First: Know the 10 Commandments to fail (Donald R. Keough). So, leave these behaviours

• Stop taking risks.
• Be inflexible.
• Seek to isolate yourself.
• Convince yourself of being infallible.
• Play on the edge of the rules.
• Don't waste time reflecting.
• Place all your trust in experts and external consultants.
• Love bureaucracy.
• Fear the future.
• Lose passion for work and life.

Second: Have faith in life

• Those who say something is impossible should not disturb those who are doing it.
• Fortune favours the bold; the lazy hinder themselves.
• Luck doesn’t exist: it’s the moment when talent meets opportunity.
• When you move towards your goals, nothing can stop you.
• Think like a man of action and act like a man of thought (Henri Louis Bergson).
• If you find a path without obstacles, it probably leads nowhere (R. Boyle).
• The best preparation for tomorrow is doing your best today (H. Jackson Brown Jr.).
• Even the struggle towards the summit is enough to fill a man’s heart (Albert Camus).
• Dream as if you’ll live forever. Live as if you’ll die today (James Dean).
• Look far ahead, and when you think you’ve looked far enough, look even further (R. Baden-Powell).

Third: Don’t give up in tough times

• Sometimes a winner is just a dreamer who never gave up.
• There’s always a better path; your goal is to find it.
• Perhaps there’s something worse than faded dreams: losing the will to dream again.
• Right decisions come from experience, and experience comes from wrong decisions.
• You’ve never truly failed as long as you keep trying.
• Every event in life has no meaning except the one you give it.
• When everything seems against you, remember: planes take off against the wind, not with the wind in their favour.
• My life philosophy is that challenges vanish in the face of courage (Isaac Asimov).
• The night is never darker than just before dawn, but then dawn rises to dispel the darkness (Romano Battaglia).
• When faced with an obstacle, the shortest distance between two points may be a curved line (Bertolt Brecht).

Fourth: Focus on the goal

• Success is a journey, not a destination.
• Belief in success is the foundation for achieving it.
• Sooner or later, those who win are those who believe they can do it (Richard Bach).
• Anything worth doing is worth doing well (Philip Chesterfield).
• The reward for a job well done is having done it (Ralph Waldo Emerson).
• The real secret to success is motivation (Walter Chrysler).
• Nothing magnificent was ever achieved but by someone who dared to believe that there was something within them greater than circumstances (Bruce Barton).
• True success is the ability to move from one failure to another without losing enthusiasm (Winston Churchill).
• Every time you see a successful venture, know that someone once made a bold decision (Peter F. Drucker).
• People forget how quickly you did a job, but they always remember how well you did it (Howard W. Newton).