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. “Pour yourself a drink, put on some lipstick, and pull yourself together.” ―Elizabeth Taylor
  2. “I’ve never met a strong person with an easy past.” — Atticus
  3. “Listen to me, you’ve got this. Seriously, you’ve got this.” ― Scott Stabile
  4. “Whether you think you can, or you think you can’t – you’re right.” ― Henry Ford
  5. “Go for it now. The future is promised to no one.” —Wayne Dyer
  6. “Survival can be summed up in three words―never give up. That’s the heart of it really. Just keep trying.” – Bear Grylls
  7. “No matter what, people grow. If you chose not to grow, you’re staying in a small box with a small mindset. People who win go outside of that box. It’s very simple when you look at it.” – Kevin Hart
  8. “If you have a great idea, let nothing stop you from bringing it to life.” ― Pooja Agnihotri
  9. “Life is very interesting… in the end, some of your greatest pains, become your greatest strengths.” —Drew Barrymore
  10. “Perseverance is not a long race; it is many short races one after the other.” – Walter Elliot
  11. “Keep your face always toward the sunshine, and shadows will fall behind you.” – Walt Whitman
  12. “One small crack does not mean that you are broken, it means that you were put to the test and you didn’t fall apart.” – Linda Poindexter
  13. “The most effective way to do it, is to do it.” — Amelia Earhart
  14. “Every 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.” —Harriet Tubman
  15. “What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the master calls a butterfly.” – Richard Bach
  16. “Perseverance is failing 19 times and succeeding the 20th.” – 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.” – Denis Waitley
  18. “Behind every successful man, there’s a lot of unsuccessful years.” – Bob Brown
  19. “Life will try its hardest to pull you back to the toxic norm… But don’t give up on the person you’re becoming.” ― Steve Maraboli
  20. Find something that makes you happy and go for it.” — Zendaya
  21. “There is nothing with which every man is so afraid as getting to know how enormously much he is capable of doing and becoming.” ―Søren Kierkegaard
  22. “How long should you try? Until.” – Jim Rohn
  23. The same boiling water that softens the potato hardens the egg. It’s what you’re made of. Not the circumstances.” -Unknown
  24. “The great secret of getting what you want from life is knowing what you want and believing you can have it.” – Epictetus
  25. “Never allow a struggle to turn your sky into a ceiling. You must believe there’s always a way.” ― Kristen Butler
  26. “Just because it’s hard doesn’t mean it’s impossible. You got this.”
  27. “The struggle you’re in today is developing the strength you need for tomorrow. Don’t give up.” ―Robert Tew
  28. “It’s always too soon to quit.” – Norman Vincent Peale
  29. “The real man smiles in trouble, gathers strength from distress, and grows brave by reflection.” – Thomas Paine.
  30. “Never give up on something that you can’t go a day without thinking about.” ― Winston Churchill
  31. “Don’t give up, the beginning are always the hardest. You got this.”
  32. “You got to go down a lot of wrong roads to find the right one.” – Bob Parsons
  33. “If you cannot do great things, do small things in a great way.” – Napoleon Hill
  34. “If you want to do something, go for it—you’ve got nothing to lose.” — Louis Tomlinson
  35. “Nobody looks good in their darkest hour. But it’s those hours that make us what we are.” —Karen Marie Moning
  36. “Don’t give up before the miracle happens.” – Fannie Flagg
  37. “You simply have to put one foot in front of the other and keep going. Put blinders on and plow right ahead.” – George Lucas
  38. “Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.” ― Neil Gaiman
  39. “My strength is as the strength of ten, because my heart is pure.” — Alfred Lord Tennyson
  40. “Our ability to destroy ourselves is the mirror image of our ability to save ourselves.” —Terence McKenna
  41. “To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe.” – Anatole France
  42. “He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.” -Friedrich Nietzsche
  43. “If we have the attitude that it’s going to be a great day, it usually is.” – Catherine Pulsifer
  44. “If something is important enough, even if the odds are stacked against you, you should still do it.” ― Elon Musk
  45. “If cauliflower can somehow become pizza…then you, my friend, can accomplish anything.”
