Quotes about Persistence
Some people seem to understand this - that life and change take time - but I am not one of those people.
— Anne Lamott
You're never a loser til you quit trying.
— Anonymous
"Dead last" is greater than "did not finish" which trumps "did not start."
— Anonymous
In some respects, progressing through life is like running a marathon.
— Joseph Wirthlin
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