"Hope is a good thing, maybe the best of things, and no good thing ever dies."
Perseverance
Never give up
161 quotes
Why readers browse this category
Perseverance is one of the main editorial paths through MovieQuotes, bringing together 161 curated quotes from 34 films, 23 actors, and 32 characters. It is built for visitors who want to browse by feeling or idea first, then move into the films behind those lines.
The current selection includes quotes from Rocky Balboa, The Shawshank Redemption, and Finding Nemo and performances by Sylvester Stallone, Sean Astin, and Tim Robbins. Tags such as resilience, loyalty, survival, and choice show the language patterns that keep surfacing inside this category.
Use this page when you need a quote about perseverance for reflection, a caption, a speech, or a quick reset. Every result keeps the movie, character, and actor visible so the category remains useful to readers and trustworthy as a searchable archive page.
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"Why do we fall? So we can learn to pick ourselves up."
"It ain't about how hard you hit. It's about how hard you can get hit and keep moving forward."
"I know what I have to do now. I gotta keep breathing. Because tomorrow the sun will rise. Who knows what the tide could bring?"
"Just keep swimming."
"So it's not gonna be easy. It's going to be really hard; we're gonna have to work at this everyday, but I want to do that because I want you. I want all of you, forever, everyday."
"I can't fail. This is all I am."
"Get busy livin', or get busy dyin'."
"Geology is the study of pressure and time. That's all it takes, really."
"It ain't about how hard you hit. It's about how hard you can get hit and keep moving forward."
"Thatβs how winning is done!"
"I got some stuff left in the basement."
"It ainβt over till itβs over."
"I just wanna go the distance."
"I still got a lot of fight left in me."
"We been through every kind of rain there is."
"Why do we fall? So we can learn to pick ourselves up."
"Not yet. Not yet."
"I was behind on my taxes. One day, I left a taxi in front of the park, and the driver took off with all my possessions."
"Come on, Mr. Frodo. I can't carry it for you, but I can carry you."
"There's some good in this world, Mr. Frodo, and it's worth fighting for."
"Even darkness must pass. A new day will come. And when the sun shines it will shine out the clearer."
"I made a promise, Mr. Frodo. A promise. "Don't you leave him, Samwise Gamgee.""
"The flower that blooms in adversity is the most rare and beautiful of all."
"The only way to get what you want in this world is through hard work."
"There's something inside that they can't get to, that they can't touch. It's yours."
"I guess it comes down to a simple choice, really. Get busy living or get busy dying."
"When life gets you down, you know what you gotta do? Just keep swimming."
"You are braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think."
"Every time we have a chance to get ahead, they move the finish line."
"You solve one problem, and you solve the next one, and then the next."
"Let's work the problem, people. Let's not make things worse by guessing."
"It's supposed to be hard. If it wasn't hard, everyone would do it. The hard is what makes it great."
"One step at a time. One punch at a time. One round at a time."
"Look inside yourself, Simba. You are more than what you have become."
"I have lived most of my life surrounded by my enemies. I would be grateful to die among my friends."
"Heroes get remembered, but legends never die. Follow your heart, kid, and you'll never go wrong."
"You don't throw a whole life away just because it's banged up a little."
"I never had a dad, but I always had you."
"Some people, they'll never accept him. But some will. And he seems to know how to find the good ones."
"We can't choose where we come from, but we can choose where we go from there."
"What, ocean big enough for you some like that?"
"See, I suffer from short term memory loss."
"I'm glad I got that off my chest."
"Well, then we got to find a fish that can read this."
"Why do I have to tell you over and over again?"
"Something's telling me we should swim through it, not over it."
"I'm sorry, but I really, really, really think we should swim through."
"I shall call him Squishy and he shall be mine."
"What is it with men and asking for directions?"
"You wanna get out of here, don't you?"
"I plan on being an engineer at NASA, but I can't do that without taking them classes at that all-white high school, and I can't change the color of my skin."
"So I have no choice, but to be the first, which I can't do without you, sir."
