Here’s the best collection of 211 never give up quotes to motivate you once again, one more time, so that you can achieve the success you deserve so much. Stand up and take that step, again. Never give up.
Never Give Up Quotes
1. Be steady. Build daily. – Maxime Lagacé
2. This too, you shall endure. – @TheStoicEmperor
3. An ugly win is still a win. – Tom Bilyeu
4. Dreams don’t have deadlines. – Payal Kadakia
5. If you can outlast, you win. – Noah Kagan
6. You got this. Make it happen. – Danielle LaPorte
7. Despite fear, finish the job. – Kobe Bryant
8. Don’t stop until you are proud. – Unknown
9. We learn to endure by enduring. – @TheStoicEmperor
10. Rest at the end, not at the middle. – Kobe Bryant
11. Never, ever ever ever ever give up. – Ryan Holiday
12. Believe in the holy contour of life. – Jack Kerouac
13. Failure cannot cope with persistence. – Napoleon Hill
14. Failure is research if you try again. – Dan Mace
15. Have “eternal wait,” infinite patience. – Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
16. Courage faces fear and thereby masters it. – Martin Luther King Jr
17. Character is built when no one is looking. – Carlos Del Valle
18. The pain of today is the bliss of tomorrow. – Maxime Lagacé
19. In adversity, remember to keep an even mind. – Horace
20. The perfection of virtue is born in struggle. – Meister Eckhart
21. If you get tired, learn to rest, not to quit. – Banksy
22. Bear without murmuring what cannot be changed. – Publius Syrus
23. Those who stand for nothing fall for anything. – Alexander Hamilton
24. Don’t turn back when you are just at the goal. – Publius Syrus
25. The harsher the failure, the better the lesson. – Jack Butcher
26. Impatience with actions, patience with results. – Naval Ravikant
27. Never let anyone else tell you what is possible. – Shane Parrish
28. There’s a future me who is glad I never gave up. – Sara Blakely
29. There is no easy way from the earth to the stars. – Seneca
30. Showing up is the first step. Every. Single. Day. – Shane Parrish
31. No matter how small the step, forward is forward. – Mel Robbins
32. To keep on going, you have to keep up the rhythm. – Haruki Murakami
33. Fire is the test of gold; adversity, of strong men. – Seneca
34. Tragedy should be utilized as a source of strength. – Tibetan saying
35. Arise, awake, and stop not till the goal is reached. – Swami Vivekananda
36. Everything you want is on the far side of hard work. – Tim Kennedy
37. He who has a why to live for can bear almost any how. – Friedrich Nietzsche
38. Every winner was a loser at some point. Don’t give up. – Paul Domenick
39. Once you learn patience, your options suddenly expand. – Robert Greene
40. The person who benefits most from your patience is you. – Thibaut
41. There’s no starting over, only getting up to begin again. – Leo Christopher
42. Regret doesn’t come from failure. It comes from giving up. – Mel Robbins
43. Give up giving up, it’s the best thing you will ever quit. – Thibaut
44. If you do enough small things right, big things can happen. – John Wooden
45. Never lose hope, my heart. Miracles dwell in the invisible. – Rumi
46. On a long enough timeline, you can beat anyone at anything. – Tom Bilyeu
47. Focus on your current trajectory, not your current results. – James Clear
48. For water continually dropping will wear hard rocks hollow. – Plutarch
49. Do what you have to do until you can do what you want to do. – Ed Latimore
50. If you don’t believe in yourself, no one will do it for you. – Kobe Bryant
51. Go forth on your path, as it exists only through your walking. – Augustine of Hippo
52. The moment you give up, is the moment you let someone else win. – Kobe Bryant
53. It’s not whether you get knocked down, it’s whether you get up. – Vince Lombardi
54. You can win a lot in life just by being the last one to give up. – James Clear
55. Don’t be afraid to give up the good to go for the great. John D. – Rockefeller
56. I can’t relate to lazy people. We don’t speak the same language. – Kobe Bryant
57. There is little that can withstand a man who can conquer himself. – Louis XIV
58. Never give up on yourself. Then you will never give up on others. – Pema Chödrön
59. Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day-in, and day-out. – Robert Collie
60. We don’t quit, we don’t cower, we don’t run. We endure and conquer. – Kobe Bryant
61. If you only walk on sunny days you’ll never reach your destination. – Paulo Coelho
62. Struggle hard and then if you do not succeed, you are not to blame. – Swami Vivekananda
63. I had a lot of clouds, but I have had so many rainbows in my clouds. – Maya Angelou
