Persistence Quotes - Page 10

Courage is the most important of all the virtues because without courage, you can't practice any other virtue consistently.

The rewrites are a struggle right now. Sometimes I wish writing a book could just be easy for me at last. But when I think about it practically, I am glad it's a struggle. I am (as usual) attempting to write a book that's too hard for me. I'm telling a story I'm not smart enough to tell. The risk of failure is huge. But I prefer it this way. I'm forced to learn, forced to smarten myself up, forced to wrestle. And if it works, then I'll have written something that is better than I am.

Listen, Stephen King used to write in the washroom of his trailer after his kids went to sleep. Harlan Ellison wrote in the stall of a bathroom of his barracks during boot camp. Elmore Leonard got up at 5 AM every morning to write before work.Every time my alarm goes off at 5 AM and I don’t want to get up, or I would rather sit down after work and play a videogame, I think about those guys. Take care of your family. They need you and love you. Make time for them. Then stop screwing around and finish your damn book.

Bernard Schaffer

When I face the desolate impossibility of writing five hundred pages, a sick sense of failure falls on me, and I know I can never do it. Then gradually, I write one page and then another. One day's work is all I can permit myself to contemplate.

I wrote a book. It sucked. I wrote nine more books. They sucked, too. Meanwhile, I read every single thing I could find on publishing and writing, went to conferences, joined professional organizations, hooked up with fellow writers in critique groups, and didn’t give up. Then I wrote one more book.

First forget inspiration. Habit is more dependable. Habit will sustain you whether you're inspired or not. Habit will help you finish and polish your stories. Inspiration won't. Habit is persistence in practice.

Octavia E. Butler

You must keep sending work out; you must never let a manuscript do nothing but eat its head off in a drawer. You send that work out again and again, while you're working on another one. If you have talent, you will receive some measure of success - but only if you persist.

Hit the reset button. Whatever happened yesterday, forget about it. Get a new perspective. Today is a new day. Fresh start, begins now.

Trees endure the hot sun and rainstorms by sending their roots down deeper. The adversity they face is eventually the source of great stability. The harshness of the elements surrounding them causes them to seek another source of life. They will one day come to the place that even the greatest of windstorms cannot affect their ability to produce fruit.

Fame and fortune await the few with the faith to fall forward despite frustrating failures.

Really, there was only one sensible thing to do. Stay the course. Pray it through, day by day, minute by minute. The Lord had an answer and it would surely come. (p. 203)

When your only regret is if anyone thinks you regret anything - that is the definition of conviction.

If you're waiting until you feel talented enough to make it, you'll never make it.

Persistence. Perfection. Patience. Power. Prioritize your passion. It keeps you sane.

Triumphs are usually the outcomes of countless learned-from 'failures

Rasheed Ogunlaru

One who doesn't recognise an opportunity is bigger loser than one who tries his hand at an opportunity.

Common man's patience will bring him more happiness than common man's power.

Grit is the persistence in following your own destiny

Paul Bradley Smith

This path was not that of my conscious choosing. But after persistent subconscious confrontation, I have finally embraced what is, 'souly' for me...and I am thankful, when called upon, to be able to share and give to those who seek their own way of the path.

The Motto of Champions: If you are hurt, you can suck it up and press on. If injured, you can rebound and return bigger and better...and continue to inspire!

The sky is not my limit...I am.

As if the dead really do persist, even in a bottle of wine.

When she smiles, the lines in her face become epic narratives that trace the stories of generations that no book can replace.

Curtis Tyrone Jones

Some situations are just like bad dreams, they're only unbearable while we're giving them our full attention.

Curtis Tyrone Jones

I stood in my garden as the rain poured down, eyes closed, and when I opened them I thought to myself how I'd never seen anything more beautiful. Green flashed before my eyes; trees, leaves and grass, glittering with raindrops, the tears of angels weeping with sadness and joy; green, the colour of love, to remind me why I'm here.

If the fire in your heart is strong enough, it will burn away any obstacles that come your way.

There is no such thing as helplessness. It's just another word for giving up.

Jefferson Smith

He believed in himself, believed in his quixotic ambition, letting the failures of the previous day disappear as each new day dawned. Yesterday was not today. The past did not predict the future if he could learn from his mistakes.

