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!

- โPour yourself a drink, put on some lipstick, and pull yourself together.โ โElizabeth Taylor
- โIโve never met a strong person with an easy past.โ โ Atticus
- โListen to me, youโve got this. Seriously, youโve got this.โ โ Scott Stabile
- โWhether you think you can, or you think you can’t โ you’re right.โ โ Henry Ford
- โGo for it now. The future is promised to no one.โ โWayne Dyer
- โSurvival can be summed up in three wordsโnever give up. Thatโs the heart of it really. Just keep trying.โ โ Bear Grylls
- โNo matter what, people grow. If you chose not to grow, youโre staying in a small box with a small mindset. People who win go outside of that box. Itโs very simple when you look at it.โ โ Kevin Hart
- โIf you have a great idea, let nothing stop you from bringing it to life.โ โ Pooja Agnihotri
- โLife is very interesting… in the end, some of your greatest pains, become your greatest strengths.โ โDrew Barrymore
- โPerseverance is not a long race; it is many short races one after the other.โ โ Walter Elliot
- โKeep your face always toward the sunshine, and shadows will fall behind you.โ โ Walt Whitman
- โOne small crack does not mean that you are broken, it means that you were put to the test and you didnโt fall apart.โ โ Linda Poindexter
- โThe most effective way to do it, is to do it.โ โ Amelia Earhart
- โEvery 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 โHarriet Tubman
- โWhat the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the master calls a butterfly.โ – Richard Bach
- โPerseverance is failing 19 times and succeeding the 20th.โ โ Julie Andrews
- 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
- โBehind every successful man, thereโs a lot of unsuccessful years.โ โ Bob Brown
- โLife will try its hardest to pull you back to the toxic normโฆ But donโt give up on the person youโre becoming.โ โ Steve Maraboli
- Find something that makes you happy and go for it.โ โ Zendaya
- โThere is nothing with which every man is so afraid as getting to know how enormously much he is capable of doing and becoming.โ โSรธren Kierkegaard
- โHow long should you try? Until.โ โ Jim Rohn
- The same boiling water that softens the potato hardens the egg. Itโs what youโre made of. Not the circumstances.โ -Unknown
- โThe great secret of getting what you want from life is knowing what you want and believing you can have it.โ โ Epictetus
- โNever allow a struggle to turn your sky into a ceiling. You must believe there’s always a way.โ โ Kristen Butler
- โJust because itโs hard doesnโt mean itโs impossible. You got this.โ
- โThe struggle you’re in today is developing the strength you need for tomorrow. Don’t give up.โ โRobert Tew
- โItโs always too soon to quit.โ โ Norman Vincent Peale
- โThe real man smiles in trouble, gathers strength from distress, and grows brave by reflection.โ โ Thomas Paine.
- โNever give up on something that you canโt go a day without thinking about.โ โ Winston Churchill
- โDonโt give up, the beginning are always the hardest. You got this.โ
- โYou got to go down a lot of wrong roads to find the right one.โ โ Bob Parsons
- โIf you cannot do great things, do small things in a great way.โ – Napoleon Hill
- โIf you want to do something, go for itโyouโve got nothing to lose.โ โ Louis Tomlinson
- โNobody looks good in their darkest hour. But it’s those hours that make us what we are.โ โKaren Marie Moning
- โDonโt give up before the miracle happens.โ โ Fannie Flagg
- โYou simply have to put one foot in front of the other and keep going. Put blinders on and plow right ahead.โ – George Lucas
- โFairy 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
- โMy strength is as the strength of ten, because my heart is pure.โ โ Alfred Lord Tennyson
- โOur ability to destroy ourselves is the mirror image of our ability to save ourselves.โ โTerence McKenna
- โTo accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe.โ โ Anatole France
- โHe who has a why to live can bear almost any how.โ -Friedrich Nietzsche
- โIf we have the attitude that itโs going to be a great day, it usually is.โ โ Catherine Pulsifer
- โIf something is important enough, even if the odds are stacked against you, you should still do it.โ โ Elon Musk
- “If cauliflower can somehow become pizzaโฆthen you, my friend, can accomplish anything.โ
- โShe wears strength and darkness equally well, the girl has always been half goddess, half hellโ โNikita Gill
- โThe best way to make your dreams come true is to wake up.โ โ Paul Valery
- โWhen life knocks you down, try to land on your back. Because if you can look up, you can get up.โ -Les Brown
- โYou 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
- โYouโve got to get up every morning with determination if youโre going to go to bed with satisfaction.โ โ George Horace Lorimer
- โThe only thing I know is this: I am full of wounds and still standing on my feet.โ โ Nikos Kazantzakis
- โEveryone has inside them a piece of good news. The good news is you donโt know how great you can be! How much you can love! What you can accomplish! And what your potential is.โ โAnne Frank
- โSo 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
- โFear, 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
- โIโve 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
- โThe first step to getting what you want is to have the courage to get rid of what you donโt.โ โ Zig Ziglar
