Never Give Up, Because Your Dreams Are Within Reach

“But giving up's easy. You know what's hard? To believe in your own worth, to know you've got something special in you even if nobody else can see it. Even when you can't.”

— Ryan North, amazon.com

“Never give up. It's like breathing — once you quit, your flame dies letting total darkness extinguish every last gasp of hope. You can't do that. You must continue taking in even the shallowest of breaths, continue putting forth even the smallest of efforts to sustain your dreams. Don't ever, ever,…”

— Richelle E. Goodrich, amazon.com

“Most great accomplishments do not look promising in the beginning. If you give up on a big dream too early, you have probably stepped on gold and mistook it for a rock.”

— Israelmore Ayivor, amazon.com

“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…”

— Rachel Van Dyken, amazon.com

“Anyone can give up; it is the easiest thing in the world to do. But to hold it together when everyone would expect you to fall apart, now that is true strength.”

— Chris Bradford, amazon.com

“Don't be afraid of being laughed at for failing. Fear being sixty-five years old and never trying.”

— Troy Gathers, amazon.com

“That down feeling, quitting, was far worse than suffering it out to the end, because that decision to quit haunts you and bleeds over into your outlook on everything else, just as not quitting buoys you for all else.”

— Diana Nyad, amazon.com

“I'm not saying it's going to be easy. Nothing in life is easy. But that's no reason to give up. You'll be surprised what you can accomplish if you set your mind to it. After all, you only have one life, so you should try to make the most of it.”

— Louis Sachar, amazon.com

“You can quit if you want. If you hate it. If it isn't fun anymore. But you can't quit just because it's hard. Things are hard for most people. Life is hard.”

— Catherine McKenzie, amazon.com

“To quit is to fail -- as long as you are still in the game you are succeeding!”

— Lindsey Rietzsch, amazon.com

“Sometimes giving up feels like the easiest thing to do. But then the easiest thing has never produced more than a garden full of weeds.”

— Richelle E. Goodrich, amazon.com

“If you quit on the process, you are quitting on the result.”

— Idowu Koyenikan, amazon.com

“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, amazon.com

“Fight if you must, work hard, give your best but never quit in the face of difficulty.”

— Sanchita Pandey, amazon.com

“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, amazon.com

“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, amazon.com

“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, amazon.com

“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 p…”

— Colleen Hoover, amazon.com

“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, amazon.com

“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, amazon.com

“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, amazon.com

“Maybe the hardest part of life is just having the courage to try.”

— Rachel Hollis, amazon.com

“Trying’s good. Trying’s sexy.”

— Kate Meader, amazon.com

“You're supposed to fail sometimes. It's a required part of the human existence.”

— Sarah Dessen, amazon.com

“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, amazon.com

“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, amazon.com

“Pain is temporary. Quitting lasts forever.”

— Lance Armstrong, amazon.com

“There is only one thing that makes a dream impossible to achieve: the fear of failure.”

— Paulo Coelho, amazon.com

“Maybe the future is like rowing for shore. Your only choice is to try or give up.”

— Kristen Chandler, amazon.com

“Trying is always enough.”

— Patricia Briggs, amazon.com