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I took off my sweatshirt and dropped it on the grass and set off around the track. As soon as I started running, the world changed. The bodies spread out across the green of the football field were parts of a scene remembered, not one real at this moment. The secret of effort is to keep on, I told myself. Not for the world would I have stopped then, and yet nothing- not even if I had been turned handsome as a reward for finishing- could have made up for the curious pain of the effort. ↗

— Harold Brodkey

#persistence #change

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

— T. Scott McLeod

#failure #inspirational #intention #persistence #positive-thinking

Narrow the focus, take the ascent one step at a time, and it's amazing what odds a man can beat. ↗

— Courtney Schafer

#courage #focus #persistence #courage

To persist with a goal, you must treasure the dream more than the costs of sacrifice to attain it. ↗

— Richelle E. Goodrich

#cost #goals #persistence #richelle #richelle-goodrich

Inspiration comes when you stick your elbows on the table, your bottom on the chair and you start sweating. Choose a theme, an idea, and squeeze your brain until it hurts. That's called inspiration. ↗

— Carlos Ruiz Zafón

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Whatever you do in your life, always go the distance. ↗

— Ken Norton

#perseverance #persistence #life

Do it badly; do it slowly; do it fearfully; do it any way you have to, but do it. ↗

— Steve Chandler

#doing #fear #motivation #persistence #motivational

Until one is committed, there is hesitancy, the chance to draw back, always ineffectiveness. Concerning all acts of initiative and creation, there is one elementary truth the ignorance of which kills countless ideas and splendid plans: that the moment one definitely commits oneself, then providence moves too. All sorts of things occur to help one that would never otherwise have occurred. A whole stream of events issues from the decision, raising in one's favor all manner of unforeseen incidents, meetings and material assistance which no man could have dreamed would have come his way. Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it. Begin it now. ↗

— William Hutchison Murray

#persistence #dreams

You don't start out writing good stuff. You start out writing crap and thinking it's good stuff, and then gradually you get better at it. That's why I say one of the most valuable traits is persistence. ↗

— Octavia E. Butler

#writing-process #persistence

Flaming enthusiasm, backed by horse sense and persistence, is the quality that most frequently makes for success. ↗

— Dale Carnegie

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