Do N't Give Up Quotes

Don't let the fear of the time it will take to accomplish something stand in the way of your doing it. The time will pass anyway; we might just as well put that passing time to the best possible use.

Earl Nightingale

Motivational, Inspiring, Perseverance

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Success seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after others have let go.

William Feather

Inspirational, Positive, Success

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Just don't give up trying to do what you really want to do.

Ella Fitzgerald

Inspirational, Graduation, Giving Up

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If you run into a wall, don't turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it.

Michael Jordan

Motivational, Basketball, Running

Michael Jordan (1994). “I can't accept not trying: Michael Jordan on the pursuit of excellence”

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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.

Inspirational, Life, Motivational

H. Jackson Brown, Jr. (2012). “Life's Little Instruction Book: Simple Wisdom and a Little Humor for Living a Happy and Rewarding Life”, p.75, Thomas Nelson Inc

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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

Inspirational, Life, Motivational

Dale Carnegie (2017). “How to enjoy your life and your job”, p.59, Diamond Pocket Books Pvt Ltd

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Never give up on something that you can't go a day without thinking about.

Winston Churchill

Inspirational, Motivational, Inspiring

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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

Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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Don't pray when it rains if you don't pray when the sun shines.

Satchel Paige

Thanksgiving, Thank You, Baseball

Quoted in Deirdre Mullane, Words to Make My Dream Children Live: A Book of African American Quotations (1995)

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Most people give up just when they're about to achieve success. They quit on the one yard line. They give up at the last minute of the game one foot from a winning touchdown.

Ross Perot

Motivational, Strength, Success

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Nothing could be worse than the fear that one had given up too soon, and left one unexpended effort that might have saved the world.

Jane Addams

Stay Strong, Peace, Giving Up

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The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want and if they can't find them, make them.

George Bernard Shaw

Inspirational, Life, Success

George Bernard Shaw (2010). “Mrs. Warren's Profession”, p.29, Cosimo, Inc.

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

Zig Ziglar

Inspirational, Funny, Life

FaceBook post by Zig Ziglar from Sep 22, 2016

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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

Inspiring, Hope, Giving Up

Anne Lamott (2007). “Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life”, p.23, Anchor

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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

Inspirational, Basketball, Wisdom

Michael Jordan (1994). “I can't accept not trying: Michael Jordan on the pursuit of excellence”

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You just never give up, no matter how hard the challenges are, and observe this world with a healthy dose of criticism and don't just follow the herd like somebody else might do.

Renny Harlin

Giving Up, Healthy, Challenges

Interview with Kenneth Plume, www.ign.com. April 27, 2001.

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Never give up. Never give up. Never give up.

Winston Churchill

Giving Up, Don't Give Up, Never Give Up Hope

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If you can dream it, you can do it.

Walt Disney

Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

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The only one who can make you give up is yourself.

Sidney Sheldon

Being Yourself, Stay Strong, Giving Up

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

Earl Nightingale

Inspirational, Motivational, Success

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Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.

Mark Twain

Inspirational, Life, Motivational

Mark Twain, Caroline Thomas Harnsberger (2009). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.354, Courier Corporation

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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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Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.

Harriet Beecher Stowe

Inspirational, Motivational, Moving On

Harriet Beecher Stowe (1896). “Oldtown folks. Sam Lawson's Oldtown fireside stories”

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It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.

Confucius

Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

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I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.

Thomas A. Edison

Inspirational, Funny, Motivational

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