Personal satisfaction is the most important ingredient of success.
The primary success factor is knowing how to learn from others and rely on yourself.
Stop rationalizing, stop stewing. Get up out of your chair and start doing.
When you make a mistake or get ridiculed or rejected, look at mistakes as learning experiences, and ridicule as ignorance. Look at rejection as part of one performance, not as a turn down of the performer.
Real success comes in small portions day by day.
Life is based on growth and finding new challenges to face and overcome, new contributions to make to society, and constantly coming to a better understanding of yourself and the universe in which you live.