Let no one 'til his death be called unhappy. Measure not the work Until the day's out and the labor done: Then bring your gauges.
Either do not attempt at all or go through with it.
It is a matter first of beginning-and then following through.
There is but an inch of difference between the cushioned chamber and the padded cell.
The only way to find out if you can write is to set aside a certain period every day and try. Save enough money to give yourself six months to be a full-time writer. Work every day and the pages will...
I work every day-or at least I force myself into my office or room. I may get nothing done but you don't earn bonuses without putting in time. Nothing may come for three months but you don't earn th...
It does not matter how slowly you go so long as you do not stop.
The great thing in this world is not so much where we are but in what direction we are moving.
The race is not always to the swift but to those who keep on running.
My parents told me that people will never know how long it takes you to do something. They will only know how well it is done.
By perseverance the snail reached the ark.
Our desire must be like a slow and stately ship sailing across endless oceans never in search of safe anchorage. Then suddenly unexpectedly it will find mooring for a moment.
The race is not to the swift nor the battle to the strong.
If we are facing in the right direction all we have to do is keep on walking.
I'm a slow walker but I never walk back.
Character is built into the spiritual fabric of personality hour by hour day by day year by year in much the same deliberate way that physical health is built into the body.
No great thing is created suddenly.
Be content to grow a little each day. If the improvement is the sort of thing which is very slow do not measure it too often. Do a self-comparison every two weeks or every six months whatever is ap...
Pray that success will not come any faster than you are able to endure it.
The way of progress is neither swift nor easy.
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