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.
One thing at a time all things in succession. That which grows slowly endures.
Make haste slowly.
Slow motion gets you there faster.
I'm not there yet but I'm closer than I was yesterday.
Life begins on the other side of despair.
I am suffocated and lost when I have not the bright feeling of progression.
The lowest ebb is the turn of the tide.
You give ioo percent in the first half of the game and if that isn't enough in the second half you give what's left.
Don't get hung up on a snag in the stream my dear. Snags are not so dangerous-it's the debris that clings to them that makes the trouble. Pull yourself loose and go on.
The great thing and the hard thing is to stick to things when you have outlived the first interest and not yet got the second which comes with a sort of mastery.
If something is boring after two minutes try it for four. If still boring try for eight sixteen thirty-two and so on. Eventually one discovers that it is not boring but very interesting.
No one ever did anything worth doing unless he was prepared to go on with it long after it became something of a bore.
I've been failing for like ten or eleven years. When it turns it'll turn. Right now I'm just tryin' to squeeze through a very tight financial period get the movie out and put my things in order.
I'm a little wounded but I am not slain I will lay me down to bleed a while. Then I'll rise and fight again.
A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is brave five minutes longer.
Hope says to us constantly "go on go on " and leads us to the grave.
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