Quotes About Persistence

We noticed that, but in reality we have to take it one game at a time.

Sometimes we walk away from our big dreams; but then, this time our big dreams don't let us to go away!

New ideas seem like frightening ghosts to people at the beginning; they run away from them for a long time, but they get tired of it in the end!

It's hard being a rock; they have such a strange sense of time - and priorities.

I seem always to have two or three novels going at once. It takes me a long time to finish one.

The advice I would offer to any writer is that even when you think you have revised your book to the point where you cannot look at it again, it is time to sit down and revise it some more.

I have been aspiring to write some sort of literature for a long time.

If you're good, you fail seventy percent of the time. You have to be mentally capable of blocking that out and keep going.

No blessing goes uncontested. It will take a long time to get your dream.

What a different story men would have to tell if only they would adopt a DEFINITE PURPOSE, and stand by that purpose until it had time to become an all-consuming obsession!

Success means getting up 1 more time than you get knocked down.

Understand that writing is like an athletic activity. To play tennis well, you expect to keep practicing, but for some reason with writing, you think you should come out fresh the first time.

A lot of the time nothing happens in a day.

People have to do things in their own time, and that's what I did.

Keep moving. Don't stop. But don't rush. Don't race around. Sure and steady gets you there every time.

Drag your thoughts away from your troubles... by the ears, by the heels, or any other way you can manage it.

December is the toughest month of the year. Others are July, January, September, April, November, May, March, June, October, August, and February.

They did not know it was impossible so they did it

Habit is habit, and not to be flung out of the window by any man, but coaxed down-stairs one step at a time.

Plain question and plain answer make the shortest road out of most perplexities.

Continuous improvement is better than delayed perfection.

Focus more on your desire than on your doubt, and the dream will take care of itself.

New Year's Day: Now is the accepted time to make your regular annual good resolutions. Next week you can begin paving hell with them as usual.

A person with a new idea is a crank until the idea succeeds.