[Wishing her mother had named ...

[Wishing her mother had named her Beulah:] At least you did not sit on your beulah.
[Wishing her mother had named her Beulah:] At least you did not sit on your beulah.
 Fannie Hurst

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Effort only fully releases its reward after a person refuses to quit.
Never complain and never explain.
A good plan violently executed now is better than a perfect plan executed next week.
 George S. Patton
Problems are not stop signs, they are guidelines.
 Robert Schuller
Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
 Harriet Beecher Stowe

Quotes from the same author

The grand canyon which yawns between the writer's concept of what he wants to capture in words and what comes through is a cruel abyss.
 Fannie Hurst
Some authors have what amounts to a metaphysical approach. They admit to inspiration. Sudden and unaccountable urgencies to writecatapult them out of sleep and bed. For myself, I have never awakened to jot down an idea that was acceptable the following morning.
 Fannie Hurst