Top 50 Don't Give Up Quotes (2025 Update)

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

— Thomas A. Edison

Also featured in: Startup Quotes, Success Quotes, Perseverance Quotes, Persistence Quotes, Hard Work Quotes

2. “Don’t give up. Don’t ever give up.”

— Jim Valvano

Also featured in: Motivational Quotes, Perseverance Quotes, Never Give Up Quotes, Motivational Monday Quotes, Feel Good Quotes

3. “Never give in. Never give in. Never, never, never, never – in nothing, great or small, large or petty – never give in, except to convictions of honour and good sense. Never yield to force. Never yield to the apparently overwhelming might of the enemy.”

— Winston Churchill

Also featured in: Inspirational Quotes, Courage Quotes, Perseverance Quotes, Leadership Quotes

4. “Failure is simply an opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently.”

— Henry Ford

Also featured in: Positive Quotes, Startup Quotes, Failure Quotes, Inspirational Quotes for Work

5. “Persistence is very important. You should not give up unless you are forced to give up.”

— Elon Musk

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6. “Get busy living or get busy dying.”

— Stephen King

Also featured in: Life Quotes, Action Quotes, Short Quotes About Life, Fiction Quotes

7. “Success is not achieved by winning all the time. Real success comes when we rise after we fall.”

— Muhammad Ali

Also featured in: Positive Quotes, Perseverance Quotes, Positive Motivation Quotes, Real Quotes

8. “To lose patience is to lose the battle.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

Also featured in: Patience Quotes, Emotion Quotes, Winning Quotes, Philosophy Quotes

9. “Problems are not stop signs, they are guidelines.”

— Robert H. Schuller

Also featured in: Perseverance Quotes, Optimism Quotes, Friday Motivational Quotes, Intelligent Quotes, Encouraging Quotes

10. “Winners are not those who never fail, but those who never quit.”

— Edwin Louis Cole

Also featured in: Persistence Quotes, Short Motivational Quotes, Short Inspiring Quotes, Friday Inspirational Quotes, Commitment Quotes

11. “Defeat is a state of mind; no one is ever defeated until defeat has been accepted as a reality.”

— Bruce Lee

Also featured in: Empowering Quotes, Motivational Work Quotes, Mindset Quotes, Mental Strength Quotes

12. “If you don’t give up, you still have a chance.”

— Jack Ma

Also featured in: Inspirational Entrepreneurship Quotes, Persistence Quotes, Attitude Quotes, Positive Inspirational Quotes, Opportunity Quotes

13. “By endurance we conquer.”

— Ernest Shackleton

Also featured in: Persistence Quotes, Quotes About Strength, Never Give Up Quotes, Stay Strong Quotes, Giving Up Quotes

14. “Determination, with an optimistic attitude, is the key to success.”

— Dalai Lama XIV

Also featured in: Short Motivational Quotes, Optimistic Quotes, Positive Life Quotes, Short Inspiring Quotes

15. “In a world filled with hate, we must still dare to hope. In a world filled with anger, we must still dare to comfort. In a world filled with despair, we must still dare to dream. And in a world filled with distrust, we must still dare to believe.”

— Michael Jackson

Also featured in: Make A Difference Quotes, Meaningful Quotes, Quotes About Dreams, Positive Short Quotes, Challenges Quotes

16. “I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life and that is why I succeed.”

— Michael Jordan

Also featured in: Perseverance Quotes, Failure Quotes, Motivational Quotes for Success, Short Inspirational Quotes

17. “Never give up on what you really want to do. The person with big dreams is more powerful than one with all the facts.”

— H. Jackson Brown Jr.

Also featured in: Encouragement Quotes, Quotes About Dreams, Dream Big Quotes, Passion Quotes, Giving Up Quotes

18. “We can do anything we want as long as we stick to it long enough.”

— Helen Keller

Also featured in: Optimistic Quotes, Motivational Quotes About Life, Giving Up Quotes, Commitment Quotes, Not Giving Up Quotes

19. “Permanence, perseverance, and persistence in spite of all obstacles, discouragements, and impossibilities: It is these qualities that distinguish the strong soul from the weak.”

— Thomas Carlyle

Also featured in: Persistence Quotes, Quotes About Strength, Obstacles Quotes, Giving Up Quotes, Commitment Quotes

20. “Never give up, because you never know if the next try is going to be the one that works.”

— Mary Kay Ash

Also featured in: Failure Quotes, Never Give Up Quotes, Giving Up Quotes, Commitment Quotes, Not Giving Up Quotes

21. “I never back down and I never quit!”

— John Cena

Also featured in: Quotes About Strength, Never Give Up Quotes, Giving Up Quotes, Fighting Quotes, Not Giving Up Quotes

22. “When we give up on our dreams, we die while still alive.”

— Robin S. Sharma

Also featured in: Never Give Up Quotes, Dreaming Big Quotes, Fulfillment Quotes, Giving Up Quotes

23. “When someone tells me “no,” it doesn’t mean I can’t do it, it simply means I can’t do it with them.”

— Karen E. Quinones Miller

Also featured in: Motivational Quotes

24. “Dripping water hollows out stone, not through force but through persistence.”

