20 Quotes To Help Drive Us To Succeed

What does it feel like to succeed in life? What does it feel like to achieve our dreams and goals? What does it feel like to accomplish a task or a purpose? What does it feel like to experience achievement? Success is merely defined as "the accomplishment of an aim or purpose, or the attainment of fame, wealth, or social status". There is nothing definitive about exactly what success is though, and the reason being is that success is different to every single one of us. We each have our own definition of what success looks like. Success may be something simple like completing a 30 minute run in the morning, prior to heading off to work. Success may be having the best family life we could envision. Success may be a long lasting loving relationship. Success may be earning a promotion at work. Success may be possessing $1 million worth of wealth in our bank account. Success has no limits or boundaries. It's actually ourselves who define what success is. Personally, I believe success is just another word for happiness. Success naturally generates the emotions and feelings of happiness, joy, satisfaction, and fulfillment, because we have accomplished something, so it's fair to say when we have achieved something that has brought us happiness, that is success. The next question though is what level of success are we happy with? The example above of completing a 30 minute run before work in the morning, I wouldn't class as a high level of success. I would say it's more so something to proud of, in the fact we had the energy and willpower to get off our butt and be exercising. I class it as low level success, because it's an achievement that brings us temporary happiness and satisfaction, rather than ongoing. The happiness, satisfaction, and fulfillment I'm referring to, when it comes to success, is indefinite.

Personally, I believe two quotes, that I have listed below, sum up success perfectly. The first quote is number 9 by Henry Ford, which states that we should find our destiny, and then pursue it. The second quote is number 18 by Christopher Morley, which states that success is to live the way in which we personally desire. Both gentleman have it spot on. Success is identifying our purpose in life, how we can go about helping others, how we can make a positive impact on this world, and how we can contribute in making the world a better place to live. Success isn't about living a life that society insists on designing for us, it's about having the courage and willpower to follow our heart, and structure a life that fills us with happiness, joy, satisfaction, and fulfillment. How is working a job we hate successful? How is remaining an unhealthy relationship successful? How is continually finding ourselves starved of money successful? How is living our life void of goals achievement successful? How is living a lifestyle that's unsatisfying in any way successful? The secret to success is finding happiness, it's as simple as that! We must first have the awareness of which aspects of life we are unhappy and unsatisfied with, and then we need to acknowledge this to ourselves, because we can't improve and fix something if we don't even identify it. This is where most people stop though. They are aware of what's causing then unhappiness, they acknowledge that to themselves, and even others, and yet they don't do anything about it! If you want success, happiness, satisfaction, and fulfillment in life, then you need to take action, and what's more, you need to work damn hard. Success can only be possible if you are prepared to take risks, to make tough decisions, to make changes, to engage in continual arduous actions, to remain patient, to be resilient, and to remain perseverant. It may take a decent amount of time to reach such success, but considering the alternative is remaining unhappy and unsuccessful anyway, the road to success is definitely the better option. Below are 20 quotes to help drive you to succeed in your life!

1.- "The first step towards success is taken when you refuse to be a captive of the environment in which you first find yourself"

- Mark Caine

2.-"Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success."

- Dale Carnegie

3.- "Success is ... knowing your purpose in life, growing to reach your maximum potential, and sowing seeds that benefit others."

- John C. Maxwell

4.- "Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome."

- Booker T. Washington

5.- "There are people who make things happen, there are people who watch things happen, and there are people who wonder what happened. To be successful, you need to be a person who makes things happen."

- Jim Lovell

6.- "Success is walking from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm."

- Winston Churchill

7.- "A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at him."

- David Brinkley

8.- "Don't aim for success if you want it; just do what you love and believe in, and it will come naturally."

- David Frost

9.- "The whole secret of a successful life is to find out what is one's destiny to do, and then do it."

- Henry Ford

10.- "Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day-in and day-out."

- Robert Collier

11.- "Success isn't measured by money or power or social rank. Success is measured by your discipline and inner peace."

- Mike Ditka

12.- "Success is sweet and sweeter if long delayed and gotten through many struggles and defeats."

- Amos Bronson Alcott

13.- "Success does not consist in never making mistakes but in never making the same one a second time."

- George Bernard Shaw

14.- "Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful."

- Albert Schweitzer

15.- "The only place where success comes before work is in the dictionary."

- Vidal Sassoon

16.- "Success is not measured by what you accomplish, but by the opposition you have encountered, and the courage with which you have maintained the struggle against overwhelming odds."

- Orison Swett Marden

17.- "Success is liking yourself, liking what you do, and liking how you do it."

- Maya Angelou

18.- "There is only one success - to be able to spend your life in your own way."

- Christopher Morley

19.- “Success is like anything worthwhile. It has a price. You have to pay the price to win and you have to pay the price to get to the point where success is possible. Most important, you must pay the price to stay there.”

- Vince Lombardi

20.- "The size of your success is measured by the strength of your desire; the size of your dream; and how you handle disappointment along the way."

- Robert Kiyosaki

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