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When defeat comes, accept it as a signal that your plans are not sound, rebuild those plans, and set sail once more toward your coveted goal.

— Napoleon Hill

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✓Similar Perspectives

Every person who wins in any undertaking must be willing to cut all sources of retreat. Only by doing so can one be sure of maintaining that state of mind known as a burning desire to win - essential to success.

— Napoleon Hill

Take your victories, whatever they may be, cherish them, use them, but don't settle for them.

— Mia Hamm

As soon as I accomplish one goal, I replace it with another one. I try not to get too far ahead of myself. I just say to myself, 'All right, well, I'd like to headline a tour,' and then when I get there, we'll see what my next goal is.

— Taylor Swift

Once you achieve one goal, you should be looking forward to trying to build onto the next thing, and not just getting comfortable with what you're doing.

— LL Cool J

Accept the challenges so that you can feel the exhilaration of victory.

— George S. Patton

If you want to succeed you should strike out on new paths, rather than travel the worn paths of accepted success.

— John D. Rockefeller

Do not be in a hurry to succeed. What would you have to live for afterwards? Better make the horizon your goal; it will always be ahead of you.

— William Makepeace Thackeray

I don't understand a way to work other than bold-facedly running towards failure.

— Cate Blanchett

✗Opposing Perspectives

Crystallize your goals. Make a plan for achieving them and set yourself a deadline. Then, with supreme confidence, determination and disregard for obstacles and other people's criticisms, carry out your plan.

— Paul J. Meyer

I like to go full bore into something. If you have a backup plan, then you've already admitted defeat.

— Henry Cavill