God & Man

Never Give Up, Because Your Dreams Are Within Reach

Don't be afraid of being laughed at for failing. Fear being sixty-five years old and never trying.
Holly Riordan
February 8, 2017
“Maybe the future is like rowing for shore. Your only choice is to try or give up.”
— Kristen Chandler, Wolves, Boys, and Other Things That Might Kill Me
Tagged: Never Give Up, Future, Trying
“There is only one thing that makes a dream impossible to achieve: the fear of failure.”
— Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist
Tagged: Never Give Up, Dreams, Failure, Fear
“Pain is temporary. Quitting lasts forever.”
— Lance Armstrong, Every Second Counts
Tagged: Never Give Up, Pain, Quitting
“The brick walls are there for a reason. The brick walls are not there to keep us out. The brick walls are there to give us a chance to show how badly we want something. Because the brick walls are there to stop the people who don’t want it badly enough. They’re there to stop the other people.”
— Randy Pausch, The Last Lecture
Tagged: Never Give Up, Walls, Barriers
“When you take risks you learn that there will be times when you succeed and there will be times when you fail, and both are equally important.”
— Ellen Degeneres, Seriously...I'm Kidding
Tagged: Never Give Up, risks, Failure
“You're supposed to fail sometimes. It's a required part of the human existence.”
— Sarah Dessen, Along for the Ride
Tagged: Never Give Up, Failure, humans
“Trying’s good. Trying’s sexy.”
— Kate Meader, Melting Point
Tagged: Never Give Up, Trying, Sexy
“Maybe the hardest part of life is just having the courage to try.”
— Rachel Hollis, Party Girl(The Girl's Series)
Tagged: Never Give Up, Courage, Trying
“Shh, listen, don’t be discouraged if you don’t win. It’s a learning process. You’ll get better with each try.”
— E.L. Montes, Cautious(Sequel to Disastrous): Disastrous No. 2
Tagged: Never Give Up, Discouraged, Learning
“Failure doesn't define you. It's what you do after you fail that determines whether you are a leader or a waste of perfectly good air.”
— Sabaa Tahir, A Torch Against the Night(An Ember in the Ashes)
Tagged: Never Give Up, definition, Failure
“If I just keep putting one foot in front of the other, it stands to reason that I'm going to get there.”
— Rachel Joyce, The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry: A Novel
Tagged: Never Give Up, Keep Going, surviving, Inspirational
“How often do you think we write our own ending before the story is even finished? How often do we give up on ourselves when our lives are just starting? Things get hard and we immediately back away and assume that means we're going in the wrong direction, doing the wrong thing. If anything, when the waters get thick, that's our sign to keep going.”
— Rachel Van Dyken, Toxic
Tagged: Never Give Up, Keep Going, Hard Work
“I'm not going to wish for a perfect life. The things that knock you down in life are tests, forcing you to make a choice between giving in and remaining on the ground or wiping the dirt off and standing up even taller than you did before you were knocked down. I'm choosing to stand up taller. I'll probably get knocked down a few more times before this life is through with me, but I can guarantee you I'll never stay on the ground.”
— Colleen Hoover, Hopeless
Tagged: Never Give Up, tests, Keep Going
“Because when you find something you love, you can’t quit. Every failure pushes you harder. It’s in your soul and in your fucking heart.”
— Becca Ritchie, Hothouse Flower
Tagged: Never Give Up, Failure, Quitting
“I'm learning quickly, once you quit one thing, it gets easier and easier just to leave situations rather than deal with shit.”
— Doug Cooper, Outside In
Tagged: Never Give Up, Quitting, Leaving
“It was practically un-American to not set goals and then do everything you could, everything, to reach them. Quitting -- it was a dirty word...”
— Deb Caletti, The Six Rules of Maybe
Tagged: Never Give Up, America, Goals, Quitting
“Fight if you must, work hard, give your best but never quit in the face of difficulty.”
— Sanchita Pandey, Voyage to Happiness: A book on how to always be happy! by Sanchita Pandey(2016-03-03)
Tagged: Never Give Up, Quitting, Fighting, Work Hard
“All I am saying is that sometimes you're doing quite a lot by not doing anything. You're not quitting. You just keep going. That's the pioneer spirit.”
— Rinker Buck, The Oregon Trail: A New American Journey
Tagged: Never Give Up, Quitting, Keep Going
“If you quit on the process, you are quitting on the result.”
— Idowu Koyenikan, Wealth for All: Living a Life of Success at the Edge of Your Ability
Tagged: Never Give Up, Quitting, Results
“To quit is to fail -- as long as you are still in the game you are succeeding!”
— Lindsey Rietzsch, Successful Failures
Tagged: Never Give Up, Failure, Success