Never Give Up: A Powerful Collection of Inspirational Quotes About Perseverance

"Don’t ever give up. Don’t ever give in. Don’t ever stop trying. Don’t ever sell out. And if you find yourself succumbing to one of the above for a brief moment, pick yourself up, brush yourself off, whisper a prayer, and start where you left off. But never, ever, ever give up."

- Richelle E. Goodrich

"Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time."

- Thomas A. Edison

"I believe in never giving up, no matter what the odds. My mantra is, 'Failure is temporary. Giving up is permanent.'"

- Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw

"When you give up on life, never give up on yourself because there is so much for you to keep on giving!"

- Oprah Winfrey

"Winning is fun... Sure. But winning is not the point. Wanting to win is the point. Not giving up is the point. Never letting up is the point. Never being satisfied with what you've done is the point."

- Pat Summitt

"The moment when you feel like giving up is right before your breakthrough."

- Victoria Arlen

"The only real failure is giving up."

- Scooter Braun

"I believe 99% of success is never giving up."

- Coy Bowles

"Don’t be afraid to give up the good to go for the great."

- John D. Rockefeller

"Being defeated is often a temporary condition. Giving up is what makes it permanent."

- Marilyn vos Savant

"Never give up on something that you can’t go a day without thinking about."

- Winston Churchill

"You cry and you scream and you stomp your feet and you shout. You say, 'You know what? I'm giving up, I don't care.' And then you go to bed and you wake up and it's a brand new day, and you pick yourself back up again."

- Nicole Scherzinger

"Failure at some point in your life is inevitable, but giving up is unforgivable."

- Joe Biden

"Giving up is conceding that things will never get better, and that is just not true. Ups and downs are a constant in life, and I've been belted into that roller coaster a thousand times."

- Aimee Mullins

"If you mind tells your body you can't do it, you will quit. If your body is giving up, but you think you can carry on, you will naturally keep putting one foot in front of the other."

- Ant Middleton

"What winning is to me is not giving up, is no matter what's thrown at me, I can take it. And I can keep going."

- Patrick Swayze

"There was no giving up. Trying and trying. That's what I'm all about."

- Sonita Alizadeh

"What's worked for me is not quitting and being passionate about what I do and not giving up - and when I don't believe in myself, turning to others who believe in me."

- Marc Jacobs

"Giving up cannot be an option."

- Greta Thunberg

"We know that in tough times, cynicism is just another way to give up, and in the military, we consider cynicism or giving up simply as forms of cowardice."

- Jim Mattis

"Successful men and women keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don’t quit."

- Conrad Hilton

"If you quit every time you face a new challenge, giving up can change how you view yourself. You may begin to think you're weak or that you're a failure because you can't seem to stick with things long enough to see positive results."

- Amy Morin

"When things go wrong, don’t go with them."

- Elvis Presley

"It’s probably my job to tell you life isn’t fair, but I figure you already know that. So instead, I’ll tell you that hope is precious, and you’re right not to give up."

- C.J. Redwine

"There is no failure except in no longer trying."

- Elbert Hubbard

"Each mistake teaches you something new about yourself. There is no failure, remember, except in no longer trying. It is the courage to continue that counts."

- Chris Bradford

"It's always to soon to quit!"

- Norman Vincent Peale

"The difference between Success and failure is not giving up."

- steven redhead

"Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn."

- Harriet Stowe

"It always seems impossible until it’s done."

- Nelson Mandela

"The secret of getting ahead is getting started."

- Mark Twain

"How long should you try? Until."

- Jim Rohn

"Winners never quit, and quitters never win."

- Vince Lombardi

"Believe you can, and you’re halfway there."

- Theodore Roosevelt

"It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop."

- Confucius

"Fall seven times; stand up eight."

- Japanese Proverb

"If you fall behind, run faster. Never give up, never surrender and rise up against the odds."

- Jesse Jackson

"The only time you fail is when you fall down and stay down."

- Stephen Richards

"Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all."

- Dale Carnegie

"Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat."

- F. Scott Fitzgerald

"Success is not final, failure is not fatal: It is the courage to continue that counts."