64. You can overcome anything, if and only if you love something enough. – Lionel Messi
65. The most overlooked and underappreciated growth strategy is patience. – James Clear
66. When you least expect it, breakthrough happens. Keep pressing! – Tony A. Gaskins Jr
67. Failures are opportunities. Tough times work for you, not against you. – Maxime Lagacé
68. The best decisions aren’t made with your mind, but with your instinct. – Lionel Messi
69. The way to win is to work, work, work, and hope to have a few insights. – Charlie Munger
70. Victory is always possible for the person who refuses to stop fighting. – Napoleon Hill
71. You have three choices in life: give up, give in or give it all you got. – Yannick Veys
72. I promise I shall never give up, and that I’ll die yelling and laughing. – Jack Kerouac
73. If you ever think about giving up, remember why you held on for so long. – Hayley Williams
74. For the wise, rocks on the path will become steppingstones, not obstacles. – Osho
75. If you have good habits, time becomes your ally. All you need is patience. – James Clear
76. The smartest work on the right things. The wisest hope for the best things. – Maxime Lagacé
77. The willingness to show up changes us. It makes us a little braver each time. – Brené Brown
78. If you are immune to boredom, there is literally nothing you cannot accomplish. – David Foster Wallace
79. Clothe yourselves with compassion, kindness, humility, gentleness, and patience. – Colossians 3:12
80. Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle. – Abraham Lincoln
81. The measure of who we are is how we react to something that does not go our way. – Gregg Popovich
82. If you find a path with no obstacles, it probably doesn’t lead anywhere. – Frank A. Clark
83. Learn the all-important concept of assiduity: Sit down and do it until it’s done. – Shane Parrish
84. Do not be afraid of your difficulty. Turn toward it. Learn to lean into the wind. – Jack Kornfield
85. One person with a belief is equal to the force of 100000 who have only interests. – John Stuart Mill
86. Everything negative – pressure, challenges – is all an opportunity for me to rise. – Kobe Bryant
87. Confusion is the normal state of affairs when you’re trying something really hard. – Steven Strogatz
88. Things that last are built slowly. Better to be slow and solid than fast and frail. – Maxime Lagacé
89. The average man seek rewards in the short term. The wise don’t seek rewards at all. – Maxime Lagacé
90. When 99% of people doubt you, you’re either gravely wrong or about to make history. – Scott Belsky
91. Some guys they just give up living and start dying little by little, piece by piece. – Bruce Springsteen
92. One day of effort is one day of bliss; One day of sloth is a hundred years of regret. – Awa Kenzô
93. I’m wise enough to realize I’m not always right but fool enough to keep trying to be. – Leo Christopher
94. Good pain comes from pushing towards a goal. Bad pain comes from avoiding challenges. – Ed Latimore
95. When you feel like giving up, remember why you held on for so long in the first place. – Paulo Coelho
96. It’s a disgrace in this life when the soul surrenders first while the body refuses to. – Marcus Aurelius
97. Don’t give up. Remember, it’s always the last key on the key ring that opens the door. – Paulo Coelho
98. The easy path can’t give you meaning. The hard path, the path you build yourself, can. – Maxime Lagacé
99. Be ready to pay the price of your dreams. Free cheese can only be found in a mousetrap. – Paulo Coelho
100. If you want to find an excuse you’ll find one, if you want to find a way you’ll make one. – Carlos Del Valle
101. It’s becoming easier and easier to be social, but exceptional people are built in solitude. – Naval Ravikant
102. The man who can drive himself further once the effort gets painful is the man who will win. – Roger Bannister
103. Some days are good, some days are sh*t, that won’t ever change, so please never quit. – Dan Mace
104. Nothing ever comes to one, that is worth having, except as a result of hard work. – Booker T. Washington
105. Opportunities to find deeper powers within ourselves come when life seems most challenging. – Joseph Campbell
106. It pays to be smart — but it pays more to be determined, disciplined, dependable, and driven. – Adam Grant
107. Anyone can start something. No one quits right before the prize. The middle sets people apart. – Johnny Uzan
108. Brick walls are there for a reason. They give us a chance to show how badly we want something. – Randy Pausch
109. You’re not obligated to win. You’re obligated to keep trying to do the best you can every day. – Marian Wright Edelman
