To help you stay motivated and inspired when things look bleak, here is a long list of “you got this” quotes from some of the most successful and inspiring people from around the world. Take a minute to read through them; you never know which might just be the one that helps you take your next step forward with confidence. Now, let’s get started!

  1. โ€œPour yourself a drink, put on some lipstick, and pull yourself together.โ€ โ€•Elizabeth Taylor
  2. โ€œIโ€™ve never met a strong person with an easy past.โ€ โ€” Atticus
  3. โ€œListen to me, youโ€™ve got this. Seriously, youโ€™ve got this.โ€ โ€• Scott Stabile
  4. โ€œWhether you think you can, or you think you can’t โ€“ you’re right.โ€ โ€• Henry Ford
  5. โ€œGo for it now. The future is promised to no one.โ€ โ€”Wayne Dyer
  6. โ€œSurvival can be summed up in three wordsโ€•never give up. Thatโ€™s the heart of it really. Just keep trying.โ€ โ€“ Bear Grylls
  7. โ€œNo matter what, people grow. If you chose not to grow, youโ€™re staying in a small box with a small mindset. People who win go outside of that box. Itโ€™s very simple when you look at it.โ€ โ€“ Kevin Hart
  8. โ€œIf you have a great idea, let nothing stop you from bringing it to life.โ€ โ€• Pooja Agnihotri
  9. โ€œLife is very interesting… in the end, some of your greatest pains, become your greatest strengths.โ€ โ€”Drew Barrymore
  10. โ€œPerseverance is not a long race; it is many short races one after the other.โ€ โ€“ Walter Elliot
  11. โ€œKeep your face always toward the sunshine, and shadows will fall behind you.โ€ โ€“ Walt Whitman
  12. โ€œOne small crack does not mean that you are broken, it means that you were put to the test and you didnโ€™t fall apart.โ€ โ€“ Linda Poindexter
  13. โ€œThe most effective way to do it, is to do it.โ€ โ€” Amelia Earhart
  14. โ€œEvery great dream begins with a dreamer. Always remember, you have within you the strength, the patience, and the passion to reach for the stars to change the world.โ€ โ€”Harriet Tubman
  15. โ€œWhat the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the master calls a butterfly.โ€ – Richard Bach
  16. โ€œPerseverance is failing 19 times and succeeding the 20th.โ€ โ€“ Julie Andrews
  17. The reason most people never reach their goals is that they don’t define them, or even seriously consider them as believable or achievable. Winners can tell you where they are going, what they plan to do along the way, and who will be sharing the adventure with them.โ€ โ€“ Denis Waitley
  18. โ€œBehind every successful man, thereโ€™s a lot of unsuccessful years.โ€ โ€“ Bob Brown
  19. โ€œLife will try its hardest to pull you back to the toxic normโ€ฆ But donโ€™t give up on the person youโ€™re becoming.โ€ โ€• Steve Maraboli
  20. Find something that makes you happy and go for it.โ€ โ€” Zendaya
  21. โ€œThere is nothing with which every man is so afraid as getting to know how enormously much he is capable of doing and becoming.โ€ โ€•Sรธren Kierkegaard
  22. โ€œHow long should you try? Until.โ€ โ€“ Jim Rohn
  23. The same boiling water that softens the potato hardens the egg. Itโ€™s what youโ€™re made of. Not the circumstances.โ€ -Unknown
  24. โ€œThe great secret of getting what you want from life is knowing what you want and believing you can have it.โ€ โ€“ Epictetus
  25. โ€œNever allow a struggle to turn your sky into a ceiling. You must believe there’s always a way.โ€ โ€• Kristen Butler
  26. โ€œJust because itโ€™s hard doesnโ€™t mean itโ€™s impossible. You got this.โ€
  27. โ€œThe struggle you’re in today is developing the strength you need for tomorrow. Don’t give up.โ€ โ€•Robert Tew
  28. โ€œItโ€™s always too soon to quit.โ€ โ€“ Norman Vincent Peale
  29. โ€œThe real man smiles in trouble, gathers strength from distress, and grows brave by reflection.โ€ โ€“ Thomas Paine.
