Quotes About Perseverance

There is no limit to the ingenuity of man if it is properly and vigorously applied under conditions of peace and justice.

Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm.

Man will occasionally stumble over the truth, but most times he will pick himself up and carry on.

Victory at all costs, victory in spite of all terror, victory however long and hard the road may be; for without victory there is no survival.

Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry on as if nothing had happened.

Everyone has his day and some days last longer than others.

Sure I am of this, that you have only to endure to conquer.

Americans always try to do the right thing after they've tried everything else.

For each and for all, as for the Royal Navy, the watchword should be, "Carry on, and dread nought."

We shall not fail or falter; we shall not weaken or tire. Neither the sudden shock of battle, nor the long-drawn trials of vigilance and exertion will wear us down. Give us the tools and we will finish the job.

The nose of the bulldog has been slanted backwards so that he can breathe without letting go.

We shall draw from the heart of suffering itself the means of inspiration and survival.

We shall not flag nor fail. We shall go on to the end.

We have not journeyed all this way across the centuries, across the oceans, across the mountains, across the prairies, because we are made of sugar candy.

What kind of people do they [the Japanese] think we are? Is it possible they do not realize that we shall never cease to persevere against them until they have been taught a lesson which they and the world will never forget?

We shall defend every village, every town and every city. The vast mass of London itself, fought street by street, could easily devour an entire hostile army; and we would rather see London laid in ruins and ashes than that it should be tamely and abjectly enslaved.

The late M. Venizelos observed that in all her wars England—he should have said Britain, of course—always wins one battle—the last.

Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing ever happened.

This is no time for ease and comfort. It is time to dare and endure.

It is no use saying, 'We are doing our best.' You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary.

Let us… brace ourselves to our duties, and so bear ourselves that if the British Empire and its Commonwealth last for a thousand years, men will still say: "This was their finest hour."

Man will occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of the time he will pick himself up and continue on.

No crime is so great as daring to excel.

When I warned [the French] that Britain would fight on alone whatever they did, their generals told their prime minister and his divided cabinet, "In three weeks England will have her neck wrung like a chicken." Some chicken; some neck.