Most successful men have not achieved their distinction by having some new talent or opportunity that was at hand.
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More men fail through lack of purpose than lack of talent.
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.
It takes a different mindset to be successful in anything; that's why there's not a lot of super duper successful people, because it's guys I know who may be ten times more talented than me, but they don't work as hard.
There are many people that struggle and struggle and have all the talent in the world, but for some reason they are not successful. You never know why those things happen.
It is a very rare thing for a man of talent to succeed by his 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.
Men make opportunity. Every great industrial achievement has been the result of individual effort - the practical development of a dream in the mind of an individual.
No man can discover his own talents.
Success cannot come from standstill men. Methods change and men must change with them.
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