Quotes about Persistence
If you fall behind, run faster. Never give up, never surrender, and rise up against the odds.
— Jesse Jackson
The hard part about writing a novel is finishing it.
— Ernest Hemingway
I always worked until I had something done and I always stopped when I knew what was going to happen next. That way I could be sure of going on the next day.
— Ernest Hemingway
For a long time now I have tried simply to write the best I can. Sometimes I have good luck and write better than I can.
— Ernest Hemingway
And chase hard and good and with no mistakes and do not overrun them.
— Ernest Hemingway
The road of the pass was hard and smooth and not yet dusty in the early morning.
— Ernest Hemingway
Ought not to daunt you. Never be daunted. Secret of my success. Never been daunted. Never been daunted in public.
— Ernest Hemingway
I even read aloud the part of the novel that I had rewritten, which is about as low as a writer can get and much more dangerous for him as a writer than glacier skiing unroped before the full winter snowfall has set over the crevices.
— Ernest Hemingway
The very beginning was written and all he had to do was go on. That's all, he said. You see how simple what you cannot do is?
— Ernest Hemingway
The man isn't born for defeats.He can fall from grace,but he cannot be defeated.
— Ernest Hemingway
Perhaps wars weren't won any more. Maybe they went on forever. Maybe it was another Hundred Years' War.
— Ernest Hemingway
A writer] should always try for something that has never been done or that others have tried and failed. Then sometimes, with great luck, they will succeed.
— Ernest Hemingway