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January 26, 2006

TIP #42 - Don't Give Up

The words below were engraved on a plaque on my office wall. On particularly bad days, the kind where you want to quit on the spot, I would read these words again and again, looking for the courage to keep going. I always managed to find it. And in my twenty years in management, I learned the power of persistence. I learned not to give up on what I wanted.

You see people who are winning at working keep going when their dreams are beaten down, things fall apart, rejections mount or obstacles block their way. People who are winning at working don't quit on themselves or on their dreams.

DON'T QUIT
By Author Unknown

"When things go wrong as they sometimes will;
When the road you're trudging seems all uphill;
When the funds are low, and the debts are high;
And you want to smile, but you have to sign;
When care is pressing you down a bit -
Rest if you must, but don't you quit.

Success is failure turned inside out;
The silver tint of the clouds of doubt;
And you never can tell how close you are;
It may be near when it seems afar.
So, stick to the fight when you're hardest hit -
It's when things go wrong that you mustn't quit"

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Posted by Nan Russell at January 26, 2006 01:31 PM