Don't Aim At Success

Don't aim at success--the more you aim at it and make it a target, the more you are going to miss it. For success, like happiness, cannot be persuaded; it must ensue, and it only does so as the unintended side-effect of one's personal dedication to a cause greater than oneself or as the by-product of one's surender to a person other than oneself. Happiness must happen, and the same holds for success; you have to let it happen by not caring about it.

Victor E. Frankl
Man's Search For meaning
pp.16-17