“Today, when I stepped outside, I got shit on by a bird. But I'm still going back outside tomorrow.”— Christie Craig, amazon.com
“You can quit if you want. If you hate it. If it isn't fun anymore. But you can't quit just because it's hard. Things are hard for most people. Life is hard.”— Catherine McKenzie, amazon.com
“I was many things, but I wasn't a quitter. I didn't give up, and I wasn't going to start.”— Gwenda Bond, amazon.com
“But giving up's easy. You know what's hard? To believe in your own worth, to know you've got something special in you even if nobody else can see it. Even when you can't.”— Ryan North, amazon.com
“In Buddhism we would say that you are lazy... Despising yourself, thinking you are no good, saying 'I can't do this.' This is the mind of weakness. You must work to overcome it.”— David Michie, amazon.com
“That down feeling, quitting, was far worse than suffering it out to the end, because that decision to quit haunts you and bleeds over into your outlook on everything else, just as not quitting buoys you for all else.”— Diana Nyad, amazon.com
“It was me who had to carry myself over the finish line, and all I needed to remember when I felt like not trying was that that feeling wouldn't last forever.”— Jennifer L. Armentrout, amazon.com
“Each mistake teaches you something new about yourself. There is no failure, remember, except in no longer trying. It is the courage to continue that counts.”— Chris Bradford, amazon.com
“It’s probably my job to tell you life isn’t fair, but I figure you already know that. So instead, I’ll tell you that hope is precious, and you’re right not to give up.”— C.J. Redwine, amazon.com
“Sometimes giving up feels like the easiest thing to do. But then the easiest thing has never produced more than a garden full of weeds.”— Richelle E. Goodrich, amazon.com
“Most great accomplishments do not look promising in the beginning. If you give up on a big dream too early, you have probably stepped on gold and mistook it for a rock.”— Israelmore Ayivor, amazon.com
“If I get up just one less time than the number of times I’ve been knocked down, I have done one of the most devastating things possible; I have halted my life at that very spot.”— Craig D. Lounsbrough, amazon.com
“Don't be afraid of being laughed at for failing. Fear being sixty-five years old and never trying.”— Troy Gathers, amazon.com