Character Quote by Horace Mann

Most men fail, not through lack of education or agreeable personal qualities, but from lack of dogged determination, from lack of dauntless will.

— Orison Swett Marden

One is apt to think of moral failure as due to weakness of character: more often it is due to an inadequate ideal.

— Richard Livingstone

Most men fail, not through lack of education, but from lack of dogged determination, from lack of dauntless will.

— Orison Swett Marden

Success has made failures of many men.

— Cindy Adams

All human progress, even in morals, has been the work of men who have doubted the current moral values, not of men who have…

— H. L. Mencken

Learned men fall into error oftenest by mistaking knowledge for wisdom.

— Austin O'Malley

Most real failures are due to limitations which men set up in their own minds.

— Napoleon Hill

Surprisingly few men are lacking in capacity, but they fail because... they are too indolent to apply themselves with the seriousness and the attention…

— Calvin Coolidge

The majority of men meet with failure because of their lack of persistence in creating new plans to take the place of those which…

— Napoleon Hill

Men of great and shining qualities do not always succeed in life, but the fault lies more often in themselves than in others.

— Charles Caleb Colton

Again, it is possible to fail in many ways (for evil belongs to the class of the unlimited and good to that of the…

— Aristotle

All failures - neurotics, psychotics, criminals, drunkards, problem children, suicides, perverts, and prostitutes - are failures because they are lacking in social interest

— Alfred Adler