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Quotes about Never Giving Up

“When you come to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on.” – Jane Addams

“It’s never too late to be what you might have been.” – George Elliot

When things go wrong as they sometimes will,
When the road you’re trudging seems all up hill,
When the funds are low and the debts are high
And you want to smile, but you have to sigh,
When care is pressing you down a bit,
Rest if you must, but don’t you quit.
Life is queer with its twists and turns,
As every one of us sometimes learns,
And many a failure turns about
When he might have won had he stuck it out;
Don’t give up though the pace seems slow–
You may succeed with another blow,
Success is failure turned inside out–
The silver tint of the clouds of doubt,
And you never can tell how close you are,
It may be near when it seems so far;
So stick to the fight when you’re hardest hit–
It’s when things seem worst that you must not quit. – Edgar A. Guest

“Our greatest glory is not in never falling but in rising every time we fall.” – Confucius

“Achievement seems to be connected with action.
Successful men and women keep moving.
They make mistakes, but they don’t quit.” – Conrad Hilton

“Life is not about waiting for the storms to pass…
It’s about learning how to dance in the rain.” – Vivian Greene

“Part of being a winner is knowing when enough is enough.
Sometimes you have to give up the fight and walk away,
and move on to something that’s more productive.” – Donald Trump

“With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts.” – Eleanor Roosevelt

“You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.” – C. S. Lewis

“When you are going through hell, keep on going. Never never never give up.” – Winston Churchill

“Whatever you do, you need courage. Whatever course you decide upon, there is always someone to tell you that you are wrong. There are always difficulties arising that tempt you to believe your critics are right. To map out a course of action and follow it to an end requires some of the same courage that a soldier needs. Peace has its victories, but it takes brave men and women to win them.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Life is difficult. This is a great truth, one of the greatest truths. It is a great truth because once we truly see this truth, we transcend it. Once we truly know that life is difficult–once we truly understand and accept it–then life is no longer difficult. Because once it is accepted, the fact that life is difficult no longer matters.” – M. Scott Peck

“I am not discouraged because every wrong attempt discarded is a step forward.” – Thomas Edison

“Be grateful for your problems, for they stimulate an “I-can-solve-it” attitude.” – Mark Victor Hansen

“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

“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

“Fall seven times, stand up eight.” – Japanese Proverb

“The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.” – Nelson Mandela

“One of the lessons that I grew up with was to always stay true to yourself and never let what somebody else says distract you from your goals. And so when I hear about negative and false attacks, I really don’t invest any energy in them, because I know who I am.” – Michelle Obama

“Just don’t give up trying to do what you really want to do. Where there is love and inspiration, I don’t think you can go wrong.” – Ella Fitzgerald

“Achievement seems to be connected with action. Successful men and women keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don’t quit.” – Conrad Hilton

“The man who wins may have been counted out several times, but he didn’t hear the referee. Never quit or give up… never… never give up.” – never give up on anybody

25 Change Quotes

1. “Change will only come about when each of us takes up the daily struggle ourselves to be more forgiving, compassionate, loving, and above all joyful in the knowledge that, by some miracle of grace, we can change as those around us can change too.” —Mairead Maguire

2. “God grant me the serenity to accept the people I cannot change, the courage to change the one I can, and the wisdom to know it’s me.” —Unknown

3. “Begin challenging your own assumptions. Your assumptions are your windows on the world. Scrub them off every once in awhile, or the light won’t come in.” —Alan Alda

4. “Continuity gives us roots; change gives us branches, letting us stretch and grow and reach new heights.” —Pauline R. Kezer

5. “It seldom happens that a man changes his life through his habitual reasoning. No matter how fully he may sense the new plans and aims revealed to him by reason, he continues to plod along in old paths until his life becomes frustrating and unbearable—he finally makes the change only when his usual life can no longer be tolerated.” —Leo Tolstoy

6. “A competitive world offers two possibilities. You can lose. Or, if you want to win, you can change.” —Lester Thurow

7. “If you do not change direction, you may end up where you are heading.” —Lao Tzu

8. “No change of circumstances can repair a defect of character.” —Ralph Waldo Emerson

9. “The greatest discovery of all time is that a person can change his future by merely changing his attitude.” —Oprah Winfrey

10. “The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.” —Alan Watts

11. “He who rejects change is the architect of decay. The only human institution which rejects progress is the cemetery.” —Harold Wilson

12. “The circumstances of the world are so variable that an irrevocable purpose or opinion is almost synonymous with a foolish one.” —William H. Seward

13. ”A great wind is blowing and that gives you either imagination or a headache” —Catherine the Great

change quotes14. “No one is in control of your happiness but you; therefore, you have the power to change anything about yourself or your life that you want to change.” —Barbara de Angelis

15. “The real problem for the creative person is getting over the resistance of those who don’t want to change.” —Unknown

16. “If we fall, we don’t need self-recrimination or blame or anger – we need a reawakening of our intention and a willingness to re-commit, to be whole-hearted once again.” —Sharon Salzberg

17. “Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we’ve been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.” —Barack Obama

18. “There are no prescriptive solutions, no grand designs for grand problems. Life’s solutions lie in the minute particulars involving more and more individual people daring to create their own life and art, daring to listen to the voice within their deepest, original nature, and deeper still, the voice within the earth.” —Stephen Nachmanovitch

19. “New insights fail to get put into practice because they conflict with deeply held internal images of how the world works … images that limit us to familiar ways of thinking and acting.” —Peter Senge

20. “I cannot say whether things will get better if we change; what I can say is they must change if they are to get better.” —Georg C. Lichtenberg

21. “The truth is that our finest moments are most likely to occur when we are feeling deeply uncomfortable, unhappy, or unfulfilled. For it is only in such moments, propelled by our discomfort, that we are likely to step out of our ruts and start searching for different ways or truer answers.” —M. Scott Peck

22. “It is impossible for a man to learn what he thinks he already knows.” —Epictetus

23. “We do not grow absolutely, chronologically. We grow sometimes in one dimension, and not in another; unevenly. We grow partially. We are relative. We are mature in one realm, childish in another. The past, present, and future mingle and pull us backward, forward, or fix us in the present. We are made up of layers, cells, constellations.” —Anais Nin

24. “In times of change, learners inherit the Earth, while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists.” —Eric Hoffer

25. “The sea rises, the light fails, lovers cling to each other, and children cling to us. The moment we cease to hold each other, the sea engulfs us and the light goes out.” —James Baldwin

Sharing Quotes

“Keep your fears to yourself, but share your inspiration with others.” – Robert Louis Stevenso

“Pain shared is pain lessened; joy shared is joy increased. Thus do we refute entropy.” – Spider Robinson

“Thousands of candles can be lit from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared.” – Buddha

“The miracle is this: the more we share the more we have.” – Leonard Nimoy

“There is no delight in owning anything unshared.” – Seneca

“Giving is the highest expression of potency.” – Erich Fromm

“Shared sorrow is half sorrow.” – Danish Proverb

“Share our similarities, celebrate our differences.” – M. Scott Peck

“Happiness is not so much in having as sharing. We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.” – Norman MacEwan

“Three keys to more abundant living: caring about others, daring for others, sharing with others.” – William Arthur Ward

“Life has taught me that respect, caring and love must be shared, for it’s only through sharing that friendships are born.” – Donna A. Favors