James Allen's Quotes on Success from As A Man Thinketh

Everyone wants to be a success.  Some start desiring it at an early age.  Many sit around for years waiting for it to happen and wonder why it doesn't come to them.  Alas, all those lottery tickets gone to waste.  A problem with many is they don't know the definition of success.  This is critical because it is highly unlikely a person will become successful without knowing what the word means.  James Allen's Quotes on Success from As A Man Thinketh gives the answer.

The most common conception of a successful person is they are rich.  If a person is successful it is widely believed it is a result of acquiring lots of money and things.  That may or may not be true according to the definition.

I believe the best description of success was coined by Earl Nightingale.  He was a  big insurance executive in Chicago.  He was a great insurance salesman and was very effective in teaching others to become top notch insurance salesman.  He was an acknowledged authority on motivation and success training.

He said "success is the progressive realization of a worthy goal."  To be successful a person must set for themselves a worthy goal.  Nothing happens until a person does that simple act.  The lack of goals is what makes men and rivers wander aimlessly and never seem to get anywhere.  "A man should conceive of a legitimate purpose in his heart and set out to accomplish it" are words of James Allen.

This is not a universally accepted idea.  Many will say goals aren't important, they say work hard and behave and the Good Lord will take care of you.  When I hear those opinions I think of a scenario where a basketball game is to be played on a court with no goals.  The players are told to just go out and run up and down the court but they refuse because they won't be able to know the score.  Life is the same way, without goals we will not know our score.

Not long ago it was an accepted opinion that man could not run a four minute mile.   Roger Bannister set a goal for himself to do that.  He became the first human to run a four minute mile because he set a goal.

A proviso of Mr. Nightingale's definition of success is that the goal must be worthy.  It won't work if it is intended to pursue a corrupt end.  Allen states "bad thoughts and actions can never produce good results."

A fascinating aspect of the definition is that success is a "progressive realization" meaning once a person starts taking steps toward the goal they become a success.  Progressive realization of a goal builds the strength of character.

I hope you will take the pursuit of success on as a project and in the process build your strength of character.  Profound tips on the process are waiting for you in your own free copy of the great book by James Allen As A Man Thinketh.  CLICK HERE