Successful Life Quotes - Page 6

• Even when I'm happy and successful, life still goes on.

  Ashleigh Brilliant

  Successful, Goes On, Stills

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• 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.

  Wayne Muller

  Successful, Effort, Suffering

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• Having fun is not a diversion from a successful life; it is the pathway to it.

  Martha Beck

  Fun, Successful, Pathways

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• A successful life is expensive; it will cost you something to become a champion.

  Mike Murdock

  Successful, Champion, Cost

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• Pick up any newspaper or magazine, open the TV, and you'll be bombarded with suggestions of how to have a successful life. Some of these suggestions are deeply unhelpful to our own projects and priorities - and we should take care.

  Alain de Botton

  Successful, Bombarded By, Priorities

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• 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?"

  Alain de Botton

  Successful, Years, Two

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• There is something servile in the habit of seeking after a law which we may obey. We may study the laws of matter at and for our convenience, but a successful life knows no law.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Success, Freedom, Law

  Henry David Thoreau (1992). “The Essays of Henry David Thoreau”, p.138, Rowman & Littlefield

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• Success is steady progress toward one's personal goals.

  Jim Rohn

  Inspirational, Success, Congratulations

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from Dec 24, 2016

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• The whole secret of a successful life is to find out what is one's destiny to do, and then do it.

  Henry Ford

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  Henry Ford (1922). “Ford Ideals: Being a Selection from "Mr. Ford's Page" in The Dearborn Independent”

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• Take time to gather up the past so that you will be able to draw from your experience and invest them in the future.

  Jim Rohn

  Future, Past, Greatness

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from Mar 18, 2017

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• The worst thing one can do is not to try, to be aware of what one wants and not give in to it, to spend years in silent hurt wondering if something could have materialized - never knowing.

  Jim Rohn

  Inspirational, Hurt, Greatness

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from Sep 23, 2014

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• The American Dream means giving it your all, trying your hardest, accomplishing something. And then I'd add to that, giving something back. No definition of a successful life can do anything but include serving others.

  George H. W. Bush

  Dream, Mean, Successful

  "Patriarch of a Political Dynasty". The Academy of Achievement Interview in Williamsburg, Virginia, www.achievement.org. June 2, 1995.

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