Perseverance quotes

“- Jimmy Dix: Looks like our evidence got blown up. I think we might have to get some more.
- Joe Hallenbeck: Just won't let go? You're like a dog with a frisbee.”
Damon Wayans - Jimmy Dix
Bruce Willis - Joe Hallenbeck

“They say Basques live by the vendetta. If they hate someone it's to the death. It's the same when they love.”

Diane Venora - Valentina Koslova

“Everyone will tell you to let it go and move on, but don't! Instead, let it fester and boil inside of you! Take these feelings and lock them away. Let them fuel your actions. Let hate be your ally, and you will be capable of wonderful, horrid things. Heed my words, Goob: don't let it go.”

Stephen J. Anderson - Bowler Hat Guy

“You can't fall down. You can't because your future's in it, my future and everything all of us have is staked on you.”

Warner Baxter - Julian Marsh

“Surrender? My poor army! Why I'd rather die a thousand deaths than to do that to them.”

Hobart Bosworth - General Lee

“I'm going to persist. I won't give up, even if it is too late. I don't think it is too late. It must not be too late.”
Liv Ullmann - Eva

“- Gaston: If I gave up every time I failed, I would have never invented the meatball cannon.
- Grandpa Bud: If I gave up every time I failed, I would never have invented my fireproof pants!”
Don Hall - Gaston
Stephen J. Anderson - Grandpa Bud

“- Basil of Baker Street: How could I have been so blind?
- Dr. David Q. Dawson: We all make mistakes, but we can't let that stop us. We have to.”

Barrie Ingham - Basil of Baker Street
Val Bettin - Dr. David Q. Dawson

“- Jimmy McGinty: You know what seperates the winners from the losers?
- Shane Falco: The score.
- Jimmy McGinty: No, getting back on the horse after getting kicked in the teeth.”
Gene Hackman - Jimmy McGinty
Keanu Reeves - Shane Falco

“I've spent 50 years in China. And there are times when I think we're just a lot of persistent ants, trying to move a great mountain.”
Emmett Corrigan - Bishop Harkness

“Three years ago I came to Florida without a nickel in my pocket. Now I've got a nickel in my pocket.”
Groucho Marx - Hammer

“No kid, giving up is for rookies. I came back because I'm not quitting on you. I'm willing to go the distance. How about you?”

Danny DeVito - Phil

“I'm a man who likes to follow through with his plans.”
Scott Mechlowicz - Marty Blank

“- Curly: How are we gonna get in pictures? We don't know nothing about making movies!
- Moe: There's a couple of thousand people in pictures now who know nothing about it. Three more won't make any difference.”
Curly Howard - Curly
Moe Howard - Moe

“- Victor Duncan: If you're trying to reach me, I'll just cut your hand off.
- Rick Latimer: I've got another one.”
Michael Wright - Victor Duncan
Jim Belushi - Rick Latimer

“- Esposito: We're dead!
- R.S.M. Sandy Young: Esposito, you're not dead until I tell you you're dead.”

Glyn Baker - Esposito
Jack Watson - R.S.M. Sandy Young

“If a thing is worth having, it's worth cheating for.”
W.C. Fields - Cuthbert J. Twillie

“The way to begin is to find it. To find something that belongs to us alone. Something to give us that pride in ourselves that'll make men endure - and, if necessary, die... with their boots on.”

Errol Flynn - George Armstrong Custer

“If a guy wants to be with a girl, he will make it happen, no matter what.”
Ginnifer Goodwin - Gigi

Walk on road, hm? Walk left side, safe. Walk right side, safe. Walk middle, sooner or later... [makes squish gesture] get squish just like grape. Here, karate, same thing. Either you karate do "yes" or karate do "no". You karate do "guess so".
Pat Morita - Miyagi

“- Dashiell 'Dash' Parr: Are we there yet?
- Mr. Incredible: We get there when we get there!”

Spencer Fox - Dashiell 'Dash' Parr
Craig T. Nelson - Mr. Incredible

“Go ahead, make a fool of yourself, then maybe you'll listen to your conscience.”

Cliff Edwards - Jiminy Cricket

“We've been in there dodging left hooks since before history began to walk. In our struggle for freedom, we've hit the canvas many a time, but we always bounced back because we're the people and we're tough.”

Gary Cooper - John Doe

“It's a very difficult surgical operation. Cut the heart out without killing the patient. The history of our country, however, is a very tough old patient, and we'll do the best we can.”
Philip Merivale - Professor Sorel

“Nobody hardly even remembers Medgar anymore - whites or blacks - and that's a goddamn shame. Cause whatever rights the black man has around here now, he has them because of something called civil rights movement. And for a long time in the state of Mississippi, back before the newspapers and television, back before the fancy speeches, my brother...” (continue)(continue reading)
Bill Cobbs - Charlie Evers