Quotes About Perseverance

I have watched this famous island descending incontinently, fecklessly, the stairway which leads to a dark gulf.

You will make all kinds of mistakes; but as long as you are generous and true, and also fierce, you cannot hurt the world or even seriously distress her. She was made to be wooed and won by youth.

Although prepared for martyrdom, I preferred that it be postponed.

For myself I am an optimist--it does not seem to be much use being anything else.

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

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

Men stumble over the truth from time to time, but most pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing happened.

Never give in, never give in, never, never, never, never -- in nothing, great or small, large or petty -- never give in except to convictions of honor and good sense.

One ought never to turn one's back on a threatened danger and try to run away from it. If you do that, you will double the danger. But if you meet it promptly and without flinching, you will reduce the danger by half.

Success is the ability to go from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm.

The heights of great men reached and kept, Were not attained by sudden flight, But they, while their companions slept, Were toiling upwards in the night.

The maxim of the British people is 'Business as Usual.'

We shall not flag or fail. We shall go on to the end. We shall fight in France, we shall fight on the seas and the oceans, we shall fight with growing confidence and growing strength in the air, we shall defend our island, whatever the cost may be. We shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills we shall never surrender.

We will have no truce or parlay with you Hitler, or the grisly gang who work your wicked will. You do your worst -- and we will do our best.

Never give in. Never give in. Never, never, never, never—in nothing, great or small, large or petty—never give in, except to convictions of honour and good sense. Never yield to force. Never yield to the apparently overwhelming might of the enemy.

When you feel there is an unfair burden on your shoulders, that's just the way it is sometimes.

Let me say this: bein a idiot is no box of chocolates. People laugh, lose patience, treat you shabby.

The fact that I were too dumb to play college football did not seem to impress the United States Army none.

Well, maybe it works for you, Forrest. I thought it was working for me too - but look at me. Just look at me," he say. "What good am I? I'm a goddamn legless freak. A bum. A drunkard. A thirty-five-year-old vagrant." "It could be worse," I says.

In life's steeplechases, one must always jump the fences when they come.

Sometimes, I guess there just arn't enough rocks

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

Success is stumbling from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm.

Never, never, never give in!