Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

The sign of success is a smile. The number of smiles that one has in their day-to-day life indicates how successful one is.

Often, people spend half of their health to gain their wealth. Then they spend half their wealth, to gain back their health. This is not a sign of success. To me, a sign of success is confidence. Even if you lose everything, if you have confidence, then you can recreate everything again, and that is success. Once you have the zeal, you can gain wealth back. 

Recognize the potential in you, and then develop on it. Success is an attitude, it is not a phenomenon. When you agree to be bogged down, that is the sign of failure. Resist getting bogged down.

You light a candle and turn it upside down, the flame always goes up, and it never goes down. In the same way, if we can have the enthusiasm to say, ‘I can make it, I can rebuild my business’; that is what I would consider a sign of success.

Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

Source – DNA – April 29, 2013