Last Effort Quotes

Most people give up just when they're about to achieve success. They quit on the one yard line. They give up at the last minute of the game one foot from a winning touchdown.

I am not the first President to take up this cause, but I am determined to be the last.

If you've climbed the first 140 meters it doesn't mean that you've succeeded; you are going to succeed by climbing the last 10 meters.

Nothing could be worse than the fear that one had given up too soon, and left one unexpended effort that might have saved the world.

There is nothing better than being there at the end and getting your team over the line.

Resistance is greatest just before the finish line.

Some men give up their designs when they have almost reached the goal; While others, on the contrary, obtain a victory by exerting, at the last moment, more vigorous efforts than ever before.

'Chasing Fire' is about fighting for something that's already over. It's the beginning of the end. It's desperation. It's grand. But it's hopeless.

I knew I would not live to see the victory which I would make possible. But I would not die before I would make that victory certain.

I know it's near the end and when it's over I want to be able to say to myself - not anyone else - that I've given it everything. At least in the last part of my career.

Never give up. Last year I was trying to give up but I couldn't.

Go forward until the last round is fired and the last drop of gas is expended...then go forward on foot!

We are adhering to life now with our last muscle - the heart.

The darker the night, the nearer the dawn. Victory in life is decided by that last concentrated burst of energy filled with the resolve to win.

Broken things are powerful."Things about to break are stronger still.The last shot from the brittle bow is truest.

It doesn't matter what you do for 45 minutes, it's what you do the last three minutes.

It is hope which makes the shipwrecked sailor strike out with his arms in the midst of the sea, though no land is in sight.

"Hope to the last!" said Newman, clapping him on the back. "Always hope; that's dear boy. Never leave off hoping; it don't answer. Do you mind me, Nick? it don't answer. Don't leave a stone unturned. It's always something, to know you've done the most you could. But, don't leave off hoping, or it's of no use doing anything. Hope, hope, to the last!"

I've just got to get that album out. I have to get it out, if it's the last thing I do.

This is an opportunity to walk away from the game knowing that I've given it all that I can.

The way to write is to throw your body at the mark when your arrows are spent.