Patience & Perseverance are Your Keys to Success
Inspirational Living: Life Lessons for Success & Happiness
The Living Hour
3.8 • 799 Ratings
🗓️ 23 May 2024
⏱️ 15 minutes
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Listen to episode 906 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Patience & Perseverance are Your Keys to Success. Edited and adapted from How to Get On in the World by Major A.R. Calhoun.
Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: The soldier who begins the battle in doubt is half beaten in advance. The entrepreneur who loses heart after one failure is a fool to have even started. There is a great deal in good preparation, but there is a great deal more in heroic perseverance. The person who declines to make a start until everything they think they need is ready at hand is very apt to fail.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, this is David. Have you thought about starting a retail business? When you think about |
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| 1:13.0 | Shopify.com slash inspirational. Welcome to the Inspirational Living podcast. |
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| 1:42.4 | Because the more great reviews we get, the more easily it is |
| 1:46.6 | for others to discover us. Plus, I always love reading how this podcast has had a positive |
| 1:53.1 | effect on your life. Thank you. Today's reading was edited and adapted from How to Get On in the World by Major A. R. Calhoun, published |
| 2:06.1 | in 1895. |
| 2:11.9 | If success were possible only two women and men of great talents, then there would be little success in the world. |
| 2:21.4 | It has been rightly said that talent is just as much the ability to stick to a thing |
| 2:28.1 | as the aptitude do do it better than another. |
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