#severance

If everyone could be a successful and rich author, there would be no point in working so hard. Where is the fun in that? ↗

— L.A. Jones

#perseverance #writing-life #inspirational

once you learn to quit, it becomes a habit ↗

— Vince Lombardi Jr.

#inspirational #paradox #perseverance #inspirational

The three great essentials to achieve anything worthwhile are, first, hard work; second, stick-to-itiveness; third, common sense. ↗

— Thomas A. Edison

#enterprise #hard-work #inspirational #perseverance #persistence

It does not matter how slowly you go so long as you do not stop. ↗

— Andy Warhol

#inspirational #perseverance #inspirational

[...] allowing only ordinary ability and opportunity, we may explain success mainly by one word and that word is WORK! WORK!! WORK!!! WORK!!!! Not transient and fitful effort, but patient, enduring, honest, unremitting and indefatigable work into which the whole heart is put[...] There is no royal road to perfection. ↗

— Frederick Douglass

#perfection #perseverance #personal-growth #self-discipline #success

Confidence is like a dragon where, for every head cut off, two more heads grow back. ↗

— Criss Jami

#confidence #confident #determination #dragon #dragons

If we bestow but a very little attention to the economy of the animal creation, we shall find manifest examples of premeditation, perseverance, resolution, and consumate artifice, in order to effect their purpose. ↗

— William Bartram

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Your first 10,000 photographs are your worst. ↗

— Henri Cartier-Bresson

#perseverance #photography #art

In truth, I am nothing but a plodding mediocrity — please observe, a plodding mediocrity — for a mere mediocrity does not go very far, but a plodding one gets quite a distance. There is joy in that success, and a distinction can come from courage, fidelity and industry. ↗

— Benjamin N. Cardozo

#success #courage

I am thankful when I am hungry because then I know that when I eat, the food will taste better. Life has taught me that my true contentment rests in hope, and the pleasure itself is secondary. It is self-awareness, not happiness, that maintains peace. ↗

— Criss Jami

#content #contentment #eating #enjoyment #faith