Quotes by American Authors - Page 92

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
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
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
Effort only fully releases its reward after a person refuses to quit.
Napoleon Hill
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
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
The lowest ebb is the turn of the tide.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
I am suffocated and lost when I have not the bright feeling of progression.
Margaret Fuller
Slow motion gets you there faster.
Hoagy Carmichael
I'm a slow walker but I never walk back.
Abraham Lincoln
The great thing in this world is not so much where we are but in what direction we are moving.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
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 A. Riis
The only way to find out if you can write is to set aside a certain period every day and try. Save enough money to give yourself six months to be a full-time writer. Work every day and the pages will pile up.
Judith Krantz
It is a matter first of beginning-and then following through.
Richard L. Evans
In soloing-as in other activities-it is far easier to start something than it is to finish it.
Amelia Earhart
I went for years not finishing anything. Because of course when you finish something you can be judged.... I had poems which were rewritten so many times I suspect it was just a way of avoiding sending them out.
Erica Jong
I can remember walking as a child. It was not customary to say you were fatigued. It was customary to complete the goal of the expedition.
Katharine Hepburn
Business is full of brilliant men who started out with a spurt and lacked the stamina to finish. Their places were taken by patient and unshowy plodders who never knew when to quit.
J. R. Todd
I just kept on doing what everyone starts out doing. The real question is why did other people stop?
William Stafford
Everyone has his superstitions. One of mine has always been when I started to go anywhere or to do anything never to turn back or to stop until the thing intended was accomplished.
Ulysses S. Grant
There are two parts to the creative endeavor: making something then disseminating it.
Jane Alexander
Great is the art of beginning but greater is the art of ending.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
When you put your hand to the plow you can't put it down until you get to the end of the row.
Alice Paul
I hope I shall have ambition until the day I die.
Clare Boothe Luce
The great majority of men are bundles of beginnings.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The way to succeed is never quit. That's it. But really be humble about it.... You start out lowly and humble and you carefully try to learn an accretion of little things that help you get there.
Alex Haley
The nearer the dawn the darker the night.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
In a real dark night of the soul it is always three o'clock in the morning.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
And the night shall be filled with music And the cares that infest the day Shall fold their tents like the Arabs And as silently steal away.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
AH I know is what I see in the papers.
Will Rogers
Let me make the newspapers and I care not what is preached in the pulpit or what is enacted in Congress.
Wendell Phillips
Were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers or newspapers without government I should not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter.
Thomas Jefferson
Today's reporter is forced to become an educator more concerned with explaining the news than with being first on the scene.
Fred Friendley
The first essence of journalism is to know what you want to know the second is to find out who will tell you.
John Gunther