110. A man that loses his “f*ck it” energy loses touch with himself. You need that “f*ck it” energy. – @TellYourSonThis
111. During tough times, attitude separates successful people from those who do not succeed. – John C. Maxwell
112. Progress is not linear. It just looks that way in hindsight (to people that were not involved). – Shane Parrish
113. Work as hard as you can. Even though what you work on and who you work with are more important. – Naval Ravikant
114. You must take action. You must do the impossible. Because giving up can never ever be an option. – Greta Thunberg
115. If it appears as though you are failing, that failure is only to get you towards higher success. – Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
116. Never give up. No matter what is happening, no matter what is going on around you, never give up. – 14th Dalai Lama
117. Constant misfortune brings this one blessing: to whom it always assails, it eventually fortifies. – Seneca
118. Fools seek the easy, but easy leads nowhere. The wise take what comes, and build bridges with it. – Maxime Lagacé
119. Never give up. Today is hard, tomorrow will be worse, but the day after tomorrow will be sunshine. – Jack Ma
120. The ideal man bears the accidents of life with dignity and grace, making the best of circumstances. – Aristotle
121. No man is more unhappy than he who never faces adversity. For he is not permitted to prove himself. – Seneca
122. Difficulties help you become strong. Darkness help you see the light. Despair help you find energy. – Maxime Lagacé
123. Rising up isn’t about getting right every time – it’s about always giving it everything you’ve got. – Tom Bilyeu
124. If you really really really want it, you’ll have it. If you don’t really want it, you’ll have excuses. – @TheAncientSage
125. Success is not a function of the number of setbacks we face. It’s how much we learn and grow from them. – Adam Grant
126. Tonight we cry, we despair, and we fear. Tomorrow we get back to work trying to build the world we want. – Sam Altman
127. The most important single thing I learned is that accepting losses promptly is the first key to success. – Gerald Loeb
128. The greatest secret in the world is that there are no secrets. There is only hard work, timing, and luck. – Ed Latimore
129. You can’t guarantee your success, but you can guarantee your failure. Don’t give up, and you cannot fail. – Sahil Lavingia
130. Never give up on a dream just because of the time it will take to accomplish it. The time will pass anyway. – Earl Nightingale
131. With energy and high morale, a human can overcome almost any obstacle and create opportunity out of nothing. – Robert Greene
132. You can’t make time go faster or success come sooner. The only thing you can control is the next repetition. – James Clear
133. People can go hard for a month, maybe even a year. The hardcore motherf*ckers out there can go for a decade. – Tom Bilyeu
134. One of the most common causes of failure is the habit of quitting when one is overtaken by temporary defeat. – Napoleon Hill
135. The gateway to success is guarded by your ability to face rejection and discouragement and keep going anyway. – Bill Masur
136. You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor. – Aristotle
137. Knowing what you want and going after it every day is one of the most beautiful things anyone can have in life. – Tom Bilyeu
138. A closed door doesn’t mean you have been cut off permanently. It is a challenge, an obstacle, a tool to be used. – Iyanla Vanzant
139. Just as one bird does not make a flock, nor one day a season, so one action or a short time cannot make us happy. – Aristotle
140. It is easier to find men who will volunteer to die, than to find those who are willing to endure pain with patience. – Julius Caesar
141. Everyone overweights position and underweights momentum, because position is the only thing visible from a snapshot. – Justin Kan
142. Trust the wait. Embrace the uncertainty. Enjoy the beauty of becoming. When nothing is certain, anything is possible. – Mandy Hale
143. 100% of people want things. 1% of people try to get those things. 0.1% of people persist until they get those things. – Preethi Kasireddy
144. No learning without humility. No growth without pain. No reward without risk. No change without loss. Embrace. Endure. – @TheStoicEmperor
145. Life is full of troubles and vexations, that one must either rise above it by means of corrected thoughts, or leave it. – Arthur Schopenhauer
146. Amateurs stop when they achieve something. Professionals understand that the initial achievement is just the beginning. – Shane Parrish
