50 Inspirational Quotes on Trying: Fuel Your Determination and Never Give Up

"If you want something you’ve never had, you must be willing to do something you’ve never done."

- Thomas Jefferson

"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

"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

"Never give up. It's like breathing—once you quit, your flame dies letting total darkness extinguish every last gasp of hope. You can't do that. You must continue taking in even the shallowest of breaths, continue putting forth even the smallest of efforts to sustain your dreams. Don't ever, ever, ever give up."

- Richelle E. Goodrich

"Do one thing every day that scares you."

- Eleanor Roosevelt

"It is common sense to take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something."

- Franklin D. Roosevelt

"Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go."

- T.S. Eliot

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

- George Edward Woodberry

"Be fearless in trying new things, whether they are physical, mental, or emotional, since being afraid can challenge you to go to the next level."

- Rita Wilson

"Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly."

- Robert F. Kennedy

"Just try new things. Don’t be afraid. Step out of your comfort zones and soar, all right?"

- Michelle Obama

"I hope that in this year to come, you make mistakes. Because if you are making mistakes, then you are making new things, trying new things, learning, living, pushing yourself, changing yourself, changing your world. You’re doing things you’ve never done before, and more importantly, you’re Doing Something."

- Neil Gaiman

"Life is worthwhile if you try. It doesn’t mean you can do everything but there are a lot of things you can do, if you just try."

- Jim Rohn

"Maybe the hardest part of life is just having the courage to try."

- Rachel Hollis

"Can I do it? I'd rather not try and fail." "That's stupid talk, Maya. Every try will not succeed. But if you're going to live, live at all, your business is trying. And if you fail once, so what? Old folks say, Every shuteye ain't sleep and every goodbye ain't gone. You fail, you get up and try again."

- Maya Angelou

"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

"You miss 100% of the shots you don’t take."

- Wayne Gretzky

"If you never try, you’ll never know what you’re capable of."

- John Barrow

"The way to succeed is always to try one more time."

- Thomas Edison

"If you can’t fly, then run, if you can’t run, then walk, if you can’t walk, then crawl, but whatever you do, you have to keep moving forward."

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

"Every accomplishment starts with a decision to try."

- Gail Devers

"Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall."

- Confucius

"Success is never final; failure is never fatal. It’s courage to continue that counts."

- Winston Churchill

"To achieve greatness, start where you are, use what you have, and do what you can."

- Arthur Ashe

"To learn something new, you need to try new things and not be afraid to be wrong."

- Roy T. Bennett

"How to win in life: 1 work hard 2 complain less 3 listen more 4 try, learn, grow 5 don't let people tell you it cant be done 6 make no excuses"

- Germany Kent

"Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all."

- Helen Keller

"The only way to discover the limits of the possible is to go beyond them into the impossible."

- Arthur C. Clarke

"What we fear doing most is usually what we most need to do."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Life begins at the end of your comfort zone."

- Neale Donald Walsch

"You cannot swim for new horizons until you have the courage to lose sight of the shore."

- William Faulkner

"In the end, we only regret the chances we didn’t take."

- Lewis Carroll

"Doubt kills more dreams than failure ever will."

- Karim Seddiki

"You never know what you can do until you try, and very few try unless they have to."

- C.S. Lewis

"You will enrich your life immeasurably if you approach it with a sense of wonder and discovery, and always challenge yourself to try new things."

- Nate Berkus

"We keep moving forward, opening new doors, and doing new things, because we’re curious and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths."

- Walt Disney

"The hallmark of successful people is that they are always stretching themselves to learn new things."

- Carol Dweck

"You can only grow if you’re willing to feel awkward and uncomfortable when you try something new."

- Brian Tracy

"What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?"

- Vincent van Gogh

"Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Great things happen to those who don't stop believing, trying, learning, and being grateful."

- Roy T. Bennett

"Be not afraid of growing slowly; be afraid of only standing still."

- Ancient Chinese Proverb

"To get what we’ve never had, we must do what we have never done."

- Juan Casimiro

"Nobody can go back and start a new beginning, but anyone can start today and make a new ending."

- Maria Robinson

"You will either step forward into growth, or you will step back into safety."

- Abraham Maslow

"Action eliminates doubt."

- Nashid Sharrief

"So many fail because they don’t get started."

- W. Clement Stone

"Action is the foundational key to all success."

- Pablo Picasso

"No matter how you feel, get up, dress up, show up, and never give up."

- Regina Brett

"The biggest gap in your life is that between what you know and what you do."

- Bob Proctor

"Your big opportunity may be right where you are now."

- Napoleon Hill

"Action is eloquence."

- William Shakespeare

"The greatest risk is the risk of riskless living."

- Stephen Covey

"Who you are tomorrow begins with what you do today."

- Tim Fargo

"When people keep telling you that you can’t do a thing, you kind of like to try it."

- Margaret Chase Smith

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

- A.A. Milne

"The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams."

- Eleanor Roosevelt

"I’m ever-changing and always evolving, always trying new things."

- Thomas Rhett

"In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity."

- Albert Einstein

"Embrace the uncertainty. Some of the most beautiful chapters in our lives won’t have a title until much later."

- Bob Goff

"Everyone tried with me. And everytime, it felt like the whole point of life was to see if trying was ever enough."

- David Levithan

"Every accomplishment starts with the decision to try."

"There is no such thing as failure, only feedback."