- Winston Churchill

"It ain’t about how hard you hit. It’s about how hard you can get hit and keep moving forward."

- Sylvester Stallone as Rocky Balboa

"You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it."

- Dieter F. Uchtdorf

"You may have a fresh start any moment you choose, for this thing that we call ‘failure’ is not the falling down, but the staying down."

- Mary Pickford

"I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work."

- Thomas A. Edison

"Give up trying to make me give up"

- Masashi Kishimoto

"Don't give up before the miracle happens."

- Fannie Flagg

"It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light."

- Aristotle

"Giving up is always an option, but not always a failure."

- Cameron Conaway

"Believe in yourself. Stay in your own lane. There’s only one you."

- Queen Latifah

"In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: It goes on."

- Robert Frost

"The only thing a person can ever really do is keep moving forward. Take that big leap forward without hesitation, without once looking back. Simply forget the past and forge toward the future."

- Alyson Noel

"The most important step a man can take. It's not the first one, is it? It's the next one. Always the next step."

- Brandon Sanderson

"The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step."

- Lao Tzu

"Failure is only the opportunity to begin again; this time more intelligently."

- Henry Ford

"You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream."

- C.S. Lewis

"You can’t make decisions based on fear and the possibility of what might happen."

- Michelle Obama

"Never bend your head. Always hold it high. Look the world straight in the eye."

- Helen Keller

"Stay afraid, but do it anyway. What's important is the action. You don’t have to wait to be confident. Just do it and eventually the confidence will follow."

- Carrie Fisher

"I can’t change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination."

- Jimmy Dean

"Experience is not what happens to you; it is what you do with what happens to you."

- Aldous Huxley

"Sometimes it’s better to end something and try to start something new than imprison yourself in hoping for the impossible."

- Karen Salmansohn

"Don’t let yesterday take up too much of today."

- Will Rogers

"We will fail when we fail to try."

- Rosa Parks

"Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor."

- Truman Capote

"When one door closes, another opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one that has opened for us."

- Alexander Graham Bell

"We must be willing to let go of the life we’ve planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us."

- Joseph Campbell

"Sometimes the sparrow felt tired, sometimes he even felt like giving up, but that was when he spoke the happiest."

- Michael James Payne

"The question isn't who is going to let me; it's who is going to stop me."

- Ayn Rand

"When someone you love says goodbye you can stare long and hard at the door they closed and forget to see all the doors God has open in front of you."

- Shannon Alder

"It is never too late to be what you might have been."

- George Eliot

"You never give up, even when you should."

- Kelly Creagh

"Every woman that finally figured out her worth, has picked up her suitcases of pride and boarded a flight to freedom, which landed in the valley of change."

- Shannon L. Alder

"If you’re brave enough to say goodbye, life will reward you with a new hello."

- Paul Klee

"Either you run the day or the day runs you."

- Jim Rohn

"If they don’t give you a seat at the table, bring a folding chair."

- Shirley Chisholm

"Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it."

- Henry David Thoreau

"Never allow a person to tell you no who doesn’t have the power to say yes."

- Eleanor Roosevelt

"Don’t sit down and wait for the opportunities to come. Get up and make them."

- Madam C.J. Walker

"When you know who matters most to you, giving things up, even yourself, doesn’t really feel like a sacrifice."

- Kiera Cass

"If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else."

- Booker T. Washington

"It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are."

- E.E. Cummings

"All the art of living lies in a fine mingling of letting go and holding on."

- Havelock Ellis

"But sometimes, when you’ve tried and tried for a long time, it feels good to give up for a while."

- Dean Hughes

"When someone tells me ‘no,’ it doesn’t mean I can’t do it, it simply means I can’t do it with them."

- Karen E. Quinones Miller

"There is always light. If only we’re brave enough to see it. If only we’re brave enough to be it."

- Amanda Gorman

"Giving up smoking is the easiest thing in the world. I know because I've done it thousands of times."

- Mark Twain

"It’s not whether you get knocked down, it’s whether you get up."