To succeed you have to believe in something with such a passion that it becomes a reality.
Interpretation
Believing passionately in a goal is essential for turning it into reality.
This quote emphasizes the importance of having a strong belief and passion in one's goals or aspirations. When a person harbors a deep conviction about what they want to achieve, that belief can drive them to put in the necessary effort, overcome obstacles, and ultimately bring their dreams to fruition. It suggests that success is not merely about the actions taken but also about the mindset and emotional investment in the outcome.
In practice
In a motivational speech about overcoming challenges in a career.
I am still looking for the modern equivalent of those Quakers who ran successful businesses and made money because they offered honest products and treated their people decently . . . This business creed, sadly, seems long forgotten.
I started The Body Shop in 1976 simply to create a livelihood for myself and my two daughters, while my husband, Gordon, was trekking across the Americas. I had no training or experience and my only business acumen was Gordon's advice to take sales of Β£300 a week. Nobody talks of entrepreneurship as survival, but that's exactly what it is and what nurtures creative thinking.
If you think you're too small to have an impact, try going to bed with a mosquito.
But if you can create an honorable livelihood, where you take your skills and use them and you earn a living from it, it gives you a sense of freedom and allows you to balance your life the way you want.
Quite apart from anything else, my experience is trying to change things for the better makes you feel better, healthier. Humans are communicative animals: when you do good in a community, the benefits eventually get back to you.
First, you have to have fun. Second, you have to put love where your labour is. Third, you have to go in the opposite direction to everyone else.
Success never resides in the world of weak wishes, but in the palace of purposeful plans and prayerful persistence.
Fundamentally, the basis of all modern progress is the efficiency of labor. And the only sure road to restored prosperity is through the thrift and hard work of our people as a whole.
The day when a sportsman stops thinking above all else of the happiness in his own effort and the intoxication of the power and physical balance he derives from it, the day when he lets considerations of vanity or interest take over, on this day his ideal will die.
It's insane to me to ask anybody to be what they're not. Know what you know the best, love the most. That's always going to be the answer to the thing that you have the best shot at winning at.
Concentration and mental toughness are the margins of victory.
Success is counted sweetest by those who never succeed.
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