  46. “She wears strength and darkness equally well, the girl has always been half goddess, half hell” ―Nikita Gill
  47. “The best way to make your dreams come true is to wake up.” – Paul Valery
  48. “When life knocks you down, try to land on your back. Because if you can look up, you can get up.” -Les Brown
  49. “You 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.” – Diana Ross
  50. “You’ve got to get up every morning with determination if you’re going to go to bed with satisfaction.” ― George Horace Lorimer
  51. “The only thing I know is this: I am full of wounds and still standing on my feet.” ― Nikos Kazantzakis
  52. “Everyone has inside them a piece of good news. The good news is you don’t know how great you can be! How much you can love! What you can accomplish! And what your potential is.” —Anne Frank
  53. “So many of our dreams at first seem impossible, then they seem improbable, and then, when we summon the will, they soon become inevitable.” – Christopher Reeve
  54. “Fear, 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.” – Cheryl Strayed
  55. “I’ve found that luck is quite predictable. If you want more luck, take more chances. Be more active. Show up more often.” ― Brian Tracy
  56. “The first step to getting what you want is to have the courage to get rid of what you don’t.” — Zig Ziglar
  57. “It was character that got us out of bed, commitment that moved us into action, and discipline that enabled us to follow through.” —Zig Ziglar
  58. “A man is not old until regrets take the place of dreams.” – John Barrymore
  59. “If you believe it’ll work out, you’ll see opportunities. If you don’t believe it’ll work out, you’ll see obstacles.” – Wayne Dyer
  60. “Remember no matter how fast you run, you can’t be the winner if you don’t finish.” ― Israelmore Ayivor
  61. “Beginning in itself has no value, it is an end which makes beginning meaningful, we must end what we begun.” ― Amit Kalantri
  62. “The season of failure is the best time for sowing the seeds of success.” ― Paramahansa Yogananda
  63. “You must tell yourself, ‘no matter how hard it is, or how hard it gets, I’m going to make it.” – Les Brown
  64. “The struggle you’re in today is developing the strength you need for tomorrow. Don’t give up.” ― Robert Tew
  65. “Strivers achieve what dreamers believe.” – Usher
  66. “There is a direct correlation between an increased sphere of comfort and getting what you want.” – Tim Ferriss
  67. “Believe in yourself, take on your challenges, dig deep within yourself to conquer fears. Never let anyone bring you down. You gotta keep going.” ― Chantal Sutherland
  68. “As long as you keep going, you’ll keep getting better. And as you get better, you gain more confidence. That alone is success.” – Tamara Taylor
  69. “Dreams can still come true; you need a great deal of energy and determination, and a little bit of luck.” – Stefano Gabbana
  70. “You’ve gotta dance like there’s nobody watching, love like you’ll never be hurt, sing like there’s nobody listening, and live like it’s heaven on earth.” – William W. Purkey
  71. “Note to self: You gotta do this for you. This is for you. This isn’t about anybody. Live for you. Honor you. Never lose sight of that.” ― The Random Vibez
  72. “Sometimes the strength within you is not a fiery flame that all can see, it is just a tiny spark that whispers softly, “You got this”, “Keep going”.”
  73. “Never give up on something that you can’t go a day without thinking about.” – Winston Churchill
  74. “You are a work in progress. Give yourself the space and grace for improvements.” – Germany Kent
  75. “Work like there is someone working twenty-four hours a day to take it away from you.” – Mark Cuban
  76. “You 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.” ― Diana Ross
  77. “Everything 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.” — Jules Renard
  78. “You make mistakes. Mistakes don’t make you.” – Maxwell Maltz
  79. “Mistakes are a fact of life. It is the response to the error that counts.” – Nikki Giovanni
  80. “I will love the light for it shows me the way, yet I will endure the darkness because it shows me the stars.” – Og Mandino
  81. “People who wonder if the glass is half empty or half full are missing the point. The point is that the glass is refillable.” – Simon Sinek
  82. “The biggest adventure you can take is to live the life of your dreams.” – Oprah Winfrey
  83. “I’ve missed more than 9,000 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
  84. “Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear.” – Mark Twain
  85. “Do what you feel in your heart to be right, for you’ll be criticized anyway.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
  86. “Love 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.” – Vincent Van Gogh
  87. “In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.” – Albert Einstein
  88. “What we fear doing most is usually what we most need to do.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson
  89. “Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.” — Thomas Edison
  90. “Everyone has inside them a piece of good news. The good news is you don’t know how great you can be! How much you can love! What you can accomplish! And what your potential is.” – Anne Frank
  91. “In 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, there’s something stronger – something better, pushing right back.” – Albert Camus
  92. “Courage is not having the strength to go on, it is going on when you don’t have the strength.” – Theodore Roosevelt
  93. “All our dreams can come true if we have the courage to pursue them.” – Walt Disney
  94. “I always did something I was a little not ready to do. I think that’s how you grow. When there’s that moment of, ‘Wow, I’m not really sure I can do this,’ and you push through those moments, that’s when you have a breakthrough.” – Marissa Mayer
  95. “Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don’t resist them – that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.” – Lao Tzu
  96. “Every 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.” – Harriet Tubman
  97. “Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone.” – Pablo Picasso
  98. “I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.” – Thomas A. Edison
  99. “It’s hard to beat a person who never gives up.” – Babe Ruth
  100. “It’s not the load that breaks you down, it’s the way you carry it.” – Lou Holtz
  101. “I now tried a new hypothesis. It was possible that I was more in charge of my happiness than I was allowing myself to be.” – Michelle Obama
  102. “Do not fear mistakes. You will know failure. Continue to reach out.” – Benjamin Franklin
  103. “Life is very interesting… in the end, some of your greatest pains, become your greatest strengths.” – Drew Barrymore
  104. “What’s done is done. What’s gone is gone. One of life’s lessons is always moving on. It’s okay to look back to see how far you’ve come but keep moving forward.” – Roy T. Bennett
  105. “What seems to us as bitter trials are often blessings in disguise.” – Oscar Wilde

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