A Quote by Robert H. Goddard

The reason many people fail is not for lack of vision but for lack of resolve and resolve is born out of counting the cost.

Robert H. Goddard

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Robert H. Goddard
American - Scientist
October 5, 1882 - August 10, 1945

The main reason we are held hostage by the most destructive technology on earth is simple: the complete lack of international resolve to ban nuclear weapons and banish them from the arsenals of the world.

C. G. Weeramantry

The simple reason that most people fail financially is not because of the lack of a plan, it’s not because of good advice, it’s not even because of a lack of capital. It is for one reason—they attach more pain to the idea of having money, than NOT having it.

Tony Robbins

Most people who fail in their dream fail not from lack of ability but from lack of commitment.

Zig Ziglar

We lack resolve and blame fate, mistaking the drift for the tides.

Robert Breault

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

Few lack talent, but most people lack the vision and perseverance to develop their talents.

Orrin Woodward

I hate the hand that comes out of a car and just drops litter in the street. I hate that! For some reason, it just fills me with fury! It's just utter laziness, lack of interest in other people, lack of interest in the planet, in the hedgehog who might eat the plastic bag, it's a lack of concern.

Joanna Lumley

Resolve to perform what you ought; perform without fail what you resolve.

Benjamin Franklin

Successful businesspeople retain a quality most others not only lack but often fail to comprehend, and that's the unrelenting drive to convert a vision into reality. They are driven to realize this goal in a manner that appears to defy logic among others who lack this drive.

Robert Herjavec

If you look at the developments in the international scene over the past many years, we haven't been able to resolve many problems and many crises, because we have approached them from a zero-sum perspective. My gain has always been defined as somebody else's loss, and through that, we never resolve problems.

Mohammad Javad Zarif

Startups don’t fail because they lack a product; they fail because they lack customers and a profitable business model.

Steve Blank

I resolve to live with all my might while I do live. I resolve never to lose one moment of time and to improve my use of time in the most profitable way I possibly can. I resolve never to do anything I wouldn't do, if it were the last hour of my life.

Jonathan Edwards

More men fail though lack of purpose than lack of talent.

Billy Sunday

More men fail through lack of purpose than lack of talent.

Billy Sunday

The amount of our endurance is directly proportionate to the clarity of our vision, so the practical application is we need to spend time to develop clarity of vision. What do you want your life to look like five, ten or fifteen years from now? Oftentimes, it's not so much a lack of discipline but a lack of vision.