Never give up quotes

A Psalm of Life, final line.

Daniel Deronda; Deronda speaks in a discussion of political and national efforts, with historical reform as the immediate context.

Latter-Day Pamphlets, No. IV “The New Downing Street”; Project Gutenberg #1140. Carlyle is discussing England amid nineteenth-century political and social crisis, not giving a context-free personal wellness instruction.

Character Building, “The Cultivation of Stable Habits,” Project Gutenberg #60484. After describing two Tuskegee graduates who finished what they undertook, Washington tells students to “fight it out” and stick to their course despite discouragement and material difficulty.

“The Narrow Way,” dated April 27, 1848 and represented by Wikisource’s Complete Poems text. The poem explicitly describes a Christian path of labour, endurance, pardon and devotion to God; the metaphor is religious poetry rather than generic success doctrine.

Little Women, Chapter 44, “My Lord and Lady,” Project Gutenberg #514. Amy March Laurence says “I’m not afraid of storms, for I’m learning how to sail my ship” while discussing her new married life with Laurie. This exact-contraction record and the older expanded “I am not afraid...” catalog variant represent the same underlying fictional passage.

Woman in the Nineteenth Century, in the discussion of Miranda; Fuller explicitly connects awakened self-respect with serenity and inward peace.

On the Art of Writing, Lecture XII, “On Style,” Project Gutenberg #17470; excerpted from Quiller-Couch’s reminder that students must master craft for themselves.

Optimism: An Essay (1903), Project Gutenberg #31622. This is Keller’s reflective claim, not a clinical assertion that suffering is inherently beneficial.

Villette, late in the novel; spoken in the first-person narrative voice of the fictional Lucy Snowe. The religious hope belongs to Lucy’s character and scene, not a direct autobiographical declaration by Charlotte Brontë.

Optimism: An Essay; Keller connects optimism with purposeful action rather than passive cheerfulness.

Grace Abounding to the Chief of Sinners, paragraph 339, represented by Project Gutenberg #654. This is Bunyan’s explicitly Christian autobiographical reflection after describing fear of imprisonment, death and spiritual abandonment; it remains devotional testimony rather than general mental-health or adversity advice.

The Victorious Attitude; this sentence appears in Marden’s sustained argument that loss of self-faith is more damaging than the loss of possessions or an individual undertaking.

Letter 78 discusses illness, endurance, and the courage required to continue living under hardship.

The Lost Prince; Project Gutenberg #384. The material being memorized belongs to a fictional covert political mission, so the record focuses on the described study process rather than the mission itself.

Moral Letters to Lucilius, Letter 13, section 3, Richard M. Gummere translation.

My Larger Education, Chapter I, “Learning from Men and Things”; Project Gutenberg #73923. Washington reflects on how he came to emphasize internal discipline and concentrated effort while explicitly acknowledging externally imposed disadvantage.

Moral printed after “The Hare and the Tortoise” in George Fyler Townsend’s translation of Aesop’s fables.

The Human Machine, discussion of using experience for self-command. Bennett’s claim is philosophical self-training advice; it does not imply that every failure is beneficial or emotionally easy.

Adam Bede; Adam speaks to Arthur late in the novel after the central tragedy, so the line is grounded in grief, work, and responsibility rather than generic productivity advice.

A Little Princess; Sara uses an imagined inner identity to preserve dignity during poverty and mistreatment.

Thrift, Chapter I, “Industry,” Project Gutenberg #14418. The sentence immediately follows the poetry example and presents substantial work as the product of repeated effort and failure; the absolute wording is Smiles’s rhetorical generalization.

Architects of Fate, chapter discussion of will and purpose; Project Gutenberg #21622. The wording reflects nineteenth-century success literature.

“Say Not the Struggle Nought Availeth,” first published as “The Struggle” in The Crayon, August 1855; text represented by Representative Poetry Online. The poem’s military imagery is metaphorical encouragement shaped by the political disappointments of the 1848–49 era.

The Life of George Stephenson and of his Son Robert Stephenson, Chapter XI, “Chat Moss—Construction of the Railway”; represented 1868 revised edition, Project Gutenberg #46229. The motto appears in Smiles’s surrounding narration immediately after the quoted Chat Moss recollection.

Jo's Boys; the reassurance follows a setback and reframes a difficult year as experience that may later prove unusually helpful rather than simply wasted time.

The Secret Garden (1911), Chapter XXIII, “Magic.” Colin recalls that when he first tried to stand, Mary repeated “You can do it! You can do it!” The represented record is therefore tied to Colin’s recollection of Mary’s encouragement, not presented as general rehabilitation or medical advice.

