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.
Barack knows the American Dream because he's lived it, and he wants everyone in this country to have that same opportunity, no matter who we are or where we're from or what we look like or who we love.
In essence, I owe my career to Garry Marshall. There was no known reason for him to hire me for 'Pretty Woman.'
If you get to my age in life and nobody thinks well of you, I don't care how big your bank account is, your life is a disaster.
Remember, talent doesn't win championships, talent doesn't win games.
In all honesty, once you become a professional, number one, you're no longer a fan. I don't root for the Dodgers, really. I just try to do the game as best I can. And the winning and the losing will take care of itself.
The Nobel Prize is fine, but the drugs I've developed are rewards in themselves.
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