— Ovid

Also featured in: Persistence Quotes, Short Motivational Quotes, Habit Quotes

25. “Education comes from within; you get it by struggle and effort and thought.”

— Napoleon Hill

Also featured in: Education Quotes, Effort Quotes, Struggle Quotes, Work Hard Quotes

26. “No matter how talented you are, not everyone is going to like you, but that’s life. Stay strong.”

— Justin Bieber

Also featured in: Strong Quotes, Short Quotes About Life, Be Yourself Quotes, Haters Quotes

27. “I will be patient till even patience tires of my patience.”

— Ali ibn Abi Talib

Also featured in: Patience Quotes, Not Giving Up Quotes

28. “I am not a saint, unless you think of a saint as a sinner who keeps on trying.”

— Nelson Mandela

Also featured in: Quotes About Trying, Not Giving Up Quotes

29. “The persistent man with a poor plan stands a better chance of winning than the man with a perfect plan who hesitates and waivers in carrying it out.”

— Napoleon Hill

Also featured in: Never Give Up Quotes, Taking Action Quotes, Quotes About Acting

30. “The key of persistence opens all doors closed by resistance.”

— John Di Lemme

Also featured in: Persistence Quotes, Never Give Up Quotes, Good Morning Inspirational Quotes, Keep Going Quotes

31. “Fail, fail again, fail better.”

— Samuel Beckett

Also featured in: Failure Quotes, Creative Quotes

32. “Nothing really worth having comes quickly and easily. If it did, I doubt that we would ever grow.”

— Eknath Easwaran

Also featured in: Patience Quotes, Life is Hard Quotes, Not Giving Up Quotes, Work Hard Quotes

33. “Today was a difficult day. Tomorrow will be better.”

— Kevin Henkes

Also featured in: Optimism Quotes, Feel Better Quotes, Future Quotes, Bad Day Quotes

34. “Success represents the 1% of your work which results from the 99% that is called failure.”

— Sōichirō Honda

Also featured in: Failure Quotes, Never Give Up Quotes, Positive Work Quotes, Work Hard Quotes

35. “Success is a poor teacher. We learn the most about ourselves when we fail, so don’t be afraid of failing. Failing is part of the process of success. You cannot have success without failure.”

— Robert T. Kiyosaki

Also featured in: Failure Quotes, Teacher Quotes

36. “First, you have to finish.”

— Michael Schumacher

Also featured in: Competition Quotes, Keep Going Quotes

37. “If you’re not dead, God’s not done.”

— Perry Noble

Also featured in: Christian Motivational Quotes, Never Give Up Quotes, Quotes About Hope, Keep Going Quotes

38. “Start where you are, with what you have. Make something of it and never be satisfied.”

— George Washington Carver

Also featured in: Make A Difference Quotes

39. “I found out that the things that hurt us the most can become the fuel and the catalyst that propel us toward our destiny. It will either make you bitter or it will make you better.”

— T.D. Jakes

Also featured in: Christian Motivational Quotes, Healing Quotes, Adversity Quotes, Destiny Quotes

40. “Do not worry. You have always written before and you will write now.”

— Ernest Hemingway

Also featured in: Quotes About Writing, Worry Quotes

41. “If you do not believe you can do it then you have no chance at all.”

— Arsene Wenger

Also featured in: Believe in Yourself Quotes, Self-Belief Quotes, Soccer Quotes

42. “Action is hope. There is no hope without action.”

— Ray Bradbury

Also featured in: Make A Difference Quotes

43. “I think to be successful at anything you have to put in a hell of a lot of effort. Pick your battles. I picked music, put in a lot of effort, and it’s worked.”

— Ed Sheeran

Also featured in: Music Quotes, Hustle Quotes, Inspirational Quotes for Men, Work Hard Quotes

44. “Every obstacle yields to stern resolve.”

— Leonardo da Vinci

Also featured in: Willpower Quotes, Obstacles Quotes, Grit Quotes

45. “Never, under any conditions allow circumstances to determine your reality.”

— Les Brown

Also featured in: Believe in Yourself Quotes, Mental Strength Quotes

46. “If you don’t start somewhere, you’re gonna go nowhere.”

— Bob Marley

Also featured in: New Beginnings Quotes

47. “And so, lifting as we climb, onward and upward we go, struggling and striving, and hoping that the buds and blossoms of our desires will burst into glorious fruition ere long.”

— Mary Church Terrell

Also featured in: Motivational Quotes for Women, Strong Women Quotes, Keep Going Quotes

48. “If you’re afraid of failing you won’t get very far.”

— Steve Jobs

Also featured in: Boldness Quotes

49. “Frustration is a very positive sign. It means that the solution to your problem is within range, but what you’re currently doing isn’t working, and you need to change your approach in order to achieve your goal.”

— Tony Robbins

Also featured in: Problem-Solving Quotes

50. “Self-pity is a dead-end road. You make the choice to drive down it. It’s up to you to decide to stay parked there or to turn around and drive out.”

— Cheryl Strayed

Also featured in: Life is Hard Quotes, Recovery Quotes, Motivational Quotes for Women, Stay Strong Quotes