- โIt was character that got us out of bed, commitment that moved us into action, and discipline that enabled us to follow through.โ โZig Ziglar
- โA man is not old until regrets take the place of dreams.โ โ John Barrymore
- โIf you believe itโll work out, youโll see opportunities. If you donโt believe itโll work out, youโll see obstacles.โ – Wayne Dyer
- โRemember no matter how fast you run, you canโt be the winner if you donโt finish.โ โ Israelmore Ayivor
- โBeginning in itself has no value, it is an end which makes beginning meaningful, we must end what we begun.โ โ Amit Kalantri
- โThe season of failure is the best time for sowing the seeds of success.โ โ Paramahansa Yogananda
- โYou must tell yourself, โno matter how hard it is, or how hard it gets, Iโm going to make it.โ โ Les Brown
- โThe struggle youโre in today is developing the strength you need for tomorrow. Donโt give up.โ โ Robert Tew
- โStrivers achieve what dreamers believe.โ โ Usher
- โThere is a direct correlation between an increased sphere of comfort and getting what you want.โ โ Tim Ferriss
- โBelieve 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
- โAs long as you keep going, youโll keep getting better. And as you get better, you gain more confidence. That alone is success.โ โ Tamara Taylor
- โDreams can still come true; you need a great deal of energy and determination, and a little bit of luck.โ โ Stefano Gabbana
- โYouโve gotta dance like thereโs nobody watching, love like youโll never be hurt, sing like thereโs nobody listening, and live like itโs heaven on earth.โ โ William W. Purkey
- โNote to self: You gotta do this for you. This is for you. This isnโt about anybody. Live for you. Honor you. Never lose sight of that.โ โ The Random Vibez
- โSometimes the strength within you is not a fiery flame that all can see, it is just a tiny spark that whispers softly, โYou got thisโ, โKeep goingโ.โ
- โNever give up on something that you canโt go a day without thinking about.โ โ Winston Churchill
- โYou are a work in progress. Give yourself the space and grace for improvements.โ โ Germany Kent
- โWork like there is someone working twenty-four hours a day to take it away from you.โ โ Mark Cuban
- โYou canโt just sit there and wait for people to give you that golden dream. Youโve got to get out there and make it happen for yourself.โ โ Diana Ross
- โEverything 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
- โYou make mistakes. Mistakes donโt make you.โ โ Maxwell Maltz
- โMistakes are a fact of life. It is the response to the error that counts.โ โ Nikki Giovanni
- โI 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
- โPeople 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
- โThe biggest adventure you can take is to live the life of your dreams.โ โ Oprah Winfrey
- โIโve missed more than 9,000 shots in my career. Iโve lost almost 300 games. 26 times Iโve been trusted to take the game-winning shot and missed. Iโve failed over and over and over again in my life and that is why I succeed.โ โ Michael Jordan
- โCourage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear.โ โ Mark Twain
- โDo what you feel in your heart to be right, for youโll be criticized anyway.โ – Eleanor Roosevelt
- โLove 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
- โIn the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.โ – Albert Einstein
- โWhat we fear doing most is usually what we most need to do.โ โ Ralph Waldo Emerson
- โMany of lifeโs failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.โ โ Thomas Edison
- โEveryone has inside them a piece of good news. The good news is you donโt know how great you can be! How much you can love! What you can accomplish! And what your potential is.โ โ Anne Frank
- โIn 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, thereโs something stronger โ something better, pushing right back.โ โ Albert Camus
- โCourage is not having the strength to go on, it is going on when you donโt have the strength.โ – Theodore Roosevelt
- โAll our dreams can come true if we have the courage to pursue them.โ โ Walt Disney
- โI always did something I was a little not ready to do. I think thatโs how you grow. When thereโs that moment of, โWow, Iโm not really sure I can do this,โ and you push through those moments, thatโs when you have a breakthrough.โ – Marissa Mayer
- โLife is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Donโt resist them โ that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.โ – Lao Tzu
- โEvery 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
- โOnly put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone.โ โ Pablo Picasso
- โI have not failed. Iโve just found 10,000 ways that wonโt work.โ โ Thomas A. Edison
- โItโs hard to beat a person who never gives up.โ – Babe Ruth
- โItโs not the load that breaks you down, itโs the way you carry it.โ – Lou Holtz
- โI 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
- โDo not fear mistakes. You will know failure. Continue to reach out.โ โ Benjamin Franklin
- โLife is very interestingโฆ in the end, some of your greatest pains, become your greatest strengths.โ โ Drew Barrymore
- โWhatโs done is done. Whatโs gone is gone. One of lifeโs lessons is always moving on. Itโs okay to look back to see how far youโve come but keep moving forward.โ – Roy T. Bennett
- โWhat seems to us as bitter trials are often blessings in disguise.โ โ Oscar Wilde
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