Motivation & Success: Never Give Up Quotes

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"There is nothing impossible to him who will try"

Alexander the Great, Leader

Alexander the Great

"I am in earnest - I will not equivocate - I will not excuse - I will not retreat a single inch - and I will be heard!"

William Lloyd Garrison, Journalist

"Success is falling nine times and getting up ten"

Jon Bon Jovi, Musician

"Defeat never comes to any man until he admits it"

Josephus Daniels, Politician

"Men do not fail; they give up trying"

Elihu Root, Lawyer

"If you fail the first time, that's just a chance to start over again"

Lenny Wilkens

"Even a fool knows you can't touch the stars, but it won't keep the wise from trying"

Harry Anderson, Actor

"I'm a fighter, not a quitter"

Peter Mandelson, Politician

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

Confucius, Philosopher

"I can accept failure, everyone fails at something. But I can't accept not trying"

Michael Jordan, Athlete

Michael Jordan

"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, Businessman

Ross Perot

"If you run, you might lose. If you don't run, you're guaranteed to lose"

Jesse Jackson, Activist

Jesse Jackson

"Being defeated is often a temporary condition. Giving up is what makes it permanent"

Marilyn vos Savant, Author

Marilyn vos Savant

"Never let the fear of striking out get in your way"

Babe Ruth, Athlete

Babe Ruth

"Never be discouraged. If I were sunk in the lowest pits of Nova Scotia, with the Rocky Mountains piled on me, I would hang on, exercise faith, and keep up good courage, and I would come out on top"

Joseph Smith, Jr., Clergyman

Joseph Smith, Jr.

"Failure is impossible"

Susan B. Anthony, Activist

"You don't drown by falling in the water; you drown by staying there"

Edwin Louis Cole, Author

Edwin Louis Cole

"We are not interested in the possibilities of defeat. They do not exist"

Queen Victoria, Royalty

Queen Victoria

"It is inevitable that some defeat will enter even the most victorious life. The human spirit is never finished when it is defeated... It is finished when it surrenders"

Ben Stein, Actor

"I'm not going to take this defeatist attitude and listen to all this crap any more from all these people who have nothing except doomsday to predict"

Carroll Shelby, Designer

Carroll Shelby

"If fate means you to lose, give him a good fight anyhow"

William McFee, Writer

"Losing is not in my vocabulary"

Ruud van Nistelrooy, Athlete

"Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts"

Winston Churchill, Statesman

Winston Churchill

"Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm"

Winston Churchill, Statesman

Winston Churchill

"How you think when you lose determines how long it will be until you win"

Gilbert K. Chesterton, Writer

Gilbert K. Chesterton

"Nearly every man who develops an idea works it up to the point where it looks impossible, and then he gets discouraged. That's not the place to become discouraged"

Thomas Edison, Inventor

Thomas Edison

"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, Psychologist

B. F. Skinner

"Once you learn to quit, it becomes a habit"

Vince Lombardi, Coach

Vince Lombardi

"Winners never quit and quitters never win"

Vince Lombardi, Coach

Vince Lombardi

"To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield"

Alfred Lord Tennyson, Poet

"Failure will never overtake me if my determination to succeed is strong enough"

Og Mandino, Author

Og Mandino

"It's always too early to quit"

Norman Vincent Peale, Clergyman

Norman Vincent Peale

"Edison failed 10,000 times before he made the electric light. Do not be discouraged if you fail a few times!"

Napoleon Hill, Writer

Napoleon Hill

"Every strike brings me closer to the next home run"

Babe Ruth, Athlete

Babe Ruth

"If you stop struggling, then you stop life"

Huey Newton, Activist

Huey Newton

"Squash has the credentials to become an Olympic event, and our goal is to see the sport in the 2008 Beijing Olympics. We are working towards this and will keep trying even if our bid is not successful"

Jahangir Khan, Athlete

Jahangir Khan

"Men who are resolved to find a way for themselves will always find opportunities enough; and if they do not find them, they will make them"

Samuel Smiles, Author

Samuel Smiles

"You can't give up something you really believe in for financial reasons. If you die by the roadside - so be it. But at least you know you've tried. Ten minutes in the music scene was the equal of one hundred years outside of it"

Robert Plant, Musician

Robert Plant

"But by all this I am not deterred, for I have seen, I have heard, I have felt"

Emanuel Swedenborg, Scientist

Emanuel Swedenborg

"Even if the last move did not succeed, the inner command says move again"

Seamus Heaney, Poet

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