Not Giving Up Sayings and Quotes

Below you will find our collection of inspirational, wise, and humorous old not giving up quotes, not giving up sayings, and not giving up proverbs, collected over the years from a variety of sources.

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. Satchel Paige
Never give up on what you really want to do. The person with big dreams is more powerful than one with all the facts. H. Jackson Brown Jr.
When the world says, Give up, Hope whispers, Try it one more time. unknown
Hope is being able to see there is light despite all the darkness. Desmond Tutu
Don't give up; the beginning is always the hardest. Kemmy Nola
Nothing is hopeless, we must hope for everything. Madeleine L'Engle
Don't give up trying to find your way. But do remember that sometimes it takes bending to avoid breaking. Katinka Hesselink
Hope begins in the dark, the stubborn hope that if you just show up and try to do the right thing, the dawn will come. You wait and watch and work: you don't give up. Anne Lamott
Anything is possible. You can be told that you have a 90-percent chance or a 50-percent chance or a 1-percent chance, but you have to believe, and you have to fight. Lance Armstrong
Its not how hard you hit, but how hard you can get hit and keep moving forward. Rocky Balboa
It doesn't matter if you try and try and try again, and fail. It does matter if you try and fail, and fail to try again. Charles Kettering
If you are going through hell, keep going. Winston Churchill
Fall seven times, stand up eight. Japanese Proverb
Never give up on something you really want. It's difficult to wait, but more difficult to regret. unknown
Don't give up because things are hard, but work harder, when you think of giving up. Anthony Liccione
If one dream should fall and break into a thousand pieces, never be afraid to pick one of those pieces up and begin again. Flavia Weedn
Never give up on a dream because of the time it will take to accomplish it. The time will pass anyway. Earl Nightingale
It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer. Albert Einstein
The only thing you should ever quit is giving up! Steve Pfiester
Never give up. You only get one life. Go for it. Richard E. Grant
Your failures in life come from not realizing your nearness to success when you give up. Yoruba Wisdom
Never let your head hang down. Never give up and sit and grieve. Find another way. Satchel Paige
There is no better than adversity. Every defeat, every heartbreak, every loss, contains its own seed, its own lesson on how to improve your performance the next time. Malcom X
The encountering (of defeats) may be the very experience which creates the vitality and the power to endure. Maya Angelou
It's easy to do anything inn victory. It's in defeat that a man revevals himself. Floyd Patterson
Defeat is not bitter unless you swallow it. Joe Clark
Winning is great, sure, but if you are really going to do something in life, the secret is learning how to lose. Nobody goes undefeated all the time. Wilma Rudolph
You may not be responsible for getting knocked down, but you're certainly responsible for getting back up. Jesse Jackson
If the social order judges success by material gain, the most successful will be the most corruptible and selfish. Khemetic Wisdom
Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which one has overcome while trying to succeed. Booker T. Washington