The Key Journey to Success: Thinking Ahead Will Get You Ahead

By Arnaud Romeo Noume

It is good to succeed. By which I mean progressing, achieving your goals, attaining what you want to attain. But to succeed, you need to learn the ingredients that will open the path to success. As the saying says, the expectations of life depend upon diligence; the mechanic that would perfect his work must first sharpen his tools.
A well known author said success is when things work out better than we had hoped, and failure is when things do not work out as we had hoped or expected. But failure is not a disaster. In fact, it is from failure that we do learn our most valuable lessons. If harnessed properly, failure could be the springboard for major success.

As making a delicious meal using the finest ingredients and seasonings available, becoming successful require each of us to learn and know the wisdoms that most famous and successful people have harnessed to climb the ladder of success. These wisdoms have been compiled in this book to help you think, meditate on your actions, dreams and goals.

Rich in wisdoms, this personal development book (The Key Journey to Success) will help everyone anxious to succeed whether professionally, socially or in any other aspect of their life, by making them think, meditate and reflect on their actions, dreams and goals.
The book is divided in chapters and every chapter comprises between 10 to 20 powerful quotations or sayings that will illuminate your journey to success. This book will inspire you, feed your mind and soul with more than 510 powerful and compiling quotations from a diverse group of people. It is for everyone, from the CEO at the top of the tower, through the shop floor worker, to the student at the University or College. You will learn wisdoms, proverbs and sayings that will help you throughout your life.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Xlibris UK
• Release date: Jul 27, 2011
• ISBN: 9781465303462

Arnaud Romeo Noume

Martin Fonkoua est un amoureux du continent africain, originaire de l’entité coloniale nommée Cameroun. Il est titulaire d’un DEA (Diplôme d’Etudes Approfondies) en Biochimie de l’Université de Yaoundé I au Cameroun. Martin prépare actuellement un doctorat (PhD) en Pharmacologie Moléculaire à l’université de Brasilia au Brésil. Passionné de l’enseignement, Martin va consacrer 5 années de sa vie à l’encadrement de la jeunesse Camerounaise en exerçant comme professeur de Sciences Biologiques dans de nombreux établissements de la capitale Camerounaise. Parallèlement, il appuie certains enseignants du département de biochimie de l’université de Yaoundé I dans les travaux dirigés et travaux pratiques à l´intention des étudiants des cycles de Licence et de Master. Grand défenseur de la cause Africaine, Martin adore la lecture, les voyages et les danses traditionnelles Africaines. Son rêve est de voir une Afrique véritablement indépendante et surtout unie face aux nombreux défis. Arnaud Romeo Noume qui est un grand passionné de la cause Africaine, a plusieurs années d'expérience en tant que Manager de premier rang. Né au Cameroun (Mbalmayo), il obtient un BTS (Brevet de Technicien Supérieur) en Mécanique Automobile à L’Institut Samba Supérieure avant d’aller continuer ses études en Angleterre. Arnaud a fait ses études en Angleterre (Royaume-Uni) où il a obtenu un diplôme d’ingénieur (Licence des Ingénieurs) avec mention Très Bien (2:1) à l'Université de Bolton, et un diplôme de Master avec mention Excellent (First Class ou Distinction) à l'Université de Nottingham Trent où il sort major de sa promotion en 2007. Arnaud est un ingénieur de profession exerçant dans la Marine Britannique où il est responsable de la maintenance des bateaux de la flotte Anglaise. Marié et père de trois enfants, Arnaud adore la lecture et son met préféré est le Ndolè (repas célèbre du Cameroun). Arnaud est l’auteur d’un livre intitulé «The Key Journey to Success» qui signifie «Le voyage clé vers le succès ». Le présent ouvrage est le 3e livre publié par Arnaud, tous ses livres étant bilingues (Anglais et Français).

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Chapter 1

Achievements Quotes

1—Bruce Barton:

Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside them was superior to circumstance.

2—Hamilton Holt:

Nothing worthwhile comes easily. Work, continuous work and hard work, is the only way to accomplish results that last.

3—Robert F. Kennedy:

Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.

4—Mary Kay Ash:

Don’t limit yourself. Many people limit themselves to what they think they can do. You can go as far as you mind lets you. What you believe, you can achieve.

5—Zig Ziglar:

Duty makes us do things well, but love makes us do them beautifully.

6—Napoleon Hill:

Great achievement is usually born of great sacrifice, and is never the result of selfishness.

7—Vincent Van Gogh:

Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together.

8—Gian-Carlo Menotti:

Hell begins on the day when God grants us a clear vision of all that we might have achieved, of all the gifts which we might have wasted, of all that we might have done which we did not do.

9—Les Brown:

Help others achieve their dreams and you will achieve yours.

10—Eddie Robinson:

The will to win, the desire to succeed, the urge to reach your full potential . . . these are the keys that will unlock the door to personal excellence.

Chapter 2

Accomplishment Quotes

1—Alfred Adler:

The only worthwhile achievements of man are those which are socially useful.

2—Steve Young:

The principle is competing against yourself. It’s about self-improvement, about being better than you were the day before.

3—Logan Pearsall Smith:

There are two things to aim at in life: first, to get what you want; and, after that, to enjoy it. Only the wisest of mankind achieve the second.

4—Zig Ziglar:

You can finish school, and even make it easy but you never finish your education, and it’s seldom easy.

5—Abraham Lincoln:

You can have anything you want, if you want it badly enough. You can be anything you want to be, do anything you set out to accomplish if you hold to that desire with singleness of purpose.

6—Joseph J. Corbett:

You become a champion by fighting one more round. When things are tough, you fight one more round.

7—Francis Wayland:

It is by what we ourselves have done, and not by what others have done for us, that we shall be remembered in after ages.

8—Zig Ziglar:

It’s not the situation, but whether we react (negative) or respond (positive) to the situation that’s important.

9—Johann Gottfried Von Herder:

Without inspiration the best powers of the mind remain dormant, there is a fuel in us which needs to be ignited with sparks.

10—Orison Swett Marden:

A constant struggle, a ceaseless battle to bring success from inhospitable surroundings, is the price of all great achievements.

Chapter 3

Aim Quotes

1—Norman Vincent Peale:

All successful people have a goal. No one can get anywhere unless he knows where he wants to go and what he wants to be or do.

2—Andrew Carnegie:

Aim for the highest.

3—Benjamin Disraeli:

The secret of success is constancy of purpose.

4—Billy Sunday:

More men fail through lack of purpose than lack of talent.

5—Orison Swett Marden:

All who have accomplished great things have had a great aim, have fixed their gaze on a goal which was high, one which sometimes seemed impossible.

6—Abraham Lincoln:

Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other one thing.

7—Unknown Author:

The poorest man is not without a