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“Financial sense is knowing that certain men will promise to do certain things, and fail.”

Men Certain Business Knowing Failing Promise Financial Finance

Author:E. W. Howe

“One can build the Empire State Building, discipline the Prussian army, make a state hierarchy mightier than God, yet fail to overcome the unaccountable superiority of certain human beings.”

Humans States Certain Human Beings Failing Greatness Building Discipline Overcoming Army Empires Superiority Hierarchy Empire State Building Empire State

Author:Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

“Every successful painter has worked hard. He cannot rest after having gained a certain degree of facility in drawing, and expect to retain it. He must advance or fall behind. Without practice he will forget; his eye will fail him; and his hand will deny its master.”

Hard Hands Eye Certain Fall Forget Behinds Practice Successful Failing Masters Degrees Deny Drawing Painter His Eyes Facility

Author:Walter J. Phillips

“To experience the satisfaction and enjoyment of success in life, a definitive goal is essential. Many people fail at this vital point. The goal must be definite and specific, not in any sense vague or fuzzy. And to prove attainable, its image needs to be sharpened and resharpened continually, so that it stands out vividly in your thoughts. You must know, at all times, precisely and for certain what it is you want to accomplish and achieve. Strong and organized purposefulness toward a definite objective will focus your powers into a strong motivation in attainment of your goal.”

Source: Norman Vincent Peale's treasury of courage and confidence

“He who knows how to wait for what he desires does not feel very desperate if he fails in obtaining it; and he, on the contrary, who is very impatient in procuring a certain thing, takes so much pains about it, that, even when he is successful, he does not think himself sufficiently rewarded.”

Ifs Thinking Knows Feels Doe Pain Desire Certain Waiting Know How Successful Failing Contrary Desperate Impatient Obtaining

Author:Jean de la Bruyere

“Leadership is scarce because few people are willing to go through the discomfort required to lead. This scarcity makes leadership valuable...It's uncomfortable to stand up in front of strangers. It's uncomfortable to propose an idea that might fail. It's uncomfortable to challenge the status quo. It's uncomfortable to resist the urge to settle...If you're not uncomfortable in your work as a leader, it's almost certain you're not reaching your potential as a leader.”

People Ifs Ideas Might Certain Challenges Leader Failing Fronts Willing Stranger Valuable Settling Uncomfortable Reaching Urges Status Quo Discomfort Propose Scarce Scarcity

Author:Seth Godin

“The culture stays alive, but certain parts of it die or fail, and that's very interesting to me.”

Certain Dies Culture Interesting Alive Failing Very Interesting Staying Alive

Author:Campbell McGrath

“Just as the hand that strikes the ground cannot fail, So is the ruin certain of him who cherishes anger.”

Hands Certain Failing Strikes Ruins Cherish

Author:Thiruvalluvar

“It is concern that precedes and inspires agendas, and survives when agendas fail, and it causes us to try again, always trying our best, never certain about our own judgment. It is knowing that God's purpose exceeds whatever we can put in an agenda.”

Trying Purpose Certain Causes Knowing Failing Inspire Judgment Concern Agendas Exceed Always Trying Try Again Trying Our Best

Author:John C. Danforth