quotes about not giving up

Oh, one world at a time! ~Henry David Thoreau, when asked about afterlife



Women are like dogs really. They love like dogs, a little insistently. And they like to fetch and carry and come back wistfully after hard words, and learn rather easily to carry a basket. ~Mary Roberts Rinehart



If you think you're free, there's no escape possible. ~Ram Dass



Life is simply a cricket match, with temptation as the bowler. ~Author Unknown



He dares to be a fool, and that is the first step in the direction of wisdom. ~James Gibbons Huneker



Your children tell you casually years later what it would have killed you with worry to know at the time. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966



Feeling gratitude and not expressing it is like wrapping a present and not giving it. ~William Arthur Ward



Each morning I gaze at the eastern horizon, and if the sun keeps its promise, I keep mine. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com



The best reason for having dreams is that in dreams no reasons are necessary. ~Ashleigh Brilliant



He that is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else. ~Benjamin Franklin



As every cat owner knows, nobody owns a cat. ~Ellen Perry Berkeley



Taxes, after all, are dues that we pay for the privileges of membership in an organized society. ~Franklin D. Roosevelt



One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man. ~Elbert Hubbard, The Roycroft Dictionary and Book of Epigrams, 1923



Bad excuses are worse than none. ~Thomas Fuller



Good manners can replace morals. It may be years before anyone knows if what you are doing is right. But if what you are doing is nice, it will be immediately evident. ~P.J. O'Rourke



She looked as if she had been poured into her clothes and had forgotten to say "when." ~P.G. Wodehouse



Who overcomes by force hath overcome but half his foe. ~John Milton, Paradise Lost, 1667



The winds and waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators. ~Edward Gibbon, The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire



I don't like nostalgia unless it's mine. ~Lou Reed



Judge not according to the appearance, but judge righteous judgment. ~John 7:24