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Topic·Perseverance✕clear

Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better.

1989

★ 6.9

And though hard be the task, "Keep a stiff upper lip."

1870

★ 5.4

When you get into a tight place, and everything goes against you till it seems as if you couldn't hold on a minute longer, never give up then, for that's just the place and time that the tide'll turn.

Harriet Beecher Stowe

1869

★ 5.3

Out of the night that covers me, Black as the Pit from pole to pole, I thank whatever gods may be For my unconquerable soul. In the fell clutch of circumstance, I have no winced nor cried aloud; Under the bludgeonings of chance My head is bloody, but unbowed.

William Ernest Henley

Invictus · 1888

★ 5.1

Film · Animation (film) · Animation

When life gets you down, you know what you gotta do? Just keep swimming.

Finding Nemo · 2003

★ 3.9

Historical literature

There must be a beginning of any great matter, but the continuing unto the end until it be thoroughly finished yields the true glory.

1587

★ 3.6

Film · Comedy drama (film) · Crime (film) · Comedy drama · Crime

Two little mice fell in a bucket of cream. The first mouse quickly gave up and drowned. The second mouse, wouldn't quit. He struggled so hard that eventually he churned that cream into butter and crawled out. Gentlemen, as of this moment, I am that second mouse.

Catch Me if You Can · 2002

★ 3.6

I have several walls in several rooms of my house covered with the snowstorm of rejections, but they didn't realize what a strong person I was, I persevered and wrote a thousand more dreadful short stories, which were rejected in turn.

2002

★ 3.5

But man is not made for defeat. A man can be destroyed but not defeated.

Ernest Hemingway

The Old Man and the Sea · 1952

★ 2.3

Scripture · Religious literature

We are troubled on every side, yet not distressed; we are perplexed, but not in despair; Persecuted, but not forsaken; cast down, but not destroyed.

2nd Corinthians 4:8-9 · 56

★ 2.1

Speech · Political speech

The probability that we may fall in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause we believe to be just.

Abraham Lincoln

1839

★ 2.1

Play · Tragedy (play)

Men must endure Their going hence even as their coming hither. Ripeness is all.

William Shakespeare

King Lear · 1606

★ 2.0

The blizzard doesn't last forever; it just seems so.

2002

★ 2.0

Courage and perseverance have a magical talisman, before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish into air.

John Quincy Adams

1802

★ 1.9

Patience and tenacity of purpose are worth more than twice their weight of cleverness.

1870

★ 1.9

I will write until my knuckles are worn and my brain bewildered, but I will write on and on.

1951

★ 1.8

Poem · Epic poem

Have patience, heart. Once you endured worse than this.

The Odyssey · 700 BC

★ 1.6

Sometimes we have to do the work even though we don't yet see a glimmer on the horizon that it's actually going to be possible.

2014

★ 1.2