Top 200 Not Giving Up Quotes (2024 Update)
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51. “Perseverance is the hard work you do after you get tired of doing the hard work you already did.”

— Newt Gingrich

52. “Start from wherever you are and with whatever you’ve got.”

— Jim Rohn

53. “If you’re willing to put yourself and your dreams on the line, at the very least you’ll discover an inner strength you may not have known existed.”

— Kurt Warner

54. “Remember that just because you hit bottom doesn’t mean you have to stay there.”

— Robert Downey Jr.

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

— Albert Camus

56. “By any means necessary.”

— Malcolm X

57. “The greater the difficulty the more glory in surmounting it. Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempests.”

— Epictetus

58. “You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, 'I have lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.' You must do the thing you think you cannot do.”

— Eleanor Roosevelt

59. “Failure will never overtake me if my determination to succeed is strong enough.”

— Og Mandino

60. “Success is achieved and maintained by those who try and keep trying.”

— W. Clement Stone

61. “I’ve always believed that you should never, ever give up and you should always keep fighting even when there’s only a slightest chance.”

— Michael Schumacher

62. “That’s it. When things are going bad: Don’t get all bummed out, don’t get startled, don’t get frustrated. No. Just look at the issue and say: “Good.”

— Jocko Willink

63. “Keep positive and keep pushing on and things will turn good.”

— Conor McGregor

64. “The first and final thing you have to do in this world is to last it and not be smashed by it.”

— Ernest Hemingway

65. “If you fight with all your might, there is a chance of life; whereas death is certain if you cling to your corner.”

— Sun Tzu

66. “Often when you think you’re at the end of something, you’re at the beginning of something else.”

— Fred Rogers

67. “When all your energy is gone! When you have nothing left! That’s when it’s show time!”

— Eric Thomas

68. “I’m convinced that about half of what separates the successful entrepreneurs from the non-successful ones is pure perseverance.”

— Steve Jobs

69. “You must do the things you think you cannot do.”

— Eleanor Roosevelt

70. “When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you, till it seems as though you could not hang on a minute longer, never give up then, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.”

— Harriet Beecher Stowe

71. “Whatever it takes to finish things, finish. You will learn more from a glorious failure than you ever will from something you never finished.”

— Neil Gaiman

72. “She stood in the storm, and when the wind did not blow her way, she adjusted her sails.”

— Elizabeth Edwards

73. “The one excellent thing that can be learned from a lion is that whatever a man intends doing should be done by him with a whole-hearted and strenuous effort.”

— Chanakya

74. “Chase your dreams. Don’t wait til the dreams come true.”

— Greyson Chance

75. “Focus on one thing, make it your priority, and stick with it no matter what!”

— Tyler Perry

76. “Leave no stone unturned.”

— Euripides

77. “Never hope for it more than you work for it.”

— Rita Mae Brown

78. “Effort only fully releases its reward after a person refuses to quit.”

— Napoleon Hill

79. “I didn’t fail 1000 times. The light bulb was an invention with 1000 steps.”

— Thomas A. Edison

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

— Alice Walker

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

— Nelson Mandela

82. “Every day is a new opportunity to reach that goal.”

— Rick Ross

83. “The difficult is what takes a little time; the impossible is what takes a little longer.”

— Fridtjof Nansen

84. “The space shuttle was often used as an example of why you shouldn’t even attempt to make something reusable. But one failed experiment does not invalidate the greater goal. If that was the case, we’d never have had the light bulb.”

— Elon Musk

85. “When something goes wrong, smile, because there’s always a next play.”

— Ray Lewis

86. “A man’s character is not judged after he celebrates a victory, but by what he does when his back is against the wall.”

— John Cena

87. “Whatever it takes to win.”

— Pat Riley

88. “The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.”

— Nelson Mandela

89. “You can't be paralyzed by fear of failure or you will never push yourself. You keep pushing because you believe in yourself and in your vision. And you know that it is the right thing to do and success will come.”

— Arnold Schwarzenegger

90. “Once you start working on something, don’t be afraid of failure and don’t abandon it. People who work sincerely are the happiest.”

— Chanakya

91. “The darker the night, the nearer the dawn. Victory in life is decided by that last concentrated burst of energy filled with the resolve to win.”

— Daisaku Ikeda

92. “My ambition cannot be stopped!”

— Cao Cao

93. “I don’t need easy, I just need possible.”

— Bethany Hamilton

94. “If you are going to try, go all the way or don’t even start. If you follow it you will be alive with the gods. It is the only good fight there is.”

— Charles Bukowski

95. “I can’t go on. I’ll go on.”

— Samuel Beckett

96. “If you can’t, then you must!”

— Tony Robbins

97. “For us, there is only the trying. The rest is not our business.”

— T. S. Eliot

98. “Obstacles don’t have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don’t turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it.”

— Michael Jordan

99. “The secret of life, though, is to fall seven times and to get up eight times.”

— Paulo Coelho

100. “You have to stay strong when it gets tough.”

— Demi Lovato