Laurell K. Hamilton Quotes

Don't get discouraged from all the rejection.

I thought about all the people that told me I couldn't do it and told me I couldn't get there.

The will to persevere is often the difference between failure and success.

I work really hard, and have had many opportunities to give up and throw the towel in. But I never did.

Stopping before you reach the goal does not make the discouragement go away. All it does is make the discouragement permanent. Instead, keep going, keep making the attempt, until you make that last, fulfilling attempt that brings the success you desire.

Success is usually earned by persevering and not becoming discouraged when we encounter challenges.

Many discouraging hours will arise before the rainbow of accomplished goals will appear on the horizon.

There's an old expression about falling off a horse. You get back on and you ride that bad boy into town.

There is no such thing as failure, there's just giving up too soon.

There are no failures, only quitters.

It won't be easy, that is why I have always failed where others have succeeded.

Many of my biggest business endeavors were failures before they became a success. Some failed for as long as six years before they hit. Everyone around me thought I was crazy. You just have to stay at it.

If you are afraid to fail, you will never succeed.

Success is the process of not accepting failure.

I remember everyone telling me I had to think positive when I was writing my first book. If I believed I could do it, then I could! If I pictured myself published, then it was going to happen! Which sounded great, except...could I do it? If I didn't think I could, was I doomed to fail? What if I was almost totally sure I would fail? I am here to tell you-what matters is sticking with it.

Never give up. Just follow your dreams because this business can be so hard sometimes. It doesn't happen overnight where you get an audition or even a callback and get the role. It takes time.

When you are tempted to give up, your breakthrough is probably just around the corner.

The prizes of life are at the end of each journey, not near the beginning; and it is not given to me to know how many steps are necessary in order to reach my goal. Failure I may still encounter at the thousandth step, yet success hides behind the next bend in the road. Never will I know how close it lies unless I turn the corner.

Work hard, believe in your dreams, follow your dreams, don't give up, don't let failures hold you back. Those things were preached to me. They've taken a firm rooting system in my beliefs and what I'm passing on to my kids.

Failure turns into success. It looks like it happens overnight to other people, but it's just one person's determination to get past a certain goal. Everybody thinks it's an overnight success, but it's not. It's something someone has been working very, very hard on, and more than likely, has been too embarrassed to tell anybody. No one really wants to show other people their failures. They want to show their success.

There is but one failure in life and that is the failure to try.

Most people give up just when they're about to achieve success.

Either attempt it not, or succeed.

Don’t give up. You’ll regret it.

Giving up is the only sure way to fail.