The reason is that they do not understand success is not a destination. It is a daily journey in which you have to do it daily and patiently. Yes, you have to do it one day at a time.
To be successful, you have to commit to it and do it daily. And enjoy the trying process as you strive along. You will meet setbacks and obstacles along the way to success. So you need to perseverance.
Another thing to remember is you have make sacrifices to achieve success. Do you planning and be daring.
Now, read through these motivational quotes about success to empower you when the going gets tough.
"Nothing fails like success" - Kenneth Boulding
"Your goal should be out of reach but not out of sight." - Anita DeFrantz.
"Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success." - Dale Carnegie
“Success is the good fortune that comes from aspiration, desperation, perspiration and inspiration.” - Evan Esar
“People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing.” - Dale Carnegie
“Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.” - Winston S. Churchill
“Success is getting what you want, happiness is wanting what you get” - W.P. Kinsella
"Those who dare to fail miserably can achieve greatly." - John F. Kennedy
“Success is stumbling from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm.” - Winston S. Churchill
“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
"I don't just listen to advice on success. I act on it." - Best Life Quotes
“It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.” - Theodore Roosevelt
“Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any one thing.” - Abraham Lincoln
"Pray that success will not come any faster than you are able to endure it." - Elbert Hubbard
“Success is most often achieved by those who don't know that failure is inevitable.” - Coco Chanel
“Never was anything great achieved without danger.” - Niccolò Machiavelli
“Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.” - Robert F. Kennedy
"I couldn't wait for success... so I went ahead without it." - Jonathan Winters
"Don't aim for success if you want it; just do what you love and believe in, and it will come naturally." - David Frost
"Success has made failures of many men." - Cindy Adams
“The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack in will.” - Vince Lombardi
“Whatever the mind can conceive and believe, it can achieve.” - Napoleon Hill
“We are all failures- at least the best of us are.” - J.M. Barrie
"Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it." - Henry David Thoreau
"If you set your goals ridiculously high and it's a failure, you will fail above everyone else's success." - James Cameron
"Things work out best for those who make the best of how things work out." - John Wooden
"Entrepreneurs average 3.8 failures before final success. What sets the successful ones apart is their amazing persistence." - Lisa M. Amos
"If you are not willing to risk the usual, you will have to settle for the ordinary." - Jim Rohn
"Stop chasing the money and start chasing the passion." - Tony Hsieh
"All our dreams can come true if we have the courage to pursue them." - Walt Disney
"It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change." - Charles Darwin
"Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people." - Eleanor Roosevelt
"The best revenge is massive success." - Frank Sinatra
"I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work." - Thomas Edison
"A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at him." - David Brinkley
"The whole secret of a successful life is to find out what is one's destiny to do, and then do it." - Henry Ford
"What seems to us as bitter trials are often blessings in disguise." - Oscar Wilde
"The distance between insanity and genius is measured only by success." - Bruce Feirstein
"Don't be afraid to give up the good to go for the great." - John D. Rockefeller
"There are two types of people who will tell you that you cannot make a difference in this world: those who are afraid to try and those who are afraid you will succeed." - Ray Goforth
"Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can." - Arthur Ashe
"The starting point of all achievement is desire." - Napoleon Hill
"Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day-in and day-out." - Robert Collier
"All progress takes place outside the comfort zone." - Michael John Bobak
"We become what we think about most of the time, and that's the strangest secret." - Earl Nightingale
"The successful warrior is the average man, with laser-like focus." - Bruce Lee
"If you want to make a permanent change, stop focusing on the size of your problems and start focusing on the size of you!" - T. Harv Eker
"Successful people do what unsuccessful people are not willing to do. Don't wish it were easier; wish you were better." - Jim Rohn
"In my experience, there is only one motivation, and that is desire. No reasons or principle contain it or stand against it." - Jane Smiley
"Success does not consist in never making mistakes but in never making the same one a second time." - George Bernard Shaw
"Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going." - Jim Ryun
"I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite." - G. K. Chesterton
"Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up." - Thomas A. Edison
"The greater the artist, the greater the doubt. Perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize." - Robert Hughes
"What would you attempt to do if you knew you would not fail?" - Robert Schuller
"Successful and unsuccessful people do not vary greatly in their abilities. They vary in their desires to reach their potential." - John Maxwell
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