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Quotes About Persistence

The three secrets of getting published: 1. Never give up! 2. Never give up! 3. Never give up! It doesn't matter how many rejection letters you get. Remember, you only need one acceptance letter.
~ Unknown
Después, la vida sigue porque, al fin y al cabo, nunca nada es lo suficientemente devastador.
~ Unknown
If anything is worth doing, it is worth doing it badly.
~ Martha Beck
I mean how many decades do I keep trying to fix something before I realize the trying to fix it may be the problem. It's one of those things that I wish I had really understood better when I was a lot younger. And if I had it would have turned my outward search for what would make me fit better in the world, to an inward one of asking, what do I want?
~ Unknown
First rule of life, Idina. Everybody screws up. What matters is whether we let that stop us in our tracks or we tell it to fuck off so we can get back on our feet and keep going.
~ Unknown
Today is a part of a long journey and this isn't the last chapter. It's just one of those middle ones that takes some courage to walk through to see what comes next.
~ Unknown
Masters become masters because they practice in the little moments. Every pause, every moment to yourself is an opportunity to try again. Every tiny shift matters, and the more you practice, the better you will become. Besides, if not now, when?
~ Unknown
Practice means to perform, over and over again in the face of all obstacles, some act of vision, of faith, of desire. Practice is a means of inviting the perfection desired.
~ Martha Graham
We learn by practice. Whether it means to learn to dance by practicing dancing or to learn to live by practicing living, the principles are the same. One becomes in some area an athlete of God.
~ Martha Graham
It takes at least five years of rigorous training to be spontaneous.
~ Martha Graham
The only sin is mediocrity.
~ Martha Graham
I love the challenge of starting at zero every day and seeing how much I can accomplish.
~ Martha Stewart
Don't give up. Defend your ideas, but be flexible. Success seldom comes in exactly the form you imagine.
~ Martha Stewart
I had to run back the drone's camera feed to catch up, I had been so busy conquering that burst of non-annoyance.
~ Martha Wells
I am actually trying my best despite the fuck-ups.
~ Martha Wells
And it also told me I was going to need to go old school to break this fucker.
~ Martha Wells
Hard work really did make you improve; who knew?
~ Martha Wells
They don't want anything to come between them and their goal. They have their ideas, they don't want facts to bother them.
~ Martha Wells
CodeBundle.FuckThisToo
~ Martha Wells
Every prayer gets answered. Sometimes the answer is "no," but sometimes the answer is "not yet.
~ Martha Williamson
Never lose hope. There is always a battle going on that you don't see.
~ Martha Williamson
one bicycle, but even if we'd had another, I think
~ Unknown
Einstein said later in life, "It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer.
~ Unknown
If you cannot get across it, you must get across it, nevertheless.
~ Martin Buber