PERSEVERANCE: steadfastness in doing something despite
difficulty or delay in achieving success.
QUOTES:
“Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how
close they were to success when they gave up.” Thomas Edison
“Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.” Babe
Ruth
“Rivers know this: there is no hurry. We shall get there
some day.” A. A. Milne
“Ninety-nine percent of all failures come from people who
have a habit of making excuses.” George Washington Carver
PEOPLE:
Thomas Edison was told in his early years that he was “too stupid
to learn anything.” He
made over 1000 unsuccessful attempts at inventing the light bulb.
Jack London received six hundred rejection
slips in his early years.
Dr. Seuss’s first book, To Think That I Saw it on Mulberry
Street, was rejected 27 times.
The next time you think about quitting, in your writing or
some other endeavor, think of my word for the week: PERSEVERANCE
Another little tidbit of information about perseverance: It took 40 attempts to get the water
displacing formula for WD40 worked out. Hence the name, WD40. And just like duct
tape, what would we do without WD40?
Maybe some day someone will say, "What would we do without the writings of (fill in your name)?"
In the eyes of some, even rejects are beautiful!
Posted by Janet Smart on Creative Writing in the Blackberry Patch.
