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I don't think I was very structured in that society and I don't really believe in personal success, which most Americans believe in.
Oct 1, 2025
Women share with men the need for personal success, even the taste for power. And no longer are we willing to satisfy those needs through the achievements of surrogates, whether husbands, children or merely role models.
Sometimes you can accept an important post, on condition that it really puts you in a position to help women. Unfortunately, women who have important posts very often adopt masculine standards-power, ambition, personal success - and cut themselves off from other women.
Knowing of how to make use of online tools without being overloaded with too much information is, like it or not, an essential ingredient to personal success in the twenty-first century.
Don't take 'no' for an answer, never submit to failure. Do not be fobbed off with mere personal success or acceptance. You will make all kinds of mistakes, but as long as you are generous and true, and also fierce, you cannot hurt the world or events.
We can each define ambition and progress for ourselves. The goal is to work toward a world where expectations are not set by the stereotypes that hold us back, but by our personal passion, talents and interests.
No student ever attains very eminent success by simply doing what is required of him: it is the amount and excellence of what is over and above the required, that determines the greatness of ultimate distinction.
No one ever attains success by simply doing what is required of him.
When I came out of the Depression, I came out of it with a different point of view as to what constituted success. And that was even just even personal success.
The paradox is that, by children taking shortcuts through computer games, through fantasies, through movies that load on all the emotional stimulation of encountering life in a stylized way - all of this is the equivalent of mainlining of paleolithic emotions, emotions about combat, about personal success, about overcoming monsters, about making powerful friendships, about winning wars and entering new territory.
Whatever brings you to your knees in weakness carries the greatest potential for your personal success and spiritual victory.
In business, your positive thoughts and lifestyle choices lead to your personal success and your career success.
I've come to believe that each of us has a personal calling that's as unique as a fingerprint
I do not think that there is any other quality so essential to success of any kind as the quality of perseverance. It overcomes almost everything, even nature.
Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success.
It is literally true that you can succeed best and quickest by helping others to succeed.
I don’t have a problem with someone using their talents to become successful, I just don’t think the highest calling is success. Things like freedom and the expansion of knowledge are beyond success, beyond the personal. Personal success is not wrong, but it is limited in importance, and once you have enough of it it is a shame to keep striving for that, instead of for truth, beauty, or justice.
Please don't settle for happiness. It's not good enough. Of course you deserve it, but if that's all you have in mind - happiness - I want to suggest to you that personal success devoid of meaningfulness, free of a steady commitment to social justice - that's more than a barren life. It's a trivial one.
My personal success would be that people understand what I was trying to do. It was the most palatable when I watchmen_7_mdid Dawn. With Watchmen, too, I feel the same way. The movie's ironic and satirical and it's funny and serious and that's kind of the same way I felt about Dawn. Like I really was making a movie that knows it's a zombie movie and enjoys that and wants the audience to say, yeah, that's okay.
Learn how to be happy with what you have while you pursue all that you want.
After I began working, I realised there's no end line. I believe that money has nothing to do with your personal success. On the face of it, I'm the biggest capitalist of all. I have all the riches. I'm the living proof of what stardom should be in material terms. But I've never sold my soul. I've not done anything which I didn't want to do. I've not done films for money. I'm not saying this with arrogance but I've never asked for a film.
One of the methods of manipulation is to inoculate individuals with the bourgeois appetite for personal success.
I believe the American dream is still alive and that education and entrepreneurship together are its key enablers. Through the years I have observed the power of this combination when the two forces work in tandem. Together they lead to personal success, business success, and societal success.
I've come to believe that each of us has a personal calling that's as unique as a fingerprint - and that the best way to succeed is to discover what you love and then find a way to offer it to others in the form of service, working hard, and also allowing the energy of the universe to lead you.
Coming home from very lonely places, all of us go a little mad: whether from great personal success, or just an all-night drive, we are the sole survivors of a world no one else has ever seen.
If you're going through hell, keep going.
Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.
People often say that motivation doesn't last. Well, neither does bathing - that's why we recommend it daily.
Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going.
That man is a success who has lived well, laughed often and loved much.
The sure-thing boat never gets far from shore.
If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
Obstacles are what you see when you take your eyes off your goals.
Unless you try to do something beyond what you have already mastered, you will never grow.
Action is the foundational key to all success.
Don't aim for success if you want it; just do what you love and believe in, and it will come naturally. Despite everything, I believe that people are really good at heart.
Do what you love and believe in, and work hard.
Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other.
If you believe in what you're doing, you'll be successful.
Success is not the key to happiness, happiness is the key to success.
Would you like me to give you a formula for success? It's quite simple, really. Double your rate of failure.
Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.
You can be discouraged by failure, or you can learn from it. So go ahead and make mistakes, make all you can. Because, remember that's where you'll find success - on the far side of failure.
Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get.
Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.
Don't aim for success if you want it; just do what you love and believe in, and it will come naturally.
If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.
Try not to become a man of success, but a man of value. Look around at how people want to get more out of life than they put in. A man of value will give more than he receives. Be creative, but make sure that what you create is not a curse for mankind.