More men fail through lack of purpose than lack of talent.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Men fail much oftener from want of perseverance than from want of talent.
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.
People of mediocre ability sometimes achieve outstanding success because they don't know when to quit. Most men succeed because they are determined to.
It is a mistake to suppose that men succeed through success; they much oftener succeed through failures. Precept, study, advice, and example could never have taught them so well as failure has done.
Men and women succeed because they find a field of endeavor that matches their interests and abilities.
A man obsessed with failure has succeeded better than others in portraying it.
I do not think men have more talent. There are a great many women in the arts; novelists, painters, sculptors, poets-but the proportion is far lower in the field of song writing.
Men are born to succeed, not to fail.
Most successful men have not achieved their distinction by having some new talent or opportunity that was at hand.