53 Movie Quotes about Perseverance (+ Sound Clips) - page 4

Updated: Jan 11, 2026

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

31 Andy crawled to freedom through 500 yards of _-smelling foulness I can't even imagine. Or maybe I just don't want to.

Tim Robbins as Andy Dufresne in The Shawshank Redemption

32 The Whoop-de-Dooper Loop-de-Looper, Ali-Ooper Bounce! The more you try, the more you fly. And that's what really counts!

Jim Cummings as Roo; Jim Cummings as Tigger in The Tigger Movie (2000)

33 From that moment on, I was determined to invent something great.

Bill Hader as Flint Lockwood in Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs

34 It ain't just like running. It's something that needs endurance, something that needs stamina like long-distance running, cross-country running.

Sid Caesar in Grease (1978)

35 Listen to me, I won't blame you if you've made a mistake. No. Errare humanum est, perseverare diabolicum.

Peter Sellers as Auguste Topaze in Mr. Topaze (1961)

36 I've spent 50 years in China. And there are times when I think we are just a lot of persistent ants trying to move a great mountain.

Barbara Stanwyck as Megan Davis in The Bitter Tea of General Yen (1933)

37 You just don't go away, do you? -Stronger souls than you would have found that out.

Lee Van Cleef as John Peter McAllister in The Master (1984)

38 All I do is either work or stamp my feet. It's been over six months now. What good will this do me?

Sho Kosugi as Cho Osaki in Shaolin Temple Strikes Back (1981)

39 If we stopped moving stones for every grease woman who falls, the city would never rise.

Vincent Price in The Ten Commandments (1956)

40 Of course. He was wrong. -Wrong, but persistent. -Persistent he was.

David Niven as Sir Charles Litton in Trail of the Pink Panther (1982)

53 Movie Quotes about Perseverance (+ Sound Clips) - page 4

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