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When you climb a mountain, look to the top and not to the rocks that surround you. Make sure of where you step as you climb, and do not leap, in case you loose your footing. ↗

— Muhammad Adb Al-Rahman Al-Arifi

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Never again will I underestimate the greatness inside of me just because of the hate and limited thinking inside of others. ↗

— Steve Maraboli

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the old maxim... "there are three things necessary to success in life--Impudence! Impudence! Impudence! ↗

— William Hazlitt

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I must admit that you fascinate me, Superior. Your life would seem to be entirely unbearable. And yet you fight so very, very hard to stay alive. With every weapon and stratagem. You simply refuse to die.” “I am ready to die.” Glokta returned his gaze, like for like. “But I refuse to lose.” ~Bayaz and Glokta ↗

— Joe Abercrombie

#inspirational

I've written about 2,000 short stories; I've only published 300 and I feel I'm still learning. Any man who keeps working is not a failure. He may not be a great writer, but if he applies the old fashioned virtues of hard, constant labor, he'll eventually make some kind of career for himself as a writer. Ray Bradbury, 1967 interview (Doing the Math - that means for every story he sold, he wrote six "un-publishable" ones. Keep typing!) ↗

— Ray Bradbury

#perserverance #success #writing-life #life

Our greatest fear should not be of failure but of succeeding at things in life that don't really matter. ↗

— Francis Chan

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A successful man is like a bottle of wine, just gets better with age. ↗

— Habeeb Akande

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Talent is cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work. ↗

— Stephen King

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Curious that we spend more time congratulating people who have succeeded than encouraging people who have not. ↗

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

#encourage #encouraging #succeed #success #success

Want something else more than success. Success is a lovely thing, but your desire to say something, your worth, and your identity shouldn’t rely on it, because it’s not guaranteed and it’s not permanent and it’s not sufficient. So work hard, fall in love with the writing—the characters, the story, the words, the themes—and make sure that you are who you are regardless of your life circumstances. That way, when the good things come, they don’t warp you, and when the bad things hit you, you don’t fall apart. ↗

— Veronica Roth

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