Never Give Up: 50+ Inspirational Quotes to Keep You Motivated

"Remember to look up at the stars and not down at your feet. Try to make sense of what you see and wonder about what makes the Universe exist. Be curious. And however difficult life may seem, there is always something you can do and succeed at. It matters that you don't just give up."

- Stephen Hawking

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

- Jesse Jackson

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

- Confucius

"Survival can be summed up in three words—never give up. That’s the heart of it really. Just keep trying."

- Bear Grylls

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

- Harriet Stowe

"The struggle you’re in today is developing the strength you need for tomorrow. Don’t give up."

- Robert Tew

"If you’re going through hell, keep going."

- Winston Churchill

"The future rewards those who press on. I don't have time to feel sorry for myself. I don't have time to complain. I'm going to press on."

- Barack Obama

"Your victory is right around the corner. Never give up."

- Nicki Minaj

"Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up."

- Thomas Edison

"You just gotta keep going and fighting for everything, and one day you’ll get to where you want."

- Naomi Osaka

"How long should you try? Until."

- Jim Rohn

"It’s hard to beat a person who never gives up."

- Babe Ruth

"Winners never quit, and quitters never win."

- Vince Lombardi

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

- Thomas A. Edison

"Never give up your desire to be what you want to be. Stay focused, persistent and relentless."

- Debasish Mridha MD

"Fall seven times, stand up eight."

- Japanese Proverb

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

- Nelson Mandela

"Success is no accident. It is hard work, perseverance, learning, studying, sacrifice and most of all, love of what you are doing or learning to do."

- Pele

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

- Marilyn vos Savant

"Never give up on a dream just because of the time it will take to accomplish it. The time will pass anyway."

- Earl Nightingale

"Don’t watch the clock; do what it does. Keep going."

- Sam Levenson

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

- Winston Churchill

"Never give up. Today is hard, tomorrow will be worse, but the day after tomorrow will be sunshine."

- Jack Ma

"When you get into a tight place, and everything goes against you till it seems as if you couldn't hold on a minute longer, never give up then, for that's just the place and time that the tide'll turn."

- Harriet Beecher Stowe

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

- Elbert Hubbard

"You just never give up. You do a task to the best of your abilities and beyond."

- Debbie Reynolds

"You do what you can for as long as you can, and when you finally can’t, you do the next best thing. You back up but you don’t give up."

- Chuck Yeager

"I know from experience that you should never give up on yourself or others, no matter what."

- George Foreman

"It doesn’t matter how many times you get knocked down. All that matters is you get up one more time than you were knocked down."

- Roy T. Bennett

"Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success."

- Dale Carnegie

"The only thing standing between you and outrageous success is continuous progress."

- Dan Waldschmidt

"Tough times never last, but tough people do."

- Robert Schuller

"Just don't give up trying to do what you really want to do. Where there is love and inspiration, I don't think you can go wrong."

- Ella Fitzgerald

"When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you … never give up then, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn."

- Harriet Beecher Stowe

"Fall seven times and stand up eight."

- Japanese Proverb

"Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better."

- Samuel Beckett

"Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up."

- Thomas Edison

"Fall seven times; stand up eight."

- Japanese Proverb

"Instead of letting your hardships and failures discourage or exhaust you, let them inspire you."

- Michelle Obama

"Character consists of what you do on the third and fourth tries."

- James A. Michener

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

- Winston Churchill

"It is the combination of reasonable talent and the ability to keep going in the face of defeat that leads to success."

- Martin Seligman

"Success seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after others have let go."

- William Feather

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

- Winston Churchill

"Keep Going Your hardest times often lead to the greatest moments of your life. Keep going. Tough situations build strong people in the end."

- Roy T. Bennett

"It’s not that I’m so smart, it’s just that I stay with problems longer."

- Albert Einstein

"Believe in yourself and all that you are. Know that there is something inside you that is greater than any obstacle."

- Christian D. Larson

"Strength and growth come only through continuous effort and struggle."

- Napoleon Hill

"It takes a dream to get started, desire to keep going, and determination to finish."

- Eddie Harris, Jr.

"Stick around. Don’t lose your heart, just keep going, keep at it."

- Mark Ruffalo

"Just because you fail once doesn’t mean you’re gonna fail at everything."

- Marilyn Monroe

"God helps those who persevere."

- The Koran

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

- Helen Keller

"You do what you can for as long as you can, and when you finally can’t, you do the next best thing. You back up, but you don’t give up."

- Chuck Yeager

"The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack in will."

- Vince Lombardi

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

- Nelson Mandela

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

- Theodore Roosevelt

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

- Conrad Hilton

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

- Jesse Jackson

"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

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

- Stephen Richards

"She was unstoppable, not because she did not have failures or doubts, but because she continued on despite them."

- Beau Taplin

"The only thing that stands between you and your dream is the will to try and the belief that it is actually possible."

- Joel Brown

"Courage doesn’t always roar. Sometimes courage is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying ‘I will try again tomorrow.’"

- Mary Anne Radmacher

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

- Henry Ford

"A failure is not always a mistake. It may simply be the best one can do under the circumstances. The real mistake is to stop trying."

- B.F. Skinner

"Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out."

