Quotes About Perseverance

The toughest thing about success is that you've got to keep on being a success. Talent is only a starting point in this business. You've got to keep on working that talent. Someday I'll reach for it and it won't be there.

Savoir souffrir sans se plaindre, ça c'est la seule chose pratique, c'est la grande science, la leçon à apprendre, la solution du problème de la vie. [Knowing how to suffer without complaining is the only practical thing, it's the great science, the lesson to learn, the solution to the problem of life.]

menulislah setiap hari, berpura-pura bahwa kau menerima gaji, berpura-pura bahwa kau harus menyerahkan sesuatu atau dipecat

he who lives on hope will die fasting—

It was now May of 1520; Cortés had been in Tenochtitlán since November, and he had only succeeded in trapping himself.

An absolutely necessary part of a writer's equipment, almost as necessary as talent, is the ability to stand up under punishment, both the punishment the world hands out and the punishment he inflicts upon himself.

No writer need feel sorry for himself if he writes and enjoys the writing, even if he doesn't get paid for it.

If my doctor told me I had only six minutes to live, I wouldn't brood. I'd type a little faster.

Janet was a tower of strength to me during the miserable time of uncertainty that preceded the divorce. She never pushed me; never urged me to agree to anything foolish in order to hasten the divorce; seemed perfectly willing to continue our irregular arrangement for the rest of our lives. If Gertrude was making life harder for me, Janet was making it easier to an even greater extent.

You must keep sending work out you must never let a manuscript do nothing but eat its head off in a drawer. You send that work out again and again, while you're working on another one. If you have talent, you will receive some measure of success - but only if you persist.

In life, unlike chess, the game continues after checkmate.

You must keep sending work out; you must never let a manuscript do nothing but eat its head off in a drawer. You send that work out again and again, while you're working on another one. If you have talent, you will receive some measure of success - but only if you persist.

The waste basket is a writer's best friend.

Envisioning without action, is the equivalent of praying without faith.

Movies take years to bring to theater, but hours to watch. Strikingly similar to success.

Personal development is a lifelong commitment to excellence.

Successful people who wish to maintain their successes must make the decision to do so.

To dwell on the lack thereof is a mental trap the majority of visionaries are taught to do.

If I have ever made any valuable discoveries, it has been owing more to patient attention, than to any other talent.

If I have ever made any valuable discoveries, it has been due more to patient attention, than to any other talent

Every body perseveres in its state of rest, or of uniform motion in a right line, unless it is compelled to change that state by forces impressed thereon.

Learning to trust is one of life's most difficult tasks.

la vida es ante todo luz y se necesita muy poco para apagar esa luz.

Women have always been courageous... They are always fearless when protecting their children and in the last century they have been fearless in the fight for their rights.