The Test
of Success
“...it
is well known that a vital ingredient of success is not knowing that what
you're attempting can't be done.”
―
Terry Pratchett, Equal Rites
“You
differ from a great man in only one respect: the great man was once a very
little man, but he developed one important quality: he recognized the smallness
and narrowness of his thoughts and actions. Under the pressure of some task
that meant a great deal to him, he learned to see how his smallness, his
pettiness endangered his happiness. In other words, a great man knows when and
in what way he is a little man. A little man does not know he is little and is
afraid to know. He hides his pettiness and narrowness behind illusions of
strength and greatness, someone else's strength and greatness. He's proud of
his great generals but not of himself. He admires an idea he has not had, not
one he has had. The less he understands something, the more firmly he believes
in it. And the better he understands an idea, the less he believes in it.”
―
Wilhelm Reich, Listen, Little Man!
“The
test of success is not what you do when you are on top. Success is how high you
bounce when you hit the bottom.”
―
George S. Patton Jr.
“It
is said we learn more from our failures than our successes.”
―
Holly Black, The Wicked King
“The
only real battle in life is between hanging on and letting go.”
―
Shannon L. Alder
“The
level of success you achieve will be in direct proportion to the depth of your commitment.”
―
Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart
“Act
the way you'd like to be and soon you'll be the way you'd like to act.”
―
Bob Dylan
“Love
yourself. Forgive yourself. Be true to yourself. How you treat yourself sets
the standard for how others will treat you.”
―
Steve Maraboli, Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human
Experience
“The
roughest roads often lead to the top.”
―
Christina Aguilera
“Judgment
is a negative frequency.”
―
Stephen Richards
“Doing
the best at this moment puts you in the best place for the mext moment”
―
Oprah Winfrey
“When
your back is to the wall and you are facing fear head on, the only way is
forward and through it.”
―
Stephen Richards, Releasing You from Fear
“A
quitter never wins-and-a winner never quits.”
―
Napoleon Hill, Think and Grow Rich
“Judging
is preventing us from understanding a new truth. Free yourself from the rules
of old judgments and create the space for new understanding.”
―
Steve Maraboli, Life, the Truth, and Being Free
“The
merit of all things lies in their difficulty.”
―
Alexandre Dumas, The Three Musketeers
“If
you fuel your journey on the opinions of others, you are going to run out of
gas.”
―
Steve Maraboli, Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human
Experience
“Success
is not obtained overnight. It comes in installments; you get a little bit
today, a little bit tomorrow until the whole package is given out. The day you
procrastinate, you lose that day's success.”
―
Israelmore Ayivor
“The
victim mindset dilutes the human potential. By not accepting personal
responsibility for our circumstances, we greatly reduce our power to change
them.”
―
Steve Maraboli, Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience
“To
succeed, planning alone is insufficient. One must improvise as well.”
―
Isaac Asimov, Foundation
“Each
new day is a blank page in the diary of your life. The secret of success is in
turning that diary into the best story you possibly can.”
―
Douglas Pagels
