James Lee Burke Quotes

The biggest hurdle is rejection. Any business you start, be ready for it. The difference between successful people and unsuccessful people is the successful people do all the things the unsuccessful people don't want to do. When 10 doors are slammed in your face, go to door number 11 enthusiastically, with a smile on your face.

If you try to do your best there is no failure.

If you can't do something today, it will happen tomorrow or day after. If you are physically healthy and keep trying to achieve your goals, you will achieve what you want sooner or later.

When I'm struggling, I can still dream about my successes.

Success is achieved and maintained by those who keep trying with positive mental attitude. What you try for is up to you.

You can do anything you want to do as long as you keep a good attitude and keep working at it. But the second you give up, you’re screwed.

Every 'No' gets me closer to a 'Yes'.

We cannot fail to win unless we fail to try.

To ward off a feeling of failure, she joked that she could wallpaper her bathroom with rejection slips, which she chose not to see as messages to stop, but rather as tickets to the game.

Do not allow yourselves to be disheartened by any failure as long as you have done your best.

You have many options in life, never make giving up one of them

Every successful author I know faced crushing rejection early on, and they got back up and kept going.

Don’t give up. You’ll regret it.

Do not think of to-day's failures, but of the success that may come tomorrow.

Never permit failure to become a habit.

I take rejection as someone blowing a bugle in my ear to wake me up and get going, rather than retreat.

Don't be afraid to fail. You're going to go on a million auditions, and most of them you won't get. It's very easy to think, 'This is not going to work for me,' but keep at it. It's very generic advice, but you have to be willing to keep yourself in the game.

Failure is impossible.

As an outside; don't worry about failure, because failure will take care of itself. Focus on success.

Whatever you believe in, and if you keep trying, you can eventually succeed.

All of us, in a sense, struggle continuously all the time, because we never get what we want. The important thing which I've really learned is how do you not give up, because you never succeed in the first attempt.

The starkest rejection letter might be followed by a million-dollar advance. Don't let rejection start to look the same as failure.

Never allow yourself to dwell upon your weaknesses, deficiencies, or failures. Holding firmly the ideal and struggling vigorously to attain it will help you to realize it.

As a writer, you can't allow yourself the luxury of being discouraged and giving up when you are rejected, either by agents or publishers. You absolutely must plow forward.

All I can do is knuckle down, write something really good, and hope someone responds to it.