Keep Going: A Collection of Inspirational Quotes to Fuel Your Journey

"In the middle of every difficulty lies opportunity."

- Albert Einstein

"If you really want to eat, keep climbing. The fruits are on the top of the tree. Stretch your hands and keep stretching them. Success is on the top, keep going."

- Israelmore Ayivor

"Never surrender until the challenge turns you into a champion."

- Hiral Nagda

"Keep your head up. Move forward. Keep going."

- Alex Trebek

"Fight until the last moment because you never know what luck will fall your way."

- T.A. White

"Do today what others won’t so tomorrow you can do what others can’t."

- Jerry Rice

"I always tell my kids if you lay down, people will step over you. But if you keep scrambling, if you keep going, someone will always, always give you a hand. Always. But you gotta keep dancing, you gotta keep your feet moving."

- Morgan Freeman

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

- Christian D Larson

"Life is like riding a bicycle, to keep your balance, you must keep moving."

- Albert Einstein

"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.

"Press forward. Do not stop, do not linger in your journey, but strive for the mark set before you."

- George Whitefield

"The road of growth, enlargement and glory is outrageously difficult, but avoiding it is like avoiding your magnificent destiny."

- Hiral Nagda

"I don't know what lies ahead, but I want to keep going forever..."

- Fuyumi Soryo

"You are likely to fall when you stop paddling your bicycle. Such is life. As long as you don’t give up, you will never end up failing!"

- Israelmore Ayivor

"Instead of letting the hard times get me down, I've learned to keep going to look for the hidden good."

- Paul J. Meyer

"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

"You've just got to keep going through the tough times and try your best every time you play."

- Tammy Abraham

"If I just keep putting one foot in front of the other, it stands to reason that I'm going to get there."

- Rachel Joyce

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

- Theodore Roosevelt

"There’s always a better life for everyone."

- Jordan Hoechlin

"We all have a list of things that we failed at. This list is not kept in our mind to remind us of the failure, but it's there so we remember that we cannot let that be the thing we are known for. We must try again - this time, we will not fail."

- C Miller

"When you walk in the fire, you start becoming fireproof."

- Hiral Nagda

"Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can."

- Arthur Ashe

"Courage doesn’t always roar. Sometimes courage is the little voice at the end of the day that says I’ll try again tomorrow."

- Mary Anne Radmacher

"Life has got all those twists and turns. You’ve got to hold on tight and off you go."

- Nicole Kidman

"Those who move forward with a happy spirit will find that things always work out."

- Gordon B. Hinkley

"The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees opportunity in every difficulty."

- Winston Churchill

"One small positive thought in the morning can change your whole day."

- Dalai Lama

"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

"Doing the best at this moment puts you in the best place for the next moment."

- Oprah Winfrey

"The greater the difficulty, the more glory in surmounting it. Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempests."

- Epictetus

"The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph."

- Thomas Paine

"I am not the richest, smartest, or most talented person in the world, but I succeed because I keep going and going and going."

- Sylvester Stallone

"There were some tough days, there were some good days, but you have to just keep going, keep dreaming, and keep believing."

- Bukayo Saka

"You just can’t beat the person who never gives up."

- Babe Ruth

"If you really look closely, most overnight successes took a long time."

- Steve Jobs

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

- Morgan Wootten

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

- Rosa Parks

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

- Dale Carnegie

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

- William Feather

"In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer."

- Albert Camus

"Never underestimate the power of dreams and the influence of the human spirit. We are all the same in this notion: The potential for greatness lives within each of us."

- Wilma Rudolph

"If you can dream it, you can do it."

- Walt Disney

"If you don’t like something, change it. If you can’t change it, change your attitude."

- Maya Angelou

"Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action."

- Benjamin Disraeli

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

- Theodore Roosevelt

"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

"Successful people are the ones who are breaking the rules."

- Seth Godin

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

- Napoleon Hill

"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

"It requires a better type of mind to seek out and to support or to create the new than to follow the worn paths of accepted success."

- John D. Rockefeller, Sr

"The secret of getting ahead is getting started. The secret of getting started is breaking your complex overwhelming tasks into small manageable tasks, and then starting on the first one."

- Mark Twain

"Do or do not. There is no try."

- Yoda

"One of the best pieces of advice I ever got was from a horse master. He told me to go slow to go fast. I think that applies to everything in life. We live as though there aren't enough hours in the day but if we do each thing calmly and carefully we will get it done quicker and with much less stress."

