Not Giving Up Quotes

• 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

  Education, Perseverance, Giving Up

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  I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody.

  Bill Cosby

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

  Quoted in Barbara Rowes, The Book of Quotes (1979)

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• Don't be afraid to give up the good to go for the great.

  John D. Rockefeller

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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  You just can't beat the person who never gives up.

  Babe Ruth

  Life, Motivational, Stay Strong

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• Perseverance is failing 19 times and succeeding the 20th.

  Julie Andrews

  Inspirational, Positive, Success

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• We conquer by continuing.

  George Matheson

  Perseverance, Persistence, Perserverance

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• No one will hit you harder than life itself. It doesn't matter how hard you hit back. It's about how much you can take, and keep fighting, how much you can suffer and keep moving forward. That's how you win.

  Sylvester Stallone

  Life, Positive, Moving On

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  If you fall behind, run faster. Never give up, never surrender, and rise up against the odds.

  Jesse Jackson

  Motivational, Moving On, Success

  "Q&A: The Rev Jesse Jackson". Interview with Rosanna Greenstreet, www.theguardian.com. April 13, 2012.

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• Any day that we don't give up puts us one day closer to success!

  Joyce Meyer

  Motivational, Success, Christian

  Twitter post from Dec 03, 2016

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• Don't let anything stop you. There will be times when you'll be disappointed, but you can't stop. Make yourself the best that you can make out of what you are. The very best.

  Sadie Tanner Mossell Alexander

  Motivational, Moving On, Success

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• Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Inspirational, Motivational, Moving On

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• ‎In every crisis there is a message. Crises are nature's way of forcing change - breaking down old structures, shaking loose negative habits so that something new and better can take their place.

  Susan L. Taylor

  Inspirational, Change, Happiness

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  Fear doesn't exist anywhere except in the mind.

  Dale Carnegie

  Success, Courage, Fear

  Dale Carnegie (2017). “The Quick and Easy Way to Effective Speaking”, p.48, Diamond Pocket Books Pvt Ltd

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  If there is no struggle, there is no progress.

  Frederick Douglass

  Inspirational, Change, Moving On

  Speech, Canandaigua, N.Y., 4 Aug. 1857

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• Just because something is hard doesn’t mean it’s impossible.

  Lysa TerKeurst

  Inspirational, Mean, Impossible

  Lysa TerKeurst (2012). “Unglued Devotional: 60 Days of Imperfect Progress”, p.9, Thomas Nelson

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• If you fell down yesterday, stand up today.

  H. G. Wells

  Motivational, Strength, Moving On

  "The Anatomy of Frustration". Book by H. G. Wells, 1936.

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  Keep your head up in failure and your head down in success.

  Jerry Seinfeld

  Success, Failure, Advice

  Reddit AMA, www.reddit.com. July 24, 2014.

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  Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  Albert Einstein's letter to his son Eduard (February 5, 1930), as quoted in Walter Isaacson "Einstein: His Life and Universe" (p. 367), 2007.

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• Character consists of what you do on the third and fourth tries.

  James A. Michener

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

  James A. Michener (2007). “Chesapeake”, p.278, Ballantine Books

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• 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

  Strength, Stay Strong, Motivational Sports

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• In this world it is not what we take up, but what we give up, that makes us rich.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Motivational, Success, Giving Up

  Henry Ward Beecher, Edna Dean Proctor (1858). “Life Thoughts: Gathered from the Extemporaneous Discourses of Henry Ward Beecher”, p.19

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• It seems to me we can never give up longing and wishing while we are thoroughly alive. There are certain things we feel to be beautiful and good, and we must hunger after them.

  George Eliot

  Beautiful, Witty, Giving Up

  George Eliot (2005). “Four Novels of George Eliot”, p.1147, Wordsworth Editions

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  Never let your head hang down. Never give up and sit down and grieve. Find another way.

  Satchel Paige

  Inspirational, Encouraging, Sports

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  Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.

  Samuel Beckett

  Inspirational, Motivational, Encouraging

  1983 Worst ward Ho.

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• Perseverance is the hard work you do after you get tired of doing the hard work you already did.

  Newt Gingrich

  Stay Strong, Perseverance, Determination

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