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

  Steffi Graf

  Success, Tennis, Ifs

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

  Arlene Dickinson

  Winning

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• It is simply service that measures success.

  George Washington Carver

  George Washington Carver, Gary R. Kremer (1991). “George Washington Carver: In His Own Words”, p.17, University of Missouri Press

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• Starting in high school and continuing through our higher education system, we must ensure our students are on the right path to acquiring marketable skills that will lead to a productive and satisfying career. My goal is for every student to get a job after they graduate – not move back in with his or her parents. To do that, we must emphasize skill attainment in our community colleges and universities, use our resources more efficiently and measure success in a comprehensive way.

  Pat McCrory

  Jobs, Moving, School

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• A fine and beautiful life lies before thee, because thou hast a lively mind and a good wit. Thine arms are very strong and sturdy. Swimming hath helped to make them so, but only because thou hast had the will to do it. Fret not, my son. None of us is perfect. 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

  Beautiful, Strong, Lying

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• It's nice, being brought up with no money at all. It's just not how I measure success, so that makes it a bunch easier.

  Bode Miller

  Nice, Easier, Bunch

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• Each of the various tactics that have been tried to get Israel to budge.. nonviolent resistance, legal accountability, BDS (Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions).. has had some measure of success.

  Norman Finkelstein

  Success, Israel, Accountability

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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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• It's easy to measure success by the number of dollars spent or by the number of programs initiated, without having too much regard for what was bought and how useful it was to the people who need it - the war fighter and the analyst.

  Stephen Cambone

  War, Numbers, People

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• If you have talent, you will receive some measure of success - but only if you persist.

  Isaac Asimov

  Inspirational, Persistence, Rejection

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• In financial services, if you want to be the best in the industry, you first have to be the best in risk management and credit quality. It's the foundation for every other measure of success. There's almost no room for error.

  John G. Stumpf

  Errors, Risk, Quality

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• So long as I'm the president, my measure of success is victory -- and success.

  George W. Bush

  Long, Victory, President

  "Bush On Iraq: “My Measure Of Success Is Victory - And Success”". www.huffingtonpost.com. May 25, 2011.

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