Quotes tagged ‘Persistence’

“When Yi sets her mind on something, nothing is impossible.”

— Jill Culton, Jin (voice), Tenzing Norgay Trainor, imdb.com

“Ping: Was this your dad’s violin? Yi: My dad used to play for me every night, and like he was telling me that no matter how hard the journey gets, never give up.”

— Jill Culton, Yi (voice), Chloe Bennet, imdb.com

“How many times did Senator Kennedy look to advance health care? So, you know, ultimately the, the victory, sometimes the the victory is in the fight.”

— Ayanna Pressley, cbsnews.com

“I tried to make the others in the group join me...but no one was really interested. So then I decided I was going to do it alone. And even if no one was joining me, I was going to do it.”

— Greta Thunberg, ft.com

“You’ll get knocked down over and over and over again, and you get back up.”

— Elizabeth Holmes, forbes.com

“Grit, persistence, adaptability, financial literacy, interview skills, human relationships, conversation, communication, managing technology, navigating conflicts, preparing healthy food, physical fitness, resilience, self-regulation, time management, basic psychology and mental health practices, ar…”

— Andrew Yang, amazon.com

“At the end of the day, we can endure much more than we think we can.”

— Clancy Sigal, Diane Lake, Gregory Nava, Anna Thomas, Frida Kahlo, Salma Hayek, imdb.com

“Melina: I didn't think it would end like this. James Bond: We're not dead yet. Hold tight.”

— Richard Maibaum, Michael G. Wilson, James Bond, Roger Moore, imdb.com

“I broke you. How have you come back?”

— Jonathan Nolan, Christopher Nolan, Bane, Tom Hardy, imdb.com

“I don't know what he can do to save us. But I do know that as long as there is a single breath left in his body he will not give up and neither can we.”

— Lilly Wachowski, Lana Wachowski, Morpheus, Laurence Fishburne, imdb.com

“Agent Smith: Why, Mr. Anderson? Why, why? Why do you do it? Why, why get up? Why keep fighting? Do you believe you're fighting... for something? For more than your survival? Can you tell me what it is? Do you even know? Is it freedom? Or truth? Perhaps peace? Could it be for love? Illusions, Mr. And…”

— Lilly Wachowski, Lana Wachowski, Agent Smith, Hugo Weaving, imdb.com

“As long as you can still grab a breath, you fight. You breathe…keep breathing.”

— Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu, Mark L. Smith, Hugh Glass, Leonardo Dicaprio, imdb.com

“Never lose hope, be persistent and stubborn and never give up. There are many instances in history where apparent losers suddenly turn out to be winners unexpectedly, so you should never conclude all hope is lost.”

— Ted Kaczynski, web.archive.org

“Maybe I am a mess. Maybe I’m crazy. Maybe I’m out of my mind! But, God help me, I will keep these lights up until the day I die if I think there’s a chance that Will’s still out there!”

— Matt Duffer, Ross Duffer, Joyce Byers, Winona Ryder, imdb.com

“You don’t get tired of surviving. You just push on. You got to.”

— Alan Page, Alicia Clark, Alycia Debnam Carey, imdb.com

“You don't get to run. You're a gladiator. Gladiators don't run. They fight. They slay dragons. The wipe off the blood. They stitch up their wounds, and they live to fight another day. You don't get to run.”

— Chris Van Dusen, Shonda Rhimes, Raamla Mohamed, Abby Whelan, Darby Stanchfield, imdb.com

“That day, for no particular reason, I decided to go for a little run. So I ran to the end of the road. And when I got there, I thought maybe I'd run to the end of town. And when I got there, I thought maybe I'd just run across Greenbow County. And I figured, since I run this far, maybe I'd just run…”

— Winston Groom, Charlie Peters, Eric Roth, Ernest Thompson, Forrest Gump, Tom Hanks, amazon.com

“Americans never quit.”

— Douglas Macarthur, en.wikiquote.org

“Listen, does your boy know how to work? Try to teach him to work, to sacrifice, to fight. He better learn now, because he’s going to have to do it some day. Lloyd Hale was a sophomore on that first team we took to Junction, and he asked me one time what I meant by 'fight.' Well, I don’t mean fistfig…”

— Bear Bryant, amazon.com

“Step by step walk the thousand-mile road.”

— Miyamoto Musashi, amazon.com