It has been said by many highly successful individuals and scholars over the years that we are truly the one who is ultimately responsible for our own personal success.

First, let us review the basic definition of personal success, and know that there are many definitions of this concept of personal success. Personal success generally means that a person is continuing to achieve their personal planned goals by following their current lifestyle choices.

Personal success will also generally result in positive personal interactions with family, friends, and others in one’s life. Personal success may also result in attaining wealth and prosperity, but this is certainly not an essential part of personal success.

To put this concept of success in proper perspective, let me now give you some thoughts and famous quotes from many highly successful people who have certainly traveled down this road of achieving personal success.

≤ “The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.” — Eleanor Roosevelt

≤ “Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm.” — Winston Churchill

≤ “I am a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work, the more I have of it.” — Thomas Jefferson

≤ “I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.” — Thomas Alva Edison

≤ “Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom.” — General George S. Patton

≤ “If you’re not making mistakes, you’re not trying hard enough.” — Vince Lombardi

≤ “Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson

≤ “Experience is not what happens to you, it is what you do with what happens to you.” — Aldous Huxley

≤ “Problems are only opportunities in work clothes.” — Henry Kaiser

≤ “Kind words are short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.” — Mother Teresa

≤ “I am always doing that which I cannot do, in order that I may learn how to do it.” — Pablo Picasso

≤ “Diamonds are nothing more than chunks of coal that stuck to their jobs.” — Malcolm Forbes

≤ “People have been known to achieve more as a result of working with others than against them.” — Dr. Allan Fromme

≤ “A ship in the harbor is safe, but that is not what ships are built for.” — John A. Shedd

≤ “Success means having the courage, the determination, and the will to become the person you believe you were meant to be.” — George Sheehan

≤ “Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.” — Helen Keller

≤ “Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs.” — Henry Ford

≤ “The only place where success comes before work is in the dictionary.” — Vidal Sassoon

EDITOR’S NOTE: Dr. Jim Surrell is the author of “The ABC’s For Success In All We Do” and the “SOS (Stop Only Sugar) Diet” books. Requests for health topics for this column are encouraged. Contact Dr. Surrell by email at sosdietdoc@gmail.com.