„What is important – what I consider success – is that we make a contribution to our world.“

— Ben Carson

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„Success is relative. It is what we make of the mess we have made of things.“
— T.S. Eliot
„Believe that you have somethikng important to contribute to the world, and that the world would be a lesser place without that contribution.“
— Jordan Peterson
„I must admit that I personally measure success in terms of the contributions an individual makes to her or his fellow human beings.“
— Margaret Mead
„We find ourselves in a bewildering world. We want to make sense of what we see around us and to ask: What is the nature of the universe? What is our place in it and where did it and we come from? Why is it the way it is?“
— Stephen Hawking
„I will be what I want. But I will have to want what I'll be. Success is in having success, not conditions for success.“
— Fernando Pessoa
„Our flawed mechanisms of perception and thought are not a cause for grief, but an opportunity to evolve, for an internal evolution of consciousness that will also make possible, in a sustainable form, our aspirations toward what we call individual success and global progress.“
— B.K.S. Iyengar
„If we long for our planet to be important, there is something we can do about it. We make our world significant by the courage of our questions and by the depth of our answers.“
— Carl Sagan