“When I was 15, I had lucky underwear. When that failed, I had a lucky hairdo, then a lucky race number, even lucky race days. After 15 years, I’ve found the secret to success is simple. It’s hard work.” -Margaret Groos (Marathon Runner) from Runner’s World, and featured in the Points to Ponder column of the June 2001 issue of the Reader’s Digest.
Tonight’s blog is another simple one- what constitutes success in life…these writings will enhance others featured in the second hour of my program tonight..
Someone once said said: “Success is a failure turned inside out…” Another person said: ” The only place you find success-before work- is in the dictionary.” Another writer believed: “There are four rungs on the ladder of success: / Plan purposefully, / Prepare prayerfully, / Proceed positively, / Pursue persistently.”
“Success? It is all about being able to extend love to people. Not in a big, capital-letter sense, but in the everyday, little by little, gesture by gesture, word by word.”-The actor, Ralph Fiennes, quoted by Dotson Rader in Parade, and featured in the Points to Ponder column of the February 2002 Reader’s Digest.
Helen Keller believed: “Character cannot be developed in peace and quiet. Only through experiences of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, vision be cleared, ambition insured, and success achieved.”
“Success does not necessarily mean that we must earn a great deal of money and live in the biggest house in town. It means only that we are daily engaged in striving toward a goal that we have independently chosen and feel is worthy of us as persons. A goal, whatever it may be, is what gives meaning to our existence. It is the carrot on the stick that keeps us striving-that keeps us interested- That gives us a reason for getting out of bed in the morning.” -Earl Nightingale, and featured in the Points to Ponder column of the July 1983 issue of the Reader’s Digest.
“When we are young-and some of us never get over it- we are apt to think that applause, conspicuousness and fame constitute success. But they are only trappings, the trimmings. Success itself is the work, the achievement that evokes these manifestations. The man or woman who values the applause more than the effort necessary to elicit it is not apt to be deafened-at least not for any length of time. Concentrate on your work and the applause will take care of itself.” -B.C. Forbes in Forbes Magazine, and featured in the Points to Ponder column of the July 1984 issue of the Reader’s Digest.
If you want a guideline to success in every aspect of your life, the I think I just presented you a beginning blueprint..
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Don Jackson
