Top 80 Keep Going Quotes (2024 Update)

1. “Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.”

— Samuel Beckett

Also featured in: Inspirational Quotes, Failure Quotes, Resilience Quotes, Giving Up Quotes, Not Giving Up Quotes

2. “Courage is not having the strength to go on; it is going on when you don’t have the strength.”

— Theodore Roosevelt

Also featured in: Courage Quotes, Perseverance Quotes, Action Quotes, Positive Motivational Quotes

3. “Pain is temporary. Quitting lasts forever.”

— Lance Armstrong

Also featured in: Perseverance Quotes, Goal Quotes, Athlete Quotes, Never Give Up Quotes, Mental Strength Quotes

4. “Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful people with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb.”

— Calvin Coolidge

Also featured in: Motivational Quotes, Persistence Quotes, Motivational Quotes for Work, Inspirational Life Quotes, Winning Quotes

5. “For my part, I will never give up, and I mean never.”

— Elon Musk

Also featured in: Inspirational Entrepreneurship Quotes, Courage Quotes, Perseverance Quotes, Personality Quotes

6. “No matter how you feel, get up, dress up and show up.”

— Regina Brett

Also featured in: Persistence Quotes, Quotes About Strength, Confidence Quotes, Discipline Quotes, Feel Good Quotes

7. “Unless you puke, faint or die, keep going.”

— Jillian Michaels

Also featured in: Persistence Quotes, Quotes About Strength, Hard Work Quotes, Motivational Workout Quotes, Not Giving Up Quotes

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

— Ella Fitzgerald

Also featured in: Creativity Quotes, Personality Quotes, Short Quotes, Giving Up Quotes, Quotes About Trying

9. “By endurance we conquer.”

— Ernest Shackleton

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

10. “Our greatest weakness lies in giving up.”

— Thomas A. Edison

Also featured in: Perseverance Quotes, Personality Quotes, Winning Quotes, Giving Up Quotes

11. “If you are not where you want to be DO NOT QUIT, instead reinvent yourself and change your habits.”

— Eric Thomas

Also featured in: Change Quotes, Optimistic Quotes, Short Motivational Quotes, Motivational Quotes About Life

12. “Don’t just go through it; grow through it.”

— Joel Osteen

Also featured in: Transformation Quotes, Sunday Quotes, Optimism Quotes, Positive Thinking Quotes

13. “No matter what comes your way, shake it off and move forward. When you have a positive mindset, you can’t be defeated.”

— Joel Osteen

Also featured in: Blessed Quotes, Optimism Quotes, Being Strong Quotes

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

— William Feather

Also featured in: Success Quotes, Perseverance Quotes, Short Motivational Quotes, Never Give Up Quotes

15. “Lucky is where skill meets persistence.”

— Robin S. Sharma

Also featured in: Persistence Quotes, Quotes About Skills

16. “I always finish what I start.”

— Ally Carter

Also featured in: Personal Responsibility Quotes, Positive Work Quotes, Taking Action Quotes, Not Giving Up Quotes

17. “Sometimes, carrying on, just carrying on, is the superhuman achievement.”

— Albert Camus

Also featured in: Not Giving Up Quotes, Achievement Quotes, Adversity Quotes

18. “The hardest thing about exercise is to start doing it. Once you are doing exercise regularly, the hardest thing is to stop it.”

— Erin Gray

Also featured in: Motivational Workout Quotes, Fitness Quotes, Consistency Quotes, Exercise Quotes

19. “Things live by moving and gain strength as they go.”

— Bruce Lee

Also featured in: Moving Quotes, Moving Forward Quotes, Martial Arts Quotes

20. “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

21. “Ignore all hatred and criticism. Live for what you create, and die protecting it.”

— Lady Gaga

Also featured in: Strong Women Quotes, Purpose Quotes, Artist Quotes, Individuality Quotes

22. “If you don’t do it this year, you’ll just be one year older when you do.”

— Warren Miller

Also featured in: Time Quotes, Wednesday Motivational Quotes, Good Morning Motivational Quotes, Moving Forward Quotes

23. “Life is not easy for any of us. But what of that? We must have perseverance and above all confidence in ourselves. We must believe that we are gifted for something and that this thing must be attained.”

— Marie Curie

Also featured in: Never Give Up Quotes, Believe in Yourself Quotes, Self-Belief Quotes, Not Giving Up Quotes

24. “Success doesn’t happen overnight. Keep your eye on the prize and don’t look back.”

