Sunday, February 14, 2010

How To Be SuccessFul In What You Do?

Ever wonder how people become successful? Ever wonder if successful people face failures like you and me?

The answer: Yes they do....

I believe you know who the legend of NBA Basketball is, Michael Jordon. Here's what he said:

"I've missed more than 9,000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 games. 26 times I've been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I've failed over and over and over again in my life and that is why I succeed." - Michael Jordan

Here are more:

"Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly." - Robert F. Kennedy

"It is on our failures that we base a new and different and better success." - Havelock Ellis

"It is a mistake to suppose that men succeed through success; they much oftener succeed through failures. Precept, study, advice, and example could never have taught them so well as failure has done." - Samuel Smiles

"Remember, no man is a failure who has friends." - from the film, It's A Wonderful Life

"It is not the critic who counts,
not the man who points out
how the strong man stumbled,
or where the doer of deeds
could have done better.
The credit belongs to the man
who is actually in the arena,
whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood,
who strives valiantly,
who errs and comes short again and again,
who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions,
and spends himself in a worthy cause,
who at best knows achievement
and who at the worst if he fails
at least fails while daring greatly
so that his place shall never be
with those cold and timid souls
who know neither victory nor defeat."
- Theodore Roosevelt (From a speech given in Paris at the Sorbonne in 1910)


"Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up." - Thomas Alva Edison

"I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work." - Thomas Alva Edison

"No garden is without its weeds." Thomas Fuller

"Good people are good because they've come to wisdom through failure. We get very little wisdom from success, you know." - William Saroyan

"Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm." - Winston Churchill

"Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm." - Winston Churchill

No successful man or woman had a smooth journey towards their success. They faces humps, bumps and obstacles. It is how they manage and face each failures and overcome them that brings them forward.

Most importantly, they never give up and they keep trying, trying and trying. Be daring and just do it. The quickest way to success is to fail as many times as quickly so that you learn from each of your mistakes and move on.