#persistence

"You may fall many times, but you must keep going."

"The Motto of Champions: If you are hurt, you can suck it up and press on. If injured, you can rebound and return bigger and better...and continue to inspire!"

"No matter how much falls on us, we keep plowing ahead. That's the only way to keep the roads clear."

"The best way out is always through."

"Success doesn't come to you; you go to it."

"The only things you learn are the things you tame"

"When I face the desolate impossibility of writing five hundred pages, a sick sense of failure falls on me, and I know I can never do it. Then gradually, I write one page and then another. One day's work is all I can permit myself to contemplate."

"Courage is the most important of all the virtues because without courage, you can't practice any other virtue consistently."

"I wrote a book. It sucked. I wrote nine more books. They sucked, too. Meanwhile, I read every single thing I could find on publishing and writing, went to conferences, joined professional organizations, hooked up with fellow writers in critique groups, and didn’t give up. Then I wrote one more book."

"The principle virtue of anyone who made an important invention is curious persistence."

"He believed in himself, believed in his quixotic ambition, letting the failures of the previous day disappear as each new day dawned. Yesterday was not today. The past did not predict the future if he could learn from his mistakes."

"Keep a little fire burning; however small, however hidden."

"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."

"Persistence. Perfection. Patience. Power. Prioritize your passion. It keeps you sane."

"Unless God has raised you up for this very thing, you will be worn out by the opposition of men and devils. But if God be for you, who can be against you? Are all of them together stronger than God? O be not weary of well doing!"

"Success is stumbling from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm."

"Sacrifice precedes success."

"You never know what's around the corner. It could be everything. Or it could be nothing. You keep putting one foot in front of the other, and then one day you look back and you've climbed a mountain."

"First forget inspiration. Habit is more dependable. Habit will sustain you whether you're inspired or not. Habit will help you finish and polish your stories. Inspiration won't. Habit is persistence in practice."

"One mistake does not have to rule a person's entire life."