Perseverance quotes

“The world only makes sense if you force it to.”
Ben Affleck - Batman

“- Head Illinois State Trooper: I don't want to tell you how to do your job...
- Samuel Gerard: Put the helicopter on the bridge!
- Head Illinois State Trooper: But only one man in a million can survive that fall. The guy is fish food.
- Samuel Gerard: Fine. Go get a cane pole, catch the fish that ate him.”

Danny Goldring - Head Illinois State Trooper
Tommy Lee Jones - Samuel Gerard

“Dreams die hard and you hold them in your hands long after they've turned to dust.”
Dennis Quaid - Bowen

“Work hard, believe in your dreams, follow your dreams, don't give up, don't let failures hold you back.”
Kevin Sorbo

“- C. K. Dexter Haven: How in the world could you even think of it?
- Tracy Lord: Because he is everything you're not. He's been poor. He's had to work and he's had to fight for everything. And I love him, as I never even began to love you.”

Cary Grant - C. K. Dexter Haven
Katharine Hepburn - Tracy Lord

“- Comrade Chin: I'm not convinced that this will be enough to redeem you in the eyes of the Party.
- Song Liling: I'm trying my best to become somebody else.”

Shizuko Hoshi - Comrade Chin
John Lone - Song Liling

“- Steven Freeman: I've got to get out of here, got to protect them.
- Creighton Duke: The only way to do that is to kill Jason, and you can't, but Jessica can. Tell Jessica about her birthright. Make her believe you. Go to the Voorhees' house. Find proof. Because if you don't, Jason will kill her. And your baby.”
John D. LeMay - Steven Freeman
Steven Williams - Creighton Duke

“With a little study you'll go a long ways, and I wish you'd start now.”
Groucho Marx - Groucho

“- Wilma Cameron: Why can't you ever understand the way things really are, the way I really feel? I keep trying to tell you.
- Homer Parrish: You don't know what it'd be like to have to live with me. To have to face this every day, every night.
- Wilma Cameron: But I can only find out by trying.”
Cathy O'Donnell - Wilma Cameron
Harold Russell - Homer Parrish

“Two little mice fell in a bucket of cream. The first mouse quickly gave up and drowned. The second mouse, wouldn't quit. He struggled so hard that eventually he churned that cream into butter and crawled out. Gentlemen, as of this moment, I am that second mouse.”
Christopher Walken - Frank Abagnale

“Just by trying out today, you're already a winner.”

Bree Turner - Tina

“Tell me, when you grew up in Brooklyn, how many astronauts did you know? You went your own way then. You didn't listen to people. So why start now?”

Kerry Washington - Alicia Masters

“- Ellie: I don't know very much about him, except that I love him.
- Andrews: Well, if it's as serious as all that, we'll move Heaven and Earth to...
- Ellie: No, it's no use! He despises me.”

Claudette Colbert - Ellie
Walter Connolly - Andrews

“What I believe, is that good thinks come to those who work their asses off. And that people who reached the top of the mountain didn't just fall there.”
Jake Gyllenhaal - Lou Bloom

“- Biggs: Sam, are you out of your mind? He's dead.
- Samuel Gerard: That ought to make him easier to catch.”

Daniel Roebuck - Biggs
Tommy Lee Jones - Samuel Gerard

“- Dr. Julian Bailes: You have to keep going.
- Dr. Bennet Omalu: In order for me to keep going more have to die.
- Dr. Julian Bailes: Unfortunately, that’s already happening.”
Alec Baldwin - Dr. Julian Bailes
Will Smith - Dr. Bennet Omalu

“Convincing the world fairly to consider a new idea takes patience, perseverance, and a willingness to fight the good fight in any media forum one can find.”
Peter O'Toole - Dr. Timothy Flyte

“Never give up. You only get one life. Go for it!”
Richard R. Grant

“Nobody tells you that you’ll be up all night and be doing the scene over and over again until you get it right.”
Miguel Sandoval

“You have such perseverance, Bertie. You're the bravest man I know. You'll make a bloody good king.”
Geoffrey Rush - Lionel Logue

“- The Operative: You're fighting a war you've already lost.
- Mal: Yeah, well, I'm known for that.”
Chiwetel Ejiofor - The Operative
Nathan Fillion - Mal

“- Bones Roosevelt: What ever happened with that thing about your wife?
- Dr. Richard Kimble: It's not over yet.”

John M. Watson Sr. - Bones Roosevelt
Harrison Ford - Dr. Richard Kimble

“I pray every day for the strength to not run them over with the truck.”

Kristin Chenoweth - Tia Hall

“My three Ps: passion, patience, perseverance. You have to do this if you've got to be a filmmaker.”
Robert Wise

“- Master Chief Billy Sunday: What the hell did he ever say to make you try so hard?
- Chief Carl Brashear: Be the best.
- Master Chief Billy Sunday: Well, you are.”

Robert De Niro - Master Chief Billy Sunday
Cuba Gooding Jr. - Chief Carl Brashear