Not Giving Up Quotes - Page 20

• Every person who has grown to any degree of usefulness, every person who has grown to distinction, almost without exception has been a person who has risen by overcoming obstacles, by removing difficulties, by resolving that when he met discouragement he would not give up.

  Booker T. Washington

  Success, Determination, Giving Up

  Booker T. Washington (2013). “The Booker T. Washington Reader”, p.303, Simon and Schuster

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  Anything is possible. You can be told that you have a 90-percent chance or a 50-percent chance or a 1-percent chance, but you have to believe, and you have to fight.

  Lance Armstrong

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

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• I love running cross-country...You come up a hill and see two deer going, 'What the hell is he doing?' On a track I feel like a hamster.

  Robin Williams

  Running, Country, Giving Up

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• The essential thing in life is not so much conquering as fighting well.

  Pierre de Coubertin

  Giving Up, Fighting, Things In Life

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• We must never despair; our situation has been compromising before, and it has changed for the better; so I trust it will again. If difficulties arise, we must put forth new exertion and proportion our efforts to the exigencies of the times.

  George Washington

  Giving Up, Hard Times, Effort

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• If you're running a 26-mile marathon, remember that every mile is run one step at a time. If you are writing a book, do it one page at a time. If you're trying to master a new language, try it one word at a time. There are 365 days in the average year. Divide any project by 365 and you'll find that no job is all that intimidating.

  Charles R. Swindoll

  Running, New Year, Jobs

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• ...so remember: great achievements take time, there is no overnight success.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Giving Up, Achievement, Remember

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• Becoming like Christ is a long, slow process of growth.

  Rick Warren

  Giving Up, Long, Growth

  Rick Warren (2010). “Daily Inspiration for the Purpose Driven Life: Scriptures and Reflections from the 40 Days of Purpose”, p.85, Harper Collins

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• Our motto must continue to be perseverance. And ultimately I trust the Almighty will crown our efforts with success.

  William Wilberforce

  Perseverance, Giving Up, Effort

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• We are able to persevere only because God works within us, within our free wills. And because God is at work in us, we are certain to persevere. The decrees of God concerning election are immutable. They do not change, because He does not change. All whom He justifies He glorifies. None of the elect has ever been lost.

  R. C. Sproul

  Giving Up, Doe, Able

  R.C. Sproul (2017). “The R.C. Sproul Collection Volume 1: The Holiness of God / Chosen by God”, p.364, Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.

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• Battles are fought in our minds every day. When we begin to feel the battle is just too difficult and want to give up, we must choose to resist negative thoughts and be determined to rise above our problems. We must decide that we're not going to quit. When we're bombarded with doubts and fears, we must take a stand and say: "I'll never give up! God's on my side. He loves me, and He's helping me! I'm going to make it!"

  Joyce Meyer

  Giving Up, Hard Times, Doubt

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• When fate hands you a lemon, make lemonade.

  Dale Carnegie

  Inspirational, Success, Fear

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• Never give in, never give in, never give in.

  Winston Churchill

  Graduation, Perseverance, Determination

  Speech at Harrow School, Harrow, England, 29 Oct. 1941

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• Hardship often prepares an ordinary person for an extraordinary destiny.

  C. S. Lewis

  Life, Encouraging, Destiny

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• Remember that everyone you meet is afraid of something, loves something and has lost something.

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

  Letting Go, Kindness, Struggle

  H. Jackson Brown Jr. (2007). “Complete Life's Little Instruction Book: 1,560 Suggestions, Observations, and Reminders on How to Live a Happy and Rewarding Life”, p.131, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Never give up on anyone. And that includes not giving up on yourself.

  Dieter F. Uchtdorf

  Giving Up, Giving, Never Giving Up

  "Continue in Patience". Dieter F. Uchtdorf's Address at the General Conference of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, www.lds.org. April 2010.

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• God has given me the ability. The rest is up to me. Believe. Believe. Believe.

  Billy Mills

  Giving Up, Believe, Swimming

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• Take a chance! All life is a chance. The man who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare.

  Dale Carnegie

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  "Dale Carnegie's Scrapbook - a Treasury of the Wisdom of the Ages". Book edited by Dorothy Carnegie, 1983.

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• This separation was absolute in our original Republic. But the sky-godders do not give up easily. In the 1950s they actually got the phrase In God We Trust onto the currency, in direct violation of the First Amendment.

  Gore Vidal

  Giving Up, Sky, Religion

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• Art being so much greater than ourselves, it will not give up once it has taken hold.

  Emily Carr

  Art, Giving Up, Taken

  Emily Carr, Doris Shadbolt (1993). “The Emily Carr Omnibus”, University of Washington Press

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• If we can elect an African American as president, we can support gay marriage! Defeat prop 8! We will not give up!

  Madonna Ciccone

  Giving Up, Gay, Support

  "Madonna says it's time US says “I do” to gay marriage", www.sundaytimes.lk. November 9, 2008.

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  Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.

  Confucius

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• When I was growing up watching Marilyn Monroe, I learned that you can be very beautiful, very glamorous and very vulnerable and not give up your soul just because you were a movie star.

  Sally Kirkland

  Beautiful, Stars, Giving Up

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• Iker Casillas is a legend, a myth, and myths do not give up just like that.

  Jorge Valdano

  Giving Up, Legends, Do Not Give Up

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• I have as little superstition in me as any man living, but my secret opinion has ever been, and still is, that God Almighty will not give up a people to military destruction, or leave them unsupportedly to perish, who have so earnestly and so repeatedly sought to avoid the calamities of war, by every decent method which wisdom could invent. Neither have I so much of the infidel in me, as to suppose that He has relinquished the government of the world, and given us up to the care of devils.

  Thomas Paine

  Giving Up, Military, War

  Thomas Paine (2008). “The American Crisis”, p.7, Cosimo, Inc.

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