A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers, Thursday, Project Gutenberg #4232. The sentence follows Thoreau’s claim that sincere travelling is no pastime and precedes his description of weariness, sore feet and experience acquired on the road; it is nineteenth-century travel philosophy rather than practical safety advice.

Up from Slavery, Chapter II, “Boyhood Days,” Project Gutenberg #2376. Washington reflects on the obstacles facing Black youth after slavery and measures success by difficulty overcome rather than by final social position; the historical racial context is kept explicit.

The Mill on the Floss, Book III, Project Gutenberg #6688. Maggie speaks to her father when he realizes the extent of the bankruptcy.

“Up-Hill,” in Goblin Market and Other Poems (1862); Project Gutenberg #16950. The road is a spiritual-life allegory, so the line is not reduced to literal travel advice.

Hopes and Fears for Art, lecture “The Art of the People”; Project Gutenberg #3773. The counsel is explicitly directed to people studying or practicing art.

Casa Guidi Windows, Part II, printed page 143 in the represented Poetical Works volume, Project Gutenberg #31015. This corrects the inherited Part II provenance. The frozen catalog row begins ‘whoever may Discern true ends here,’ but the witness embeds that clause in Browning's longer sentence beginning ‘I tell you rather that, whoever may...’. Browning is arguing specifically about Tuscan/Italian political freedom in the Risorgimento context; the excerpt is not a context-free motivational or psychological rule.

Othello, Act I, Scene III, reviewed against the scan-backed 1910 First Folio facsimile on Wikisource. The Duke tells Brabantio that continuing to spend grief on an irreversible loss only compounds it; the retained modernized wording corresponds to the Folio's 'The rob'd that smiles, steales something from the Thiefe.' It is dramatic counsel inside the scene, not Shakespeare autobiography or clinical grief guidance.

The Way of Peace; Allen contrasts temporary comfort with a spiritual peace that he says remains stable through trial.

“A Child’s Grave at Florence,” stanza XXIX; Project Gutenberg #31015. The surrounding stanza contrasts the family’s earthly grave and silence with the child’s imagined heavenly life.

Ecclesiastes 7:8 in the King James Version; the verse continues by praising patience over pride.

Enchiridion, section X, George Long translation; Epictetus gives examples such as endurance under pain and patience under abuse.

The Golden Sayings of Epictetus, saying XXVII, Hastings Crossley translation.

“A Child’s Grave at Florence,” stanza XXII; Project Gutenberg #31015. The poem commemorates a child who died in 1849 and frames consolation through Christian faith.

My Larger Education, Chapter I, “Learning from Men and Things”; Project Gutenberg #73923. The sentence continues Washington’s argument that confronting difficult practical problems can develop strength and clarity rather than merely consume effort.

The Victorious Attitude, opening chapter; the rhetoric is deliberately motivational and reflects early twentieth-century success literature rather than an empirical psychological claim.

“Invictus,” first published in Henley’s 1888 Book of Verses (written 1875) and represented through the public-domain poem text. This is the second stanza’s closing line, following “Under the bludgeonings of chance”; this collection keeps the poem’s defiant lyric voice rather than treating it as a guarantee that adversity can always be mastered.

The Lost Prince; Project Gutenberg #384. 'The game' is the boys’ repeated training exercise in memory, recognition and recall.

My Larger Education, Chapter I, “Learning from Men and Things”; Project Gutenberg #73923. Washington connects repeated problem-solving with strength of mind and clearer judgment, contrasting developed capacity with an untested life of ease.

“Advent,” Project Gutenberg #16950. 'His' refers to Christ; the line remains Christian devotional poetry rather than being generalized into an evidence-free guarantee about outcomes.

War and Peace; public-domain translations vary slightly.

Laches, roughly Stephanus 192b–c, Benjamin Jowett English, Project Gutenberg #1584. Laches answers Socrates’s attempt to define courage beyond battlefield conduct; Socrates then challenges whether foolish endurance can count as courageous. The local dramatic speaker is Laches, not Socrates or Plato himself. This is a contested proposal inside an unresolved inquiry, not Plato’s stand-alone creed.

Ecclesiastes 7:8 in the King James Version; the verse contrasts patient spirit with pride and values the completed end of a matter over the excitement of its beginning.

De Amicitia, chapter 6 / classical section 22, Andrew P. Peabody translation, Project Gutenberg #7491. “Such friendship at once enhances the lustre of prosperity, and by dividing and sharing adversity lessens its burden” closes Laelius’ contrast between ordinary association and true/perfect friendship. The sentence remains ancient ethical rhetoric rather than a guaranteed psychological effect of companionship.