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by Gary E. Andrews - 07/24/26 08:58 PM
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Hi Folks,
Let's use little real life level discussion to define some lesser obvious "Success" stories. Like the old "Happiness is..." cartoons, let's do a series of "Success is..." statements. Please keep them short (one liners if possible) and please only include 1 per post and 1 per day. (i.e. I'd love to have you regularly contribute to this post any time you have a small human level success to share). I'll start it off!
PS: If we get a lot of great ones we may use them in a book project we're working on.
Brian Austin Whitney Founder Just Plain Folks jpfolkspro@gmail.com Skype: Brian Austin Whitney Facebook: www.facebook.com/justplainfolks"Don't sit around and wait for success to come to you... it doesn't know the way." -Brian Austin Whitney "It's easier to be the bigger man when you actually are..." -Brian Austin Whitney "Sometimes all you have to do to inspire humans to greatness is to give them a reason and opportunity to do something great." -Brian Austin Whitney
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Success is...
Giving a positive emotional boost to a friend who doesn't expect it.
Brian Austin Whitney Founder Just Plain Folks jpfolkspro@gmail.com Skype: Brian Austin Whitney Facebook: www.facebook.com/justplainfolks"Don't sit around and wait for success to come to you... it doesn't know the way." -Brian Austin Whitney "It's easier to be the bigger man when you actually are..." -Brian Austin Whitney "Sometimes all you have to do to inspire humans to greatness is to give them a reason and opportunity to do something great." -Brian Austin Whitney
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Success is...
Seeing family and friends you love look happy.
John
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Success comes from doing what you choose and doing it well.
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Success comes when you least expect it, after tedious hours of hard work.
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Success, real success is being truly happy with what you don't have!
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Success is waking up in the morning 
http://www.soundclick.com/louistwinn"If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away." Thoreau
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Success is smiling with your heart when your mouth can't.
Vanessa
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Success is
watching tragedy after tragedy on the 11 O'clock news and sleeping peacefully, because your life is in order.
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Success is...
the smiles on your kids' faces when you come home from a long day at work.
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Success is good health,if you are healthy,you are wealthy.
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Success is a 7 letter word for "Look what I can do!".
Dave
"Where there's a Gill, there's a way"
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Success is not burning the cookies. Ben
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Success is realizing that we all come into this world with everything, but as we grow we become distracted by believing that the stuff the other man has will bring us some greater happiness.
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Success is learning to want what is good for you.
You've got to know your limitations. I don't know what your limitations are. I found out what mine were when I was twelve. I found out that there weren't too many limitations, if I did it my way. -Johnny Cash It's only music. -niteshift Mike Dunbar Music
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Success is... getting a room full of 250 strangers (who came to see somebody else) happily and lustily singing along with one of YOUR songs.
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Success is; Win or lose, knowing you gave it 100%
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Success is waking up every day ready to do music again.
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Success is...
Having a terrible fight with your spouse, discussing it with much difficulty, recognizing something you can improve or change within your own behavior, doing so, and moving on, closer than ever before.
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Success is being able to spend your time doing things you are passionate about.
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success is realizing you have everything you really need right with you at all times
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If freedom is just another word for nothing “left to lose” then success is just another word for “nothing left to do”
"Imagination is more important than knowledge." - Albert Einstein
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Sucess: Doing a good job and having a good time doing it.
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Sucess is making something out of nothing...that gives joy to others as well as yourself..a song...
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Success is being aware of your faults;
finding the courage, integrity,
and desire to correct them.
Rock On!
~C~
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Success is realizing you may not be able to change the world but that you can change YOUR world...and doing it.
They'll tell you success in the music biz is all about who you know...but the truth is...it's about who knows you. Gallup 'n Dawg Music
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I USED to define a "Successful Person" as Someone who could take a Month Off Work & Not go Bankrupt.
I've thought Further on the Subject, thanks to this Post:
Success means you can start out Dead-Broke in the Morning, & Have Enough Talent & Chutzpah to be able to Feed Yourself All-Day, Stay Outta Jail, AND get a Dry Place to Sleep Tonight. (Anything Beyond THAT is just "Great Luck", or "God's Gift", depending on Your Religious Views.)
Success ISN'T Contentment....(look at all the Multi-Millionaires who're still hard-at-work!) It's kinda like a Limbo-Bar that you raise HIGHER all the time as ya Measure Your Progress & Expectations.
JMO, natch, & yep, Keep-or-Sweepit!
Big Hugs,
Stan
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Success is a wound that gets infected and swollen and fills up with pus and needs to be lanced...no, wait...that's an abscess.
Nevermind.
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Success is...the absence of failure
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Success is...
A day where I have: shined my sink, made my bed, kissed all the boo-boos, listened to my teenagers' current angst, cooked a nice meal for my husband, and get to fall asleep content.
Linda
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Success is when all the kiddies get to go outside during school to run off their energy...oops wait....that's recess!
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S Somehow (while) U undergoing C crisis C comes (an) E external S supernatural S strength
Last edited by Lynn Orloff; 12/12/07 01:39 AM.
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Success is having it all, losing it all, and then realizing you only lost the "things" that you didn't need anyway.
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Success is being the kind of friend you'd want to have.
They'll tell you success in the music biz is all about who you know...but the truth is...it's about who knows you. Gallup 'n Dawg Music
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Success is...
Having the courage to do the right thing in face of pressure to do the wrong thing.
Brian Austin Whitney Founder Just Plain Folks jpfolkspro@gmail.com Skype: Brian Austin Whitney Facebook: www.facebook.com/justplainfolks"Don't sit around and wait for success to come to you... it doesn't know the way." -Brian Austin Whitney "It's easier to be the bigger man when you actually are..." -Brian Austin Whitney "Sometimes all you have to do to inspire humans to greatness is to give them a reason and opportunity to do something great." -Brian Austin Whitney
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Success is...
Letting love soak through your skin to water your selfish soul.
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Success is having the trust and confidence of others.
Whoever said the pen is mightier than the sword never had an editor.
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Success is.....
....not viewing failure as an option.
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Success is telling me she would like another pancake please.
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Lyle...that is so sweet...I so get that.
Success to me is watching my daughter, who has Cerebral Palsy, cross a stage, using her walker, reaching her hand out to receive her Bachelors degree at a state university.
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Working on problems with band mates, without making it a problem.
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Success is owning Park Place, landing on Boardwalk and having enough green, pink, yellow and white money to buy it!
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Success is seeing your children grow into fine young adults.
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Success is the opposite of defeat (da feet). Thank goodness because if it was the opposite of "da foot" Mike Dunbar would really be in trouble!
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Success is: found in some strange places... but worth looking for!
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Success is... hitting the high notes
http://www.soundclick.com/louistwinn"If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away." Thoreau
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Success is a state of mind.
A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write,
if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself. What a man can be,
he must be. -- Abraham Maslow, American Psychologist
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