We all experience difficult times in our lives. It’s just a natural part of the human experience. However, just because it’s natural it doesn’t mean that it’s pleasant.
In fact, sometimes things can get so difficult that we can feel like simply giving up. This too is natural. Even some of the most successful people in the world have felt like giving up at some point.
If look at Forbes magazine annual list of billionaires, most of the people on that list went through very challenging times. What made them succeed? Well, they all have one thing in common, they didn’t give up.
J.K. Rowling, the billionaire author of the Harry Potter books, was rejected by 12 publishers before someone gave her a chance. Do you think she felt like giving up after the first 6 rejections? Of course!
Fortunately, she didn’t give up and the rest is history, literally. She is one of the most successful authors in history!
The reality is simply that life is tough, and it always will be. Sorry, to sound like a downer but the sooner you come to that realization the better.
Everyone struggles from time to time. Even, people who appear to have a “cushy” lifestyle struggle. You should take comfort in knowing that you’re not alone.
Many other people are also facing something challenging in their life. The most important thing is to NEVER give up.
Even if you feel like you’re a failure and you’re not making any progress, keep going. Success is often just around the corner.
Unfortunately, many people give up just before they are about to have a breakthrough. It’s only when they look back in regret that they realize how close they were to succeeding.
You don’t want to be that person who looks back on their life with regret, telling yourself “I was so close! If only I had stuck it out a little longer.”
If you are struggling right now, please know that you are not alone. Know that your situation will get better if you persevere.
I have put together a list of my favorite “never give up” quotes that will hopefully help to inspire you to keep going and not to give up. I hope you enjoy.
- “You must take action now that will move you towards your goals. Develop a sense of urgency in your life.” – H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
- “It’s not that I’m so smart, it’s just that I stay with problems longer.”– Albert Einstein
- “Never let your head hang down. Never give up and sit down and grieve. Find another way. And don’t pray when it rains if you don’t pray when the sun shines.” – Richard M. Nixon
- “Never give up. Never give in. Never become hostile… Hate is too big a burden to bear.” – John Lewis
- “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
- “Things aren’t always easy, but you just have to keep going and don’t let the small stuff bog you down.”– Stella Maeve
- “Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.” – Harriet Beecher Stowe
- “I know from experience that you should never give up on yourself or others, no matter what.” – George Foreman
- “Never give in and never give up.” – Hubert H. Humphrey
- “Never give up. People will always discount you, and you’ll always get rejected. But set your sights high. Be boldly ambitious. Be relentless and never give up.” – Reshma Saujani
- “How long should you try? Until.”– Jim Rohn
- “Never give up, and be confident in what you do. There may be tough times, but the difficulties which you face will make you more determined to achieve your objectives and to win against all the odds.” – Marta
- “I never give up on anything, because you come back around, and suddenly the thing you thought you’d never do is relevant.” – Joss Whedon
- “A lot of people have their big dreams and get knocked down and don’t have things go their way. And you never give up hope, and you really just hold on to it. Hard work and perseverance. You just keep getting up and getting up, and then you get that breakthrough.” – Robert Kraft
- “Survival can be summed up in three words – never give up. That’s the heart of it really. Just keep trying.” – Bear Grylls
- “Never give up on your dream… because you never know what the Lord can bless you with.” – Kelly Rowland
- “Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.”– Thomas Edison
- “My greatest point is my persistence. I never give up in a match. However down I am, I fight until the last ball. My list of matches shows that I have turned a great many so-called irretrievable defeats into victories.” – Bjorn Borg
- “Whenever you have taken up work in hand, you must see it to the finish. That is the ultimate secret of success. Never, never, never give up!” – Dada Vaswani
- “Never give up on something you believe in.” – Steve Scalise
- “Never give up. There are always tough times, regardless of what you do in anything in life. Be able to push through those times and maintain your ultimate goal.” – Nathan Chen
- “One thing that was passed on from generation to generation in my family, over seven genrations in 200 years, was never give up. That’s the way we live.” – Nik Wallenda
- “The most important thing is to never give up, never give in to circumstances, believe yourself, and to soldier on, no matter what’s in your way.” – Luka Modric
