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• I must admit that I personally measure success in terms of the contributions an individual makes to her or his fellow human beings.

  Margaret Mead

  Motivational, Success, Congratulations

  Margaret Mead, Rhoda Bubendey Métraux (1979). “Margaret Mead, some personal views”, Angus & Robertson

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• Severe opposition is a measure of success (because) one inevitable result of winning a majority change in consciousness is a backlash from those forces whose power depended on the old one.

  Gloria Steinem

  Winning, Majority, Consciousness

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• We all strive for safety, prosperity, comfort, long life, and dullness. The deer strives with his supple legs, the cowman with trap and poison, the statesman with pen, the most of us with machines, votes, and dollars. A measure of success in this is all well enough, and perhaps is a requisite to objective thinking, but too much safety seems to yield only danger in the long run. Perhaps this is behind Thoreau's dictum: In wilderness is the salvation of the world. Perhaps this is the hidden meaning in the howl of the wolf, long known among mountains, but seldom perceived among men.

  Aldo Leopold

  Life, Running, Men

  "A Sand County Almanac: And Sketches Here and There". Book by Aldo Leopold. Chapter "Arizona and New Mexico: Thinking Like a Mountain", p. 133, 1949.

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• People of great ability do not emerge, as a rule, from the happiest background. So far as my own observation goes, I would conclude that ability, although hereditary, is improved by an early measure of adversity and improved again by a later measure of success.

  C. Northcote Parkinson

  Adversity, People, Observation

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• As long as quick numerical growth remains the primary indicator of church health, the truth will be compromised. Instead, churches must once again begin measuring success not in terms of numbers but in terms of fidelity to the Scriptures.

  Mark Dever

  Numbers, Long, Growth

  Mark Dever (2012). “The Church: The Gospel Made Visible”, p.12, B&H Publishing Group

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• You can't measure success if you have never failed.

  Steffi Graf

  Success, Tennis, Ifs

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• We measure success and depth by length of time, but it is possible to have a deep relationship that doesn't always stay the same.

  Barbara Hershey

  Education, Depth, Deep Relationship

  "20 Questions: Barbara Hershey". Playboy Interview, May 1987.

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• I think if you're behind the times, you've failed. I think the only way to measure success is being right on time with what people want.

  Chuck Barris

  Thinking, People, Want

  Interview with Nathan Rabin, www.avclub.com. May 28, 2003.

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• You always measure success by what you did last. It's hard to measure that because it's something that just comes. If someone can just make a hit, they would do it everyday. But you can't make a hit that you know is a hit every day.

  Ginuwine

  Everyday, Lasts, Knows

  Source: youknowigotsoul.com

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• I think we have a society which is spending more and more of its money on healthcare as a percent of GDP as a percent of a lot of things. I think that's a measure of success.

  Dean Kamen

  Thinking, Gdp, Healthcare

  Big Think Interview, bigthink.com. June 9, 2009.

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• I don't measure success in numbers, but I consider my contributions of more than $1.3 billion to various causes over the years to be one of my proudest accomplishments and the best investment I've ever made. Those dollars have improved lives, saved species, fought disease, educated children, inspired change, challenged ideas and opened minds; at the time of my death, virtually all of my wealth will have gone to charity.

  Ted Turner

  Children, Years, Ideas

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• The true measure of success isn't winning, it's whether you won & could actually deliver.

  Arlene Dickinson

  Winning

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• While Admiral Neffenger is an impressive man, it is naive and dangerous to pretend installing one director can heal what ails TSA, the Department of Homeland Security needs to admit that it has a crisis of bureaucratic complacency - lacking an overarching vision and coherent measures of success and failure.

  Benjamin E. Sasse

  Success, Men, Tsa

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• Being an artist, it's always tempting to measure success through other people's eyes, be they critics, journalists or audiences.

  Sara Blecher

  Eye, Artist, People

  Interview with Laura Berger, www.indiewire.com. October 6, 2015.

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• There are some things that could hold it together, notably oil revenues. But at the moment, the much vaunted surge has had a measure of success primarily, to my mind, because Sunni and Shia Iraqis hate and fear each other more these days than they hate and fear the Americans.

  Patrick Cockburn

  Hate, Oil, Mind

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• It is better to have crooked legs than a crooked spirit. We can only do the best we can with what we have. That, after all, is the measure of success: what we do with what we have.

  Marguerite de Angeli

  Legs, Spirit, Crooked

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• Our first benchmark is to cut the deficit more quickly to safeguard Britain’s credit rating. I know that we are taking a political gamble to set this up as a measure of success. Protecting the credit rating will not be easy The pace of fiscal consolidation will be co-ordinated with monetary policy. And we will protect Britain's credit rating and international reputation.

  George Osborne

  Cutting, Political, Pace

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• I don’t really measure success by anything other than if I am happy. That is success to me. Am I happy waking up every morning? And despite the challenges of running my own business, do I look forward to going to work? Absolutely.

  L'Wren Scott

  Running, Morning, Challenges

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• Winning in Afghanistan is having a country that is stable enough to ensure that there is no safe haven for Al Qaida or for a militant Taliban that welcomes Al Qaida. That's really the measure of success for the United States.

  Leon Panetta

  Country, Safe Haven, Winning

  'This Week' with Jake Tapper, abcnews.go.com. June 27, 2010.

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• I measure success in terms of the connection with the audience, which we've been able to do in spades. I mean, it's very hard to do that. You think about it, you go back in time, you can say, "Well, there's, like, 'Saturday Night Live' and 'Rolling Stone' or MTV." I think 'Vice' is in that category now.

  Tom Freston

  Mean, Night, Thinking

  "Vice's Shane Smith and Tom Freston on Sending Dennis Rodman to North Korea for HBO". Interview with Eriq Gardner, www.hollywoodreporter.com. April 12, 2013.

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• The distance between insanity and genius is measured only by success.

  Bruce Feirstein

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

  "Fictional character: Elliot Carver". "Tomorrow Never Dies", www.imdb.com. 1997.

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• The Occupy movement needs an organizing principle, and - just as the Tea Party did - it needs some actual measures of success. Choose one candidate whose agenda is squarely within that of the movement and make his or her electoral success a focal point.

  Eliot Spitzer

  Party, Tea, Principles

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• The real measure of success is the number of experiments that can be crowded into 24 hours.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Success, Real, Numbers

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• Success is not the key to happiness, happiness is the key to success.

  Herman Cain

  Inspirational, Happiness, Inspiring

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• The True Measure Of Success is determined by your home life.

  Dan Black

  Marriage, Home, Determined

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