"Your Honor, out of all the cases you gon' hear today, which one is gon' matter hundred years from now?"
"Which one is gon' make you the first?"
"Every time we get a chance to get ahead they move the finish line."
"We didn't pick the place, Officer, it picked us."
"Hard to be of service broken down on the side of the road, though."
"Hurry up, Dorothy, before he changes his mind."
"I'll tell you where to begin: three "colored" women are chasing a white police officer down a highway in Hampton, Virginia, 1961."
"I have the right to see fine in every color."
"It's a very mean and nasty place, and I don't care how tough you are, it will beat you to your knees and keep you there permanently if you let it."
"You, me, or nobody is gonna hit as hard as life."
"But it ain't about how hard you hit."
"It's about how hard you can get hit and keep moving forward; how much you can take and keep moving forward."
"I'm always gonna love you, no matter what."
"You know I think if you live some place long enough, you are that place."
"Rights, like in that official piece of paper they wrote down the street there?"
"Don't it say something about going after what makes you happy?"
"My point is, I'm pursuing something and nobody looks too happy about it."
"I appreciate that, but maybe you're looking out for your interests just a little bit more."
"Dear Red, If you're reading this, you've gotten out."
"And if you've come this far, maybe you're willing to come a little further."
"You remember the name of the town, don't you?"
"I could use a good man to help me get my project on wheels."
"I'll keep an eye out for you and the chessboard ready."
"Remember, Red: hope is a good thing, maybe the best of things, and no good thing ever dies."
"I will be hoping that this letter finds you, and finds you well."
"Don't suppose it would help any if I explained to them I'm not homosexual."
""Watch ye therefore; for ye know not when the Master of the House cometh.""
"Haven't you ever felt that way about music?"
"I'm gonna die surrounded by the biggest idiots in the galaxy."
"Tivan, we have been halfway around the galaxy, retrieving this orb."
"How could I think Tivan could contain whatever was within the Orb?"
"We have to take this to the Nova Corps."
"We cannot allow the stone to fall into Ronan's hands."
"We have to go back to your ship and deliver it to Nova."
"If Ronan gets this stone, he'll kill us all."
"Then you know we must get it back!"
"He's gonna use it to wipe out Xandar."
"You don't get to ask questions after that nonsense you pulled on Knowhere!"
"I wrote you every day for a year."
"So you make love to me, and then you go back to your husband?"
"And your word is shot to hell now, don't you think?"
"This is not about keeping your promise, and it's not about following your heart."
"I guess not, I think I must have misread all of those signals."
"You wouldn't be here if there wasn't something missing."
"You tell me when I'm being an arrogant son of a bitch and I tell you when you're being a pain in the ass, which you are, 99% of the time."
"You have like a two second rebound rate, then you're back doing the next pain in the ass thing."
"It's gonna be really hard, and we're gonna have to work at this every day."
"But I wanna do that because I want you."
"I ain't been droppin' no eaves sir, honest."
"I was just cutting the grass under the window there, if you'll follow me."
"If I take one more step, I'll be the farthest away from home I've ever been."
""Don't you lose him, Samwise Gamgee", and I don't mean to."
"What we need is a few good taters."
"Boil em, mash em, stick 'em in a stew."
"Lovely big golden chips with a nice piece of fried fish."
"I wonder if we'll ever be put into songs or tales."
"I wonder if people will ever say, "Let's hear about Frodo and the Ring," and they'll say, "Yes, that's one of my favorite stories.""
"We have to be careful or we're going to run out."
"In Okinawa, all Miyagi know two things: fish and karate."
"Karate come from China, sixteenth century, called te, "hand"."
"Hundred year later, Miyagi ancestor bring to Okinawa, call karate."
"Five to one problem, too much ask anyone."
"No such thing as bad student, only bad teacher."
"Now use head for something other than target, Daniel-san."
"In Okinawa, belt mean no need rope to hold up pants."
"Walk middle, sooner or later, get squished, just like grape."
"Either you karate do "yes", or karate do "no"."