  30. โ€œNever give up on something that you canโ€™t go a day without thinking about.โ€ โ€• Winston Churchill
  31. โ€œDonโ€™t give up, the beginning are always the hardest. You got this.โ€
  32. โ€œYou got to go down a lot of wrong roads to find the right one.โ€ โ€“ Bob Parsons
  33. โ€œIf you cannot do great things, do small things in a great way.โ€ – Napoleon Hill
  34. โ€œIf you want to do something, go for itโ€”youโ€™ve got nothing to lose.โ€ โ€” Louis Tomlinson
  35. โ€œNobody looks good in their darkest hour. But it’s those hours that make us what we are.โ€ โ€”Karen Marie Moning
  36. โ€œDonโ€™t give up before the miracle happens.โ€ โ€“ Fannie Flagg
  37. โ€œYou simply have to put one foot in front of the other and keep going. Put blinders on and plow right ahead.โ€ – George Lucas
  38. โ€œFairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.โ€ โ€• Neil Gaiman
  39. โ€œMy strength is as the strength of ten, because my heart is pure.โ€ โ€” Alfred Lord Tennyson
  40. โ€œOur ability to destroy ourselves is the mirror image of our ability to save ourselves.โ€ โ€”Terence McKenna
  41. โ€œTo accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe.โ€ โ€“ Anatole France
  42. โ€œHe who has a why to live can bear almost any how.โ€ -Friedrich Nietzsche
  43. โ€œIf we have the attitude that itโ€™s going to be a great day, it usually is.โ€ โ€“ Catherine Pulsifer
  44. โ€œIf something is important enough, even if the odds are stacked against you, you should still do it.โ€ โ€• Elon Musk
  45. “If cauliflower can somehow become pizzaโ€ฆthen you, my friend, can accomplish anything.โ€
  46. โ€œShe wears strength and darkness equally well, the girl has always been half goddess, half hellโ€ โ€•Nikita Gill
  47. โ€œThe best way to make your dreams come true is to wake up.โ€ โ€“ Paul Valery
  48. โ€œWhen life knocks you down, try to land on your back. Because if you can look up, you can get up.โ€ -Les Brown
  49. โ€œYou can’t just sit there and wait for people to give you that golden dream. You’ve got to get out there and make it happen for yourself.โ€ โ€“ Diana Ross
  50. โ€œYouโ€™ve got to get up every morning with determination if youโ€™re going to go to bed with satisfaction.โ€ โ€• George Horace Lorimer
  51. โ€œThe only thing I know is this: I am full of wounds and still standing on my feet.โ€ โ€• Nikos Kazantzakis
  52. โ€œEveryone has inside them a piece of good news. The good news is you donโ€™t know how great you can be! How much you can love! What you can accomplish! And what your potential is.โ€ โ€”Anne Frank
  53. โ€œSo many of our dreams at first seem impossible, then they seem improbable, and then, when we summon the will, they soon become inevitable.โ€ โ€“ Christopher Reeve
  54. โ€œFear, to a great extent, is born of a story we tell ourselves, and so I chose to tell myself a different story from the one women are told. I decided I was safe. I was strong. I was brave. Nothing could vanquish me.โ€ โ€“ Cheryl Strayed
  55. โ€œIโ€™ve found that luck is quite predictable. If you want more luck, take more chances. Be more active. Show up more often.โ€ โ€• Brian Tracy
  56. โ€œThe first step to getting what you want is to have the courage to get rid of what you donโ€™t.โ€ โ€” Zig Ziglar
  57. โ€œIt was character that got us out of bed, commitment that moved us into action, and discipline that enabled us to follow through.โ€ โ€”Zig Ziglar
  58. โ€œA man is not old until regrets take the place of dreams.โ€ โ€“ John Barrymore
  59. โ€œIf you believe itโ€™ll work out, youโ€™ll see opportunities. If you donโ€™t believe itโ€™ll work out, youโ€™ll see obstacles.โ€ – Wayne Dyer
  60. โ€œRemember no matter how fast you run, you canโ€™t be the winner if you donโ€™t finish.โ€ โ€• Israelmore Ayivor
  61. โ€œBeginning in itself has no value, it is an end which makes beginning meaningful, we must end what we begun.โ€ โ€• Amit Kalantri
  62. โ€œThe season of failure is the best time for sowing the seeds of success.โ€ โ€• Paramahansa Yogananda
  63. โ€œYou must tell yourself, โ€˜no matter how hard it is, or how hard it gets, Iโ€™m going to make it.โ€ โ€“ Les Brown
  64. โ€œThe struggle youโ€™re in today is developing the strength you need for tomorrow. Donโ€™t give up.โ€ โ€• Robert Tew
  65. โ€œStrivers achieve what dreamers believe.โ€ โ€“ Usher
  66. โ€œThere is a direct correlation between an increased sphere of comfort and getting what you want.โ€ โ€“ Tim Ferriss
  67. โ€œBelieve in yourself, take on your challenges, dig deep within yourself to conquer fears. Never let anyone bring you down. You gotta keep going.โ€ โ€• Chantal Sutherland
  68. โ€œAs long as you keep going, youโ€™ll keep getting better. And as you get better, you gain more confidence. That alone is success.โ€ โ€“ Tamara Taylor
  69. โ€œDreams can still come true; you need a great deal of energy and determination, and a little bit of luck.โ€ โ€“ Stefano Gabbana
  70. โ€œYouโ€™ve gotta dance like thereโ€™s nobody watching, love like youโ€™ll never be hurt, sing like thereโ€™s nobody listening, and live like itโ€™s heaven on earth.โ€ โ€“ William W. Purkey
