Quotations about Perseverance

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Related themes: Adversity, Courage, Endeavor, Failure, Hope, Optimism and Pessimism, Sacrifice, Success

Alfred Pennyworth: Took quite a fall, didn't we, Master Bruce?
Thomas Wayne: And why do we fall? So we can learn to pick ourselves up.
Movies > Batman Begins
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Kyle Reese: Listen, and understand. That terminator is out there. It can't be bargained with. It can't be reasoned with. It doesn't feel pity, or remorse, or fear. And it absolutely will not stop, ever, until you are dead.
Movies > The Terminator
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Kane: You're right, I did lose a million dollars last year. I expect to lose a million dollars this year. I expect to lose a million dollars next year. You know, Mr. Thatcher, at the rate of a million dollars a year, I'll have to close this place in... 60 years.
Movies > Citizen Kane
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Count Rugen: Good heavens, are you still trying to win? You've got an overdeveloped sense of vengeance, that's going to get you in trouble someday.
Movies > The Princess Bride
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Despondency is not a state of humility. On the contrary, it is the vexation and despair of a cowardly pride; nothing is worse. Whether we stumble, or whether we fall, we must only think of rising again and going on in our course.
Literature > Francis de Fenelon
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Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful people with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. The slogan 'press on' has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race.
Personalities > Calvin Coolidge
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Nothing to fear in God. Nothing to feel in Death. Good can be obtained. Evil can be endured.
Literature > Epicurus
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If the wind will not serve, take to the oars.
Latin Proverb
Miscellaneous > Proverbs
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Mal: Think she'll hold together?
Zoe: She's tore up plenty, but she'll fly true.
Movies > Serenity
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Scarlett: As God is my witness, as God is my witness they're not going to lick me. I'm going to live through this and when it's all over, I'll never be hungry again. No, nor any of my folk. If I have to lie, steal, cheat or kill. As God is my witness, I'll never be hungry again.
Movies > Gone with the Wind
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Gandalf: Fight. Fight to the last man. Fight for your lives.
Movies > The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
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Taggart: Never give up! Never surrender!
Movies > Galaxy Quest
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You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it.
Personalities > Margaret Thatcher
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Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.
Personalities > Winston Churchill
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Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.
Personalities > Confucius
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When you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on.
Attributed.
Personalities > Franklin Delano Roosevelt
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