Quotes on success —As we grow up, we often try to make sense of the world around us by observing other people. The caregivers that were present in our childhoods and even those we get to see on television, show us different ways to love, aspire, learn, and cope.
For example, it is the school teacher we listen to in the classroom and from whom we learn how to behave as decent kids. Outside the classroom there are our parents show you and learn you how to love, and lastly at your local sport school it’s your sports teacher who tells you how best to train. Through them these early definitions of success are transmitted to us. These influences shape our own ideas of what a ‘successful’ life might look like.
However, as how I’ve experienced in life, is that adults are very often trying to make sense of their world theirselves. Their paths are unique to them and what might have worked for them does not have to work for you. Eventually what success is and how it should be defined is completely personal to every individual. In the next section I’ve collected some wonderful quotes on success that can motivate you to push for the things that you’re passionate about.
Quotes on success
I’ve collected 10 inspirational quotes on success for now. I’ll continue to publish one motivational quote in my newsletter each month.
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An American motivational speaker Denis Waitley on enjoying the process:
‘Winners take time to relish their work, knowing that scaling the mountain is what makes the view from the top so exhilarating.’
Source: Denis Waitley
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British politician Winston S. Churchill on one of the essential personality traits for achieving success:
Author E.B. White, the famous author of Charlotte’s Web, about the value of consistently practicing even in less-than-ideal circumstances:
“I never listen to music when I’m working. I haven’t that kind of attentiveness, and I wouldn’t like it at all. On the other hand, I’m able to work fairly well among ordinary distractions. My house has a living room that is at the core of everything that goes on: it is a passageway to the cellar, to the kitchen, to the closet where the phone lives. There’s a lot of traffic. But it’s a bright, cheerful room, and I often use it as a room to write in, despite the carnival that is going on all around me.
In consequence, the members of my household never pay the slightest attention to my being a writing man — they make all the noise and fuss they want to. If I get sick of it, I have places I can go. A writer who waits for ideal conditions under which to work will die without putting a word on paper.”
Source: E.B. White in The Paris Review. Also cited in the Tiny Bits newsletter.
Last note on this list with quotes on success
At last, I’ve collected the ones that reflect most what I think success should be about. Like Einstein and many other scientists implied; it’s not about being considered as the one who gets more out of life than you put in, but about being a person of value who will give more than you take. Therefore, I like the quotes because they put service to humanity above so-called success in life.
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