Quotes About Persistence

The great Vince Lombardi said, "Discipline and mental toughness are many things and rather difficult to explain. Its qualities are sacrifice and self-denial, and most importantly, it's combined with a perfectly disciplined will that refuses to give in.

Don't cave in. It's easy to get distracted. It's easy to let influences pull you away from your structured weekly schedule in pursuit of your goals. Discipline and resolve will lead to your next job. Don't cave in on the high expectations you establish for yourself when you set the bar high (above in Principle #1).

Don't substitute. Carroll O'Connor, the late actor who played the role of Archie Bunker in the sitcom All in the Family, said that the problem for most people is that when they meet resistance in pursuit of their goals, they substitute easier goals rather than create better plans. When you meet resistance in pursuit of your goals (and you will), do not substitute easier goals; rather, create a more refined plan or work harder at the one you have.

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Find your destination, ending point or overall goal. Everyday, do everything it takes to get there. The quicker you get there, the quicker you are off to other beautiful destinations.

In addition there are those who do the right thing but give up too readily. They will drill until noon, but give up because it took too long and it is getting too hot; at 1:00 P.M. they would have struck oil! They will drill through the sand until they hit rock, but then they quit; it has become too difficult. Three feet deeper and they would have hit a gusher! Hope leads to perseverence that gives one the patience to continue in spite of delay or difficulty (I Thessalonians 1:3).

snail's pace. Hanna shook her

Writing is self-reinforcing. Don't make a fetish out of it, and don't surrender to the myth of the garret, or the myth of the chained muse. It's like playing the guitar, or practicing taekwondo, or having sex. The more you do, the better you get. The better you get, the better it feels. The better it feels, the more you want to do.

If you are out there shooting, things will happen for you. If you're not out there, you'll only hear about it.

She's really not my kind of girl — most of them have tattoos or nose rings — but there's something about her smile. She smiles like she's in love with whoever she's looking at. She smiled at me a few months ago. I've been trying to get her to do it again ever since.

Believe and Succeed

Believe in yourself and in your own voice, because there will be times in this business when you will be the only one who does. Take heart from the knowledge that an author with a strong voice will often have trouble at the start of his or her career because strong,distinctive voices sometimes make editors nervous. But in the end, only the strong survive.

and the slapping feet of the men that follow the box. They have no faces and they feel with the whiskers of dogs.

Any day is a good day so long as you survive to play another day.

I'm far from being god, but I work god damn hard.

Don't let anyone tell you that you can't, because they didn't.

However tight I shut my eyes, there will always be a stray dog somewhere in the world who'll stop me being happy.

Children and lunatics cut the Gordian knot which the poet spends his life patiently trying to untie.

There is no road too long to the man who advances deliberately and without undue haste there are no honors too distant to the man who prepares himself for them with patience.

Patience and time do more than strength or passion.

must do the thing you think you cannot do,

The country needs, the country demands, bold, persistent experimentation. Take a method and try it. If it fails admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something.

Carpe Diam forever after.

A man must dream a long time in order to act with grandeur, and dreaming is nursed in darkness.