10 Inspirational Quotes To Help You Persevere (As Told Through Nic Cage Gifs)

Avoid that fall/winter slump, move onward! Channel The Cage and never give up. One of his films received 0% on rotten tomatoes. ZERO. PERCENT. And then he won an Oscar. The man never gives up. And you shouldn't either. Am I getting through to you, Alva?!?!

1. "Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up." -Thomas Edison

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2. "If you're not failing every now and again, it's a sign you're not doing anything very innovative." -Woody Allen

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3. "It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all, in which case you have failed by default" -J.K. Rowling

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4. "Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not:nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not;unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent."-Calvin Coolidge

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5. "I can accept failure, everyone fails at something. But I can't accept not trying." -Michael Jordan

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6. "Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently." -Henry Ford

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7. "Failure after long perseverance is much grander than never to have a striving good enough to be called a failure" -George Eliot

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8. "Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts." -Winston Churchill

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9. "A failure is not always a mistake, it may simply be the best one can do under the circumstances. The real mistake is to stop trying." -B.F. Skinner

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10. "I am not a demon. I am a lizard, a shark, a heat-seeking panther. I want to be Bob Denver on acid playing the accordion." -NICOLAS CAGE

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