147. Never give up on what you really want to do. The person with big dreams is more powerful than the one with all the facts. – Albert Einstein
148. It’s the one thing you can control. You are responsible for how people remember you — or don’t. So don’t take it lightly. – Kobe Bryant
149. Plenty of people will tell you to stop trying, to give up, that failure is inevitable. Don’t let yourself be one of them. – Sahil Lavingia
150. Don’t be afraid to get back up again, to try again, to live again and to dream again. Don’t let a hard lesson harden your heart. – Unknown
151. Everything comes in its own time. Everything comes when you are ripe. Everything comes when you deserve it – this is my experience. – Osho
152. If you can just maintain that consistent energy in one direction, it’s incredible what you could deflect over a long period of time. – Shane Parrish
153. Show up consistently. Give it time. Everyone wants quick results with sporadic effort. Few really want it enough to take the journey. – @LifeMathMoney
154. Our levels of desire, patience, persistence, and confidence end up playing a much larger role in success than sheer reasoning powers. – Robert Greene
155. In the struggle for existence, it is only on those who hang on for ten minutes after all is hopeless, that hope begins to dawn. – G. K. Chesterton
156. Through the temptation. Through the crowd. Through the doubt. Through the loss. Through the wall. Through the fire. To the end. Endure. – @TheStoicEmperor
157. You are judged in this world by how well you bring things to an end. A messy or incomplete conclusion can reverberate for years to come. – Robert Greene
158. If you’re afraid of hard work, it means you don’t know what you want. If you don’t know what you want, it’s time to spend some time alone. – Maxime Lagacé
159. One thing you must know is that life moves in the direction of the best. On the way you may find rough roads, but it is towards the better. – Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
160. You are what you consistently do. Not what you say you’ll do. Not what you used to do. Not what you want to do. Not what you intended to do. – Chris Johnson
161. Trying times bring the best out of you. Rewarding times give the best of the world to you. Life is a combination of both. Move on with zeal. – Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
162. To try to avoid pain is to give too many fucks about pain. In contrast, if you’re able to not give a fuck about pain, you become unstoppable. – Mark Manson
163. Don’t focus on the result, focus on the process. A good result is obtained through the care and patience given on the steps which came before it. – Thibaut
164. Hope is important because it can make the present moment less difficult to bear. If we believe that tomorrow will be better, we can bear a hardship today. – Thich Nhat Hanh
165. If you don’t believe in yourself – no one else will either, and more importantly, if you can’t believe in yourself, you won’t last when things get harder. – @LifeMathMoney
166. The pain of trying and failing is intense and over rather quickly. The pain of failing to try, on the other hand, is less intense but never really goes away. – Shane Parrish
167. A man on a thousand mile walk has to forget his goal and say to himself every morning, “Today I’m going to cover twenty-five miles and then rest up and sleep. – ” Leo Tolstoy
168. Take your time, don’t rush. Some problems are harder than others. Deal with the ones right in front of you first. Come back to the others later. You’ll get there. – Ryan Holiday
169. Anyone can give up, it’s the easiest thing in the world to do. But to hold it together when everyone else would understand if you fell apart, that’s true strength. – Miyamoto Musashi
170. Everyone says they love learning, but learning is mostly struggling and failing until you finally figure something out. If you want to grow you have to accept pain. – Justin Kan
171. How things get done in the world: relentless focus, self-confidence, personal connections, effective leadership (communication, management, vision, and evangelism). – Sam Altman
172. The most unhappy man in the world is he that is not patient in adversities. For men are not killed for the adversities they have, but with the impatience which they suffer. – Charles Bailly
173. When you demonstrate a level of seriousness, sincerity, devotion, and genuineness, you tend to prove to the universe that you’re a worthy vessel — things just flow into you. – Kapil Gupta
174. Remember how long you’ve been putting this off…that there is a limit to the time assigned you, and if you don’t use it to free yourself it will be gone and will never return. – Marcus Aurelius
