44 Movie Quotes about Perseverance (Sound Clips) - page 2

Last updated on: September 1, 2025

Memorable quotes about perseverance, selected from famous or less known movies and other sources by Movie-Sounds.org's visitors, accompanied by short mp3 and wav audio samples.

11 If at first you don't succeed, try, try again.

Bob Newhart as Bernard in The Rescuers (1977)

12 And you've gotta fight! That's life. And when you stop fightin', that's death.

John Wayne as Breck Coleman in The Big Trail (1930)

13 Look, friend, it's like riding a bike. You fall off, you get right back on. You mess up a date, do it again!

Mike Damone in Fast Times at Ridgemont High

14 Once a pawn has crossed the line, he has to stay. There's no way back.

Quote from Mystery of Chess Boxing

15 You tried. That's the true measure of a man. Whether you win or lose, to try.

Adam West as Batman in Batman (1966)

16 And believe me, these wonderful kids deserve your cheers, because each one of them is fighting down pain, exhaustion, weariness, struggling to keep going, battling to win, and isn't that the American way?

Gig Young as Rocky Gravo in They Shoot Horses, Don't They?

17 It's hard on all of us, after we've lived all these hours and weeks together, to see one of these wonderful, courageous kids fall out. But life goes on, and so does the marathon!

Gig Young as Rocky Gravo in They Shoot Horses, Don't They?

18 Yes, I understand. Truly. But don't you see? It's a matter of principle. If we give in now, there'll be no end to it. No.

Alec Guinness as Colonel Nicholson in The Bridge on the River Kwai

19 You want to keep running until your legs are pained. Until you're going to die, you're going to fall out. You've got to run until your stomach feels like it's going to burst. Until your heart starts pounding.

Muhammad Ali in The Greatest (1977)

20 You want to quit. It feels like you can't go another inch. You can't go another step, but you keep going. What kind of man is that? You should just go until you want to fall out in your tracks. And then after that, you've only got about halfway through...