PERSEVERANCE & ADVERSITY

Gatsby believed in the green light, the orgiastic future that year by year recedes before us. It eluded us then, but that's no matter --tomorrow we will run faster, stretch our arms farther…
And one fine morning-
So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.
- Nick Carraway, The Great Gatsby by F Scott Fitzgerald

The majority of men meet with failure because of their lack of persistence in creating new plans to take the place of those which fail.
- Napoleon Hill (1883-1970) Think and Grow Rich

I am a slow walker, but I never walk backwards.
- Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)

Whose woods these are I think I know.
His house is in the village though;
He will not see me stopping here
To watch his woods fill up with snow.

My little horse must think it queer
To stop without a farmhouse near
Between the woods and frozen lake
The darkest evening of the year.

He gives his harness bells a shake
To ask if there is some mistake.
The only other sound's the sweep
Of easy wind and downy flake.

The woods are lovely, dark and deep.
But I have promises to keep,
And miles to go before I sleep,
And miles to go before I sleep.
- Robert Frost, Stopping By Woods on a Snowy Evening