- “I will keep smiling, be positive and never give up! I will give 100 percent each time I play. These are always my goals and my attitude.” – Yani Tseng
- “Never stop trying. Never stop believing. Never give up. Your day will come.”– Mandy Hale
- “Never give up. And never, under any circumstances, face the facts.” – Ruth Gordon
- “My advice would be to follow your dream. Most of my life, I was in second place before I came in first place. I hope that inspired people to never give up.” – Jackie Evancho
- “Never give up. You only get one life. Go for it!” -Richard E. Grant
- “The one thing you’ve gotta do is that you need to always do the best you can do, no matter what the given situation, no matter what comes up against you. You do the best you can do, and you never give up. Never quit.” – James Corden
- “Never give up. And most importantly, be true to yourself. Write from your heart, in your own voice, and about what you believe in.” – Louise Brown
- “Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.” –Thomas Edison
- “There are no right and wrong ways to work in this business, but there are some basic common-sense practices. Work very, very hard and always be prepared; never give up; and once you get the job, give them more than they ever expected: – Shine!” – Jimmy Smits
- “There are no shortcuts to success. You have to believe in yourself, and never give up.” – Neha Dhupia
- “Don’t ever give up. You gotta keep trying, and never give up.” – Ryan Sheckler
- “I never give up, even when people tell me that I can’t do something. But if I believe I can, I really fight for it.” – Leila Lopes
- “Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better.” – Samuel Beckett
- “I always try to do my best. Sometimes is that enough to get a good result, sometimes not, but I never give up, and I never will.” – Edin Dzeko
- “I’m someone who likes to respond to a challenge. I never give up or stop trying, even if things were a little bit more difficult at the beginning.” – Naby Keita
- “Being defeated is often a temporary condition. Giving up is what makes it permanent.”– Marilyn vos Savant
- “Be fearless. Be glib. Be enigmatic. Read. Never give up.” – Lauren Kate
- “When we were young, they always teach you that you can never give up. It doesn’t matter what has happened: you cannot give up. Sometimes it is good, sometimes that is not good. But still, you try.” – Dusan Tadic
- “Let me tell you the secret that has led to my goal. My strength lies solely on my tenacity.”– Louis Pasteur
- “If you never give up, you’ll be successful.” – Dan O’Brien
- “You tell your kids that no matter what, you set your goals and you go for them. Whatever it is you achieve, never give up. You want your kids to have that good attitude, the confidence, and the will power to believe in themselves.” – Joel Parkinson
- “I am quite a relaxed person out of the car, but in the car I am aggressive, I never give up, I fight to the end and I try 100% all the time.” – Heikki Kovalainen
- “If you really believe in what you’re doing, work hard, take nothing personally and if something blocks one route, find another. Never give up.” – Laurie Notaro
- “Never give up on something that you can’t go a day without thinking about.” ―Winston Churchill
- “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
- “When I moved to Los Angeles, aged 54, I printed out Winston Churchill’s phrase, ‘Never, never, never give up’, and stuck it on my fridge. I had no idea what was going to happen, but I knew I had to keep on going.” – Alan Dale
- “You do what you can for as long as you can, and when you finally can’t, you do the next best thing. You back up but you don’t give up.” ―Chuck Yeager
- “I think what it takes to succeed remains the same. You have to have a real love of your sport to carry you through all the bad times, you still want to go ski even when things aren’t working. You must have a commitment to work hard and to never give up.” – Nancy Greene
- “Winners never quit, and quitters never win.” ―Vince Lombardi
- “I want to see success right away. And I want to never give up, never stop.” – Joe Nichols
- “Never, never, never give up.”– Winston Churchill
- “Never give up your desire to be what you want to be. Stay focused, persistent and relentless.” ― Debasish Mridha MD
- “Keep on going, and the chances are that you will stumble on something, perhaps when you are least expecting it. I never heard of anyone ever stumbling on something sitting down.” – Charles F. Kettering
- “Character consists of what you do on the third and fourth tries.” ―James A. Michener
- “There is no failure except in no longer trying.” ―Elbert Hubbard
- “You just can’t beat the person who won’t give up.” ―Babe Ruth
- “It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.” ―Confucius
- “Successful men and women keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don’t quit.” ―Conrad Hilton
- “Your hardest times often lead to the greatest moments of your life. Keep going. Tough situations build strong people in the end.”― Roy T. Bennett
- “Failure is only the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently.”– Henry Ford
