Navigate Your Stars Quotes

“Success is not the result of making one good choice, of taking one step. Real success requires step, after step, after step, after step. It requires choice after choice, it demands life-long education and passion and commitment and persistence and hunger and patience.”
― Jesmyn Ward, Navigate Your Stars

“I realized education wasn't one choice. It was a lifetime undertaking.”
― Jesmyn Ward, Navigate Your Stars

“If you are bewildered and clinging tenaciously to some course you love, be patient. Work hard. Hold your dream tightly to you, and do everything you can to realize it within reason. Take a step that will lead you toward the realization of your dream, and then take another, and another, and another. Hold fast to your oars, hoist the sails to the wind, read the pictures in the stars, look beyond the horizon to that which you can't see but dimly sense in your future: the curving inlet, the sandy beach.”
― Jesmyn Ward, Navigate Your Stars

“I didn't understand that writing a different story for myself meant that I had to not only make wise choices - plural - but have the gift of luck and better circumstances as well.”
― Jesmyn Ward, Navigate Your Stars