Marianne Williamson Quotes
A person acting from a motivation of contribution and service rises to such a level of moral authority that worldly success is a natural result.
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You've achieved success in your field when you don't know whether what you're doing is work or play.
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Failure is simply the non-presence of success. But a fiasco is a disaster of mythic proportions.
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You can't go around hoping that most people have sterling moral characters. The most you can hope for is that people will pretend that they do.
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It takes 20 years to make an overnight success.
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For believers, both privilege and privation are a trial, and both demand responses: one demands service, and the other demands patience. The greatest privilege is to live well in flourishing lands; the greatest privation is to live in the midst of war, especially civil war.
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I come from a world where you get the film done, that's a success.
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When you educate a girl, you kick-start a cycle of success. It makes economic sense. It makes social sense. It makes moral sense. But, it seems, it's not common sense yet.
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Even if I died in the service of the nation, I would be proud of it. Every drop of my blood... will contribute to the growth of this nation and to make it strong and dynamic.
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Focus on being balanced - success is balance.
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Sometimes, in order to follow our moral compass and/or our hearts, we have to make unpopular decisions or stand up for what we believe in.
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Just like gold, which has to weather very high temperatures to achieve the sheen and shine it finally gets, so also every person has to go through struggles in his life to achieve success.
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When elites see a homeless person in the gutter, they assume he's saving a parking place.
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I was an optimistic person, really bossy, gregarious and outspoken.
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Personally, I don't like the term 'success.' It's too arbitrary and too relative a thing. It's usually someone else's definition, not yours.
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When you work for the C.I.A. or as a diplomat, or serve in the military, you're not serving as a Democrat or a Republican; you serve as an American, whatever your personal moral compass or political views might be. So that would describe me.
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The real secret of success is enthusiasm.
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Success is a high, but the way up is hard, and you have to give your all.
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Guided by nothing but pop culture values, many children no longer learn how to think about morality and virtue, or to think of them at all. They grow up with no shared moral framework, believing that the highest values are diversity, tolerance and non-judgmentalism.
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Tenured professors are more prone than the rest of us to think that the university is the universe.
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For a movie, you have to make sure the lyrics are consistent with the rhythm that is given to you. But, at times, during the song's recording, you find out that your words are not appropriate for the track, and so you have to change them.
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I do everything that everybody else does.
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A mood disorder is dangerous. You've got to get those dramatic waves of highs and lows stabilized. It's dangerous if you don't.
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A person acting from a motivation of contribution and service rises to such a level of moral authority that worldly success is a natural result.
