Quotes About Perseverance

If you hit two crappy pages, even if you never use them, you can feel "successful" for the day. Sometimes you barely eke out two pages, and they are truly terrible. But at least 50% of the time, you'll produce perhaps 5, 10, or even—on the rare miracle day—20 pages. Draft ugly and edit pretty.

Even when everything is going terribly, and I have no reason to be confident, I just decide to be.

Make commitments in a high-energy state so that you can't back out when you're in a low-energy state.

No olvidamos cuántas veces nos han rechazado.

There were three reasons why we survived: We had no money, we had no technology, and we had no plan. Every dollar, we used very carefully.

adopta el hábito más importante de quienes destacan y disfrutan con ello: actuar.

Kurt Vonnegut said about his process: "When I write, I feel like an armless, legless man with a crayon in his mouth." Don't overestimate the world and underestimate yourself. You are better than you think. And you are not alone.

There is no universal path to success.

You don't "succeed" because you have no weaknesses; you succeed because you find your unique strengths and focus on developing habits around them. . . . Everyone is fighting a battle [and has fought battles] you know nothing about.

Work will work when nothing else will work.

Success, however you define it, is achievable if you collect the right field-tested beliefs and habits. Someone else has done your version of "success" before, and often, many have done something similar.

Learn to confront the challenges of the real world, rather than resort to the protective womb of

Failure is highly underrated.

We discourage failure and by doing so we subtly discourage success.

It doesn't matter how many people don't get it. What matters is how many people do.

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Aporrear árboles con un hacha roma no es manera de ir por la vida. Prueba durante siete días y afila tu mente.

Law 11: "No" simply means begin again at one level higher.

But the best things that ever happened to me came during the times when the shit hit the fan and I had nothing and nobody to help me. Who are you really? What do you really want? Get out there and fail and find out.

I don't think failure is sometimes part of the process—it always is. When you feel you can't go on, know that you're just getting started.

You realize that you will never be the best-looking person in the room. You'll never be the smartest person in the room. You'll never be the most educated, the most well-versed. You can never compete on those levels. But what you can always compete on, the true egalitarian aspect to success, is hard work. You can always work harder than the next guy.

Expect small problems. Life is full of compromises, and it's necessary to let small bad things happen if you want to get huge good things done. There is no escape. Prevent all problems and get nothing done, or accept an allowable level of small problems and focus on the big things.

Cuando oigo historias de éxito y fracaso busco las pequeñas cosas que marcaron una gran diferencia.

my advice to my 30-year-old self is, don't be a donkey. You can do everything you want to do. You just need foresight and patience.