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• Make treating yourself a priority and always remember your life is happening now. Don't put off all your dreams and pleasures to another day. In any balanced personal definition of success there has to be a powerful element of living life in the present.

  Mireille Guiliano

  Dream, Powerful, Live Life

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• One of the greatest challenges I've faced as a mother-especially in these anxious, winner-takes-all times-is the need to resist the urge to accept someone else's definition of success and to try to figure out, instead, what really is best for my own children, what unique combination of structure and freedom, nurturing and challenge, education and exploration, each of them needs in order to grow and bloom.

  Katrina Kenison

  Mother, Children, Unique

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• Conclusions are based in time. We live in time. So any definition of success is bound up with time. With other things you can say, "Can I yo-yo? Can I juggle?" Usually you have a pretty small window in which to get your answer. Stand-up is different. You can't do stand-up for one night and say, "Am I a funny stand-up comedian?" In two months or two years you'll start to realize it.

  Demetri Martin

  Night, Years, Two

  Interview with Litsa Dremousis, www.believermag.com. February 2006.

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• People often say to me, "How come you don't want to be CEO of a company?" And I tell them, "I don't want to." I know I can do it, but I don't enjoy it. Why does that have to be the definition of success?

  Charlene Li

  People, Definitions, Want

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• During the last five years, those four advantages-costs, products, people, goodwill-have been the salvation of Interface during a recession that saw our primary marketplace shrink by 38% from peak to trough-38%! As a heavily leveraged company with over $400 million in debt, we might not have made it without the sustainability initiative and, especially, the support of our customers. This revised definition of success-this new paradigm-has a name: "Doing well by doing good". It is a better way to bigger profits.

  Ray Anderson

  Business, Years, Names

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• My favorite definition of success is that it is a state of mind combined with a state of readiness. You can have one and be a flop; if you have both, you'll win every time.

  Carolyn Warner

  Winning, Mind, Definitions

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• If you're happy, that's probably the most important thing. Everyone probably has their own definition of success, for me it's happiness. Do I enjoy what I'm doing? Do I enjoy the people I'm with? Do I enjoy my life?

  Michael Dell

  People, Important, Definitions

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• The definition of success to me is not necessarily a price tag, not fame, but having a good life, and being able to say I did the right thing at the end of the day.

  Jeremy Luke

  Good Life, Price Tag, The End Of The Day

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• My definition of success is not having things thrown at me!

  Orson Welles

  Definitions, Thrown

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• I have two definitions of success - one on the basketball court and one in my personal life. In basketball, success means making my teammates better, winning basketball games and winning championships. In my personal life, success means being a good father to my sons and raising them to be strong men; taking care of my family and being a good friend; and using my influence to make a difference in the community.

  Dwyane Wade

  Basketball, Strong, Father

  Source: mochamanstyle.com

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• The definition of success is total preparation.

  George Allen

  Preparation, Definitions

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• There needs to be bolder thinking, ... on how to measure the quality of life of men and women in the work force. Currently, success is measured by material advancements. We need to readjust the definition of success to account for time outside of work and satisfaction of life, not just the dollars-and-cents bottom line.

  Betty Friedan

  Men, Thinking, Quality

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• To freely bloom that is my definition of success. The question then is, How does arguing with our children advance our goal that our children freely bloom.

  Gerry Spence

  Children, Goal, Doe

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• By any sane definition of success, if you wake up in a pool of blood and nobody has shot you, you are not successful.

  Arianna Huffington

  Women, Successful, Blood

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• A certain formula for an unhappy life is pursue someone else's definition of success. Until you define your own goals and purposes your life is not your own and there can be no sense of fulfillment no matter how much you achieve.

  Michael Josephson

  Happy Life, Goal, Unhappy

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• I'm just thrilled and kind of honored that I still get the chance to do what I love, because that really is the definition of success.

  Gavin Rossdale

  Love Is, Definitions, Chance

  "Bush Front Man Gavin Rossdale Behind the Scenes + 'Glycerine' Acoustic" by Nikki Battiste, abcnews.go.com. April 19, 2012.

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• My definition of success is "the fulfillment of your soul's purpose."

  Jack Canfield

  Soul, Purpose, Definitions

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• What about the rat race in the first place? Is it worthwhile? Or are you just buying into someone else's definition of success? Only you can decide that, and you'll have to decide it over and over and over. But if you think it's a rat race, before you drop out, take a deep breath. Maybe you picked the wrong job. Try again. And then try again.

  Sheryl Sandberg

  Jobs, Thinking, Race

  "FACEBOOK COO SANDBERG: The Women Of My Generation Blew It, So Equality Is Up To You, Graduates" by Sheryl Sandberg, www.businessinsider.com. May 18, 2011.

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• This idea of doing it all is the enemy of equality, not the path to do it. It's impossible to do two full-time jobs, and an impossible definition of success is just another way of making women feel like failures... Any definition of success has to include social policies that honor families and men who raise babies as much as women do.

  Gloria Steinem

  Baby, Jobs, Men

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• My definition of success is doing what you love. I feel many people do things because they feel they have to, and are hesitant to risk following their passion.

  Tony Hawk

  Passion, Doing What You Love, People

  Interview with Gary Cohn, Entrepreneur Magazine, October 2009.

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• I have a definition of success. For me it's very simple. It's not about wealth and fame and power. It's about how many shining eyes I have around me.

  Benjamin Zander

  Eye, Simple, Shining

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• People should decide what success means for them, and not be distracted by accepting others' definitions of success.

  Tony Levin

  Mean, People, Definitions

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• People treat having a kid as somehow retiring from success. Quitting. Have you seen a baby? They’re pretty cute. Loving them is pretty easy. Smiling babies should actually be categorized by the pharmaceutical industry as a powerful antidepressant. Being happy is really the definition of success, isn’t it?

  Jim Gaffigan

  Cute, Baby, Powerful

  Jim Gaffigan (2013). “Dad Is Fat”, p.54, Crown Archetype

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• It is necessary to prepare and to plan so that we don’t fritter away our lives. Without a goal, there can be no real success. One of the best definitions of success I have ever heard goes something like this: success is the progressive realization of a worthy ideal. Someone has said the trouble with not having a goal is that you can spend your life running up and down the field and never cross the goal line.

  Thomas S. Monson

  Running, Real, Goal

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• The ultimate definition of success is: you could lose everything that you have and truly be okay with it. Your happiness isn't based on external factors.

  Tony Hsieh

  Definitions, Okay, Ultimate

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