"You do what you can for as long as you can, and when you finally can't, you do the next best thing. You back up but you don't give up."

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Source : Chuck Yeager (1986). “Yeager: An Autobiography”, Bantam

Chuck Yeager

#Giving Up Quotes #Long Quotes

“The burden of being black is that you have to be superior just to be equal. But the glory of it is that, once you achieve, you have achieved, indeed.”
“I like a book better if I can't predict what's going to happen.”
“Lutherans, whose arguments and mistakes will not be difficult to contest or discover, do not want to attribute any value to works, and they do not understand enough the scope of the justification.”
“Damn Americans. I hate those bastards.”

Source : 'Like sleeping with an insomniac elephant'" by Anne McIlroy, www.theguardian.com. November 1, 2004.
“A pleasant letter I hold to be the pleasantest thing that this world has to give.”
“We often wonder why God gives and takes, constricts and expands. What we forget is that human beings understand things by their opposites. Without dark, we canâ€™t understand light. Without hardship, we wouldnâ€™t *experience* ease. Without the existence of deprivation and loss, we couldnâ€™t grasp the need for gratitude or the virtue of patience. And without separation, we wouldnâ€™t taste the sweetness of reunion. Glory be to the one who givesâ€”even when He takes.”
“At my best I was as good as anyone.”
“Nowadays, in the contract that actors sign, you have to agree that you're going to do a certain amount of publicity-the hard part they don't pay you for.”

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