Figuring out how to stay motivated in the face of failure or after a particularly demoralizing setback can seem almost impossible. Your spirits are low, you feel defeated, and you start to wonder why you even bothered in the first place.
But never give up! While giving up when the going gets tough may sound tempting, learning to persevere and finish strong is much more rewarding.
To help keep you motivated so you can finish and achieve your goals, big or small, these 100 inspirational quotes about not giving up to be able to help.
100 quotes about never giving up
1. “Act like what you do makes a difference. It does.” —William James
2. “Work like someone is working 24 hours a day to take it away from you.” —Mark Cubano
3. “It’s when we’re most lost that we sometimes find our true friends.” -Grimm brothers
4. “Life is not about finding shelter in the storm. It is about learning to dance in the rain”. ―Sherrilyn Kenyon
5. “When you have a dream, you have to hold onto it and never let it go.” —Carol Burnett
6. “Everything that is broken was once beautiful. And our mistakes make us better people. —Jamie Hoang
7. “We can all dance when we find music that we love.” —Giles Andreae
8. “I can’t change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination.” —Jimmy Dean
9. “Just because someone stumbles and loses their way doesn’t mean they’re lost forever.” –Professor X
10. “Believe you can and you’re halfway there.” -Theodore Roosevelt
11. “No matter what, there is a light at the end of the tunnel. —Demi lovato
12. “It’s never too late to be wise.” -Daniel Defoe
13. “Nourish your mind with great thoughts. Believing in the heroic makes heroes.” —Benjamin Disraeli
14. “I think I can. I think I can. I think I can. I know I can.” —Watty Piper The little engine that could
15. “It is our attitude at the beginning of a difficult task that, more than anything else, will affect its successful outcome.” —William James
16. “Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you have to keep moving.” —Albert Einstein
17. “To find something, anything, a great truth or a lost pair of glasses, you must first believe that there will be some advantage to finding it.” –Jack Burden all the king’s men
18. “Perfection is not achievable, but if we pursue perfection we can achieve excellence.” —Vince Lombardi
19. “There should be no limits to human endeavor. We are all different. however wrong life It may seem like there is always something you can do and succeed. While there is life there is hope”. -Stephen Hawking, The theory of everything
20. “I am the owner of my destiny: I am the captain of my soul.” —William Ernest Henley
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21. “Just don’t give up trying to do what you really want to do. Where there’s love and inspiration, I don’t think you can go wrong.” -Ella Fitzgerald
22. “Nothing is impossible. The very word says: ‘I am possible!'” —Audrey Hepburn
23. “You’re never too old to set another goal or dream a new dream.” -Audrey Hepburn
24. “From difficulties grow miracles.” —Jean de la Bruyere
25. “I’ve ever tried. I’ve ever failed. It doesn’t matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better.” —Samuel Beckett
26. “You should do the things you think you can’t do.” -Eleanor Roosevelt
27. “You are braver than you think, stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.” —A.A. Milne
28. “We cannot go back on the decisions we have made. We can only affect the decisions that we are going to make from here.” —Nick Rice
29. “When a decisive moment arrives, you can do one of two things. Define the moment, or let the moment define you. —Roy McAvoy
30. “If opportunity doesn’t knock, build a door.” —Milton Berle
31. “I will love the light because it shows me the way, but I will endure the darkness because it shows me the stars.” —Og Mandino
32. “Instead of letting your struggles and failures get you down or wear you down, let them inspire you.” —Michelle Obama
33. “It doesn’t matter how slow you go as long as you don’t stop.” ―Confucius
34. “You’re never too old to set another goal or dream a new dream.” -C.S. Lewis
35. “Failure is success in the works.” —Albert Einstein
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36. “If I can’t do big things, I can do little things in a big way.” —Martin Luther King Jr..
