One thing I have learned about Christians, having organized them for years - when they lose, they quit. And when they win they quit. We are just quitters.
I was just a start-and-stop guy. I could never really follow through on anything that I started.
The nice thing about true hopelessness is that you don't have to try again.
Evil company is always to be shunned; because it leads to lust and anger, illusion, forgetfulness of the goal, destruction of the will (lack of perseverance), and destruction of everything. (Narada Bhakti Sutra)
The habit of taking the line of least resistance makes all rivers and some men crooked.
What's up wit these new niggas? And why they think it all come so easy?
There are some persons who never succeed from being too indolent to undertake anything; and others who regularly fail, because the instant they find success in their power, they grow indifferent, and give over the attempt.
She will never submit to any thing requiring industry and patience, and a subjection of the fancy to the understanding.
The saddest failures in life are those that come from not putting forth the power and will to succeed.
I remember so clearly as a kid, my biggest problem in life was I used to never follow up on anything.
The primary reason for underachievement and failure is that the great majority of people don't decide to be successful.
The only reason men fail is because of broken focus
It's all just venom to the soul and symptomatic of a larger issue: the idea of the shortcut. The result without the fight. The fight is the thing. The work.
I have noticed that these days, people don't want to take their time to succeed.
But I'm the worst sort of gamer because I don't stick to things and I don't really care about winning. It's the same with sports and stuff like that. If it's too difficult I'll stop.
The greatest danger of being gifted, is that you may never learn how to make an effort.
Feeling lonely and ignoble indicates that you haven't been patient.
Strange new problems are being reported in the growing generations of children whose mothers were always there, driving them around, helping them with their homework --an inability to endure pain or discipline or pursue any self-sustained goal of any sort, a devastating boredom with life.
Is it not true that the clever rogue is like the runner who runs well for the first half of the course, but flags before reaching the goal: he is quick off the mark, but ends in disgrace and slinks away crestfallen and uncrowned. The crown is the prize of the really good runner who perseveres to the end.
