Success is finding satisfaction in giving a little more than you take.
Interpretation
True success comes from contributing more to others than what you receive in return.
This quote emphasizes that genuine success is not solely defined by personal achievements or material gains, but rather by the fulfillment and contentment that comes from being generous and helping others. Christopher Reeve suggests that when we find joy and satisfaction in giving, we ultimately enrich our own lives and define true success in a deeper sense.
In practice
In a motivational speech about community service.
I think we all have a little voice inside us that will guide us. It may be God, I don't know. But I think that if we shut out all the noise and clutter from our lives and listen to that voice, it will tell us the right thing to do.
Either you vegetate and look out a window, or activate and try to effect change.
Once you choose hope, anything's possible
Nothing of any consequence happens unless people get behind an idea. It begins with an individual and they share the idea with more individuals-and eventually it becomes a movement.
Success is not about money and power. Real success is about relationships. There's no point in making $50 million a year if your teenager thinks you're a jerk and you spend no time with your wife.
We live in a time when the words impossible and unsolvable are no longer part of the scientific community's vocabulary. Each day we move closer to trials that will not just minimize the symptoms of disease and injury but eliminate them.
A big man has no time really to do anything but just sit and be big.
I have gone through a long apprenticeship. I have gone through enough of being a nobody. I have decided that when I am a star, I will be every inch and every moment the star! Everybody from the studio gateman to the highest executive will know it.
Great things are not accomplished by those who yield to trends and fads and popular opinion.
Before everything else, getting ready is the secret of success.
Anything that won't sell, I don't want to invent. Its sale is proof of utility, and utility is success.
I didn't know where my career was going to go. Somehow, people sensed that I have certain talents and cast me in these bizarre, off-beat roles, which I have no regret about. I've enjoyed playing every one of them.
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