Quotes on Not Giving Up

Faithful servants have a way of knowing answered prayer when they see it, and a way of not giving up when they don't.

When fate hands you a lemon, make lemonade.

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

Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few.

We may not know when or how the Lord's answers will be given, but in His time and His way, I testify, His answers will come. For some answers we may have to wait until the hereafter. This may be true for some promises in our patriarchal blessings and for some blessings for family members. Let us not give up on the Lord. His blessings are eternal, not temporary.

There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.

I bring you the gift of these four words: I believe in you.

We must use time wisely and forever realize that the time is always ripe to do right.

Man performs and engenders so much more than he can or should have to bear. That's how he finds that he can bear anything.

Football is like life - it requires perseverance, self-denial, hard work, sacrifice, dedication and respect for authority.

There is a crack in everything, that's how the light gets in.

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

Success requires persistence, the ability to not give up in the face of failure. I believe that optimistic explanatory style is the key to persistence.

Never give up your power to another person.

Never give up on a dream just because of the time it will take to accomplish it. The time will pass anyway.

The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want and if they can't find them, make them.

Through perseverance many people win success out of what seemed destined to be certain failure.

Unless you make tremendous efforts, you will not be convinced that effort will take you nowhere. The self is so self-confident that unless it is totally discouraged it will not give up. Mere verbal conviction is not enough. Hard facts alone can show the absolute nothingness of the self-image.

I ran and ran and ran every day, and I acquired this sense of determination, this sense of spirit that I would never, never give up, no matter what else happened.

There is nothing on earth that I would not give up, excepting of course, two things and two things only, truth and nonviolence.

My new year's resolution: Never be afraid to be kicked in the teeth. Let the blood and the bruises define your legacy.