Sarah Orne Jewett Quotes

Luck is earned. Luck is working so hard at your craft, service or enterprise that sooner or later you get a break.

It is said that good things come to those who wait. I believe that good things come to those who work.

You have to sit by the side of a river a very long time before a roast duck will fly into your mouth.

Diligence, above all, is the mother of good luck.

Fortune is ever seen accompanying industry.

To really be conscious of how long the journey is, be patient, push yourself, persevere and always be working on your craft while waiting for your break.

There is no secret to success except hard work and getting something indefinable which we call 'the breaks.' In order for a writer to succeed, I suggest three things - read and write - and wait.

Diligence is the mother of good luck.

You've got to clock the hours and pay your dues. Then eventually, people will come to you. You have to be patient and appreciative.

Younger songwriters will ask me, 'What did you do?' And it's like, 'Well, I worked a day job, and I didn't stake anything. I didn't quit my day job. I didn't have any hopes at all. I just did the thing that I believed in, and I waited a long time.'

It's a combination of how much efforts you put in, how much you're working on a daily basis on your goals and it also has to do with a bit of luck. It's difficult but you've to be very patient. The main thing is perseverance.

People I know who succeed don't mind working. Those who are competent seem to like doing things well -- not stopping because they haven't accomplished what they wanted to on the first go-round. They're willing to do it twenty times, if necessary. There's an illusion that the good people can easily do something, and it's not necessarily true. They're just determined to do it right. I was impressed by hearing one of the women at Radcliffe talk about writing a poem, how many revisions a single poem sometimes has to go through -- fifty or sixty revisions to come out with a poem sixteen lines long.

Luck favors the people who are willing to grind it out.

I insist you to strive. Work, Work and only work for satisfaction with patience, humbleness and serve thy nation.

Talent is long patience.

Most people with a big idea, great talent and/or something to say don't get lucky at first. Or second. Or even third. It's so easy to conclude that if you're not lucky, you're not good. So persistence becomes an essential element of good, because without persistence, you never get a chance to get lucky.

There is no great achievement that is not the result of patient working and waiting.

Luck is predictable; the harder you work, the luckier you get.

Slow and steady wins the race, and I believe in paying your dues.

I discovered that the more I hustled, the luckier I seemed to get.

Dream big - dream very big. Work hard - work very hard. And after you've done all you can, you stand, wait and fully surrender.

Believe in what you do, because you may have to do it for a long time before it catches on.

Be patient.Of course it will come. It took me years to get an Oscar.

Luck? Luck is hard work - and realizing what is opportunity and what isn't.

Excellence is never granted to man but as the reward of labor. It argues no small strength of mind to persevere in habits of industry without the pleasure of perceiving those advances, which, like the hand of a clock, whilst they make hourly approaches to their point, yet proceed so slowly as to escape observation.