Quotes About Persistence

The dear good people don't know how long it takes to learn to read. I've been at it eighty years, and can't say yet that I've reached the goal.

What separates the professionally successful ... from all the rest is their ability to stay steady, to have stamina. It is one thing to write a good sentence, another to write a good book.

It's easy to get published once you have written a really good book and the hard part, 99 percent of what you need to worry about, is really finishing it.

Those who do good science do so because they choose problems that are suited to them.

While I still have more good days than bad days, I'm going to keep playing.

Do everything you're told. Be a good cheerleader. And never, never say, 'It's not so bad.' Say 'You are almost there!' And say it a lot.

I did my best. I guess my best wasn't good enough.

Reform is not for the short-winded. I'm committed to making sure the Senate is more than just a graveyard for good ideas.

See what a good actress I am? I'm just typing over and over, "You're a good person, Mary Lynn! Hang in there! You can do it!"

I really wanted to be a dancer, but I just wasn't good enough to do that so that didn't happen.

A really good day for me is to write my book for about four hours, go to the writing room for about four hours and then maybe come back to the book to finish the day for a few more hours of it.

I know that good things will happen for me if I keep working hard.

Getting out of bed is a good way to leave your troubles behind.

Most people can start a short story or a novel. If you're a writer, you can finish them. Finish enough of them, and you may be good enough to be publishable.

On the whole, anything that gets you writing and keeps you writing is a good thing. Anything that stops you writing is a bad thing.

Really good original ideas are very hard to come up with. Good ideas - easy. Really good, original ideas - it can take months.

I guess I should have forgotten about it ages ago, but forgetting isn't something I'm very good at.

Perseverance brings good luck.

Good stories are not written. They are rewritten.

There's not a conspiracy to prevent really good writing from being found You have to have the humility to fail over and over and over.

It just feels good to play again. That's what keeps me going. I've focused harder because of it.

I enjoy nothing more than creating new series and watching them grow in front of me month by month. It's a muscle I spent many years developing and it feels good to be using it again.

Everyone gets their rough day. No one gets a free ride. Today so far, I had a good day. I got a dial tone.

Don't let doing enough be good enough.