"Again and again I therefore admonish my students in Europe and
America: Don't aim at success - the more you aim at it and make it a
target, the more you are going to miss it. For success, like happiness,
cannot be pursued; it must ensue, and it only does so as the unintended
side effect of one's personal dedication to a cause greater than
oneself or as the by-product of one's surrender to a person other than
oneself. Happiness must happen, and the same holds for success: you
have to let it happen by not caring about it. I want you to listen to
what your conscience commands you to do and go on to carry it out to
the best of your knowledge. Then you will live to see that in the
long-run - in the long-run, I say! - success will follow you precisely
because you had forgotten to think about it."
Victor Frankl
Source: Man's Search for Meaning
Contributed by: space wrangler