Quotes by American Authors - Page 124

When you get to the end of your rope tie a knot in it and hang on.
Eleanor Roosevelt
There was a Texas Ranger one time who said that there's no stopping a man who knows he's in the right and keeps a-coming.
Louis L'Amour
The champ may have lost his stuff temporarily or permanently he can't be sure. When he can no longer throw his high hard one he throws his heart instead. He throws something. He just doesn't walk off the mound and weep.
Raymond Chandler
When you're a professional you come back no matter what happened the day before.
Billy Martin
The difference between perseverance and obstinacy is that one comes from a strong will and the other from a strong won't.
Henry Ward Beecher
I read my own books sometimes to cheer me when it is hard to write and then I remember that it was always difficult and how nearly impossible it was sometimes.
Ernest Hemingway
If I had refused to institute a negotiation or had not persevered in it I would have been degraded in my own estimation as a man of honor.
John Adams
The one who cares the most wins. ... That's how I knew I'd end up with everyone else waving the white flags and not me. That's how I knew I'd be the last person standing when it was all over. ... I cared the most.
Roseanne Barr
Competition is easier to accept if you realize it is not an act of oppression or abrasion. ... I've worked with my best friends in direct competition.
Diane Sawyer
All effort is in the last analysis sustained by faith that it is worth making.
Ordway Tead
What can any of us do with his talent but try to develop his vision so that through frequent failures we may learn better what we have missed in the past.
William Carlos Williams
Tolerate the ... process of coming to knowledge or certainty or clarity through sometimes apparently hopeless thickets of confusion or bewilderment. Learn not to be surprised or disheartened by the muddle you inhabit and not to press too soon for a superficial reprieve.
Joe David Bellamy
As long as one keeps searching the answers come.
Joan Baez
You go back to the gym and you just do it again and again until you get it right.
Arnold Schwarzenegger
Never go to bed mad. Stay up and fight.
Phyllis Diller
Education is hanging around until you've caught on.
Robert Frost
To be happy drop the words "if only" and substitute instead the words "next time."
Smiley Blanton
Vitality shows not only in the ability to persist but in the ability to start over.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Think of a fine painter attempting to capture an inner vision beginning with one corner of the canvas painting what he thinks should be there not quite pulling it off covering it over with white paint and trying again each time finding out what his painting isn't until he finally finds out what it is. And when you finally do find out what one corner of your vision is you're off and running.
Anne Lamott
Persistent people begin their success where others end in failure.
Edward Eggleston
If I don't get off the mat I'll lose the fight.
Archie Moore
It takes far less courage to kill yourself than it takes to make yourself wake up one more time.
Judith Rossner
Our greatest glory consists not in never falling but in rising every time we fall.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
When I look at the kids training today ... I can tell which ones are going to do well. It's not necessarily the ones who have the most natural talent or who fall the least. Sometimes it's the kids who fall the most and keep pulling themselves up and trying again.
Michelle Kwan
Hold on with a bulldog grip and chew and choke as much as possible.
Abraham Lincoln
Man never made any material as resilient as the human spirit.
Bern Williams
People can bear anything.
Philip Slater
To struggle when hope is banished. To live when life's salt is gone! To dwell in a dream that's vanished- To endure and go calmly on!
Ben Johnson
If you want the rainbow you gotta put up with the rain.
Dolly Parton
If you want to see the sun shine you have to weather the storm.
Frank Lane
When we see ourselves in a situation which must be endured and gone through it is best to make up our minds to meet it with firmness and accommodate everything to it in the best way practical. This lessons the evil while fretting and fuming only serve to increase your own torments.
Thomas Jefferson
God Almighty hates a quitter.
Samuel Fessenden
Giving up is the ultimate tragedy.
Robert J. Donovan
To be somebody you must last.
Ruth Gordon
The first and final thing you have to do in this world is to last in it and not be smashed by it.
Ernest Hemingway
It helps I think to consider ourselves on a very long journey: the main thing is to keep to the faith to endure to help each other when we stumble or tire to weep and press on.
Mary Caroline Richards
Keep breathing.
Sophie Tucker
Emotional maturity is the ability to stick to a job and to struggle through until it is finished to endure unpleasantness discomfort and frustration.
Edward A. Strecker
There is something in me-I just can't stand to admit defeat.
Beverly Sills
Defeat never comes to any man until he admits it.
Josephus Daniels
Only yield when you must never "give up the ship " but fight on to the last "with a stiff upper lip!"
Phoebe Cary
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
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
He never knew when he was whipped ... so he never was.
Louis L'Amour
If something doesn't come up the way you want you have to forge ahead.
Clint Eastwood
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
Many of life's failures are men who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.
Thomas A. Edison
It ain't over 'til it's over.
Yogi Berra
Men do not fail they stop trying.
Elihu Root
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
We can do anything we want to do if we stick to it long enough.
Helen Keller
When you get to the end of your rope tie a knot and hang on.
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
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
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
A hero is no braver than an ordinary man but he is brave five minutes longer.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Courage is fear holding on a minute longer.
General George S. Patton
Where I am today has everything to do with the years I spent hanging on to a career by my fingernails.
Barbara Aronstein Black
The tragedy of life is not that man loses but that he almost wins.
Heywood Broun
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'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