37. “With the right kind of training and determination, you can achieve anything.” —Reese witherspoon
38. “It always seems impossible until it’s done.” -Nelson Mandela
39. “Ambition is the road to success. Persistence is the vehicle in which you arrive.” —Bill Bradley
40. “Happiness and influence and what you seek to complete your life.” —Louis Howard
41. “By perseverance the snail reached the ark.” —Charles Spurgeon
42. “Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.” —Winston Churchill
43. “Whether you think you can or you think you can’t, you’re right.” -Henry Ford
44. “Successful men and women keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don’t give up.” ―Conrad Hilton
45. “Failure happens all the time. It happens every day in practice. What makes you better is how you react to it.” –Mia Hamm
46. ”Giving up is for newbies.” —Philoctetes
47. “Never bow your head. Always keep it up. Look the world square in the eye.” -Helen Keller
48. “Part of being a champion is acting like a champion. You have to learn to win and not run away when you lose.” –Nancy Kerrigan
49. “What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.” —Zig Ziglar
50. “Never give up, because that’s the place and the time the tide will turn.” —Harriet Beecher Stowe
51. “In every job that needs to be done, there is an element of fun. You find the fun and, snap, work is play! –Mary Poppins
52. “If you fall behind, run faster. Never give up, never give up and rise against the odds.” —Jesse Jackson
53. “Character is what you do on the third and fourth try.” ―James A. Michener
54. “Hope is a good thing, maybe the best of things, and nothing good dies.” —Andy Dufresne Shawshank Redemption
55. “Survival can be summed up in three words: never give up. That’s the crux of it all. Just keep trying.” —Bear Grylls
56. “It always seems impossible until it’s done.” -Nelson Mandela
57. “I know from experience that you should never give up on yourself or others, no matter what.” —George Foreman
58. “There is no failure except in not trying anymore.” ―Elbert Hubbard
59. “You never give up. You do a task to the best of your ability and beyond.” —Debbie Reynolds
60. “Be where your feet are.” -Anonymous
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61. “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 off but you don’t give up.” ―Chuck Yeager
62. “Don’t be discouraged. Often it is the last key in the group that opens the lock. -Unknown
63. “The fight you’re in today is building the strength you need for tomorrow. Don’t give up.” —Robert Tew
64. “If you’re going through hell, keep going.” —Winston Churchill
65. “When you feel like quitting, think about why you started.” -Anonymous
66. “Your victory is just around the corner. Never give up.– Nicki Minaj
67. “I haven’t failed, I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.” -Thomas Edison
68. “Stay. Don’t lose your heart, keep going, keep it up.” —Mark Ruffalo
69. “Stop being afraid of what can go wrong and start being positive about what can go right.” -Unknown
70. “It’s hard to beat a person who never gives up.” -Babe Ruth
71. “Either do not start or, having started, do not give up.” -Chinese proverb
72. “It’s not that I’m so smart, it’s that I stay with problems longer.” -Albert Einstein
73. “Winners never give up, and those who give up never win.” —Vince Lombardi
74. “Let me tell you the secret that has led me to my goal. My strength lies solely in myself -Louis Pasteur
75. “Just because you fail once doesn’t mean you’re going to fail at everything.” —marilyn monroe
76. “I refuse to quit smoking because I haven’t tried every possible way yet.” -Unknown
77. “Fall down seven times, get up eight.” —Japanese proverb
78. “The man who moves a mountain begins by taking small stones.” -Confucius
79. “Success seems to be largely a matter of holding on after others have let go.” —William Feather
80. “God helps those who persevere.” -The Koran
81. “Success is not an accident. It is hard work, perseverance, learning, study, sacrifice and above all, love for what you are doing or learning to do.” —Pele
82. “Being defeated is often a temporary condition. Giving up is what makes it permanent.”—Marilyn vos Savant
83. “Never give up on a dream just because of the time it will take to achieve it. Time will pass anyway.”—Earl Nightingale
84. “It takes a dream to start, the desire to keep going and the determination to finish.” —Eddie Harris, Jr.
85. “Be what you want to look like.”—Socrates
86. “Never give up on your desire to be what you want to be. Stay focused, persistent and relentless.” ―Debasish Mridha MD
87. “How long should you try? Until.” ―Jim Rohn
88. “If you run, you might lose. If you don’t run, you’re guaranteed to lose.” —Jesse Jackson
89. “Never give up. Today is hard, tomorrow it will be worse, but the day after tomorrow it will be sunny”. –Jack Ma
90. “The future rewards those who keep going. I don’t have time to feel sorry for myself. I don’t have time to complain. I’m going to keep going.” -Barack Obama
91. “Hold on to your dreams, because without them life is a broken winged bird who cannot fly.” —Langston Hughes
92. “Remember to look up at the stars and not at your feet. Try to make sense of what you see and ask yourself what it is that makes the Universe exist. Be curious. And as difficult as life may seem, there is always something you can do and succeed. It’s important that you don’t just give up.” -Stephen Hawking
93. “Don’t give up. I believe in all of you. A person is 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
95. “Don’t give up, because you have friends, don’t give up, you’re not beaten yet, don’t give up, I know you can do well.” —Peter Gabriel
96. Hard times never last, but tough people do.” —Robert. H. Schuller
97. “Courage doesn’t always roar, sometimes it’s the quiet voice at the end of the day whispering ‘I’ll try again tomorrow’.” —Mary Anne Radmacher
98. “On the 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
99. “Every teacher was once a mess.” —TS wood
100. “No one has the power to shatter your dreams unless you give it to them.” —Maeve Grayson
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