Your fate is never determined when your massive imagination is.

Curtis Tyrone Jones

Wise is the one who flavors the future with some salt from the past. Becoming dust is no threat to the phoenix born from the ash.

Curtis Tyrone Jones

If you do not have persistence then no amount of education, talent or genius can make up for it.

Stephen Richards

How to win in life:1 work hard 2 complain less 3 listen more 4 try, learn, grow5 don't let people tell you it cant be done6 make no excuses

The devil's happy when the critics run you off.

Your hardest times often lead to the greatest moments of your life. Keep going. Tough situations build strong people in the end.

‪A wise man once said, 'Life is like breathing. If you try to hold it, you'll lose it. But let it come & go & you'll always be connected to it.'‬

Curtis Tyrone Jones

Please don't be overly sober with your precious wings, it's your addiction to freedom that makes me think that i too can defy gravity.

Curtis Tyrone Jones

Some teach youwhat can't be taught,by turning their backon you & helpingyou get internallycloser to everythingyou externallysought.

Curtis Tyrone Jones

You'll always be curious yet deliriously sinking into whatever your nightmare is until you let your wings know you're serious by leaping into your wildest dreams of self love.

Curtis Tyrone Jones

Each timewe bow to thefeet of anythingwe find riveting,the mind rises tobe surprised withnew crowningdiamonds ofcreativity.

Curtis Tyrone Jones

You alwaysdrop by, to en-lighten my mind,when my wings arefeeling heavy &i've forgottenhow tofly.

Curtis Tyrone Jones

Live in the shadow of the moon until you're bright enough to give birth to your own suns.

Curtis Tyrone Jones

Ignorance has one virtue: persistence. It will insist through dogged persistence on leading others to follow its vision no matter how misguided. Ignorance will drive the world to the brink of failure and catastrophe and beyond into the abyss with arrogance and anger because wisdom is often too polite to fight. Wisdom doesn’t like to impose its will, but that is all ignorance understands—force over free will and choice. Sooner or later the world comes to its senses, but oh the damage that has been done.

Never rebel for the sake of rebelling, but always rebel for the sake of truth.

Even the best inborn potentialities for achievement do not render unnecessary patient and persistent practice.

Ralph Alfred Habas

You can'tstop dreamingjust becausethe night neverseems toend.

Curtis Tyrone Jones

Your comfort zone is a place where you keep yourself in a self-illusion and nothing can grow there but your potentiality can grow only when you can think and grow out of that zone.

Rashedur Ryan Rahman

No matter how much falls on us, we keep plowing ahead. That's the only way to keep the roads clear.

Don't ever give up. Don't ever give in. Don't ever stop trying. Don't ever sell out. And if you find yourself succumbing to one of the above for a brief moment, pick yourself up, brush yourself off, whisper a prayer, and start where you left off.But never, ever, ever give up.

Richelle E. Goodrich

The harder you fall, the heavier your heart; the heavier your heart, the stronger you climb; the stronger you climb, the higher your pedestal.

Keep a little fire burning; however small, however hidden.

Cormac McCarthy

One mistake does not have to rule a person's entire life.

The three great essentials to achieve anything worthwhile are, first, hard work; second, stick-to-itiveness; third, common sense.

Thomas A. Edison

...When you die, the energy that kept you alive filters into the people you loved. Did you know that? It's like a fire you've tended all your life, and the sparks are all scattered into the wind.... That's why we survive as long as we do, because the people who loved us keep us going.

Kevin Brockmeier

Whether you like it or not, you are committed to the human endeavor. I cannot ally myself with such a purely negative goal as avoidance of suffering. Suffering is a chance you take by the fact of being alive.

William S Burroughs

The one who falls and gets up is stronger than the one who never tried. Do not fear failure but rather fear not trying.

It doesn’t matter how many times you get knocked down. All that matters is you get up one more time than you were knocked down.

You never know what's around the corner. It could be everything. Or it could be nothing. You keep putting one foot in front of the other, and then one day you look back and you've climbed a mountain.

Never lose hope. Storms make people stronger and never last forever.

Do not fear failure but rather fear not trying.

Keep GoingYour hardest times often lead to the greatest moments of your life. Keep going. Tough situations build strong people in the end.

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