No one can cheat you out of ultimate success but yourself.
Interpretation
Your own actions and decisions determine your ultimate success in life.
This quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson emphasizes the idea that personal responsibility and self-awareness are key to achieving true success. It suggests that external factors or other people cannot deny you your success; rather, it is your own choices, mindset, and efforts that can obstruct your path to ultimate achievement.
In practice
Use this quote in a motivational speech to inspire others to take charge of their own success.
It is plain that there is no separate essence called courage, no cup or cell in the brain, no vessel in the heart containing drops or atoms that make or give this virtue; but it is the right or healthy state of every man, when he is free to do that which is constitutional to him to do.
Few people have any next, they live from hand to mouth without a plan, and are always at the end of their line.
Men cease to interest us when we find their limitations
Tis the good reader that makes the good book; a good head cannot read amiss: in every book he finds passages which seem confidences or asides hidden from all else and unmistakeably meant for his ear.
The world belongs to the energetic.
Hast thou named all the birds without a gun?
Money will always flow toward opportunity, and there is an abundance of that in America.
Why was I able to be able to pass? What did I do right that allowed me to make a pass - any given pass? There's balance; there's vision.
Excellence is never granted to man but as the reward of labor. It argues no small strength of mind to persevere in habits of industry without the pleasure of perceiving those advances, which, like the hand of a clock, whilst they make hourly approaches to their point, yet proceed so slowly as to escape observation.
Another qualification of success is that we not only bring harmonious and beneficial results to ourselves, but also share those benefits with others.
You have to work hard AND well. There are a lot of people who work hard but not well.
When I went into the Montreal Games, nobody expected much out of me.
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