- Viggo Mortensen

"The key is not to prioritize what’s on your schedule, but to schedule your priorities."

- Stephen Covey

"You were born to win, but to be a winner, you must plan to win, prepare to win, and expect to win."

- Zig Ziglar

"Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant."

- Robert Louis Stevenson

"To practice any art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow. So do it."

- Kurt Vonnegut

"Creativity involves breaking out of expected patterns in order to look at things in a different way."

- Edward de Bono

"Create with the heart; build with the mind."

- Criss Jami

"Enthusiasm is excitement with inspiration, motivation, and a pinch of creativity."

- Bo Bennett

"Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul - and sings the tunes without the words - and never stops at all."

- Emily Dickinson

"Hope begins in the dark. The stubborn hope that if you just show up and try to do the right thing, the dawn will come. You wait and watch and work: you don’t give up."

- Anne Lamott

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

- Winston Churchill

"You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step."

- Martin Luther King

"Tomorrow becomes never. No matter how small the task, take the first step now!"

- Tim Ferriss

"The question isn’t who is going to let me, it’s who is going to stop me."

- Ayn Rand

"If we fail to adapt, we fail to move forward."

- John Wooden

"You are always a student, never a master. You have to keep moving forward."

- Conrad Hall

"Don't stop when you're tired, stop when you're done."

- David Goggins

"You define your own life. Don't let other people write your script."

- Oprah Winfrey

"Believe you can and you're halfway there."

- Theodore Roosevelt

"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

"My attitude has always been, if you fall flat on your face, at least you’re moving forward. All you have to do is get back up and try again."

- Richard Branson

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

- Stella Maeve

"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

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

- Thomas A. Edison

"You just do it. You force yourself to get up. You force yourself to put one foot before the other, and God damn it, you refuse to let it get to you. You fight. You cry. You curse. Then you go about the business of living. That’s how I’ve done it. There’s no other way."

- Elizabeth Taylor

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

- Roy T. Bennett

"Keep going and keep growing. Never allow those who do not know where you are going to stop you from going where you should be going."

- Gift Gugu Mona

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

- C.S. Lewis

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

- Helen Keller

"If my mind can conceive it, if my heart can believe it, then I can achieve it."

- Muhammad Ali

"I've been trusted to take the game-winning shot and missed. I've failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed."

- Michael Jordan

"Everyone has inside of him a piece of good news. The good news is that you don't know how great you can be! How much you can love! What you can accomplish! And what your potential is!"

- Anne Frank

"We must let go of the life we have planned, so as to accept the one that is waiting for us."

- Joseph Campbell

"Find out who you are and be that person. That's what your soul was put on this earth to be. Find that truth, live that truth, and everything else will come."

- Ellen DeGeneres

"Wake up determined, go to bed satisfied."

- Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson

"You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, 'I lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.' You must do the thing you think you cannot do."

- Eleanor Roosevelt

"I tell myself, 'You've been through so much, you've endured so much, time will allow me to heal, and soon this will be just another memory that made me the strong woman, athlete, and mother I am today.'"

- Serena Williams

"Our lives are stories in which we write, direct and star in the leading role. Some chapters are happy while others bring lessons to learn, but we always have the power to be the heroes of our own adventures."

- Joelle Speranza

"Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving."

- Albert Einstein

"If you don't like the road you're walking, start paving another one!"

- Dolly Parton

"I have learned over the years that when one's mind is made up, this diminishes fear; knowing what must be done does away with fear."

- Rosa Parks

"We generate fears while we sit. We overcome them by action."

- Dr. Henry Link

"Dreams don’t have to just be dreams. You can make it a reality; if you just keep pushing and keep trying, then eventually you'll reach your goal. And if that takes a few years, then that's great, but if it takes 10 or 20, then that's part of the process."

- Naomi Osaka

"Out of the mountain of despair, a stone of hope."

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

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

- Zig Ziglar

"I believe that if you'll just stand up and go, life will open up for you. Something just motivates you to keep moving."

- Tina Turner

"We need to take risks. We need to go broke. We need to prove them wrong, simply by not giving up."

- Awkwafina

"The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts today."

- Franklin Delano Roosevelt

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

- George Eliot

"You do not find the happy life. You make it."