175. If you quit because you found a new passion or purpose, fine. But don’t quit because you are scared or stressed and running away. And don’t lie to yourself about the reason either. – Justin Kan
176. It’s easy to get stuck in your first plan. Don’t give up when that one fails (and it probably will). Take what you learned and change the plan, not your resolve to achieve the goal. – Mel Robbins
177. If you quit at a low point, you’re putting too much weight on present pain and too little weight on potential future growth. Quit on a high note, and you’ll be left with fewer regrets. – Adam Grant
178. Apply reason to difficulties; harsh circumstances can be softened, narrow limits can be widened, and burdensome things can be made to press less severely on those who bear them cleverly. – Seneca
179. Progress isn’t linear. Success isn’t linear. Science isn’t linear. Growth isn’t linear. Life isn’t linear. Just because something feels like a step backwards doesn’t necessarily mean it is. – Matthew Kobach
180. Success is a function of persistence and doggedness and the willingness to work hard for twenty-two minutes to make sense of something that most people would give up on after thirty seconds. – Malcolm Gladwell
181. There is something in the human spirit that will survive and prevail, there is a tiny and brilliant light burning in the heart of man that will not go out no matter how dark the world becomes. – Leo Tolstoy
182. Do not be ashamed to make a temporary withdrawal from the field if you see that your enemy is stronger than you; it is not winning or losing a single battle that matters, but how the war ends. – Paulo Coelho
183. You can have unbelievable intelligence, you can have connections, you can have opportunities fall out of the sky. But in the end, hard work is the true, enduring characteristic of successful people. – Marsha Evans
184. Yes, we are going to suffer, we will have difficult times and many disappointments – but all of this leaves no permanent mark. And one day we will look back with pride and faith at the journey we have taken. – Paulo Coelho
185. If you want it to happen overnight, you’re gonna be waiting for the rest of your life. If you’re willing to be diligent, work hard, and be patient, your wildest dreams will seem to come true the very next day. – Ed Latimore
186. Give yourself fully to your endeavors. Decide to construct your character through excellent actions and determine to pay the price of a worthy goal. The trials you encounter will introduce you to your strengths. – Epictetus
187. Pain and adversity are powerful vehicles to promote personal growth. Nothing helps you learn, grow, and evolve more quickly. Nothing offers you as big an opportunity to reclaim more of your authentic power as a person. – Richard Bach
188. Little misfortunes introduce us to our hidden strengths. Our trials should act as an armorer, fitting us with defenses that can withstand real adversity. Untested people feel more feeble than they are. We can endure more than we know. – @TheStoicEmperor
189. Never give in. Never, never, never, never — in nothing, great or small, large or petty — never give in, except to convictions of honor and good sense. Never yield to force. Never yield to the apparently overwhelming might of the enemy. – Winston Churchill
190. Before you dream about the view from the summit, ask yourself if you’re willing to keep your head down, focus on the path, and spend your life walking up the side of a very big hill. It takes years of walking to earn a minute at the top. – James Clear
191. Some put all their strength in the commencement and never carry a thing to a conclusion. They invent but never execute. These be paltering spirits. They obtain no fame, for they sustain no game to the end. Everything stops at a single stop. – Baltasar Gracián
192. Going after a dream has a price. It may mean abandoning our habits, it may make us go through hardships, or it may lead us to disappointment. But however costly, it is never as high as the price paid by people who live in his/her comfort zone. – Paulo Coelho
193. If you’re trying to achieve, there will be roadblocks. I’ve had them; everybody has had them. But 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
194. Why does he smile when misfortune strikes? He knows it is an opportunity to cultivate virtue. Death, loss, decline. These things come for us all. Facing pain is how we make ready. Adversity sharpens the blade of will. Greet the test gladly. Endure. – @TheStoicEmperor
195. No matter how banged up, bloodied, or bruised you get, the key is to stay in the fight and keep going. Because when your hand gets raised at the end it’s not going to matter how ugly you looked getting there. All that matters is that you didn’t quit. – Tom Bilyeu