— Erin Andrews

Also featured in: Dedication Quotes, Goal Setting Quotes, Not Giving Up Quotes, Victory Quotes

25. “The victim should have the right to end his life, if he wants. But I think it would be a great mistake. However bad life may seem, there is always something you can do, and succeed at. While there’s life, there is hope.”

— Stephen Hawking

Also featured in: Resilience Quotes, Not Giving Up Quotes, Mistake Quotes

26. “If we look at those who are the most successful in the world, persistence is the common denominator.”

— Justin Sachs

Also featured in: Persistence Quotes, Never Give Up Quotes, Performance Quotes, Professional Growth Quotes

27. “The greatest enemy of progress is your last success. You could become so proud of what you’ve already accomplished that you stop moving ahead to what you can still accomplish.”

— Myles Munroe

Also featured in: Professional Growth Quotes, Future Quotes

28. “I take rejection as someone blowing a bugle in my ear to wake me up and get going, rather than retreat.”

— Sylvester Stallone

Also featured in: Never Give Up Quotes, Grit Quotes, Not Giving Up Quotes

29. “First, you have to finish.”

— Michael Schumacher

Also featured in: Competition Quotes

30. “Life is inherently risky. There is only one big risk you should avoid at all costs, and that is the risk of doing nothing.”

— Denis Waitley

Also featured in: Personal Responsibility Quotes, Quotes for Better Decisions, Risk-Taking Quotes

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

— Perry Noble

Also featured in: Never Give Up Quotes, Quotes About Hope

32. “Whatever brings you down, will eventually make you stronger.”

— Alex Morgan

Also featured in: Quotes About Strength, Motivational Quotes for Women, Mental Strength Quotes, Obstacles Quotes

33. “Perseverance is another word for faith!”

— Earl Nightingale

Also featured in: Perseverance Quotes, Never Give Up Quotes, Dedication Quotes

34. “Never let anyone out work you or out hustle you. Ever.”

— Rick Pitino

Also featured in: Dedication Quotes, Competition Quotes, Quotes About Work, Gym Motivation Quotes

35. “Dreams are made possible if you try.”

— Terry Fox

Also featured in: Never Give Up Quotes, Dreaming Big Quotes, Optimism Quotes, Goal Setting Quotes

36. “Success is sweet, but the secret is sweat.”

— Norman Schwarzkopf

Also featured in: Victory Quotes, Gym Motivation Quotes, Workout Quotes

37. “Move forward with purpose.”

— Sherrilyn Kenyon

Also featured in: Moving Forward Quotes

38. “We have got to keep the momentum going in order to achieve all of our objectives.”

— Bill Vaughan

Also featured in: Momentum Quotes

39. “No excuses. No explanations.”

— Tony Dungy

Also featured in: Accountability Quotes

40. “Life’s too short to sit around and wait.”

— Stephanie Gilmore

Also featured in: Carpe Diem Quotes

41. “All roads that lead to success have to pass through hard work boulevard at some point.”

— Eric Thomas

Also featured in: Hard Work Quotes, Grit Quotes, Inspirational Quotes for Students, Quotes About Work

42. “The road goes ever on and on.”

— J. R. R. Tolkien

Also featured in: Epic Quotes, Path Quotes

43. “Every day is a good day to be alive, whether the sun’s shining or not.”

— Marty Robbins

Also featured in: Affirmation Quotes

44. “It is not how you start the race or where you are during the race-it is how you cross the finish line that will matter.”

— Robert D. Hales

Also featured in: Legacy Quotes

45. “The only limits to the possibilities in your life tomorrow are the buts you use today.”

— Les Brown

Also featured in: Believe in Yourself Quotes, Growth Mindset Quotes, Affirmation Quotes

46. “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

47. “Say to them, say to the down-keepers, the sun-slappers, the self-soilers, the harmony-hushers, “Even if you are not ready for day it cannot always be night.” You will be right. For that is the hard home-run. Live not for battles won. Live not for the-end-of-the-song. Live in the along.”

— Gwendolyn Brooks

Also featured in: Poetry Quotes

48. “Consistency of effort over the long run is everything.”

— Angela Duckworth

Also featured in: Grit Quotes, Consistency Quotes

49. “I’d be more frightened by not using whatever abilities I’d been given. I’d be more frightened by procrastination and laziness.”

— Denzel Washington

Also featured in: Believe in Yourself Quotes, Procrastination Quotes

50. “Keep your mind fixed on what you want in life: not on what you don’t want.”

— Napoleon Hill

Also featured in: Believe in Yourself Quotes, Intention Quotes, Dreaming Big Quotes, Affirmation Quotes