"You karate do "guess so", just like grape."
"I dunno, but some guy tried to vaporize me with it."
"I think it's some kind of power source."
"So whoever is making these weapons is obviously combining alien tech with ours."
"Dude, a gang with alien guns run by a guy with wings?"
"Wow, they're in the middle of a heist!"
"I could catch them all red-handed, this is awesome!"
"Okay, I'm gonna get a little closer so I can see what's happening."
"No, no, no, I don't wanna kill anybody!"
"What the hell just happened, what was that?"
"She's just a girl that goes to my school."
"By simply doing what they are designed to do something large and magnificient happens."
"In this sense they show us how to live."
"How the only barometer you have is your heart."
"How when you spot your flower, you can't let anything get in your way."
"How come these faggots always have to rub it in your face?"
"Don't placate me like I'm your mother, boy."
"Now, I will not sit back and watch my only son become a cock-sucker!"
"I swear to God, I will throw you out of the house and never look at you again!"
"I'd rather you were dead than be a fuckin' faggot."
"I don't ever want to see you again."
"Eighty-three Force Reconnaissance Marines have died under my various commands."
"How old are you, Chief of Staff Sinclair?"
"Sinclair, you've probably got no fucking idea what I'm talking about."
"By your ninth birthday, I was running black ops into China."
"My men were responsible for over 200 enemy kills."
"Those surgical hits made by our smart bombs, covered so well on CNN?"
"It was my men on the ground that made those hits possible by lasing the targets."
"Twenty of them were left to rot outside Baghdad after the conflict ended."
"These men died for their country and they weren't even given a goddamn military burial."
"You will transfer 100 million dollars from the Grand Cayman Red Sea Trading Company account to an account I designate."
"He sleeps till noon every day and he can't even hold a job."
"Don't talk about my mom like that, you bald-headed freak."
"I get the sense that you don't like me very much."
"Well, you let me know when you figure it out."
"Dear Friend, I'm sorry I haven't written in awhile, but I've been trying hard to not be a loser."
"Mary Elizabeth is a nice person underneath the parts of her that hate everybody."
"So, I guess we are who we are for a lot of reasons."
"And maybe we'll never know most of them."
"But even if we don't have the power to choose where we come from, we can still choose where we go from there."
"It's much easier to not know things sometimes."
How to browse Perseverance quotes
These original editorial notes explain how to use the real quotes in this category for captions, speeches, writing prompts, and deeper browsing. They add context without inventing additional movie dialogue.
01 Β· Start with source context
βHope is a good thing, maybe the best of things, and no good thing ever dies.β
Andy Dufresne Β· The Shawshank Redemption
This perseverance line is strongest when readers see the source first: Andy Dufresne in The Shawshank Redemption. The movie context keeps the quote from becoming a generic saying and helps the page feel like a credited archive, not a loose inspiration list.
02 Β· Use it as a caption
βWhy do we fall? So we can learn to pick ourselves up.β
Thomas Wayne Β· Batman Begins
For captions, pair Thomas Wayne's line with a short personal note rather than another famous line. The quote already brings the cinematic weight; your sentence should explain why this perseverance moment fits the photo, milestone, or mood.
03 Β· Use it in a speech
βIt ain't about how hard you hit. It's about how hard you can get hit and keep moving forward.β
Rocky Balboa Β· Rocky Balboa
For a speech, introduce the film before the line and explain the scene after it. That rhythm lets Rocky Balboa provide familiarity while your own point carries the emotional work of perseverance.
04 Β· Compare character pressure
βI know what I have to do now. I gotta keep breathing. Because tomorrow the sun will rise. Who knows what the tide could bring?β
Chuck Noland Β· Cast Away
Chuck Noland's situation matters. A category page becomes more useful when readers compare how different characters reach perseverance through conflict, comedy, romance, grief, or a decisive act of courage.
05 Β· Read for emotional temperature
βJust keep swimming.β
Dory Β· Finding Nemo
Not every quote in Perseverance has the same temperature. Dory's line may be gentle, defiant, funny, romantic, or reflective, so choose it for the emotional weather of the moment rather than only the category label.
