Never Give Up: A Collection of Inspiring Quotes to Keep You Going

"I think I can. I think I can. I think I can. I know I can."

- Watty Piper

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

- Lao Tzu

"The secret of getting ahead is getting started."

- Mark Twain

"Failure is success in progress."

- Albert Einstein

"If I cannot do great things, I can do small things in a great way."

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

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

- Reese Witherspoon

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

- Nelson Mandela

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

- Bill Bradley

"By perseverance the snail reached the ark."

- Charles Spurgeon

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

- Winston Churchill

"Whether you think you can or think you can't you're right."

- Henry Ford

"Failure happens all the time. It happens every day in practice. What makes you better is how you react to it."

- Mia Hamm

"Giving up is for rookies."

- Philoctetes

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

- Helen Keller

"Part of being a champ is acting like a champ. You have to learn how to win and not run away when you lose."

- Nancy Kerrigan

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

- Zig Ziglar

"In every job that must be done, there is an element of fun. You find the fun and—snap!—the job’s a game!"

- Mary Poppins

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

- Jesse Jackson

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

- Andy Dufresne

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

- Bear Grylls

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

- George Foreman

"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

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

- Nicki Minaj

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

- Thomas Edison

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

- Mark Ruffalo

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

- Babe Ruth

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

- Louis Pasteur

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

- Marilyn Monroe

"Fall seven times, stand up eight."

- Japanese Proverb

"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

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

- Eddie Harris, Jr.

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

- Debasish Mridha MD

"If you run, you might lose. If you don’t run, you’re guaranteed to lose."

- Jesse Jackson

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

- Jack Ma

"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

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

- Langston Hughes

"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

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

- Dr. Seuss

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

- Robert Schuller

"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

"Every master was once a disaster."

- David T.S Wood

"No one has the power to shatter your dreams unless you give it to them."

- Maeve Grayson

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

- Theodore Roosevelt

"The greater the obstacle, the more glory in overcoming it."

- Moliere

"Fall seven times; stand up eight."

- Japanese Proverb

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

- Walt Whitman

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

- Christian D. Larson

"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

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

- Jesse Jackson

"The human spirit is stronger than anything that can happen to it."

- C.C. Scott

"Dig deep within yourself, for there is a fountain of goodness ever ready to flow if you will keep digging."

- Marcus Aurelius

"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

"Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does."

- William James

"Work like there is someone working 24 hours a day to take it away from you."

- Mark Cuban

"Life isn’t finding shelter in the storm. It’s about learning to dance in the rain."

- Sherrilyn Kenyon

"When you have a dream, you've got to grab it and never let go."

- Carol Burnett

"Everything that’s broken was beautiful at one time. And our mistakes make us better people."

- Jamie Hoang

"We all can dance when we find music that we love."

- Giles Andreae

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

- Jimmy Dean

"Just because someone stumbles and loses their path, doesn’t mean they’re lost forever."

- Professor X

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

- Theodore Roosevelt

"No matter what you're going through, there's a light at the end of the tunnel."

- Demi Lovato

"Nurture your mind with great thoughts. To believe in the heroic makes heroes."

- Benjamin Disraeli

"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 is our attitude at the beginning of a difficult task which, more than anything else, will affect its successful outcome."

- William James

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

- Albert Einstein

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

- Vince Lombardi

"There should be no boundaries to human endeavor. We are all different. However bad life may seem, there is always something you can do, and succeed at. While there’s life, there is hope."

- Stephen Hawking

"I am the master of my fate: I am the captain of my soul."

- William Ernest Henley

"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

"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

"Out of difficulties grow miracles."

- Jean de La Bruyère

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

- Samuel Beckett

"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

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

- Milton Berle

"I will love the light for it shows me the way, yet I will endure the darkness because it shows me the stars."

- Og Mandino

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

- Michelle Obama

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

- Louis Pasteur

"Fall seven times and stand up eight."

- Japanese Proverb

"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

"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

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

- Marie Curie

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

- Winston Churchill

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

- Winston Churchill

"When you know your ‘why,’ then your ‘what’ has more impact because you’re working toward your purpose."

- Michael Jr.

"When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it."

- Henry Ford

"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

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

- Mahatma Gandhi

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

- Thomas Edison

"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

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

- Confucius

"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

"Through perseverance many people win success out of what seemed destined to be certain failure."

- Benjamin Disraeli

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

- William Feather

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

- Dale Carnegie

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

- Leigh Mitchell Hodges

"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

"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

"The man who moves a mountain begins by carrying away small stones."

- Confucius

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

- Abraham Lincoln

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

- Babe Ruth

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

- James A. Michener

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

- Thomas A. Edison

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

- Nelson Mandela

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

- Harriet Stowe

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

- Albert Einstein

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

- Henry Ford

"You should never give up your inner self."

- Clint Eastwood

"Winners never quit, and quitters never win."

- Vince Lombardi

"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

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

- Debbie Reynolds

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

- Confucius

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

- Conrad Hilton

"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

"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

"No matter how dark and hopeless a situation may seem, always hold on and never give up your dream."

- Mouloud Benzadi

"Never give up hope. All things are working for your good. One day, you'll look back on everything you've been through and thank God for it."

- Germany Kent

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

- Elbert Hubbard

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

- Babe Ruth

"How long should you try? Until."

- Jim Rohn

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

- Thomas Edison

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

- Oprah Winfrey

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

- Roy T. Bennett

"Never give up on the fight until you win the belt."

- Israelmore Ayivor

"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

"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

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

- Theodore Roosevelt

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

- Dan Waldschmidt

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

- Napoleon Hill

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

- Thomas Paine

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

- Steve Jobs

"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

"God helps those who persevere."

- The Koran

"It is never too late to be wise."

- Daniel Defoe

"To conquer frustration, one must remain intensely focused on the outcome, not the obstacles."

- T.F. Hodge

"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

"To find something, anything, a great truth or a lost pair of glasses, you must first believe there will be some advantage in finding it."

- Jude Law as Jack Burden

"We can’t retract the decisions we’ve made. We can only affect the decisions we’re going to make from here."

- Jamie Foxx

"It is when we are most lost that we sometimes find our truest friends."

- Brothers Grimm

"Be as you wish to seem."

- Socrates

"Happiness and influence and that which you seek to make your life complete."

- Louis Howard

"Learning to let go is not giving up! It is simply passing the burden to a better fighter, so you can fight another day."

- Shannon L. Alder

"When a defining moment comes along, you can do one of two things. Define the moment, or let the moment define you."

- Roy McAvoy

"Self-pity is our worst enemy, and if we yield to it, we can never do anything wise in this world."

- Helen Keller

"Ask yourself this question: ‘Will this matter a year from now?’"

- Richard Carlson

"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

"As I look back on my life, I realize that every time I thought I was being rejected from something good, I was actually being redirected to something better."

- Steve Maraboli

"I don’t know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody."

- Bill Cosby

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

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

"Keep going quotes are words and phrases that you can turn to for inspiration."

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

"Be where your feet are."

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

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