Don't Give UP!

Quotes on perseverance and spiritual strength

Katinka Hesselink: Don't give up trying to find your way. But do remember that sometimes it takes bending to avoid breaking.
Carrie Ten Bloom: Worry does not empty tomorrow of sorrow - it empties today of strength.
Harriet Beecher Stowe: Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
The Bible, Matthew 17:20: I tell you the truth, if you have faith as small as a mustard seed, you can say to this mountain, 'Move from here to there' and it willmove.
St. Francis of Assisi: Start by doing what's necessary;
then do what's possible;
and suddenly you are doing the impossible.
Ambrose Redmoon: Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgment that something else is more important than fear.
Ruth Gordon: Never give up. And never, under any circumstances, face the facts.
Wilma Rudolph (the first American woman runner to win three gold medals at a single Olympics): Never underestimate the power of dreams and the influence of the human spirit
Daisaku Ikeda (Japanese peace activist, president of Buddhist organization): With love and patience, nothing is impossible.
Thomas Alva Edison: If we all did the things we are capable of doing we would literally astound ourselves.

Chinese Proverb: If I keep a green bough in my heart, the singing bird will come.
Ella Fitzgerald: Just don't give up trying to do what you really want to do.
Where there is love and inspiration, I don't think you can go wrong.
Ojibway Indian Expression: Sometimes I go about pitying myself
And all the while
I am being carried across the sky
By beautiful clouds.
Kahlil Gibran: Trust in Dreams, For In Them is The Hidden Gate to Eternity.
Lao Tzu: He who knows enough is enough will always have enough.
Conrad Hilton

Achievement seems to be connected with action.
Successful men and women keep moving.
They make mistakes, but they don't quit.
Emily Dickinson: Not knowing when the dawn will come, I open every door.
Anonymous: The three qualities necessary for training
Great faith. Great doubt. Great effort.
Albert Einstein, three rules of work

1. Out of clutter, find simplicity.
2. From discord, find harmony.
3. In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.

Albert Einstein: In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.
Rabindranath Tagore: Faith is the bird that sings when the dawn is still dark.

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.: Take the first step in faith. You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.

Dale Carnegie: Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hopeat all.
Margaret Mead (American Anthropologist): Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.
Madeleine L'Engle (author): Nothing is hopeless, we must hope for everything.
Emil Brunner: What oxygen is to the lungs, such is hope to the meaning of life.