06 Β· Build a carousel slide
βSo it's not gonna be easy. It's going to be really hard; we're gonna have to work at this everyday, but I want to do that because I want you. I want all of you, forever, everyday.β
Noah Calhoun Β· The Notebook
A strong carousel can put Noah Calhoun's quote on slide one, attribution on slide two, and interpretation on slide three. That structure turns perseverance into a small story instead of a standalone quote graphic.
07 Β· Keep the actor credit visible
βI can't fail. This is all I am.β
John Nash Β· A Beautiful Mind
Russell Crowe's performance is part of why the line remains memorable. Keeping the actor credit visible adds trust, improves discovery, and reminds readers that a quote is also a performed moment.
08 Β· Move from category to movie
βGet busy livin', or get busy dyin'.β
Andy Dufresne Β· The Shawshank Redemption
If this line fits, the next useful click is often the full The Shawshank Redemption movie page. That path lets readers move from a broad perseverance need into a specific film voice and related quotes.
09 Β· Move from movie to adjacent themes
βGeology is the study of pressure and time. That's all it takes, really.β
Ellis Boyd Redding Β· The Shawshank Redemption
This quote may also overlap with tags such as pressure, time, patience. Those adjacent tags help readers refine the mood when perseverance is close but not exact enough.
10 Β· Use it as a writing prompt
βIt ain't about how hard you hit. It's about how hard you can get hit and keep moving forward.β
Rocky Balboa Β· Rocky Balboa
Turn the line into a prompt by asking what Rocky Balboa risks in this moment. The best perseverance quotes usually involve a cost: vulnerability, patience, sacrifice, honesty, or a change the character cannot reverse.
11 Β· Choose it for short-form posts
βThatβs how winning is done!β
Rocky Balboa Β· Rocky Balboa
For short-form posts, keep the caption clean: quote, source, one sentence of context. The category gives readers the emotional map, while Rocky Balboa gives the line a recognizable home.
12 Β· Choose it for long-form reflection
βI got some stuff left in the basement.β
Rocky Balboa Β· Rocky Balboa
For a longer reflection, use the quote as evidence. Explain why Rocky Balboa says it, what changes in the scene, and why that version of perseverance feels different from the next quote in the collection.
13 Β· Avoid flattening the line
βIt ainβt over till itβs over.β
Rocky Balboa Β· Rocky Balboa
A category label is useful, but it can flatten nuance. Keep the quote attached to Rocky Balboa, because the character voice is what separates a real movie quote from interchangeable motivational text.
14 Β· Use genre as a filter
βI just wanna go the distance.β
Rocky Balboa Β· Rocky Balboa
Drama, Sport storytelling shapes how this line feels. A perseverance quote from a drama, comedy, romance, or adventure film will carry different expectations even when the core theme is similar.
15 Β· Look for the turning point
βI still got a lot of fight left in me.β
Rocky Balboa Β· Rocky Balboa
Ask whether Rocky Balboa's quote arrives before, during, or after a turning point. Category pages are most valuable when they show perseverance as movement inside a story, not just as an attractive sentence.
16 Β· Use attribution for trust
βWe been through every kind of rain there is.β
Forrest Gump Β· Forrest Gump
Attribution is part of quality. A reader should be able to move from this line to Forrest Gump, Forrest Gump, and Tom Hanks without guessing where the quote came from.
17 Β· Pair with related quotes
βWhy do we fall? So we can learn to pick ourselves up.β
Thomas Wayne Β· Batman Begins
Pair this Batman Begins quote with a contrasting result from the same category. The comparison helps readers decide whether they want a softer, sharper, funnier, or more cinematic version of perseverance.
18 Β· Use the archive path
βNot yet. Not yet.β
Maximus Β· Gladiator
The practical archive path is category β gladiator-not-yet β movie β actor β tag. That sequence gives readers multiple ways to keep exploring perseverance without landing on a thin or contextless page.