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> [It is the combination of reasonable talent and the ability to keep going in the face of defeat that leads to success.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/martin-seligman/it-is-the-combination-of-reasonable-talent-and-the-ability-to-keep/)

[Martin Seligman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/martin-seligman/)

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> [The belief that we can rely on shortcuts to happiness, joy, rapture, comfort, and ecstasy, rather than be entitled to these feelings…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/martin-seligman/the-belief-that-we-can-rely-on-shortcuts-to-happiness-joy-rapture/)

[Martin Seligman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/martin-seligman/)

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> [Positive emotion alienated from the exercise of character leads to emptiness, to inauthenticity, to depression, and, as we age, to the gnawing…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/martin-seligman/positive-emotion-alienated-from-the-exercise-of-character-leads-to/)

[Martin Seligman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/martin-seligman/)

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## Other authors on Leads

## More by Martin Seligman

> [It used to be that whenever I introduced myself to people and told them I was a psychologist, they would shrink away from me.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/martin-seligman/it-used-to-be-that-whenever-i-introduced-myself-to-people-and-told/)

[Martin Seligman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/martin-seligman/)

> [I have never worked on interrogation; I have never seen an interrogation, and I have only a passing knowledge of the literature on interrogation.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/martin-seligman/i-have-never-worked-on-interrogation-i-have-never-seen-an/)

[Martin Seligman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/martin-seligman/)

> [I'm trying to broaden the scope of positive psychology well beyond the smiley face. Happiness is just one-fifth of what human beings choose to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/martin-seligman/i-m-trying-to-broaden-the-scope-of-positive-psychology-well-beyond/)

[Martin Seligman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/martin-seligman/)

> [It's a matter of ABC: When we encounter ADVERSITY, we react by thinking about it. Our thoughts rapidly congeal into BELIEFS. These beliefs may…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/martin-seligman/it-s-a-matter-of-abc-when-we-encounter-adversity-we-react-by-thinking/)

[Martin Seligman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/martin-seligman/)

> [One of the things psychologists used to say was that if you are depressed, anxious or angry, you couldn't be happy. Those were at…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/martin-seligman/one-of-the-things-psychologists-used-to-say-was-that-if-you-are/)

[Martin Seligman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/martin-seligman/)

> [It is the combination of reasonable talent and the ability to keep going in the face of defeat that leads to success.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/martin-seligman/it-is-the-combination-of-reasonable-talent-and-the-ability-to-keep/)

[Martin Seligman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/martin-seligman/)

> [Psychology is much bigger than just medicine, or fixing unhealthy things. It's about education, work, marriage - it's even about sports. What I want…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/martin-seligman/psychology-is-much-bigger-than-just-medicine-or-fixing-unhealthy/)

[Martin Seligman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/martin-seligman/)

> [What humans want is not just happiness. They want justice; they want meaning.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/martin-seligman/what-humans-want-is-not-just-happiness-they-want-justice-they-want/)

[Martin Seligman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/martin-seligman/)

> [I have spent most of my life working with mental illness. I have been president of the world's largest association of mental-illness workers, and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/martin-seligman/i-have-spent-most-of-my-life-working-with-mental-illness-i-have-been/)

[Martin Seligman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/martin-seligman/)

> [Finding permanent and universal causes for misfortune is the practice of despair...](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/martin-seligman/finding-permanent-and-universal-causes-for-misfortune-is-the-practice/)

[Martin Seligman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/martin-seligman/)

> [We deprive our children, our charges, of persistence. What I am trying to say is that we need to fail, children need to fail,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/martin-seligman/we-deprive-our-children-our-charges-of-persistence-what-i-am-trying/)

[Martin Seligman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/martin-seligman/)

> [One of my worries about America is the epidemic of depression we've been in. One of the possibilities about that is that the 'I'…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/martin-seligman/one-of-my-worries-about-america-is-the-epidemic-of-depression-we-ve/)

[Martin Seligman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/martin-seligman/)

> [The Fundamentalist Religions simply seem to offer more hope for a brighter future than do the more liberal, humanistic ones.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/martin-seligman/the-fundamentalist-religions-simply-seem-to-offer-more-hope-for-a/)

[Martin Seligman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/martin-seligman/)

> [If the point of the inner-child movement is to cure adult problems, it doesn't work. Reliving childhood traumas gives you a nice afterglow, but…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/martin-seligman/if-the-point-of-the-inner-child-movement-is-to-cure-adult-problems-it/)

[Martin Seligman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/martin-seligman/)

> [I don't mind being wrong, and I don't mind changing my mind.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/martin-seligman/i-don-t-mind-being-wrong-and-i-don-t-mind-changing-my-mind/)

[Martin Seligman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/martin-seligman/)

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