- “Things don’t go wrong and break your heart so you can become bitter and give up. They happen to break you down and build you up so that you can be all that you were intended to be.”– Charlie Jones
- “No. Don’t give up hope just yet. It’s the last thing to go. When you have lost hope, you have lost everything. And when you think all is lost, when all is dire and bleak, there is always hope.”― Pittacus Lore
- “Rise and rise again until lambs become lions” ― Robin Hood
- “Keep Moving Forward” – Walt Disney
- “Not to give up under any circumstances should be the motto of our life: we shall try again and again, and we are bound to succeed. There will be obstacles, but we have to defy them. So do not give up, do not give up! Continue, continue! The goal is ahead of you. If you do not give up, you are bound to reach your destined goal.” ― Sri Chinmoy
- “There are five important things for living a successful and fulfilling life: never stop dreaming, never stop believing, never give up, never stop trying, and never stop learning.”– Roy Bennett
- “A failure is not always a mistake. It may simply be the best one can do under the circumstances. The real mistake is to stop trying.” – B. F. Skinner
- “Never give up hope. All things are working for your good. One day, you’ll look back on everything you’ve been through and thank God for it.” -Germany Kent
- “Circumstances don’t defeat you — you defeat yourself when you give up.”– Jonathan Lockwood Huie
- “If you are going through hell, keep going.”– Winston Churchill
- “Tough times never last, but tough people do.”– Robert. H. Schuller
- “To conquer frustration, one must remain intensely focused on the outcome, not the obstacles.”– T. F. Hodge
- “The harder the struggle, the more glorious the triumph. Self-realization demands very great struggle.”– Swami Sivananda
- “When the going gets tough, put one foot in front of the other and just keep going. Don’t give up.” – Roy T Bennett
- “You may be the only person left who believes in you, but it’s enough. It takes just one star to pierce a universe of darkness. Never give up.” -Richelle E. Goodrich
- “Courage doesn’t always roar, sometimes it’s the quiet voice at the end of the day whispering ‘I will try again tomorrow” – Mary Anne Radmacher
- “Strength does not come from winning. Your struggles develop your strengths. When you go through hardships and decide not to surrender, that is true strength.”– Arnold Schwarzenegger
- “It’s perseverance that’s the key. It’s persevering for long enough to achieve your potential.” – Lynn Davies
- “You may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated. In fact, it may be necessary to encounter the defeats, so you can know who you are, what you can rise from, how you can still come out of it.” -Maya Angelou
- “The brick walls are there for a reason. The brick walls are not there to keep us out. The brick walls are there to give us a chance to show how badly we want something. Because the brick walls are there to stop the people who don’t want it badly enough. They’re there to stop the other people.” – Randy Pausch
- “So comes snow after fire, and even dragons have their endings.” – J.R.R. Tolkien
- “I am a slow walker, but I never walk back.” – Abraham Lincoln
- “Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat.” – F. Scott Fitzgerald
- “Just because you fail once doesn’t mean you’re gonna fail at everything.” – Marilyn Monroe
- “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
- “Let me not pray to be sheltered from dangers, but to be fearless in facing them. Let me not beg for the stilling of my pain, but for the heart to conquer it.” – Rabindranath Tagore
- “If you fell down yesterday, stand up today.” – H.G. Wells
- “Continuous effort – not strength or intelligence – is the key to unlocking our potential.” – Winston S. Churchill
- “Dripping water hollows out stone, not through force but through persistence.” – Ovid
- “Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any one thing.” – Abraham Lincoln
- “When you come to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on.” – Franklin D. Roosevelt
- “Courage is not having the strength to go on; it is going on when you don’t have the strength.” – Teddy Roosevelt
- “Failure is a bend in the road, not the end of the road. Learn from failure and keep moving forward.” – Roy T. Bennett
- “Once you learn to quit, it becomes a habit.” – Vince Lombardi
- “Don’t give up. There are too many nay-sayers out there who will try to discourage you. Don’t listen to them. The only one who can make you give up is yourself.”– Sidney Sheldon
- “Do it again. Play it again. Sing it again. Read it again. Write it again. Sketch it again. Rehearse it again. Run it again. Try it again. Because ‘again’ is practice, and practice is an improvement, and improvement only leads to perfection.”– Richelle E. Goodrich
- “A bend in the road is not the end of the road…Unless you fail to make the turn.” – Helen Keller
- “Remember to look up at the stars and not down at your feet. Try to make sense of what you see and wonder about what makes the universe exist. Be curious. And however difficult life may seem, there is always something you can do and succeed at. It matters that you don’t just give up.” ― Stephen Hawking
