85 Quotes to Encourage You Never Give Up

We all have those days where it feels like the entire world is against us. We start to think that we are not good enough or smart enough, and feel like giving up. But what would happen if you never gave up? What would your life be like if you accomplished everything you set out to do? There are many successful people who started with nothing but a dream, and they never gave up! Here are 85 quotes that will remind you of how important it is to stay strong in times of hardship!

1. "I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is another step forward." - Thomas A. Edison

2. "It always seems impossible until it's done." - Nelson Mandela

3. "If you hear a voice within saying, 'you are not a painter,' then by all means paint and that voice will be silenced." - Vincent Van Gogh

4. "I never gave up, I sometimes didn't go forwards." - Lewis Pugh

5. "Never give up on a dream just because of the time it will take to accomplish it. The time will pass anyway." - Earl Nightingale

6. "The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity." - Amelia Earhart

7. "In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity." - Albert Einstein

8. "The only place where your dream becomes impossible is in your own thinking." - Robert H Schuller

9. "The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any." - Alice Walker

10. "The person who says it cannot be done should not interrupt the person doing it." - Chinese Proverb

11. "He, who stops being better stops being good." - Oliver Cromwell

12.  "There is no such thing as failure only feedback." - Tony Robbins

13. "I'm not telling you it's going to be easy, I'm telling you it's going to be worth it." - Art Williams

14. "The best preparation for tomorrow is doing your best today." - H Jackson Brown Jr

15.  "If you are not willing to risk the unusual, you will have to settle for the ordinary." - Jim Rohn

16. "I am not afraid of tomorrow, for I have seen yesterday and I love today." - William Allen White

17. "The secret to getting ahead is getting started." - Mark Twain

18. "Believe you can and you're halfway there." - Theodore Roosevelt

19.  "Don't wait for extraordinary opportunities. Seize common occasions and make them great." - Orison Swett Marden

20. "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

21. "A year from now you may wish you had started today." - Karen Lamb

22. "If it's still in your mind, it's worth taking the risk to go get it." - Derek Sivers

23. "Do one thing every day that scares you." - Eleanor Roosevelt

24.  "In order to succeed, your desire for success should be greater than your fear of failure." - Bill Cosby

25. "If you don't try at anything, you can't fail... it takes back bone to lead the life you want." - Thelma and Louise

26.  "Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly." - Robert F. Kennedy

27.  "If you are not willing to risk the unusual, you will have to settle for the ordinary." - Jim Rohn

28. "The person who is waiting for something to turn up might start with their shirt sleeves." - Stan Laurel

29.   "Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly." - Robert F. Kennedy

30. "A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds." - Francis Bacon

31.  "Nothing in the 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

32.  "You cannot dream yourself into a character: you must hammer and forge yourself one." - James A. Froude

33. "I have never let my schooling interfere with my education." - Mark Twain

34. "In order to succeed, your desire for success should be greater than your fear of failure." - Bill Cosby

35.  "The only place where you can achieve great things is if you don't mind who gets the credit." - Robert Woodruff

36. "Don't limit yourself... Many people limit themselves to what they think they can do. You can go as far as your mind lets you. What you believe, remember, you can achieve." - Mary Kay Ash

37. "If at first you don't succeed, try again... Then quit. There's no use being a damn fool about it." - W C Fields

38. "A man's gotta have a code, a creed to live by... I'm my own chief of police." - Michael Corleone

39. "The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing." - Walt Disney

40. "Do not fear going forward slowly; fear only to stand still." - Chinese Proverb

41.  "The real secret to success is enthusiasm." - Bruce Barton

42. "Whether you think that you can, or that you can't, you are usually right." - Henry Ford

43. "If at first the idea is not absurd, then there is no hope for it." - Albert Einstein

44. "The best way to predict your future is to create it." - Peter Drucker

45. "Keep true, never be ashamed of doing right; decide on what you think is right and stick to it." - Abraham Lincoln

46.  "I can't change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination." - Jimmy Dean

47. "If you don't go after what you want, you'll never have it. If you don't ask, the answer is always no. If you don't step forward, you're always in the same place." - Nora Roberts

48. "There are two types of people who will tell you that you cannot make a difference in this world: those who are afraid to try and those who are afraid you will succeed." - Ray Goforth

49. "You miss 100 percent of the shots you never take." - Wayne Gretzky

50. "Don't worry about failures, worry about the chances you miss when you don't even try." - Jack Canfield

51.  "Don't be afraid to give up the good to go for the great." - John D. Rockefeller

52. "People often say that motivation doesn't last. Well, neither does bathing, that's why we recommend it daily." - Zig Ziglar

53.  "If you can dream it, then you can achieve it. You will get all you want in life if you help enough other people get what they want." - Zig Ziglar

54. "The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second best time is now." - Chinese Proverb

55. "Believe you can and you're halfway there." - Theodore Roosevelt

56. "The secret of getting ahead is getting started." - Mark Twain

57.  "If I had to live my life again, I'd make the same mistakes, only sooner." - T S Eliot

58.  "You're braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think." - A.A. Milne

59. "It's never too late to be what you might have been." - George Eliot

60.  "Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away." - Anonymous

61.  "Never give up on something you can't go a day without thinking about." - Winston Churchill

62.  "If you don't take risks, you can't create the life that will inspire others." - Anthony Robbins

63. "A man is not old as long as he is seeking something." - Thomas Carlyle

64.  "Forget regret, or life is yours to miss." - Jonathan Larson

65.    "If you are not willing to risk the usual, you will have to settle for the ordinary." - Jim Rohn

66.  "There is only one thing that makes a dream impossible to achieve: the fear of failure." - Paulo Coelho

67. "When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it." - Henry Ford

68. "Victory belongs to the most persevering" - Napoleon Bonaparte

69.  "I am thankful for all of those who said NO to me. It's because of them I'm doing it myself." - Albert Einstein

70. "The man who has no imagination has no wings." - Muhammad Ali

71.  "When you reach the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on." - Franklin D Roosevelt

72. "A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new." - Albert Einstein

73.    "People often say that motivation doesn't last. Well, neither does bathing that's why we recommend it daily." - Zig Ziglar

74. "Don't aim for success if you want it; just do what you love and believe in, and it will come naturally." - David Frost

75.  "The harder I practice, the luckier I get." - Gary Player

76. "It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop." - Confucius

77.  "You are never too old to set another goal or dream a new dream." - C S Lewis

78.  "Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts." - Winston Churchill

79. "You will never 'find' time for anything. If you want time, you must make it." – Charles Buxton

80. "It is never too late to be what you might have been." - George Eliot

81. "When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it." - Henry Ford

82. "Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly." – Robert F Kennedy

83.  "It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get up." - Vince Lombardi

84. "You will never 'find' time for anything. If you want time, you must make it." - Charles Buxton

85.  "Don't aim for success if you want it; just do what you love and believe in, and it will come naturally." - David Frost