Skip to quotes
Glory Quotes

To me success means effectiveness in the world, that I am able to carry my ideas and values into the world - that I am able to change it in positive ways.

Maxine Hong KingstonWriter · American · b. 1940
More from Maxine Hong Kingston
Success QuotesChange QuotesPositive Quotes
#Ideas
All Inspirational Motivational Love Life Friendship Funny Happiness Success Wisdom Family Hope All topics

Related quotes

  • Without continual growth and progress, such words as improvement, achievement, and success have no meaning. — Benjamin Franklin
  • Daring ideas are like chessmen moved forward; they may be beaten, but they may start a winning game. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • Ideas can be life-changing. Sometimes all you need to open the door is just one more good idea. — Jim Rohn
  • The sweat of hard work is not to be displayed. It is much more graceful to appear favored by the gods. — Maxine Hong Kingston
  • I learned to make my mind large, as the universe is large, so that there is room for contradictions. — Maxine Hong Kingston
  • Hunger also changes the world - when eating can't be a habit, then neither can seeing. — Maxine Hong Kingston
Photographers Privacy Terms Pixabay (opens in a new tab)
A Gojo Digital website · © 2026