You’re tired.
You’ve stumbled. Failed. Made a few mistakes.
You may feel like giving in and giving up.
But now is the time to hold on, to keep going and to keep pushing towards your dream.
It’s time to renew your motivation and recharge your energy.
To help you with that I want to share 80 of the best and most powerful keep pushing quotes.
And if you want more inspirational quotes to help you to keep pushing forward through the tough times and towards your dreams then check out this post with quotes on not settling for less in life and this one filled with I deserve better quotes.
Motivational Keep Pushing Quotes
“The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.”
Walt Disney
“Because some people see a wall, and assume that’s the end of their journey. Others see it, and decide it’s just the beginning.”
Angeline Trevena
“There is only one thing that makes a dream impossible to achieve: the fear of failure.”
Paulo Coelho
“The moment you want to quit is the moment you need to keep pushing.”
Unknown
“Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers, you cannot be successful or happy.”
Norman Vincent Peale
“Action may not always bring happiness, but there is no happiness without action.”
William James
“I’ve come to believe that all my past failure and frustrations were actually laying the foundation for the understandings that have created the new level of living I now enjoy.”
Tony Robbins
“Your attitude is critical to success. If you expect things to be difficult, it will always be easier to solve problems, overcome adversity, and have an enthusiastic energy about how you go about and enjoy your work.”
Nick Saban
“Show me someone who has done something worthwhile, and I’ll show you someone who has overcome adversity.”
Lou Holtz
“If you are facing a new challenge or being asked to do something that you have never done before don’t be afraid to step out. You have more capability than you think you do but you will never see it unless you place a demand on yourself for more.”
Joyce Meyer
“When adversity strikes, that’s when you have to be the most calm, take a step back, stay strong, stay grounded and press on.”
LL Cool J
“My attitude has always been, if you fall flat on your face, at least you’re moving forward. All you have to do is get back up and try again.”
Richard Branson
“We generate fears while we sit. We overcome them by action.”
Henry Link
“When the tide gets high, sail on. You’ll make it safe to the shore …and all the hidden treasures will be yours!”
Chinonye J. Chidolue
“Opportunities to find deeper powers within ourselves come when life seems most challenging.”
Joseph Campbell
“Life’s battles don’t always go to the stronger or faster man. But sooner or later, the man who wins is the man who thinks he can.”
Vince Lombardi
“Life keeps throwing me stones. And I keep finding the diamonds.”
Ana Claudia Antunes
“You have to accept whatever comes, and the only important thing is that you meet it with the best you have to give.”
Eleanor Roosevelt
“You don’t overcome challenges by making them smaller but by making yourself bigger.”
John Maxwell
Keep Pushing Quotes for the Tough Times
“We don’t develop courage by being happy every day. We develop it by surviving difficult times and challenging adversity.”
Barbara Angelis
“Strength does not come from winning. Your struggles develop your strengths. When you go through hardships and decide not to surrender, that is strength.”
Arnold Schwarzenegger
“We must embrace pain and burn it as fuel for our journey.”
Kenji Miyazawa
“Failure is a bend in the road, not the end of the road. Learn from failure and keep moving forward.”
Roy T. Bennett
“If you follow your dreams and spend your life doing what brings you joy, you are more likely to find success.”
Richard Branson
“Never give up hope. All things are working for your good. One day, you’ll look back on everything you’ve been through and thank God for it.”
Germany Kent
“When we give ourselves permission to fail, we, at the same time, give ourselves permission to excel.”
Eloise Ristad
“I thrive on obstacles. If I’m told that it can’t be told, then I push harder.”
Issa Rae
“There’s nothing that cleanses your soul like getting the hell kicked out of you.”
Woody Hayes
“The most inspiring piece of advice I’ve gotten is simply to persevere. My mom taught me to always keep going no matter what from an early age. When it feels too difficult to push forward. I always remind myself, ‘This too shall pass,’ and then I redouble my efforts.”
Liya Kebede
“The pain you feel today is the strength you feel tomorrow. In every challenge encountered there is opportunity for growth.”
Unknown
“Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict.”
William Ellery Channing
“Few things in the world are more powerful than a positive push. A smile. A world of optimism and hope. A ‘You can do it,’ when things are tough.”
Richard M. DeVos
“No matter how dysfunctional your background, how broke or broken you are, where you are today, or what anyone else says, you matter, and your life matters!”
Germany Kent
“It takes true strength of character to redefine your limits by pushing past them.”
Katherine Reutter
Wise Keep Pushing Quotes
“Any man can win when things go his way, it’s the man who overcomes adversity that is the true champion.”
Jock Ewing
“When people try to discredit you, just remember who you are and whose you are. Raise your head high and keep pushing.”
