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11 Important Quotes To Remember When You Feel Like Giving Up

Let these quotes be a way to lift you up and keep you going. Here's a reminder, you got this.

Lilly Waite

Apr 30, 2019

University of Dayton

11 Important Quotes To Remember When You Feel Like Giving Up

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"In the very moment you want to give up, give it all you got! You're on the brink of your breakthrough." -Aisha Martin

If you push through the tough times, good things will come. Be patient and keep going.

"Do not fear failure but rather fear not trying." -Roy T. Bennett

If we spent time worrying about failure, nothing is going to change. Rather, we should try our bests and work for the good outcomes.

"Rise and rise again, until the lambs become lions." -Robin Hood

Keep getting up and trying again, eventually your power will come.

"We are all broken, that's how the light gets in." -Ernest Hemingway

You are not alone. We all have issues and defeats, without them we would not all be unique individuals.

"Rock bottom became the solid foundation on which I rebuilt my life." -J.K. Rowling

Even at your lowest of lows, you can rise back up to the top.

"Everything is hard before it is easy." -Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

In order to sail smoothly through life, we must first navigate through the rocky patches.

"When you come to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on." -Franklin D. Roosevelt

There is always a way to keep hanging on, find the way and do it.

"Straight roads do not make skillful drivers." -Paula Coelho

Anything you can make it through, only makes you stronger and wiser.

"Change your thoughts and you change your world." -Norman Vincent Peale

If you adjust your mindset, everything can change.

"You can't give up! When you give up, you're like everyone else!" -Chris Evert

If you want to strive to be your unique self, giving up is not an option.

"Life is tough my darling, but so are you." -Stephanie Bennett Henry

The final and perhaps most well known quote, yet one of the most important. Life will continue to be tough, but if you are a fighter, you can do anything.

Keep these quotes on hand at all times, I promise they will come in handy at some point.

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11 Important Quotes To Remember When You Feel Like Giving Up

Let these quotes be a way to lift you up and keep you going. Here's a reminder, you got this.

In This Article:

"In the very moment you want to give up, give it all you got! You're on the brink of your breakthrough." -Aisha Martin

"Do not fear failure but rather fear not trying." -Roy T. Bennett

"Rise and rise again, until the lambs become lions." -Robin Hood

"We are all broken, that's how the light gets in." -Ernest Hemingway

"Rock bottom became the solid foundation on which I rebuilt my life." -J.K. Rowling

"Everything is hard before it is easy." -Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"When you come to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on." -Franklin D. Roosevelt

"Straight roads do not make skillful drivers." -Paula Coelho

"Change your thoughts and you change your world." -Norman Vincent Peale

"You can't give up! When you give up, you're like everyone else!" -Chris Evert

"Life is tough my darling, but so are you." -Stephanie Bennett Henry

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Your Schedule

The Library

Time Management

Registration

Housing

The Dining Hall

Teachers

Clubs

High School Friends

Finals

It's not all morning coffees and singing along to the radio.

You can't just go to your room to take a nap in the middle of your classes.

Having to spend all your extra cash on gas for your car.

Speaking of money, you probably don't have a meal plan so you're forced to scrounge up some change or mooch off of your friends.

It can be harder to maintain the friendships you make with people from class.

Finding a parking spot.

It can be harder to be involved on campus because between your one, two, or three jobs and school you don't have much free time.

When you try to be super involved on campus, it can kill your sleep schedule.

It's impossible to do homework at home, but staying on campus isn't an option sometimes.

There are surveys and events that you can't participate in because you're a commuter.

Group projects are the bane of your existence.

Traffic.

Your backpack rivals that of a survivalist trekking in the woods.

Driving all the way to campus to find a note on the door of your classroom saying class was cancelled.

Because have you ever had to endure grilling your foot on a George Foreman?

1. When he just wanted bacon from his George Foreman grill

2. When he had money (and Jan) issues

3. When he got upstaged at Phyllis' wedding

4. When he unintentionally saved Meredith from rabies

5. When he wore a "bisexual" suit

6. When he had to apologize to Jesus

7. When his GPS drove him into a lake

8. When he had to deal with Ryan as his boss

9. When he couldn't fulfill his most generous empty promise

10. When this happened

11. When he struggled with a X-Mas break up

12. When he had to defend his generosity

13. When he threw a classy Christmas party for Holly but she had a boyfriend

14. When he had to stand up to peer pressure

15. When Toby was "Toby-ish"

This isn't just for the single Pringles out there either, folks

Run Around Clanging Pots and Pans in Everyone's Face

Eat the Last Few Pigs in a Blanket

Pop Twelve White Grapes

Burn Something

Smash Things Against a Wall

Spontaneously Begin an Irish Jig

Call Your Mother

Throw a Coffee Table Out a Window

Sing "Auld Lang Syne" at the Top of Your Lungs

Do Some Squats

Swan Dive into a Nearly Freezing Body of Water

Take a Shot

Time to be merry and bright.

"First Noel" by Leslie Odom, Jr

"A Holly Jolly Christmas" by Burl Ives

"Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas" by Kelly Clarkson

"All I Want for Christmas Is You" by Mariah Carey

"Christmas (Baby Please Come Home" by Michael Buble

"Last Christmas" by Taylor Swift

"The Christmas Song" by Josh Groban

"White Christmas" by Idina Menzel

"O Holy Night" by David Archuleta

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