- Camilla Eyring Kimball

"You don’t have to be defined or confined by your environment, by your family circumstances, and certainly not by your race or gender."

- Mariah Carey

"When we let fear be our master, we cannot be happy and free as a butterfly. But when we choose to trust the journey and embrace love and joy, we are free to fly."

- Annicken R. Day

"You must find the place inside yourself where nothing is impossible."

- Deepak Chopra

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

- Sylvester Stallone in Rocky Balboa

"I will not let anyone scare me out of my full potential."

- Nicki Minaj

"We are not our best intentions. We are what we do."

- Amy Dickinson

"Don't try to lessen yourself for the world; let the world catch up to you."

- Beyoncé

"I'm realizing how much I've diminished my own power. I'm not doing that no more."

- Alicia Keys

"Embrace the glorious mess that you are."

- Elizabeth Gilbert

"At the end of the day, whether or not those people are comfortable with how you're living your life doesn't matter. What matters is whether you're comfortable with it."

- Dr. Phil

"Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky."

- Rabindranath Tagore

"Whatever you think the world is withholding from you, you are withholding from the world."

- Eckhart Tolle

"In a gentle way, you can shake the world."

- Mahatma Gandhi

"If you have good thoughts they will shine out of your face like sunbeams and you will always look lovely."

- Roald Dahl

"Try to be a rainbow in someone's cloud."

- Maya Angelou

"The simple act of listening to someone and making them feel as if they have truly been heard is a most treasured gift."

- L. A. Villafane

"All you need is the plan, the road map, and the courage to press on to your destination."

- Earl Nightingale

"Real change, enduring change, happens one step at a time."

- Ruth Bader Ginsburg

"Nobody built like you, you design yourself."

- Jay-Z

"Don't be afraid. Because you're going to be afraid. But remember when you become afraid, just don't be afraid."

- Joan Jett

"Perfection is not attainable, but if we chase perfection we can catch excellence."

- Vince Lombardi

"Live your beliefs and you can turn the world around."

- Henry David Thoreau

"Faith is love taking the form of aspiration."

- William Ellery Channing

"When it comes to luck, you make your own."

- Bruce Springsteen

"Being vulnerable is a strength, not a weakness."

- Selena Gomez

"We all have problems. But it's not what happens to us, [it 's] the choices we make after."

- Elizabeth Smart

"The moral of my story is the sun always comes out after the storm. Being optimistic and surrounding yourself with positive loving people is for me, living life on the sunny side of the street."

- Janice Dean

"We have to let go of who we think we should be and embrace what is."

- Achea Redd

"I've noticed when I fear something, if I just end up doing it, I'm grateful in the end."

- Colleen Hoover

"We’ve been making our own opportunities, and as you prove your worth and value to people, they can’t put you in a box. You hustle it into happening, right?"

- Jennifer Lopez

"We have to be better. We have to love more, hate less. We've gotta listen more and talk less. We've gotta know that this is everybody's responsibility."

- Meghan Rapinoe

"Let love rule."

- Lenny Kravitz

"The power of imagination makes us infinite."

- John Muir

"There's nothing more powerful than not giving a f—k."

- Amy Schumer

"Learning how to be still, to really be still and let life happen—that stillness becomes a radiance."

- Morgan Freeman

"When you've seen beyond yourself, then you may find, peace of mind is waiting there."

- George Harrison

"Definitions belong to the definers, not the defined."

- Toni Morrison

"Trying to grow up is hurting. You make mistakes. You try to learn from them, and when you don't, it hurts even more."

- Aretha Franklin

"I care about decency and humanity and kindness. Kindness today is an act of rebellion."

- Pink

"A lot of people are afraid to say what they want. That's why they don't get what they want."

- Madonna

"In order for the light to shine so brightly, the darkness must be present."

- Sir Francis Bacon

"The only journey is the one within."

- Rainer Maria Rilke

"You have to be where you are to get where you need to go."

- Amy Poehler

"Work hard, know your s—t, show your s—t, and then feel entitled."

- Mindy Kaling

"How wild it was, to let it be."

- Cheryl Strayed

"I don't look ahead. I'm right here with you. It's a good way to be."

- Danny DeVito

"You can’t move to the next chapter of your life if you keep re-reading the last one."

"Whenever you find yourself doubting how far you can go, just remember how far you have come. Remember everything you have faced, all the battles you have won, and all the fears you have overcome."