I Refuse to Give Up

Wilma Rudolph was the 20th of 22 children.She was born prematurely and her survival was doubtful.When she was 4 years old, she contacted double pneumonia and scarlet fever, which left her with a paralyzed left leg.At age 9, she removed...

I'm just plain stubborn.

If I give up now, it means I won't be able to do [insert random thing depending on my mood]. It will also mean that I've fought tooth and claw to get to this point for nothing.

I deserve to have a better...

I admit, i'm stubborn and do not like giving up on challenges .I give it my all and often only sheer exhaustion makes me stop...for a while ;)

But maybe sometimes the wisest thing to do is to admit failure, to throw the towel and...

I've made a lot of mistakes and have so many regrets in life.  I've also been hurt by others a lot, too.  I faced rejection as a child and abuse as an adult.  But I had one gift that has helped me through- my mother.
She...

...we had such a good friendship...

now it seems that no matter how hard i try i just cant get a hold of her anymore, ill email her and wait forever. only to find out that she says she never got an email from me...i know i sent it out...

Yeah I guess I do,won't till I die..I have my days when I wanna quit but I guess failure is not an option only mass success.I've come too far to just throw it all away..too many experiences,too many things I've learned and more to go.

I was a preemie baby & I have CP (Cerebral palsy). I use a wheelchair as well. I am 5'3 & 108lbs. that s good thing because I have use my arms to get around .
I have been told I wont live*(when I was a baby) When I was in pre k I was...

i am so in love with this person it hurts me every day that i cant see him. i try to hide it but everyone notices how sad i've been now that he's moved away. nobody knows we in a relationship (actually i dont even know anymore) havent...

I refuse to give up,I am trying to live on,Life's been very trying,I'm closing in on me,I'd like to resolve it,And have a life.

My dream is to someday be able to walk down the street and blend in as the woman I am and have always been.

My dream to be sure will be an expensive dream but I still can not give up.

I have been and still am overly filled with...

I'm not going to live down to the standards people have decided to give me. I'm not going to let my mom, my dad, and my mom's boyfriend tell me i won't make it into a decent college. I may not want to be a Doctor like my perfect cousin...

Give up,Why should I,I refuse,It’s not right,I’ll keep going,I want to succeed!

but my pride? I've quit things a lot in my life, but I will never completely give in. I call my blunders "changing direction." I've changed directions so much, I've lost count and gotten lost. I acknowledge that I wasted time; still, I...

In 1954, Jimmy Denny, manager of the Grand Ole Opry fired a singer after one performance.He told him, "You ain't goin' nowhere son. You ought to go back to drivin' a truck."He went on to become the most popular singer in America, named...

Call it a general assumption if you will, but in the end life boils down into one of two things; Either you give up when things get hard to handle and cave under the pressure, or you find the strength inside yourself and muster the...

In the past, I gave up. That was some of the lowest and weakest points of my life. But luckily enough I survived and got through it. I woke up, I picked myself and moved on from that part of my life.To remind of this point in my life, I...

I think that a lot of people on the Experience Project can relate to the feeling of being overwhelmed. For me, it is not an uncommon thing, and yet I have no great life trauma or loss to explain this. Perhaps it is simply a matter of...

Give up,No way,Not now,I refuse,I hung on,Long enough,There's no givin' in now,Almost made it,Why give up?