"Just draw on your grit; it's so easy to quit - It's the keeping your chin up that's hard."

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Source : ROBERT W. SERVICE (1917). “rhymes of rolling stone”

Robert W. Service

#Military Quotes #Grit Quotes #Quitting Quotes

“Strange, isn't it, that warfare has come down to fencing with complicated toys that only a few seedy scholars can make or understand.”
“Those who try to "break on through to the other side" not only cannot predict what they may find there, but are themselves too often broken in the process.”
“Make sure you have someone in your life from whom you can get reflective feedback.”
“There are some composers - at the head of whom stands Beethoven - who not only do not know when to stop but appear to stop many times before they actually do.”
“I'm not as bearish as many others about China. Why? Because China must grow. So I am far more optimistic about China.”
“For a long time, I would write without music, because I thought it was distracting until I appreciated that it actually unlocks a certain unconscious productivity vault in my mind.”
“Poetry is the alchemy which teaches us to convert ordinary materials into gold.”
“Failure will never overtake me if my determination to succeed is strong enough.”

Source : Og Mandino (2011). “The Greatest Salesman in the World”, p.25, Bantam

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