196. Even if it seems certain that you will lose, retaliate. Neither wisdom nor technique has a place in this. A real man does not think of victory or defeat. He plunges recklessly towards an irrational death. By doing this, you will awaken from your dreams. – Yamamoto Tsunetomo
197. Feeling like an idiot because you’re constantly in over your head sucks. Working your ass for years and still coming up empty sucks. But ultimately winning because you kept growing and learning through it all is f*cking priceless. Don’t quit on yourself. – Tom Bilyeu
198. No goal worth achieving is easy. The path to any kind of excellence is always paved with obstacles. Grit comes from learning to see the struggle as a challenge – a test of resolve. Keep rising to the occasion, and eventually you wind up looking forward to it. – Adam Grant
199. Almost always, the people who say “I am going to keep going until this works, and no matter what the challenges are I’m going to figure them out”, and mean it, go on to succeed. They are persistent long enough to give themselves a chance for luck to go their way. – Sam Altman
200. The mind must be given relaxation— it will rise improved and sharper after a good break. Just as rich fields must not be forced — for they will quickly lose their fertility if never given a break — so constant work on the anvil will fracture the force of the mind. – Seneca
201. It’s remarkable what you can build if you just don’t stop. It’s remarkable the business you can build if you don’t stop working. It’s remarkable the body you can build if you don’t stop training. It’s remarkable the knowledge you can build if you don’t stop learning. – James Clear
202. Accepting the inevitable is the beginning of strength and freedom. Embrace all chaos that is out of your control. This is how it is. Why should it be otherwise? Move the levers that are within your grasp. Sharpen the blade of will. Strike with precision. Accept and endure. – @TheStoicEmperor
203. Learn from times iterated over time spent. Craft a thousand tweets before ten blog posts before one novel. Skim a dozen books before absorbing one. Make many small investments before a few big bets. Build many small products before starting a company. Explore, then exploit. – Naval Ravikant
204. How can you be content when you do not get what you want? By seeing it as a test of fortitude and insisting on passing that test. You may not get what you want, but you can successfully embrace that reality with grace and humility. Life is full of troubles. Endure them well. – @TheStoicEmperor
205. Don’t be afraid of the dark! It’s one thing we should learn to get used to. Dark times are not hopeless times. Make your mind adjust even though the only thing it wants to do is run away. The more we face hardships in life, the easier it will become to navigate the darkness. – David Goggins
206. The key to happiness is solving problems. Not existing in a state of solved problems – that’s bliss and it is boring. Not drowned in insurmountable problems – that’s torture and it is hell. Happiness is the sweet spot of conquering challenges, resting briefly, then on to the next. – Ed Latimore
207. Disease is an impediment to the body, but not to the will, unless the will itself chooses. Lameness is an impediment to the leg, but not to the will. And add this reflection on the occasion of everything that happens; for you will find it an impediment to something else, but not to yourself. – Epictetus
208. Disease is an impediment to the body, but not to the will, unless the will itself chooses. Lameness is an impediment to the leg, but not to the will. And add this reflection on the occasion of everything that happens; for you will find it an impediment to something else, but not to yourself. – Epictetus
209. A lot of extraordinary things in life are the result of things that are first-order negative, second order positive. So just because things look like they have no immediate payoff, doesn’t mean that’s the case. – Shane Parrish
210. Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not: nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not: the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. – Calvin Coolidge
211. I don’t care how much you can lift, how fast you can run, how many pull-ups you can do, or whether you can hit a three while blindfolded. There are only three things I ask of every client… Show up, work hard, and listen. That’s it. It requires no talent, no special genetics, or any skill whatsoever to show up, work hard, and listen. – Tim Grover