Inspirational Quotes to Stay Motivated

When you’re not sure if you should send out those queries:

• In the long run our biggest regrets are not our actions but our in-actions. The things we wish we could redo are the chances not taken. 

              - Adam Grant 

When rejections are rolling in, remember that you are not alone.

Harry Potter was rejected by 12 editors.

• Failure taught me things about myself I could have learned no other way. The knowledge that you have emerged stronger and wiser from setbacks means that you are ever-after secure in your ability to survive. 

  - J.K. Rowling  

​When it’s not coming out right, keep going.

• You can always edit a bad page. You can't edit a blank page.   

  - Jodi Picoult

• You don't start out writing good stuff. You start out writing crap and thinking it's good stuff, and then gradually you get better at it. That's why I say one of the most valuable traits is persistence.

  - Octavia E. Butler

• The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt. 

​         - Sylvia Plath

Failure is a part of the process. Don’t get discouraged.

• Success is going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm. 

  - Winston Churchill

• You may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated. In fact, it may be necessary to encounter the defeats, so you can know who you are, what you can rise from, how you can still come out of it.

  - Maya Angelou
   

Never stand in your own way.

• The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt.

  - Sylvia Plath

• Doubt kills more dreams than failure ever will.
  - Suzy Kassem

• Don't be the reason you don't succeed.

  - Germany Kent

• You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.
  - Malala Yousafzai