![]() ![]() View your failures as a stepping stone to success. Keep learning and keep growing as you move forward. Whittier’s advice for pushing through and never giving up is found within his poem. But we can’t quit! Success is closer than you think. At times, the pace will seem slow and we will feel clouded by doubt. Why you SHOULD NOT QUITĪs Whittier brilliantly and simply states in the lines above, there will be hills to climb, twists and turns to navigate, failures to face. It’s when things seem worst that you must not quit. So stick to the fight when you’re hardest hit. When he might have won had he stuck it out ĭon’t give up though the pace seems slow-Īnd you never can tell just how close you are, Life is strange with its twists and turns When the funds are low and the debts are highĪnd you want to smile, but you have to sigh, When the road you’re trudging seems all up hill, When things go wrong as they sometimes will, DON’T QUIT by John Greenleaf Whittier Poem 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. We suggest you print them out and place them somewhere you can refer to them often. The advice it contains is applicable to our modern life and particularly helpful for those of us on the path to accomplishing our own personal goals or overcoming our own frustrations and struggles. In fact, one of his most famous poems, “Don’t Quit,” still resonates today. So it is no wonder that many of his works served as inspiration for those facing big challenges at the time. ![]() ![]() Over the course of his life, he would witness some tumultuous and turbulent historical events, including the fracturing of the country and the Civil War. Born in 1807, he was introduced to poetry by a dedicated teacher and he became one of the rare individuals who was able to make a living at the time solely through his writing. John Greenleaf Whittier was a poet who lived in the middle part of the nineteenth century. ![]()
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |