Quotes on Just Give Up

If you don't understand how something works, never mind: just give up and say God did it. You don't know how the nerve impulse works? Good! You don't understand how memories are laid down in the brain? Excellent! Is photosynthesis a bafflingly complex process? Wonderful! Please don't go to work on the problem, just give up, and appeal to God.

Perseverance is a great element of success. If you only knock long enough and loud enough at the gate, you are sure to wake up somebody.

I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right.

The writing process for a short story feels more like field geology, where you keep turning the thing over and over, noting its qualities in detail, hammering at it, putting it near flame, pouring different acids on it, and then finally you figure out what it is, or you just give up and mount it on a ring and have an awkward chunky piece of jewelry that seems weirdly dominating but that you for some reason like. I could be wrong about field geology here.

Whatever you do, you need courage. Whatever course you decide upon, there is always someone to tell you that you are wrong.

Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.

Winners never quit and quitters never win.

Nothing could be worse than the fear that one had given up too soon, and left one unexpended effort that might have saved the world.

When you are going through hell, keep on going. Never never never give up.

People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don't believe in circumstances.

Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.

You just can't beat the person who never gives up.

Never give up on something that you can't go a day without thinking about.