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Even when I'm happy and successful, life still goes on.
Sep 30, 2025
Weakness leaves, pride comes in. Confidence grows. Successful life.
Trillian had come to suspect that the main reason [Zaphood] had had such a wild and successful life was that he never really understood the significance of anything he did.
The best measure of a successful life is the way we turn away, we renounce, and even by the way we depart it.
You were born with two things: existence and opportunity, and these are the raw materials out of which you can make a successful life.
I don't know if I have any regrets, I have had a pretty successful life. I have learned good, bad, and ugly.
Whatever may be said in praise of poverty, the fact remains that it is not possible to live a really complete or successful life unless one is rich. No man can rise to his greatest possible height in talent or soul development unless he has plenty of money; for to unfold the soul and develop talent he must have many things to use, and he cannot have these things unless he has money to buy them with.
If you would have a successful life, less and less try to make things happen and more and more just let things happen.
Make measurable progress in reasonable time.
In the works of Lucretius, we find two reasons why we shouldn't worry about death. If you have had a successful life, Lucretius tell us, there's no reason to mind its end. And, if you haven't had a good time, "Why do you seek to add more years, which would also pass but ill?"
The person who lives life fully, glowing with life’s energy, is the person who lives a successful life.
To lead a successful life, then, it's a good idea to work out what you really want. Then get together some plans. Then set some goals.
The problem for a lot of people is that they don't really know what they want. They have vague desire: to 'do something creative' or to earn more money or 'to be free', but they can't really pin down what it is precisely that they want. So they drift from one thing to another, enjoying some moments and hating others, but never really finding fulfillment or success. (..) This is why it's hard to lead a successful life (whatever that means to you) when you don't know what you want.
It is the set of the sails, not the direction of the wind that determines which way we will go.
Even when our intentions are noble and our efforts sincere, even when we dedicate our lives to the service of others, the corrosive pressure of frantic over-activity can nonetheless cause suffering in ourselves and others. A "successful" life can become a violent enterprise.
People who succeed have momentum. The more they succeed, the more they want to succeed, and the more they find a way to succeed. Similarly, when someone is failing, the tendency is to get on a downward spiral that can even become a self-fulfilling prophecy.
A successful life does not result from chance; nor is it determined by fate or good fortune, but rather through a succession of successful days.
And that destination for which we should strive is one of a successful life not necessarily a life of success.
Success is steady progress toward one's personal goals.
People need jobs, people need happy and successful lives; there should be marriage between one man and one woman, there should the value of person from conception until natural death.
There are only 3 colors, 10 digits, and 7 notes; its what we do with them that's important.
To hell with circumstances; I create opportunities.
You can't sleep. Broke people sleep. You got to be willing to sacrifice sleep, if you sleep you may miss the opportunity to be successful.
Follow your bliss. That which you love you must spend your life doing, as passionately and as perfectly as your heart, mind and instincts allow. The sooner you identify that bliss, which surely resides in the soul of most human beings, the greater your chance of a truly successful life. In the act of creativity, being careful guarantees sameness and mediocrity, which means your work will be invisible. Better to be reckless than careful. Better to be bold than safe. Better to have your work seen and remembered, or you've struck out. There is no middle ground.
If someone is going down the wrong road, he doesn't need motivation to speed him up. What he needs is education to turn him around.
I'm a success today because I had a friend who believed in me and I didn't have the heart to let him down.
The best way to succeed is to discover what you love and find a way to offer it to others.
You have to trust in something--your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever.
You can't connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards.
Failure is an inescapable part of life and a critically important part of any successful life. We learn to walk by falling, to talk by babbling, to shoot a basket by missing, and to color the inside of a square by scribbling outside the box. Those who intensely fear failing end up falling short of their potential. We either learn to fail or we fail to learn.
Words do two major things: They provide food for the mind and create light for understanding and awareness.
The successful warrior is the average man, with laser-like focus.
Faith in the Atonement of Jesus Christ will provide strength and capacity needed for a successful life.
It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.
Again, you can't connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something - your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life.
The 1970s were the height of social mobility. College was accessible. My grandfather was a poor immigrant who went to a public school in Ohio, and my father went to Harvard. That wasn't unusual. There was a feeling that anything was possible and you didn't have to be born into money to have a successful life. Now, people don't believe in the idea that anything is possible. We have more inequality than we've had ever before and a greater concentration of wealth in the hands of a few.
What life really is all about is happiness. It's not money, or stature, or the amount of cars you have in your driveway. Life, a really successful life, is one in which you are loved and love somebody else, or some other people.
Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently.
It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you'll do things differently.
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.
The ages between birth and age 5 are the foundation upon which successful lives are built.
If you're going through hell, keep going.
You are equipped with strong bodies and educated minds. Add to these an unshakable faith in a divine providence and you have the tools by which you may build a successful life. Make each day your masterpiece and live so nobly that you may witness honestly each day: Whatever came to your hands this day, you did it to the best of your ability
Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
Don't limit yourself. Many people limit themselves to what they think they can do. You can go as far as your mind lets you. What you believe, remember, you can achieve.
The whole secret of a successful life is to find out what is one's destiny to do, and then do it.
Success is often achieved by those who don't know that failure is inevitable.
You can go as far as your mind lets you.
Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life.
Always be yourself, express yourself, have faith in yourself, do not go out and look for a successful personality and duplicate it.