- Robert Collier

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

- F. Scott Fitzgerald

"Perseverance is the hard work you do after you get tired of doing the hard work you already did."

- Newt Gingrich

"Perseverance is failing 19 times and succeeding the 20th."

- Julie Andrews

"We will either find a way or make one."

- Hannibal

"The best way out is always through."

- Robert Frost

"A winner is just a loser who tried one more time."

- George M. Moore Jr.

"Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure."

- George Edward Woodberry

"I am a slow walker, but I never walk back."

- Abraham Lincoln

"Every strike brings me closer to the next home run."

- Babe Ruth

"Courage is not having the strength to go on; it is going on when you don’t have the strength."

- Theodore Roosevelt

"Perseverance is not a long race; it is many short races one after the other."

- Walter Elliot

"The only courage that matters is the kind that gets you from one moment to the next."

- Mignon McLaughlin

"Let me tell you the secret that has led to my goal. My strength lies solely in my tenacity."

- Louis Pasteur

"Do not fear failure but rather fear not trying."

- Roy T. Bennett

"Never stop dreaming, never stop believing, never give up, never stop trying, and never stop learning."

- Roy T. Bennett

"When the going gets tough, put one foot in front of the other and just keep going. Don’t give up."

- Roy T. Bennett

"The one who falls and gets up is stronger than the one who never tried. Do not fear failure but rather fear not trying."

- Roy T. Bennett

"No. Don't give up hope just yet. It's the last thing to go. When you have lost hope, you have lost everything. And when you think all is lost, when all is dire and bleak, there is always hope."

- Pittacus Lore

"Stay strong, stay positive, and never give up."

- Roy T. Bennett

"You may be the only person left who believes in you, but it's enough. It takes just one star to pierce a universe of darkness. Never give up."

- Richelle E. Goodrich

"Keep Moving Forward"

- Walt Disney

"There are five important things for living a successful and fulfilling life: never stop dreaming, never stop believing, never give up, never stop trying, and never stop learning."

- Roy T. Bennett

"Nothing is impossible. The word itself says: 'I'm possible!'"

- Audrey Hepburn

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

- C.S. Lewis

"You must do the things you think you cannot do."

- Eleanor Roosevelt

"You're braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think."

- Christopher Robin

"Failure is success in progress."

- Albert Einstein

"With the right kind of coaching and determination you can accomplish anything."

- Reese Witherspoon

"Ambition is the path to success. Persistence is the vehicle you arrive in."

- Bill Bradley

"What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals."

- Zig Ziglar

"Hope is a good thing, maybe the best of things, and no good thing ever dies."

- Andy Dufresne

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

- Thomas Edison

"Hold fast to your dreams, for without them life is a broken winged bird that cannot fly."

- Langston Hughes

"Don’t give up. I believe in you all. A person’s a person. No matter how small."

- Dr. Seuss

"Don't give up, 'cos you have friends, don't give up, you're not beaten yet, don't give up, I know you can make it good."

- Peter Gabriel

"Courage doesn’t always roar, sometimes it’s the quiet voice at the end of the day whispering ‘I will try again tomorrow’."

- Mary Anne Radmacher

"On one hand, we know that everything happens for a reason, and there are no mistakes or coincidences. On the other hand, we learn that we can never give up, knowing that with the right tools and energy, we can reverse any decree or karma. So, which is it? Let the Light decide, or never give up? The answer is: both."

- Yehuda Berg

"You learn more from losing than winning. You learn how to keep going."

- Morgan Wootten

"Things aren’t always easy, but you just have to keep going and don’t let the small stuff bog you down."

- Stella Maeve

"What's done is done. What's gone is gone. One of life's lessons is always moving on. It’s okay to look back to see how far you’ve come but keep moving forward."

- Roy T. Bennett

"Real courage is when you know you're licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what."

- Harper Lee

"Change course, but don’t give up."

- Roy T. Bennett

"Keep your face always toward the sunshine—and shadows will fall behind you."

- Walt Whitman

"Rise and rise again until lambs become lions"

- Robin Hood

"Failure is often that early morning hour of darkness which precedes the dawning of the day of success."

- Leigh Mitchell Hodges

"The secret of getting ahead is getting started."

- Mark Twain

"Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will."

- Mahatma Gandhi

"To bring about change, you must not be afraid to take the first step. We will fail when we fail to try."

- Rosa Parks

"Giving up is for rookies."

- Philoctetes

"If opportunity doesn't knock, build a door."

- Milton Berle

"I was taught the way of progress is neither swift nor easy."

- Marie Curie

"Keep your eyes on the stars, and your feet on the ground."

- Theodore Roosevelt

"Don’t let mental blocks control you. Set yourself free. Confront your fear and turn the mental blocks into building blocks."

- Dr. Roopleen

"What if I told you that 10 years from now, your life would be exactly the same? I doubt you’d be happy. So, why are you so afraid of change?"

- Karen Salmansohn

"Either do not begin or, having begun, do not give up."

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

"If you don’t give up on something you truly believe in, you will find a way."

"When you feel like quitting think about why you started."

"I refuse to quit because I haven’t tried all possible ways yet."

"Stop being afraid of what can go wrong and start being positive about what can go right."

"Don’t be discouraged. It’s often the last key in the bunch that opens the lock."