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• 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.

  Lauren Greenfield

  Father, Believe, School

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• One of the greatest gifts a caring teacher can contribute to children is to help them learn to sit when they feel like running, to raise their hand when they feel like talking, to be polite to their neighbor, to stand in line without pushing, and to do their homework when they feel like playing. By introducing procedures in the classroom, you are also introducing procedures as a way of living a happy and successful life.

  Harry Wong

  Running, Teacher, Children

  Harry K. Wong, Rosemary Tripi Wong, Chelonnda Seroyer (2009). “The First Days of School: How to be an Effective Teacher”, Harry K Wong Publication

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• 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.

  Steve Guttenberg

  Successful, People, Car

  "Police Academy Week: a chat with actor/memoirist Steve Guttenberg". Interview with Nathan Rabin, www.avclub.com. May 7, 2012.

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• From last night's All Together Now, a Celebration of Service: There can be no definition of a successful life that does not include service to others.

  George H. W. Bush

  Successful, Night, Together

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• A single girlfriend can play an important role in success of your career but a bunch of girlfriends can seriously ruins your successful life.

  Wiz Khalifa

  Girlfriend, Successful, Play

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• We love to see any redness in the vegetation of the temperate zone. It is the color of colors. This plant speaks to our blood....What a perfect maturity it arrives at! It is the emblem of a successful life concluded by a death not premature, which is an ornament to Nature. What if we were to mature as perfectly, root and branch, glowing in the midst of our decay, like the poke!

  Henry David Thoreau

  Successful, Maturity, Roots

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• A successful life for a man or for a woman seems to me to lie in the knowledge that one has developed to the limit the capacities with which one was endowed; that one has contributed something constructive to family and friends and to a home community; that one has brought happiness wherever it was possible; that one has earned one's way in the world, has kept some friends, and need not be ashamed to face oneself honestly.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Success, Lying, Home

  Eleanor Roosevelt (1946). “If You Ask Me”

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• Historically, a successful life in comedy is a dream that's as equally pondered and unpursued as being an astronaut.

  Artie Lange

  Dream, Successful, Comedy

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• 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.

  Douglas Adams

  Successful, Reason, Significance

  Douglas Adams (2009). “The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy”, p.60, Pan Macmillan

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• And that destination for which we should strive is one of a successful life not necessarily a life of success.

  Andy Andrews

  Successful, Strive, Should

  Andy Andrews (2011). “The Final Summit: A Quest to Find the One Principle That Will Save Humanity”, p.73, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Nature designed with a random set of genes and circumstances in which we were born. To be happy, we have to accept it and make the most of nature’s design. Are you? Goals will help you do that. I must add, don’t just have career or academic goals. Set goals to give you a balanced, successful life. I use the word balanced before successful. Balanced means ensuring your health, relationships, mental peace are all in good order.

  Chetan Bhagat

  Mean, Successful, Order

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• Courage, hard work, self-mastery, and intelligent effort are all essential to successful life.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Life, Work, Successful

  Theodore Roosevelt (2006). “America and the World War”, p.260, Cosimo, Inc.

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• 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

  Harold B. Lee

  Strong, Successful, Hands

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• 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.

  Wallace D. Wattles

  Successful, May, Poverty

  Wallace D. Wattles (2015). “The Science of Wallace D. Wattles: The Science of Being Well, The Science of Getting Rich & The Science of Being Great – Complete Trilogy: From one of the New Thought pioneers, author of How to Promote Yourself, New Science of Living and Healing, Hellfire Harrison, A New Christ, How to Get What You Want and Jesus The Man and His Work”, p.7, e-artnow

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• The best measure of a successful life is the way we turn away, we renounce, and even by the way we depart it.

  Tariq Ramadan

  Successful, Way, Life Is

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• You build a successful life a day at a time.

  Lou Holtz

  Successful, Self Improvement, Improvement

  Lou Holtz (1990). “The Fighting Spirit: A Championship Season at Notre Dame”

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• 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.

  George Lois

  Love You, Heart, Creativity

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• Consider whether fulfillment of the goal you have chosen will constitute success. What is success? If you possess health and wealth, but have trouble with everybody (including yourself), yours is not a successful life. Existence becomes futile if you cannot find happiness. When wealth is lost, you have lost a little; when health is lost, you have lost something of more consequence; but when peace of mind is lost, you have lost the highest treasure.

  Paramahansa Yogananda

  Successful, Goal, Mind

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• Being from a very traditional Chinese-American family, my parents believed the only options to have a successful life were to be a doctor, a lawyer, an engineer or a business person.

  Phillip Lim

  Successful, Doctors, Parent

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• Building a successful life is much like building anything else: it should be thoroughly thought about in advance and then carried through to completion.

  Sterling W Sill

  Motivational, Successful, Life Is

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• It's so easy and comfortable to lie to yourself. Success is to become who you are. I think Hollywood thinks in a totally different way. But I think that as a human being, and not only an actress, that's really how you lead a successful life.

  Audrey Tautou

  Lying, Successful, Thinking

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• 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.

  Tal Ben-Shahar

  Fall, Successful, Squares

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• There is a passion for perfection which you will rarely see fully developed; but you may note this fact, that in successful lives it is never wholly lacking.

  Bliss Carman

  Passion, Successful, Perfection

  "The Friendship of Art".

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• Take advantage of every opportunity to practice your communication skills so that when important occasions arise, you will have the gift, the style, the sharpness, the clarity, and the emotions to affect other people.

  Jim Rohn

  Inspirational, Communication, Opportunity

  "Technical Support Essentials: Advice to Succeed in Technical Support". Book by Andrew Sanchez, p. 79, December 30, 2009.

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• If you would have a successful life, less and less try to make things happen and more and more just let things happen.

  Ormond McGill

  Success, Trying, Make Things Happen

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