"Success consists in being successful, not in having the potential for success. Any wide piece of ground is the potential site of a palace, but there’s no palace until it’s built."

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Fernando Pessoa in The Book of Disquiet.

                                 

Also see these 5½ timeless commencement speeches that teach you to define your own success.

Telling this to EVERY high school student I teach. Maybe every student EVER.

(Source: explore-blog)