Quotes About Persistence

I'd learned long ago that patience was often rewarded. Certainly, impatience rarely was.

What does it take to be a writer? 1) Foolhardily believing that someone might actually be interested in reading what you've written. 2) Spending an enormous amount of time writing it as well as you can. 3) Accepting that, at best, you'll probably be paid something around 25 cents an hour for your efforts.

Remember always that the perfect circumstances for your dream tour will never exist. "You will never simultaneously have infinite time, money, freedom and mojo," says Alastair Humphreys. "So the best time is now.

Most of my ideas were rejected and I got used to it. One can get fond of almost anything, even rejection.

Don't give it five minutes if you're not gonna give it five years.

Nothing is as real as a dream. Responsibilities need not erase it. Duties need not obscure it. Because the dream is within you, no one can take it away.

Success is a finished book, a stack of pages each of which is filled with words. If you reach that point, you have won a victory over yourself no less impressive than sailing single-handed around the world.

There are only two ways we can be beaten: we die or we give up. And we're not giving up.

An overnight success is ten years in the making.

You learn to write the same way you learn to play golf... You do it, and keep doing it until you get it right. A lot of people think something mystical happens to you, that maybe the muse kisses you on the ear. But writing isn't divinely inspired – it's hard work.

I used to get beaten up by these green berets in my neighborhood. Some people call them Girl Scouts.

There's no stopping the soul that radiates out and around us, any more than one can stop the sweet perfume of a rose. You could, of course, hold your nose. But the rose will continue to exude its rich fragrance, even while you suffocate.

As a young actor, people were trying to define who I was before I really knew that for myself. But I still remember thinking, 'This is what I love doing, and I hope I'm going to be able to do it forever.'

Success is knowing your God given life purpose and pursuing it Passionately, Persistently, and Consistently until you die.

People ask me if I am thinking of retiring. Well, it doesn't occur to me. Different day, different challenge, different way. Lovely jubbly.

I never thought I was breaking a glass ceiling. I just had to do what I had to do, and it never occurred to me not to.

I'm not saying it never occurred to me to want to write a masterpiece, but I really doubt I could.

When I went into film, it never occurred to me that I wouldn't be able to do whatever I wanted to do. Maybe that was a good thing in the beginning. I had blinders on, and I charged forward.

Ever since I started writing in college, I have, save for a few short breaks here and there, been working away on something. I love it, I need it, and so it never occurred to me to put writing on the back burner.

I definitely thought the first book was going to be a one-off. I never thought I'd even write a book, not ever having aspired to be a writer. It's something that never occurred to me - a bit like it never occurred to me to play guitar when I was young. I just thought it was out of my league.

I've always embraced battles that are a daily occurrence.

Read everything. Write all the time. And if you can do anything else that gives you equal pleasure and allows you to sleep soundly at night, do that instead. The writing life is an odd one, to say the least.

I was a housepainter and a landscape nursery man, and all these various odd jobs I had, and started doing community theater.

We fight, even against insurmountable odds, because sometimes we win.