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.
In our business, things look like a failure until they're not. It's pretty binary transitions.
We really don't look at our competitors. The market is big. If you focus too much on competitors, you can lose focus on the customer. If we make our customers happier, we are going to win.
There are no bad business and investment opportunities, but there are bad entrepreneurs and investors. To be a successful business owner and investor, you have to be emotionally neutral to winning and losing. Winning and losing are just part of the game. The size of your success is measured by the strength of your desire, the size of your dream and how you handle disappointment along the way.
The ability to concentrate and to use your time well is everything if you want to succeed in business--or almost anywhere else for that matter.
My goal one day is to be in the same sentence as Rod Laver and Ken Rosewall.
I want to top expectations. I want to blow you away.
Subscribe for the occasional hand-picked quote. No noise.