Top 100 Quitting Quotes (2024 Update)

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

— Elon Musk

Also featured in: Perseverance Quotes, Persistence Quotes, Action Quotes, Quotes About Trying

2. “If you quit once, it becomes a habit. Never quit.”

— Michael Jordan

Also featured in: Perseverance Quotes, Goal Quotes, Discipline Quotes, Attitude Quotes

3. “Dead Last Finish is greater than Did Not Finish, which trumps Did Not Start.”

— Anonymous

Also featured in: Motivational Quotes, Goal Quotes, Fitness Quotes

4. “You are not defeated when you lose. You are defeated when you quit.”

— Paulo Coelho

Also featured in: Failure Quotes, Being Strong Quotes, Adversity Quotes

5. “It’s the start that stops most people.”

— Don Shula

Also featured in: Procrastination Quotes

6. “Give up trying to make me give up.”

— Masashi Kishimoto

Also featured in: Resilience Quotes

7. “Continued persistence overcomes almost all resistance.”

— Mark Victor Hansen

8. “The secret of our success is that we never, never give up.”

— Wilma Mankiller

Also featured in: Quotes About Giving

9. “No one is going to come help you. No one’s coming to save you.”

— David Goggins

Also featured in: Truth Quotes, Hurt Quotes

10. “You can never quit. Winners never quit, and quitters never win.”

— Ted Turner

Also featured in: Quotes About Strength, Failure Quotes, Victory Quotes

11. “Survival can be summed up in three words – never give up. That’s the heart of it really. Just keep trying.”

— Bear Grylls

Also featured in: Persistence Quotes, Not Giving Up Quotes, Being Strong Quotes, Adventure Quotes

12. “Don’t give up. Normally it is the last key on the ring which opens the door.”

— Paulo Coelho

Also featured in: Path Quotes, Quotes About Giving

13. “Don’t give up! Don’t give in! Keep the faith! And keep your eyes on the prize!”

— John Lewis

Also featured in: Perseverance Quotes

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

— William Kamkwamba

Also featured in: Not Giving Up Quotes

15. “The reason why people give up so fast is because they tend to look at how far they still have to go, instead of how far they have come.”

— Nicky Gumbel

16. “You gotta know when to hold ’em, know when to fold ’em, know when to walk away, know when to run.”

— Kenny Rogers

Also featured in: Quotes About Songs

17. “Don’t quit. Never give up trying to build the world you can see, even if others can’t see it. Listen to your drum and your drum only. It’s the one that makes the sweetest sound.”

— Simon Sinek

18. “If I quit now, I will soon be back to where I started. And when I started I was desperately wishing to be where I am now.”

— Anonymous

19. “You are stopping you. You are giving up instead of getting hard.”

— David Goggins

Also featured in: Motivational Workout Quotes

20. “You cannot fail unless you quit.”

— Abraham Lincoln

Also featured in: Karma Quotes

21. “Obstacles can’t stop you. Problems can’t stop you. Most of all, other people can’t stop you. Only you can stop you.”

— Jeffrey Gitomer

Also featured in: Path Quotes, Momentum Quotes, Monday Quotes

22. “I’ve had a lot of fun. Good-bye, and thank you.”

— Romain Gary

Also featured in: Fun Quotes

23. “If you do not overcome your tendency to give up easily, your life leads to nothing.”

— Mas Oyama

24. “I will remove from my vocabulary such words and phrases as quit, cannot, unable, impossible, out of the question, improbable, failure, unworkable, hopeless, and retreat; for they are the words of fools.”

— Og Mandino

Also featured in: Confidence Quotes

25. “It’s harder to stay strong than it is to give up. Giving up doesn’t get you anywhere... Only makes you weak.”

— Demi Lovato

26. “If I had listened to the naysayers, I would still be in the Austrian Alps yodeling.”

— Arnold Schwarzenegger

Also featured in: Crazy Quotes

27. “If you want to get somewhere you have to know where you want to go and how to get there. Then never, never, never give up.”

— Norman Vincent Peale

Also featured in: Path Quotes

28. “Any day that we don’t give up puts us one day closer to success!”

— Joyce Meyer

29. “If it comes down to your ethics vs. a job, choose ethics. You can always find another job.”

— Sallie Krawcheck

30. “I don’t give up because I don’t give up. I don’t believe in it.”

— Johnny Cash

Also featured in: Quotes About Giving

31. “If you don’t like something don’t do it, and if you’re doing something then you better like it. It is as simple as that.”

— Shah Rukh Khan

32. “Never give up. When your heart becomes tired, just walk with your legs – but move on.”

— Paulo Coelho

Also featured in: Path Quotes, Quotes About Giving

33. “Giving up was never an option.”

— Lance Armstrong

34. “Never give up on anyone. And that includes not giving up on yourself.”

— Dieter F. Uchtdorf

Also featured in: Quotes About Giving

35. “If you can outlast that discomfort, I guarantee you, baby, on the other side of it is success.”

— Eric Thomas

36. “Never surrender, it’s all about the faith you got: don’t ever stop, just push it ’till you hit the top and if you drop, at least you know you gave your all to be true to you, that way you can never fall.”

— Tupac Shakur

37. “If you aren’t going all the way, why go at all?”

— Joe Namath

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

— Babe Ruth

Also featured in: Not Giving Up Quotes

39. “For me giving up is way harder than trying.”

— Kanye West

40. “Don’t stop when you are tired. Stop when you are done.”

— David Goggins

Also featured in: Persistence Quotes, Hard Work Quotes, Resilience Quotes, Fitness Quotes

41. “We have two options, medically and emotionally: give up or fight like hell.”

— Lance Armstrong

42. “Life is getting up one more time than you’ve been knocked down.”

— John Wayne

43. “Losers quit when they’re tired. Winners quit when they’ve won.”

— Mike Ditka

Also featured in: Sports Quotes

44. “Never give up and always keep fighting, because though times may be tough, the sacrifices do pay off, so just keep pushing towards your dream and just love it at the same time and enjoy it.”

— Gabby Douglas

Also featured in: Sports Quotes

45. “Never give up. You only get one life. Go for it!”

— Richard E. Grant

46. “If you have made a mistake cut your losses as quickly as possible.”

— Bernard M. Baruch

47. “Winners quit all the time. They just quit the right stuff at the right time.”

— Seth Godin

48. “One of the most common causes of failure is the habit of quitting when one is overtaken by temporary defeat.”

— Napoleon Hill

49. “Defeat doesn’t finish a man, quit does. A man is not finished when he’s defeated. He’s finished when he quits.”

— Richard M. Nixon

50. “Sobriety was the greatest gift I ever gave myself.”

— Rob Lowe