Top 200 Giving Up Quotes (2025 Update)
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151. “Dream big, my friend, and never give up. We all make mistakes, but none of us are mistakes. Take one day at a time. Embrace the positive attitudes, perspectives, principles and truths I share, and you, too, will overcome.”

— Nick Vujicic

152. “Learned helplessness is the giving-up reaction, the quitting response that follows from the belief that whatever you do doesn’t matter.”

— Martin E.P. Seligman

153. “Champions keep going when they don’t have anything left in their tank!”

— Eric Thomas

154. “The only one who can make you give up is yourself.”

— Sidney Sheldon

155. “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

156. “The genius thing that we did was, we didn’t give up.”

— Jay-Z

157. “Never too old, never too bad, never too late, never too sick to start from scratch once again.”

— Bikram Choudhury

158. “Most people give up just when they’re about to achieve success. They quit on the one yard line. They give up at the last minute of the game one foot from a winning touchdown.”

— H. Ross Perot

159. “Give up being right. Instead radiate peace, harmony, love, and laughter from your heart.”

— Deepak Chopra

160. “The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don’t have any.”

— Alice Walker

161. “Being defeated is often a temporary condition. Giving up is what makes it permanent.”

— Marilyn Vos Savant

162. “Don’t be afraid to give up the good to go for the great.”

— John D. Rockefeller

163. “I never tried quitting, and I never quit trying.”

— Dolly Parton

164. “Don’t give up. There are too many nay-sayers out there who will try to discourage you. Don’t listen to them. The only one who can make you give up is yourself.”

— Sidney Sheldon

165. “Always work hard, never give up, and fight until the end because it’s never really over until the whistle blows.”

— Alex Morgan

166. “One, remember to look up at the stars and not down at your feet. Two, never give up work. Work gives you meaning and purpose and life is empty without it. Three, if you are lucky enough to find love, remember it is there and don’t throw it away.”

— Stephen Hawking

167. “I was never crippled until I lost hope.”

— Nick Vujicic

168. “Just don’t give up trying to do what you really want to do.”

— Ella Fitzgerald

169. “You have not failed until you quit trying.”

— Gordon B. Hinckley

170. “When life seems hard, the courageous do not lie down and accept defeat; instead, they are all the more determined to struggle for a better future.”

— Queen Elizabeth II

171. “God grant me the courage not to give up what I think is right even though I think it is hopeless.”

— Chester Nimitz

172. “I’d made it this far and refused to give up because all my life I had always finished the race.”

— Louis Zamperini

173. “There is nothing in life so difficult that it cannot be overcome. This faith can move mountains. It can change people. It can change the world. You can survive all the great storms in your life.”

— Norman Vincent Peale

174. “Never give up. No matter what is happening, no matter what is going on around you, never give up.”

— Dalai Lama XIV

175. “Do not be proud of wealth, people, relations and friends, or youth. All these are snatched by time in the blink of an eye. Giving up this illusory world, know and attain the Supreme.”

— Adi Shankara

176. “He who learns but does not think, is lost. He who thinks but does not learn is in great danger.”

— Confucius

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

— Harriet Beecher Stowe

178. “Don’t ever let someone tell you that you can’t do something.”

— Chris Gardner

179. “Never give up! Failure and rejection are only the first step to succeeding.”

— Jim Valvano

180. “In this world it is not what we take up, but what we give up, that makes us rich.”

— Henry Ward Beecher

181. “Failure isn’t final until you quit!!”

— Steven Furtick

182. “Any society that would give up a little liberty to gain a little security will deserve neither and lose both.”

— Benjamin Franklin

183. “They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.”

— Benjamin Franklin

184. “To give up yourself without regret is the greatest charity.”

— Bodhidharma

185. “Never give up on anybody.”

— Hubert H. Humphrey

186. “Keep on keeping on, no matter how hard the going may be.”

— Napoleon Hill

187. “Part of being a winner is knowing when enough is enough. Sometimes you have to give up the fight and walk away, and move on to something that’s more productive.”

— Donald Trump

188. “The only time we fail is when we stop trying.”

— Chuck Norris

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

— Robin S. Sharma

190. “A professional writer is an amateur who didn’t quit.”

— Richard Bach

191. “Our destiny is not determined by the number of times we stumble but by the number of times we rise up, dust ourselves off, and move forward.”

— Dieter F. Uchtdorf

192. “You carry on no matter what the obstacles are. You simply refuse to give up – and, when the going gets tough, you get tougher. And, you win.”

— Vince Lombardi

193. “NO MORE. No more excuses. No more: “I’ll start tomorrow.” No more: “Just this once.” No more accepting the shortfalls of my own will. No more taking the easy road. No more bowing down to whatever unhealthy or unproductive thoughts float through my mind.”

— Jocko Willink

194. “Failing is not the worst thing in the world; quitting is.”

— Edwin Louis Cole

195. “Practical dreamers do not quit.”

— Napoleon Hill

196. “Never give up on anybody. Miracles happen every day.”

— H. Jackson Brown Jr.

197. “The only one who can tell you “You can’t” is you. And you don’t have to listen.”

— Dean Karnazes

198. “We all start with zero. We all start at the beginning. Do not give up.”

— Nick Vujicic

199. “Never say ‘I failed 99 times’, say ‘I discovered 99 ways that cause failure!’”

— Thomas A. Edison

200. “If you don’t give up, you still have a chance. And when you are small, you have to be very focused and rely on your brain, not your strength.”

— Jack Ma