Don't Quit

Why are Asians better at math than Americans?  Well, actually, they aren’t.  Heard this week: the average American student gives up on a hard math problem in 5 minutes.  The same age Asian student gives up on the same hard math problem in 21 minutes.  It isn’t that Asians are better at math; it’s that they are more tenacious.  They just don’t give up.  Hey, what about you?  Are you easily discouraged?  Do you quit too soon?  Solomon said in Proverbs 24:16, “For a just man falleth seven times, and riseth up again…” 

“Don’t Quit”  by Edgar Albert Guest

 

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 sigh,

When care is pressing you down a bit,

Rest, if you must, but don’t you quit.

 

Life is queer with its twists and turns,

As every one of us sometimes learns,

And many a failure turns about,

When he might have won had he stuck it out;

Don’t give up though the pace seems slow-

You may succeed with another blow.

 

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,

And he learned too late when the night slipped down,

How close he was to the golden crown.

 

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 so far,

So stick to the fight when you’re hardest hit-

It’s when things seem worst that you must not quit.