But never give up! While giving up when the going gets tough might sound tempting, learning how to persevere and finish strong is so much more rewarding. To help you stay motivated so you can reach that finish line and achieve your goals—whether they’re big or small—these 100 inspiring quotes about not giving up can help.
100 Quotes About Never Giving Up
- “Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.” —William James 2. “Work like there is someone working 24 hours a day to take it away from you.” —Mark Cuban
- “It is when we are most lost that we sometimes find our truest friends.” —Brothers Grimm
- “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
- “It is never too late to be wise.” –Daniel Defoe
- “Nurture your mind with great thoughts. To believe in the heroic makes heroes.” —Benjamin Disraeli
- “I think I can. I think I can. I think I can. I know I can.” —Watty Piper, The Little Engine That Could
- “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
- “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.” –Jack Burden, All The King’s Men
- “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, The Theory of Everything
- “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.” —Audrey Hepburn
- “Out of difficulties grow miracles.” —Jean de la Bruyere
- “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.” —A. A. Milne
- “We can’t retract the decisions we’ve made. We can only affect the decisions we’re going to make from here.” —Nick Rice
- “When a defining moment comes along, you can do one of two things. Define the moment, or let the moment define you.” —Roy McAvoy
- “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
- “It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.” ―Confucius
- “You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.” —C.S. Lewis
- “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
- “Happiness and influence and that which you seek to make your life complete.” —Louis Howard
- “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
- “Successful men and women keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don’t quit.” ―Conrad Hilton
- “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
- “Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.” —Harriet Beecher Stowe
- “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 53. “Character consists of what you do on the third and fourth tries.” ―James A. Michener 54. “Hope is a good thing, maybe the best of things, and no good thing ever dies.” —Andy Dufresne, Shawshank Redemption
- “Survival can be summed up in three words—never give up. That’s the heart of it really. Just keep trying.” —Bear Grylls
- “It always seems impossible until it’s done.” ―Nelson Mandela
- “I know from experience that you should never give up on yourself or others, no matter what.” —George Foreman
- “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
- “Be where your feet are.” —Anonymous
- “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
- “Don’t be discouraged. It’s often the last key in the bunch that opens the lock.” –Unknown
- “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
- “When you feel like quitting think about why you started.” —Anonymous
- “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 68. “Stick around. Don’t lose your heart, just keep going, keep at it.” —Mark Ruffalo
- “Stop being afraid of what can go wrong and start being positive about what can go right.” —Unknown
- “It’s hard to beat a person who never gives up.” —Babe Ruth
- “Either do not begin or, having begun, do not give up.” —Chinese Proverb
- “It’s not that I’m so smart, it’s just that I stay with problems longer.” —Albert Einstein
- “Winners never quit, and quitters never win.” —Vince Lombardi
- “Let me tell you the secret that has led to my goal. My strength lies solely on my —Louis Pasteur
- “Just because you fail once doesn’t mean you’re gonna fail at everything.” —Marilyn Monroe
- “I refuse to quit because I haven’t tried all possible ways yet.” —Unknown
- “Fall seven times, stand up eight.” —Japanese Proverb
- “The man who moves a mountain begins by carrying away small stones.” —Confucius
- “Success seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after others have let go.” —William Feather
- “God helps those who persevere.” —The Koran
- “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.
- “Be as you wish to seem.”—Socrates
- “Never give up your desire to be what you want to be. Stay focused, persistent and relentless.” ―Debasish Mridha MD
- “How long should you try? Until.” ―Jim Rohn
- “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. Suess 94. “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
- Tough times never last, but tough people do." —Robert. H. 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
- “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
- “Every master was once a disaster.” —T.S. Wood
- “No one has the power to shatter your dreams unless you give it to them.” —Maeve Grayson For the best #MotivationMonday quotes to kick your week off on the right foot, click here.
