Aristotle said that "We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit". To be truly successful, we must become lifelong learners with lifelong passions. Making our life’s dreams a reality in one day is about as realistic as constructing the Empire State Building overnight. It takes lifelong effort, learning and enthusiasm. The American chef and TV personality, Julia Child observed, “You’ll never know everything about anything, especially something you love.” Good evidence of a dream worth pursuing is if we think about it constantly, if our thoughts and actions continuously fuel the fire the dream has lit within our soul.
Sometimes when people see their own dreams go unfulfilled, they become pessimistic towards the ambitions of others. These are the types of individuals who people tend to listen to the most when they ought to be listened to the least. Mark Twain warned, “Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.” Don’t listen to those who never went after their dreams, listen to the people who turned their dreams into reality. Find people along the way who can guide you and be open to the possibility that you can do more and be more than you ever imagined. Some people project their own failures and lack of vision on to others. It's important to learn from those who have experienced what you are going through, and can help you learn from their successes and failures. But be careful. There is a fine line between guiding advice born from experience and pessimism derived from personal failures. Nothing was ever done until someone did it for the first time, usually by doing it in a way no one had ever done before.
Don’t quit, don’t give up, and don’t give in. Calvin Coolidge, the 30th president of the United States, said, “Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful people with talent. Genius will not, unrewarded genius is almost a proverb… Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.” There are bound to be setbacks, all that is worth anything in this life takes hard work and determination. Abraham Lincoln, a man well acquainted with hardship himself stated, “My great concern is not whether you have failed but whether you are content with your failure.” The message President Lincoln was trying to get across is that setbacks will always happen, but how we react to them will define us and our future.
Sometimes when people see their own dreams go unfulfilled, they become pessimistic towards the ambitions of others. These are the types of individuals who people tend to listen to the most when they ought to be listened to the least. Mark Twain warned, “Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.” Don’t listen to those who never went after their dreams, listen to the people who turned their dreams into reality. Find people along the way who can guide you and be open to the possibility that you can do more and be more than you ever imagined. Some people project their own failures and lack of vision on to others. It's important to learn from those who have experienced what you are going through, and can help you learn from their successes and failures. But be careful. There is a fine line between guiding advice born from experience and pessimism derived from personal failures. Nothing was ever done until someone did it for the first time, usually by doing it in a way no one had ever done before.
Don’t quit, don’t give up, and don’t give in. Calvin Coolidge, the 30th president of the United States, said, “Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful people with talent. Genius will not, unrewarded genius is almost a proverb… Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.” There are bound to be setbacks, all that is worth anything in this life takes hard work and determination. Abraham Lincoln, a man well acquainted with hardship himself stated, “My great concern is not whether you have failed but whether you are content with your failure.” The message President Lincoln was trying to get across is that setbacks will always happen, but how we react to them will define us and our future.
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