The difference between people who believe they have books inside of them and those who actually write books is sheer cussed persistence - the ability to make yourself work at your craft every day - the belief even in the face of obstacles that you've got something worth saying.
To make our way we must have firm resolve persistence tenacity. We must gear ourselves to work hard all the way. We can never let up.
When I meet successful people I ask 100 questions as to what they attribute their success to. It is usually the same: persistence hard work and hiring good people.
Ambition is the path to success. Persistence is the vehicle you arrive in.
Ambition is the path to success persistence is the vehicle you arrive in.
Success is almost totally dependent upon drive and persistence. The extra energy required to make another effort or try another approach is the secret of winning.
Flaming enthusiasm backed up by horse sense and persistence is the quality that most frequently makes for success.
The real issue is not talent as an independent element but talent in relationship to will desire and persistence. Talent without these things vanishes and even modest talent with those characteristics grows.
Constant repetition of tongue-twisters was like lifting weights for me but patience and persistence have paid off.
As for goals I don't set myself those anymore. I'm not one of these 'I must have achieved this and that by next year' kind of writers. I take things as they come and find that patience and persistence tend to win out in the end.
Patience persistence and perspiration make an unbeatable combination for success.
Knowing trees I understand the meaning of patience. Knowing grass I can appreciate persistence.
This persistence as private firms continued because it ensured the maximum of anonymity and secrecy to persons of tremendous public power who dreaded public knowledge of their activities as an evil almost as great as inflation.
My greatest point is my persistence. I never give up in a match. However down I am I fight until the last ball. My list of matches shows that I have turned a great many so-called irretrievable defeats into victories.
As long as we are persistence in our pursuit of our deepest destiny we will continue to grow. We cannot choose the day or time when we will fully bloom. It happens in its own time.
A little more persistence a little more effort and what seemed hopeless failure may turn to glorious success.
Success is the result of perfection hard work learning from failure loyalty and persistence.
Parents it seems have an almost Olympian persistence when it comes to suggesting more secure and lucrative lines of work for their children who have the notion that writing is an actual profession. I say this from experience.
My dad has always been really helpful. He taught me that talent is a bonus but persistence is what wins out.
Failure is only postponed success as long as courage 'coaches' ambition. The habit of persistence is the habit of victory.
Survival in the cool economics of biology means simply the persistence of one's own genes in the generations to follow.
The majority of men meet with failure because of their lack of persistence in creating new plans to take the place of those which fail.
Film editing is now something almost everyone can do at a simple level and enjoy it but to take it to a higher level requires the same dedication and persistence that any art form does.
The art of love is largely the art of persistence.