  71. โ€œNote to self: You gotta do this for you. This is for you. This isnโ€™t about anybody. Live for you. Honor you. Never lose sight of that.โ€ โ€• The Random Vibez
  72. โ€œSometimes the strength within you is not a fiery flame that all can see, it is just a tiny spark that whispers softly, โ€œYou got thisโ€, โ€œKeep goingโ€.โ€
  73. โ€œNever give up on something that you canโ€™t go a day without thinking about.โ€ โ€“ Winston Churchill
  74. โ€œYou are a work in progress. Give yourself the space and grace for improvements.โ€ โ€“ Germany Kent
  75. โ€œWork like there is someone working twenty-four hours a day to take it away from you.โ€ โ€“ Mark Cuban
  76. โ€œYou canโ€™t just sit there and wait for people to give you that golden dream. Youโ€™ve got to get out there and make it happen for yourself.โ€ โ€• Diana Ross
  77. โ€œEverything you want is out there waiting for you to ask. Everything you want also wants you. But you have to take action to get it.โ€ โ€” Jules Renard
  78. โ€œYou make mistakes. Mistakes donโ€™t make you.โ€ โ€“ Maxwell Maltz
  79. โ€œMistakes are a fact of life. It is the response to the error that counts.โ€ โ€“ Nikki Giovanni
  80. โ€œI will love the light for it shows me the way, yet I will endure the darkness because it shows me the stars.โ€ – Og Mandino
  81. โ€œPeople who wonder if the glass is half empty or half full are missing the point. The point is that the glass is refillable.โ€ – Simon Sinek
  82. โ€œThe biggest adventure you can take is to live the life of your dreams.โ€ โ€“ Oprah Winfrey
  83. โ€œIโ€™ve missed more than 9,000 shots in my career. Iโ€™ve lost almost 300 games. 26 times Iโ€™ve been trusted to take the game-winning shot and missed. Iโ€™ve failed over and over and over again in my life and that is why I succeed.โ€ โ€“ Michael Jordan
  84. โ€œCourage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear.โ€ โ€“ Mark Twain
  85. โ€œDo what you feel in your heart to be right, for youโ€™ll be criticized anyway.โ€ – Eleanor Roosevelt
  86. โ€œLove many things, for therein lies the true strength, and whosoever loves much performs much and can accomplish much, and what is done in love is done well.โ€ โ€“ Vincent Van Gogh
  87. โ€œIn the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.โ€ – Albert Einstein
  88. โ€œWhat we fear doing most is usually what we most need to do.โ€ โ€” Ralph Waldo Emerson
  89. โ€œMany of lifeโ€™s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.โ€ โ€” Thomas Edison
  90. โ€œEveryone has inside them a piece of good news. The good news is you donโ€™t know how great you can be! How much you can love! What you can accomplish! And what your potential is.โ€ โ€“ Anne Frank
  91. โ€œIn the midst of winter, I found there was, within me, an invincible summer. And that makes me happy. For it says that no matter how hard the world pushes against me, within me, thereโ€™s something stronger โ€“ something better, pushing right back.โ€ โ€“ Albert Camus
  92. โ€œCourage is not having the strength to go on, it is going on when you donโ€™t have the strength.โ€ – Theodore Roosevelt
  93. โ€œAll our dreams can come true if we have the courage to pursue them.โ€ โ€“ Walt Disney
  94. โ€œI always did something I was a little not ready to do. I think thatโ€™s how you grow. When thereโ€™s that moment of, โ€˜Wow, Iโ€™m not really sure I can do this,โ€™ and you push through those moments, thatโ€™s when you have a breakthrough.โ€ – Marissa Mayer
  95. โ€œLife is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Donโ€™t resist them โ€“ that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.โ€ – Lao Tzu
  96. โ€œEvery great dream begins with a dreamer. Always remember, you have within you the strength, the patience, and the passion to reach for the stars to change the world.โ€ โ€“ Harriet Tubman
  97. โ€œOnly put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone.โ€ โ€“ Pablo Picasso
  98. โ€œI have not failed. Iโ€™ve just found 10,000 ways that wonโ€™t work.โ€ โ€“ Thomas A. Edison
  99. โ€œItโ€™s hard to beat a person who never gives up.โ€ – Babe Ruth
  100. โ€œItโ€™s not the load that breaks you down, itโ€™s the way you carry it.โ€ – Lou Holtz
  101. โ€œI now tried a new hypothesis. It was possible that I was more in charge of my happiness than I was allowing myself to be.โ€ – Michelle Obama
  102. โ€œDo not fear mistakes. You will know failure. Continue to reach out.โ€ โ€“ Benjamin Franklin
  103. โ€œLife is very interestingโ€ฆ in the end, some of your greatest pains, become your greatest strengths.โ€ โ€“ Drew Barrymore
  104. โ€œWhatโ€™s done is done. Whatโ€™s gone is gone. One of lifeโ€™s lessons is always moving on. Itโ€™s okay to look back to see how far youโ€™ve come but keep moving forward.โ€ – Roy T. Bennett
  105. โ€œWhat seems to us as bitter trials are often blessings in disguise.โ€ โ€“ Oscar Wilde

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