Don't become a seeker of success. Become a person of value.
Interpretation
Prioritize building your character and contributions rather than just chasing success.
This quote by Albert Einstein emphasizes the importance of focusing on becoming a person of value, suggesting that true worth comes not from the pursuit of success for its own sake, but from cultivating qualities and skills that enrich oneself and others. By developing a strong moral and ethical foundation, success will naturally follow as a byproduct of one's contributions to the world.
In practice
In a motivational speech about career paths, to inspire young professionals.
I cannot then believe in this concept of an anthropomorphic God who has the powers of interfering with these natural laws. As I said before, the most beautiful and most profound religious emotion that we can experience is the sensation of the mystical. And this mysticality is the power of all true science.
If I would follow your advice and Jesus could perceive it, he, as a Jewish teacher, surely would not approve of such behavior.
I want to know all Gods thoughts; all the rest are just details.
In the middle of adversity there is great opportunity.
I do not believe that civilization will be wiped out in a war fought with the atomic bomb. Perhaps two-thirds of the people of the earth will be killed.
To me the worst thing seems to be a school principally to work with methods of fear, force and artificial authority. Such treatment destroys the sound sentiments, the sincerity and the self-confidence of pupils and produces a subservient subject.
There are people who make things happen, there are people who_x000D_ watch things happen, and there are people who wonder what_x000D_ happened. To be successful, you need to be a person who makes_x000D_ things happen.
According to this law [the law of Dharma], you have a unique talent and a unique way of expressing it. There is something that you can do better than anyone else in the whole world--and for every unique talent and unique expression of that talent, there are also unique needs. When these needs are matched with the creative expression of your talent, that is the spark that creates affluence. Expressing your talents to fulfill needs creates unlimited wealth and abundance.
I'm not a defender of old or new football managers. I believe in good ones and bad ones, those that achieve success and those that don't.
The two most important words I ever wrote were on that first Wal-Mart sign, ‘Satisfaction Guaranteed’. They're still up there, and they have made all the difference.
There is one rule for the industrialist and that is: Make the best quality of goods possible at the lowest cost possible, paying the highest wages possible.
There are three ways to ultimate success: The first way is to be kind. The second way is to be kind. The third way is to be kind.
Subscribe for the occasional hand-picked quote. No noise.