I found these quotes on persistance and I thought they applied to our weight loss journey. I hope you find them uplifting. Colette

Winston Churchill
Never, never, never give up.

Nisandeh Neta
The shortest way beyond fear is through it.

Thomas Fuller
Nothing is easy to the unwilling. Nothing is EASY to the unwilling.

Maya Angelou
We may encounter many defeats but we must not be defeated.

Ben Stein
It is inevitable that some defeat will enter even the most victorious life. The human spirit is never finished when it is defeated... it is finished when it surrenders.

Thomas Paine
The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly; it is dearness only that gives everything its value. I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress and grow brave by reflection. 'Tis the business of little minds to shrink; but he whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct, will pursue his principles unto death.

Helen Keller
We can do anything we want to do if we stick to it long enough.

Elbert Hubbard
How many a man has thrown up his hands at a time when a little more effort, a little more patience would have achieved success?

Hesiod
If you should put even a little on a little and should do this often, soon this would become big.

Mark Twain
The miracle, or the power, that elevates the few is to be found in their industry, application, and perseverance under the prompting of a brave, determined spirit.
   
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
By perseverance the snail reached the ark.

John D. Rockefeller
I do not think that there is any other quality so essential to success of any kind as the quality of perseverance. It overcomes almost everything, even nature.

James Whitcomb Riley
The most essential factor is persistence - the determination never to allow your energy or enthusiasm to be dampened by the discouragement that must inevitably come.

Arthur Pine
Your biggest break can come from never quitting. Being at the right place at the right time can only happen when you keep moving toward the next opportunity.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
If you only knock long enough and loud enough at the gate, you are sure to wake up somebody.

Abraham Lincoln
I am a slow walker, but I never walk backwards.

Billie Jean King
Champions keep playing until they get it right.

Lee Iacocca
You've got to say, I think that if I keep working at this and want it badly enough I can have it. It's called perseverance.

Herodotus
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.

Samuel G. Goodrich
Perseverance gives power to weakness, and opens to poverty the world's wealth. It spreads fertility over the barren landscape, and buds the choicest flowers and fruits spring up and flourish in the desert abode of thorns and briars.

B. C. Forbes
History has demonstrated that the most notable winners usually encountered heartbreaking obstacles before they triumphed. They won because they refused to become discouraged by their defeats.

Euripides
To persevere, trusting in what hopes he has, is courage in a man.

Thomas A. Edison
Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.

Thomas A. Edison
Nearly every man who develops an idea works at it up to the point where it looks impossible, and then gets discouraged. That's not the place to become discouraged.

Richard M. DeVos
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!

Lord Chesterfield
Persist and persevere, and you will find most things that are attainable, possible.

George Allen
Persevere and get it done.

Aesop
Plodding wins the race.

Mark Twain
The miracle, or the power, that elevates the few is to be found in their industry, application, and perseverance under the prompting of a brave, determined spirit.

Plutarch
Perseverance is more prevailing than violence; and many things which cannot be overcome when they are together yield themselves up when taken little by little.

-- Edited by Colette at 14:10, 2006-06-06

-- Edited by Colette at 14:10, 2006-06-06