Ann Brashares Quotes

A lot of can't deal with life because they lack the patience to become who they want to be.... Everything happens by process. If you don't go through the process to get it, you don't have the power to keep it.

All successful individuals have become such by hard work; by improving moments before they pass into hours, and hours that other people may occupy in the pursuit of pleasure.

Not until we have learned to be useful can we afford to do what we like.

Don't think about being the number one in the world, try instead to get through today's program as well as you can. Then we will see whether one day you'll end up as number one or number 100.

Wanting to win isn't enough. You have to go through a process to improve. That takes patience, perseverance, and intentionality.

The main reason for people's lack of success is their willingness to give up what they want most of all, for what they want right now!

So much working, reading, thinking, living to do! A lifetime is not long enough.

To make money, to gather knowledge, to learn a new skill, to explore new territory, even to get from A to B - for all these things you need time. For almost everything you need time, except for one thing: to embrace the present moment.

You build a successful life a day at a time.

If you want to succeed, limit yourself.

Giving up on our long-term goals for immediate gratification, my friends, is procrastination.

Sometimes you get lucky - you don't put much work in and you're successful anyway. But over the course of time, if you really want to shape your path, I think it's about the quality of the time you put in.

You try to make the most of each day. I'm not big into setting real specific goals. I think, really, if you just focus on every day - and I know that's the oldest cliche in the book, but it really is true. Day 1 of camp means just as much as Day 17 of camp. If you really try to focus on each and every one of those days, long-term.

You can't do everything, at the same time, always, and forever. But if you look at your life and your career as a long, winding river, you can get to your destination.

Learn from the past, set vivid, detailed goals for the future, and live in the only moment of time over which you have any control: now.

Think of the long view of life, not just what's going to happen today or tomorrow. Don't give up what you most want in life for something you think you want now.

The fast pace of life doesn't give you much scope for wasting your time or wallowing in the past or regrets.

I think people know that I've got things in my mind that I want to do and things I wanted to change in time. I can't do it all overnight.

I have done a few solo projects that I really enjoyed and would love to have time to do more. Key word here is time!

In the future, I want to be consistent from Day 1. We're still making adjustments. I still believe that I can be better.

One thing I noticed when I was young was I was impatient for success. I think everybody is impatient for success. It will come. But don't - you shouldn't let that impatience drive you crazy.

I was always taught as a kid that if there's anything you want in life, you've got to work towards it. I guess that sort of stayed with me, really.

Infinite patience gets you immediate results.

Most people say their main fault is a lack of discipline. On deeper thought, I believe this is not the case. The basic problem is that their priorities have not become deeply planted in their hearts and minds.

Patience, he thought. So much of this was patience - waiting, and thinking and doing things right. So much of all this, so much of all living was patience and thinking.