Quotes about Persistence
Leave no stone unturned.
— Euripides
God helps him who strives hard.
— Euripides
He had thrown himself into it with a creative passion, adding to it all the time, decking it out with every bright feather that drifted his way. No amount of fire or freshness can challenge what a man will store up in his ghostly heart.
— F Scott Fitzgerald
In any case you mustn't confuse a single failure with a final defeat.
— F Scott Fitzgerald
Experience is not worth the getting. It's not a thing that happens pleasantly to a passive you--it's a wall that an active you runs up against.
— F Scott Fitzgerald
He had been full of the idea so long, dreamed it right through to the end, waited with his teeth set, so to speak, at an inconceivable pitch of intensity. Now, in the reaction, he was running down like an overwound clock.
— F Scott Fitzgerald
And so we beat on, books against the critics, borne back ceaslessly into rewrites.
— F Scott Fitzgerald
Nothing any good isn't hard.
— F Scott Fitzgerald
Work like hell! I had 122 rejection slips before I sold a story.
— F Scott Fitzgerald
And courage to me meant ploughing through that dull gray mist that comes down on life--not only overriding people and circumstances but overriding the bleakness of living.
— F Scott Fitzgerald
We are still fighters.
— Muqtada al Sadr
When some people have a difficult job to do, they give up everything else until that job is finished. Others just give up.
— Joseph Wirthlin