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success depends on your backbone, not your wishbone

Success is achieved through dedication and effort, not hopes and dreams or wishful thinking. You need to work on your writing every single day if you really want to be a famous author because success depends on your backbone, not your wishbone.

See also: depend, not, on, success

backbone

n. courage; integrity. (Colloquial.) If you had any backbone, you would be able to deal with this.