Don't
Aim at Success
“Let
the improvement of yourself keep you so busy that you have no time to criticize
others.”
―
Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart
“Don't
aim at success. The more you aim at it and make it a target, the more you are
going to miss it. For success, like happiness, cannot be pursued; it must
ensue, and it only does so as the unintended side effect of one's personal
dedication to a cause greater than oneself or as the by-product of one's
surrender to a person other than oneself. Happiness must happen, and the same
holds for success: you have to let it happen by not caring about it. I want you
to listen to what your conscience commands you to do and go on to carry it out
to the best of your knowledge. Then you will live to see that in the
long-run—in the long-run, I say!—success will follow you precisely because you
had forgotten to think about it”
―
Viktor E. Frankl, Man’s Search for Meaning
“The
way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing. ”
―
Walt Disney
“Sometimes
it takes a good fall to really know where you stand”
―
Hayley Williams
“All
you need in this life is ignorance and confidence; then success is sure. ”
― Mark
Twain
“Our
greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.”
―
Oliver Goldsmith, The Citizen of the World, Or, Letters from a Chinese
Philosopher, Residing in London, to His Friends in the Country, by Dr.
Goldsmith
“No
matter how old you are now. You are never too young or too old for success or
going after what you want. Here’s a short list of people who accomplished great
things at different ages
1)
Helen Keller, at the age of 19 months, became deaf and blind. But that didn’t
stop her. She was the first deaf and blind person to earn a Bachelor of Arts
degree.
2)
Mozart was already competent on keyboard and violin; he composed from the age
of 5.
3)
Shirley Temple was 6 when she became a movie star on “Bright Eyes.”
4)
Anne Frank was 12 when she wrote the diary of Anne Frank.
5)
Magnus Carlsen became a chess Grandmaster at the age of 13.
6)
Nadia Comăneci was a gymnast from Romania that scored seven perfect 10.0 and
won three gold medals at the Olympics at age 14.
7)
Tenzin Gyatso was formally recognized as the 14th Dalai Lama in November 1950,
at the age of 15.
8)
Pele, a soccer superstar, was 17 years old when he won the world cup in 1958
with Brazil.
9)
Elvis was a superstar by age 19.
10)
John Lennon was 20 years and Paul Mcartney was 18 when the Beatles had their
first concert in 1961.
11)
Jesse Owens was 22 when he won 4 gold medals in Berlin 1936.
12)
Beethoven was a piano virtuoso by age 23
13)
Issac Newton wrote Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica at age 24
14)
Roger Bannister was 25 when he broke the 4 minute mile record
15)
Albert Einstein was 26 when he wrote the theory of relativity
16)
Lance E. Armstrong was 27 when he won the tour de France
17)
Michelangelo created two of the greatest sculptures “David” and “Pieta” by age
28
18)
Alexander the Great, by age 29, had created one of the largest empires of the
ancient world
19)
J.K. Rowling was 30 years old when she finished the first manuscript of Harry
Potter
20)
Amelia Earhart was 31 years old when she became the first woman to fly solo
across the Atlantic Ocean
21)
Oprah was 32 when she started her talk show, which has become the highest-rated
program of its kind
22)
Edmund Hillary was 33 when he became the first man to reach Mount Everest
23)
Martin Luther King Jr. was 34 when he wrote the speech “I Have a Dream."
24)
Marie Curie was 35 years old when she got nominated for a Nobel Prize in
Physics
25)
The Wright brothers, Orville (32) and Wilbur (36) invented and built the
world's first successful airplane and making the first controlled, powered and
sustained heavier-than-air human flight
26)
Vincent Van Gogh was 37 when he died virtually unknown, yet his paintings today
are worth millions.
27)
Neil Armstrong was 38 when he became the first man to set foot on the moon.
28)
Mark Twain was 40 when he wrote "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer", and
49 years old when he wrote "Adventures of Huckleberry Finn"
29)
Christopher Columbus was 41 when he discovered the Americas
30)
Rosa Parks was 42 when she refused to obey the bus driver’s order to give up
her seat to make room for a white passenger
31)
John F. Kennedy was 43 years old when he became President of the United States
32)
Henry Ford Was 45 when the Ford T came out.
33)
Suzanne Collins was 46 when she wrote "The Hunger Games"
34)
Charles Darwin was 50 years old when his book On the Origin of Species came
out.
35)
Leonardo Da Vinci was 51 years old when he painted the Mona Lisa.
36)
Abraham Lincoln was 52 when he became president.
37)
Ray Kroc Was 53 when he bought the McDonalds Franchise and took it to
unprecedented levels.
38)
Dr. Seuss was 54 when he wrote "The Cat in the Hat".
40)
Chesley "Sully" Sullenberger III was 57 years old when he
successfully ditched US Airways Flight 1549 in the Hudson River in 2009. All of
the 155 passengers aboard the aircraft survived
41)
Colonel Harland Sanders was 61 when he started the KFC Franchise
42)
J.R.R Tolkien was 62 when the Lord of the Ring books came out
43)
Ronald Reagan was 69 when he became President of the US
44)
Jack Lalane at age 70 handcuffed, shackled, towed 70 rowboats
45)
Nelson Mandela was 76 when he became President”
―
Pablo
“It
is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.”
―
Theodore Roosevelt
“Sometimes
life knocks you on your ass... get up, get up, get up!!! Happiness is not the
absence of problems, it's the ability to deal with them.”
―
Steve Maraboli, Life, the Truth, and Being Free
“A
thinker sees his own actions as experiments and questions--as attempts to find
out something. Success and failure are for him answers above all.”
―
Friedrich Nietzsche
“How
would your life be different if…You stopped making negative judgmental
assumptions about people you encounter? Let today be the day…You look for the
good in everyone you meet and respect their journey.”
―
Steve Maraboli, Life, the Truth, and Being Free
“It
had long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat
back and let things happen to them. They went out and happened to things.”
―
Leonardo da Vinci
“There
is nothing more rare, nor more beautiful, than a woman being unapologetically
herself; comfortable in her perfect imperfection. To me, that is the true
essence of beauty.”
―
Steve Maraboli, Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human
Experience
“The
biggest wall you have to climb is the one you build in your mind: Never let
your mind talk you out of your dreams, trick you into giving up. Never let your
mind become the greatest obstacle to success. To get your mind on the right
track, the rest will follow.”
―
Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart
“A
man is a success if he gets up in the morning and gets to bed at night, and in
between he does what he wants to do.”
―
Bob Dylan
“Never
stop dreaming,
never
stop believing,
never
give up,
never
stop trying, and
never
stop learning.”
―
Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart
“Success
is most often achieved by those who don't know that failure is inevitable.”
―
Coco Chanel, Believing in Ourselves: The Wisdom of Women
“Do
not let arrogance go to your head and despair to your heart; do not let
compliments go to your head and criticisms to your heart; do not let success go
to your head and failure to your heart.”
―
Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart
“Only
those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.”
―
Robert F. Kennedy
“If
you try and lose then it isn't your fault. But if you don't try and we lose,
then it's all your fault.”
―
Orson Scott Card, Ender’s Game
