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.
Your income is directly related to your philosophy, NOT the economy.
Fame is like caviar, you know - it's good to have caviar but not when you have it at every meal.
An idea isn't worth that much. It's the execution of the idea that has value. If you can't convince one other person that this is something to devote your life to, then it's not worth it.
People are fond of using the its not what you know, its who you know adage as an excuse for inaction, as if all successful people are born with powerful friends. Nonsense.
Wealth is in applications of mind to nature; and the art of getting rich consists not in industry, much less in saving, but in a better order, in timeliness, in being at the right spot.
He was at a starting point which makes many a man's career a fine subject for betting, if there were any gentlemen given to that amusement who could appreciate the complicated probabilities of an arduous purpose. . . .
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