Top 200 Not Giving Up Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “I’ve missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I’ve lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I’ve been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.”

— Michael Jordan

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2. “Run when you can, walk if you have to, crawl if you must; just never give up.”

— Dean Karnazes

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3. “No matter how bad it is, or how bad it gets, I’m going to make it.”

— Les Brown

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4. “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

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5. “Fall down seven times, get up eight.”

— Japanese Proverb

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6. “We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope.”

— Martin Luther King Jr.

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7. “It is the power of the mind to be unconquerable.”

— Seneca

Also featured in: Quotes About Strength, Meaning Quotes, Mind Quotes

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

— Thomas A. Edison

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9. “The harder you work, the harder it is to surrender.”

— Vince Lombardi

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10. “If you assume that there is no hope, you guarantee that there will be no hope. If you assume that there is an instinct for freedom, that there are opportunities to change things, then there is a possibility that you can contribute to making a better world.”

— Noam Chomsky

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11. “Let your hopes, not your hurts, shape your future.”

— Robert H. Schuller

Also featured in: Focus Quotes, Short Positive Quotes, Feel Good Quotes, Encouragement Quotes, Moving On Quotes

12. “From the bodybuilding days on, I learned that everything is reps and mileage. The more miles you ski, the better a skier you become; the more reps you do, the better your body. I'm a big believer in hard work, grinding it out, and not stopping until it's done, so the challenge appealed to me.”

— Arnold Schwarzenegger

Also featured in: Quotes About Strength, Dedication Quotes, Work Ethic Quotes, Taking Action Quotes

13. “Don’t you quit. You keep walking, you keep trying, there is help and happiness ahead. Some blessings come soon. Some come late. Some don’t come until heaven. But for those who embrace the gospel of Jesus Christ, they come. It will be alright in the end. Trust God and believe in Good Things to Come.”

— Jeffrey R. Holland

Also featured in: Quotes About Strength, Patience Quotes, Christian Quotes, Blessing Quotes, Christian Motivational Quotes

14. “Trust yourself and believe. Whatever happens, don’t give up...”

— William Kamkwamba

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15. “You just can’t beat the person who never gives up.”

— Babe Ruth

Also featured in: Never Give Up Quotes, Mental Strength Quotes, Obstacles Quotes, Grit Quotes

16. “Don't be distracted by criticism. Remember: the only taste of success some people have is when they take a bite out of you.”

— Zig Ziglar

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17. “Life is a fight for territory and once you stop fighting for what you want, what you don’t want will automatically take over.”

— Les Brown

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

— John Cena

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19. “Courage doesn’t always roar. Sometimes courage is the little voice at the end of the day that says I’ll try again tomorrow.”

— Mary Anne Radmacher

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20. “Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.”

— Confucius

Also featured in: Positive Quotes, Success Quotes, Courage Quotes, Failure Quotes

21. “If you want to turn a vision into reality, you have to give 100% and never stop believing in your dream.”

— Arnold Schwarzenegger

Also featured in: Motivational Quotes, Startup Quotes, Persistence Quotes, Hard Work Quotes, Motivational Work Quotes

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

— Bruce Lee

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23. “If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.”

— Henry David Thoreau

Also featured in: Positive Motivational Quotes, Dreaming Big Quotes, Quotes About Dreams, Dream Big Quotes

24. “The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.”

— George Bernard Shaw

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25. “Now is no time to think of what you do not have. Think of what you can do with that there is.”

— Ernest Hemingway

Also featured in: Mindset Quotes, Challenges Quotes, Quotes About Hope

26. “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

27. “If plan A doesn’t work, the alphabet has 25 more letters – 204 if you’re in Japan.”

— Claire Cook

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28. “Do not pray for an easy life, pray for the strength to endure a difficult one.”

— Bruce Lee

Also featured in: Perseverance Quotes, Quotes About Strength, Motivational Quotes About Life

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

— Samuel Beckett

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30. “If you hear a voice within you say you cannot paint, then by all means paint and that voice will be silenced.”

— Vincent van Gogh

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31. “My dreams are worthless, my plans are dust, my goals are impossible. All are of no value unless they are followed by action.”

— Og Mandino

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32. “Remember how far you’ve come, not just how far you have to go. You are not where you want to be, but neither are you where you used to be.”

— Rick Warren

Also featured in: Positive Life Quotes, Encouragement Quotes, Moving On Quotes, Thursday Motivational Quotes

33. “Nature loves courage. You make the commitment and nature will respond to that commitment by removing impossible obstacles. Dream the impossible dream, and the world will not grind you under; it will lift you up.”

— Terence McKenna

Also featured in: Optimistic Quotes, Optimism Quotes, Commitment Quotes, Quotes About Believing

34. “Hope is the only thing stronger than fear.”

— Suzanne Collins

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35. “When you're scared, when you're hanging on, when life is hurting you, then you're going to see what you're really made of.”

— Sylvester Stallone

Also featured in: Overcoming Fear Quotes, Struggle Quotes, Being Strong Quotes, Character Quotes

36. “We are still masters of our fate. We are still captains of our souls.”

— Winston Churchill

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37. “I always finish what I start.”

— Ally Carter

Also featured in: Personal Responsibility Quotes, Positive Work Quotes, Taking Action Quotes, Keep Going Quotes

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

— Theodore Roosevelt

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39. “Never give up on what you really want to do”

— H. Jackson Brown Jr.

Also featured in: Focus Quotes, Persistence Quotes, Positive Life Quotes, Empowering Quotes, Personal Development Quotes

40. “It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.”

— Theodore Roosevelt

Also featured in: Life Quotes, Failure Quotes, Inspirational Life Quotes, Empowerment Quotes

41. “Where there is no struggle, there is no strength.”

— Oprah Winfrey

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42. “You cannot expect victory and plan for defeat.”

— Joel Osteen

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43. “We may get knocked down on the outside, but the key to living in victory is to learn how to get up on the inside.”

— Joel Osteen

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

— Ali ibn Abi Talib

Also featured in: Patience Quotes, Don't Give Up Quotes

45. “Without commitment, you’ll never start. But more importantly, without consistency, you’ll never finish.”

— Denzel Washington

Also featured in: Dedication Quotes, Commitment Quotes, Consistency Quotes, Progress Quotes

46. “The moment of surrender is not when life is over. It’s when it begins.”

— Marianne Williamson

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47. “Do not be afraid. Do not be satisfied with mediocrity. Put out into the deep and let down your nets for a catch.”

— Pope John Paul II

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48. “Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.”

— Dale Carnegie

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

— Jillian Michaels

Also featured in: Persistence Quotes, Quotes About Strength, Hard Work Quotes, Motivational Workout Quotes

50. “Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.”

— John Wooden

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