Money grows on the tree of persistence.

Japanese Proverb

Stubbornness does have its helpful features. You always know what you are going to be thinking tomorrow.

Glen Beaman

Neither the sun, nor death can be looked at steadily.

François de La Rochefoucauld

Whatever you are, be a good one.

Abraham Lincoln

I close my eyes in order to see.

Paul Gauguin

The work praises the man.

Irish proverb