Sedaris (Me Talk Pretty One Day)

"Whatever gets you through the night"
— John Lennon

"That's one of the remarkable things about life. It's never so bad that it can't get worse."
— Bill Watterson

"Continuous effort - not strength or intelligence - is the key to unlocking our potential."
— Winston S. Churchill

"Things don't go wrong and break your heart so you can become bitter and give up. They happen to break you down and build you up so you can be all that you were intended to be."
— Samuel Johnson

"I have walked that long road to freedom. I have tried not to falter; I have made missteps along the way. But I have discovered the secret that after climbing a great hill, one only finds that there are many more hills to climb. I have taken a moment here to rest, to steal a view of the glorious vista that surrounds me, to look back on the distance I have come. But I can only rest for a moment, for with freedom come responsibilities, and I dare not linger, for my long walk is not ended."
— Nelson Mandela

"Great works are performed not by strength, but by perseverance."
— Samuel Johnson

"Life, Stormy says, is not about how fast you run or even with what degree of grace. It's about perseverance, about staying on your feet and slogging forward no matter what."
— Dean Koontz

"Love will find a way."
— The Lion King II

"Courage and perseverance have a magical talisman, before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish into air."
— John Quincy Adams

"If everything's under control, you’re going too slow."
— Mario Andretti

"Though you may hear me holler,
And you may see me cry--
I'll be dogged, sweet baby,
If you gonna see me die."
— Langston Hughes

"Few things are impossible to diligence and skill. Great works are performed not by strength, but perseverance."
— Samuel Johnson

"You go on. You set one foot in front of the other, and if a thin voice cries out, somewhere behind you, you pretend not to hear, and keep going."
— Geraldine Brooks (March)

"So since I'm still here livin',
I guess I will live on.
I could have died for love--
But for livin' I was born."
— Langston Hughes

"Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would still go to pieces, I would still plant my apple tree."
— Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

"The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack of determination."
— Vince Lombardi

"Success is a little like wrestling a gorilla. You don't quit when you're tired. You quit when the gorilla is tired."
— Robert Strauss

"If we are facing in the right direction, all we have to do is keep on walking.
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— Buddhist Saying

"Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish."
— John Quincy Adams

"Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did. So throw off the bowlines, sail away from the safe harbor, catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.
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— Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens)

"Remember the two benefits of failure. First, if you do fail, you learn what doesn't work; and second, the failure gives you the opportunity to try a new approach."
— Roger Von Oech

"Where would his torture be, indeed, if at every step the hope of succeeding upheld him?"
— Albert Camus

"Win as if you were used to it, lose as if you enjoyed it for a change."
— Eric Golnik

"The lotus is the most beautiful flower, whose petals open one by one. But it will only grow in the mud. In order to grow and gain wisdom, first you must have the mud --- the obstacles of life and its suffering. ... The mud speaks of the common ground that humans share, no matter what our stations in life. ... Whether we have it all or we have nothing, we are all faced with the same obstacles: sadness, loss, illness, dying and death. If we are to strive as human beings to gain more wisdom, more kindness and more compassion, we must have the intention to grow as a lotus and open each petal one by one. "
— Goldie Hawn

"It’s not that I’m so smart, it’s just that I stay with problems longer.
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— Albert Einstein

"It's the climbing that makes the man. Getting to the top is an extra reward. "
— Robert Lipsyte (The Contender)

"Our greatest glory consists not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall."
— Oliver Goldsmith

"In the confrontation between the stream and the rock, the stream always wins, not through strength but by perseverance."
— H. Jackson Brown Jr.

"Progress always involves risk; you can't steal second base and keep your foot on first."
— F.W. Dupee

"In communities, at work, but particularly in families, people are put together in something like a three-legged race. God means us to cross the finish line together, and all the other people tied together with us play some part in our progress. They are oftentimes to rouse our stubborn sins to the surface, where we can deal with them and overcome them. Bundled together in families, a giant seven or nine or fifteen legged pack, we seem to make very poor progress indeed and fall to the ground in bickering heaps with some regularity. But God has put us together - has appointed each person in your bundle specifically for you, and you for them. And so, 'little children, let us love one another' with might and main, and keep hopping together toward the finish line."
— Frederica Mathewes-Green

"You can do it gradually...day by day and play by play...if you want to do it, if you will to do it, if you work to do it over a sufficiently long period of time.

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— William E. Holl

"Of course, in fairness, I must remind you of this: that we writers are the most lily-livered of all craftsmen. We expect more, for the most peewee efforts, than any other people."
— Brenda Ueland (If You Want to Write: A Book about Art, Independence and Spirit)

"He who has never left his hearth and has confined his researches to the narrow field of the history of his own country cannot be compared to the courageous traveller who has worn out his life in journeys of exploration to distant parts and each day has faced danger in order to persevere in excavating the mines of learning and in snatching precious fragments of the past from oblivion."
— Al Masudi (From The Meadows of Gold)

"It is as great a crime to leave a woman alone in her agony and deny her relief from her suffering as it is to insist upon dulling the consciousness of a natural mother who desires above all things to be aware of the final reward of her efforts, whose ambition is to be present, in full possession of her senses, when the infant she already adores greets her with its first loud cry and the soft touch of its restless body upon her limbs."
— Grantly Dick-Read

"By perseverance the snails reached the ark."
— Charles Spurgeon

"Ye are most strong, ye Sons of the icy North, of the far East, far marching from your rugged Eastern Wildernesses, hither-ward from the gray Dawn of Time! Ye are Sons of the Jotun-land; the land of Difficulties Conquered. Difficult? You
must try this thing. Once try it with the understanding that it will and shall have to be done. Try it as ye try the paltrier thing, making of money! I will bet on you once more, against all Jo'tuns, Tailor-gods, Double-barrelled Law-wards, and Denizens of Chaos whatsoever!"
— Thomas Carlyle (Past and Present)

"The only kinds of fights worth fighting are those you’re going to lose, because somebody has to fight them and lose and lose and lose until someday, somebody who believes as you do wins."
— Isidor F. Stone

".... it is clear that we must trust what is difficult; everything alive trusts in it, everything in Nature grows and defends itself any way it can and is spontaneously itself, tries to be itself at all costs and against all opposition. We know little, but that we must trust in what is difficult is a certainty that will never abandon us; it is good to be solitary, for solitude is difficult; that something is difficult must be one more reason for us to do it."
— Rainer Maria Rilke (Letters to a Young Poet)