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Men tire themselves in pursuit of rest.

Men are anxious to improve their circumstances, but are unwilling to improve themselves; they therefore remain bound.

Men can starve from a lack of self-realization as much as they can from a lack of bread.

The average-guy routine works only so much, and then people begin to want something more.

More men fail through lack of purpose than lack of talent.

People of mediocre ability sometimes achieve outstanding success because they don't know when to quit. Most men succeed because they are determined to.

Some men give up their designs when they have almost reached the goal; While others, on the contrary, obtain a victory by exerting, at the last moment, more vigorous efforts than ever before.

Few things are impracticable in themselves; and it is for want of application, rather than of means, that men fail to succeed.

The majority of men meet with failure because of their lack of persistence in creating new plans to take the place of those which fail.

Men fail much oftener from want of perseverance than from want of talent.