Think a minute! You know that overnight success usually takes at least 10 years? One man said, “My overnight success was the longest night of my life. I spent many days and nights just getting there!” Remember,“Rome was not built in a day.” Many people are waiting for their ship to come in—when they've not even sent it out of the harbor. You see, winners simply do what losers don't want to do. And they keep doing it till they get the success they want. Success is mostly just hanging on after others have let go! So the most important trip you'll make is when you go the extra mile.
Many people who failed did not know how close they were to success when they gave up. People don't actually fail, they just quit too easily. One guy said, “The secret to success is to start from scratch—and to keep on scratching.” So don't quit trying just because your trying times are hard. The great inventor, Thomas Edison, tried a certain experiment hundreds of times, but didn't work. So his assistant said to him,“It's too bad that we did all that work without any results.” But Edison said, “Oh, we have lots of results! We now know 700 things that won't work.”
Never forget, delay does not always mean denial. If we hold out and hold on, we can accomplish almost anything we want. The British Prime Minister Winston Churchill said, “Never, never, never, never give up!” And the American President Calvin Coolidge said, “Nothing can bring success like persistence. Talent cannot, for there are many talented people who are not successful. Education will not, for the world is full of educated losers. Only persistence and determination can give you the power to succeed.” You see, you can succeed just like anyone else, just keep wanting it enough and to keep working for it enough. So why not decide it today to start going the extra mile on the road to your success? Just think a minute...
请想一分钟！你知道吗？一夜成名的背后常常要花至少10年的时间！有人说：“我成功的那一夜是我生命中最漫长的一夜。我熬过了许多日日夜夜才到达那一步。”请记住: “罗马不是一天建成的。”许多人正在等待着他们的船开来， 其实这些船压根就没有开出港。 要明白，胜利者只是做了失败者不想做的事。胜利者持之以恒，直到获得他们所希望的成功。成功者往往是在别人放弃后仍然坚持不懈。所以，你最重要的旅程就是你比别人多走的那一段。
许多失败者不知道，其实他们只是功败垂成。他们并非真的失败，他们只是太容易放弃了。有人说：“成功的秘诀就是从零开始并坚持不懈。”所以不要因为尝试的艰难就放弃尝试。伟大的发明家托马斯·爱迪生做某个实验做了几百次仍然没有成功。于是他的助手对他说：“我们做了那么多，却一无所获，这真是太糟了。”但爱迪生回答：“不，我们大有所获！我们现在知道有700种方式是行不通的。”
永远不要忘了，大器晚成不意味着一无所成。如果始终不渝，我们几乎可以做成任何想做的事情。英国首相温斯顿·丘吉尔说：“永远，永远，永远，永远不要放弃。”美国总统卡尔文·柯立芝有一段名言：“没有什么比坚韧不拔更能通向成功。才能不可以，许多有天份的人并没有成功；教育不能，世界上受过教育却失败了的人数不胜数；惟有坚持和决心能给你成功的力量。”你要明白，只要你有足够的愿望，付出足够的努力，你和别人一样能成功。为什么不下定决心，从今天起，就开始走上那段通向成功的额外旅程呢？请想一分钟……