Germany Kent
“There is definitely more left in you than what those negative thoughts are forcing you to believe. Quitting on yourself should never be an option in your life. Success is your true destiny. Keep pushing until something very rewarding happens.”
Edmond Mbiaka
“Giving up will not help you advance forward. Keep pushing.”
Unknown
“There is no better than adversity. Every defeat, every heartbreak, every loss, contains its own seed, its own lesson on how to improve your performance the next time.”
Malcolm X
“And once the storm is over, you won’t remember how you made it through, how you managed to survive. You won’t even be sure whether the storm is really over. But one thing is certain. When you come out of the storm, you won’t be the same person who walked in. That’s what this storm’s all about.”
Haruki Murakami
“Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.”
Thomas Edison
“The most beautiful people I’ve known are those who have known trials, have known struggles, have known loss, and have found their way out of the depths.”
Elizabeth Kübler-Ross
“You may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated. In fact, it may be necessary to encounter the defeats, so you can know who you are, what you can rise from, how you can still come out of it.”
Maya Angelou
Inspirational Keep Pushing Quotes to Help You Reach Your Dream
“Challenges are what make life interesting and overcoming them is what makes life meaningful.”
Joshua J. Marine
“Faith moves mountains, but you have to keep pushing while you are praying.”
Mason Cooley
“I can’t tell you how great a feeling it is for me, but I can’t stress enough that the dream is not over. I’m not satisfied or complacent with where I am. I want to keep pushing forward, and I want this team to keep doing good things. We’ve still got a long way to go.”
Wes Miller
“Never give up. There are always tough times, regardless of what you do in anything in life. Be able to push through those times and maintain your ultimate goal.”
Nathan Chen
“Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.”
Robert Kennedy
“Press forward. Do not stop, do not linger in your journey, but strive for the mark set before you.”
George Whitefield
“For every reason it’s not possible, there are hundreds of people who have faced the same circumstances and succeeded.”
Jack Canfield
“Optimism is a happiness magnet. If you stay positive, good things and good people will be drawn to you.”
Mary Lou Retton
“Results happen over time, not overnight. Work hard, stay consistent, and be patient.”
Unknown
“I like people who are able to keep pushing themselves and challenging themselves even after great success.”
John C. Reilly
“Be of good cheer. Do not think of today’s failures, but of the success that may come tomorrow. You have set yourself a difficult task, but you will succeed if you persevere; and you will find a joy in overcoming obstacles.”
Helen Keller
“Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.”
T.S. Eliot
“Where God guides, He provides. No matter how things look, God is still in control. Stay in peace and be hopeful. Your blessing is coming soon.”
Germany Kent
“You just keep pushing yourself harder and harder to achieve more and more. I don’t think it’s ever quite as glamorous as it appears on the outside.”
Sean Parker
“I have not failed. I’ve just found 1,000 ways that won’t work.”
Thomas Edison
“I’ve missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I’ve lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I’ve been trusted to take the game-winning shot and missed. I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.”
Michael Jordan
“You just keep pushing. You just keep pushing. I made every mistake that could be made, but I just kept pushing.”
Rene Descartes
“The tragedy in life doesn’t lie in not reaching your goal. The tragedy lies in having no goal to reach.”
Benjamin Mays
“Hang on to your hat. Hang on to your hope. And wind the clock, for tomorrow is another day.”
E.B. White
“Motivation is the fuel necessary to keep the human engine running.”
Zig Ziglar
“Push yourself to the edge of your limits. That’s how they expand.”
Robin Sharma
“It depends on you to keep pushing forward until you win or giving in. Always choice the former.”
Lailah Gifty Akita
“Hard times don’t create heroes. It is during the hard times when the ‘hero’ within us is revealed.”
Bob Riley
Short Keep Pushing Quotes
“It’s amazing what ordinary people can do if they set out without preconceived notions.”
Charles Kettering
“Hardships often prepare ordinary people for an extraordinary destiny.”
C.S. Lewis
“Real champions fight through adversity.”
Conor McGregor
“Failure is only the opportunity to begin again, only this time more wisely.”
Henry Ford
“It’s a slow process, but quitting won’t speed it up.”
Unknown
“You’ll never find a better sparring partner than adversity.”
Walt Schmidt
“Perseverance means keep pushing.”
Lailah Gifty Akita
“You may fail. You will struggle. Rise back up. And push harder.”
Unknown
“Once you choose hope, anything’s possible.”
Christopher Reeve
“We just keep pushing until we can do it.”
Bobby Boland
“Success is what comes after you stop making excuses.”
Luis Galarza
“Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot. Make it hot by striking.”
William Butler
“Adversity causes some men to break; others to break records.”
William Arthur Ward
“It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.”
Confucius
“Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.”
Harriet Beecher Stowe
“Difficult roads always lead to beautiful destinations.”
Zig Ziglar
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