Laura Ingalls Wilder Quotes

Never give up, no matter what.

Endurance is the crowning quality.

If I had to select one quality, one personal characteristic that I regard as being most highly correlated with success, whatever the field, I would pick the trait of persistence. Determination. The will to endure to the end, to get knocked down seventy times and get up off the floor saying, ''Here comes number seventy-one!''

Never give up, never escape, take everything in, and perhaps suffer, that's not too awful either, but never, never give up.

Only yield when you must, never "give up the ship," but fight on to the last "with a stiff upper lip!

I've never given up. I've always kept going. I don't feel that I could afford to give up. That would be the beginning of the end.

Never give up; just absolutely never give up.

Courage and perseverance have a magical talisman, before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish into air. These qualities have ever been displayed in their mightiest perfection, as attendants in the retinue of strong passions.

I will dance and resist and dance and persist and dance. This heartbeat is louder than death.

Perseverance is a choice. It's not a simple, one-time choice, it's a daily one. There's never a final decision.

This star won't go out. And it won't. we won't let it.

He had to fight. That's all he had. Not memories, not experiences, not skills. He had a will. And his will was to fight until he couldn't fight anymore.

Continue. Be loving and be strong. Be fierce and be kind. And don't give in and don't give up.'

With each passing day, I didn't lose hope. I fought to have more.

I'm just not a quitter and I just never, ever give up. I was forced to adapt because if I didn't, I was losing inspiration only doing what I was doing.

This is a very difficult thing to remain independent and persistent.

Hillary Clinton doesn't quit. She doesn't give up. I respect that.

No I don't ever give up. I would have to be dead or completely incapacitated

I don't give up because I don't give up. I don't believe in it.

Reflecting on his years in prison, Nelson Mandela wrote that there were dark moments that tested his faith in humanity, but he refused to give up.

Don't give up, courage is my conviction.

Patience is not passive; on the contrary, it is active; it is concentrated strength.

Real courage is holding on to a still voice in your head that says, 'I must keep going.' It's that voice that says nothing is a failure if it is not final. That voice that says to you, 'Get out of bed. Keep going. I will not quit.'

There is nothing more certain than the defeat of the man who gives up.

the only thing i knew how to do was to keep on keeping on