Rise to wisdom with quotes about perseverance and never giving up - Part 3

Some time ago we brought you several quotes about perseverance and never giving up, today, we shall be bring you the concluding part.

Failure isn't something many people can handle gracefully as the temptation to give up is not peculiar to just one person but a common one to any individual, and nobody is exempted. Even though we know it's a common human condition, we're somehow always surprised when it happens to us.

Reminding yourself that the loss of hope is temporary, might just compel you to pick yourself up from where you are and move forward.

23. I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody.
--Bill Cosby (1937- ), comedian and actor

24. Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure.
--George Edward Woodberry (1855-1930), American poet

25. When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you … never give up then, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
--Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811-1896), American abolitionist and author

26. The man who moves a mountain begins by carrying away small stones.
--Confucius (551-479 BC), philosopher

27. I am a slow walker, but I never walk back.
--Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865), 16^th President of the United States

28. Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.
--Babe Ruth (1895-1948), baseball legend

29. Courage is not having the strength to go on; it is going on when you don't have the strength.
--Theodore Roosevelt (1858-1919), 26^th President of the United States

30. Character consists of what you do on the third and fourth tries.
--James A. Michener (1907-1997), American author

31. Perseverance is not a long race; it is many short races one after the other.
--Walter Elliot (1888-1958), Scottish politician

32. The only courage that matters is the kind that gets you from one moment to the next.
--Mignon McLaughlin (1913-1983), American journalist and author

33. Let me tell you the secret that has led to my goal. My strength lies solely in my tenacity.
--Louis Pasteur (1822-1895), scientist and inventor of the pasteurization process

34. I was taught the way of progress is neither swift nor easy.
--Marie Curie (1867-1934), French physicist and two-time winner of the Nobel Prize

35. Success is not final, failure is not fatal: It is the courage to continue that counts.
--Winston Churchill (1874-1965), former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom