Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations. 1989.
| NUMBER: | 1358 |
| AUTHOR: | Author unknown |
| QUOTATION: | When things go wrong, as they sometimes will, When the road you’re trudging seems all up hill, … When care is pressing you down a bit, Rest, if you must—but don’t you quit. … Often the goal is nearer than It seems to a faint and faltering man, Often the struggler has given up When he might have captured the victor’s cup. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | Author unknown, “Don’t Quit.”—Hazel Felleman, The Best Loved Poems of the American People, pp. 113–14 (1936, reprinted 1957). |
| SUBJECTS: | Perseverance |