Hillary Clinton's Top 10 Rules For Success (@HillaryClinton)

Do what is necessary to be resilient. You know, life is filled with disappointments. I don't like hearing this, that you would walk away from something because you're not as ready as you think you should be. Get ready. But if you can even help one person, you know, it feels like it's worthwhile. Do you have a terrible temper? No, but I do get angry about things. I'm not going to deny that. You should take criticism seriously because you might learn something. But you can't let it crush you. Don't vote for anyone who says he or she will never compromise. You have a choice. You can either be the actor in your own life, or you can react to everybody else. When somebody who doesn't know me criticizes me, I don't pay a lot of attention. There's always something you can do that helps somebody. The entire conference hall exploded in this energy and enthusiasm.

She's an American politician who served at the 67th United States Senate Secretary of State. The wife of the 42nd President of the United States, Bill Clinton, she was the former First Lady of the United States. She serves as a United States Senator from New York from 2001 to 2009. She's Hillary Clinton, and here are her top 10 rules for success.

Do what is necessary to be resilient. You know, life is filled with disappointments, and you know, I've had a blessed life. I mean, I'm sure I've had disappointments and setbacks and all the rest of it, and it's all played played out in public and, and for the first— for the second half of my life. But everybody does. I respect anyone who, when they're knocked down, gets back up. I mean, it's really about just that. And I learned that from my mother, who had a really horrible childhood and was so mistreated and neglected and abused and could have become a whiner, a quitter on life. And she didn't. She kept coming back. And she told me, she said, you know, you can be knocked down 8 times, 10 a hundred times. What matters is whether you get back up. When I got to Wellesley, I was very nervous about being there. I thought everybody there was a lot smarter, a lot more ready to be at a really hard college. And about two weeks in, I called home. In those days, we did something called call collect. I said, you know, I just can't make it here. It's just too hard. Everybody is so much smarter than I am. And so my father, who never wanted me to go that far away anyway, he said, "Well, come home. You can, you know, work and then you can go to college nearby." And my mother, who never got to go to college, she said, "Don't you dare. I don't like hearing this, that you would walk away from something because you're not as ready as you think you should be. Get ready. You stay there and do your best." At the time, it was mortifying, but in retrospect, best advice. I could have gotten. You know, for me, you know, helping a child get healthcare whose insurance company has denied his parents the right to get the treatment that their doctors say he needs is incredibly important, and it kind of keeps me going because sometimes the bureaucracy and the political back and forth prevents positive things from happening. But if you can even help one person You know, it feels like it's worthwhile. Do you have a terrible temper? No, but I do get angry about things. I'm not going to deny that. I do. There are things that I think are wrong or things that I think should be fixed, and I am not at all shy about expressing my opinion. I, I try to be a direct person, and— but I don't tell people what to do. I say, here's what I think, and I'm concerned about this. Too many young women, I think, are harder on themselves than circumstances warrant. They are too often selling themselves short. They too often take criticism personally instead of seriously. You should take criticism seriously because you might learn something, but you can't let it crush you, and you have to be resilient enough to keep moving forward despite whatever the personal Setbacks, even insults that come your way might be. And that takes a sense of humor about yourself and others. Believe me, this is hard-won advice that I am now putting forth here. So it's not like you wake up and understand this. Don't vote for anyone who says he or she will never compromise and does it proudly. You know, they have all the answers. They may even have a direct channel to the divine, so they know what should be done. And therefore, they're going to Washington or they're going to Sacramento, wherever they're going, and they will never compromise. That is death to a democracy. I don't know if any of you saw the great Steven Spielberg movie about Lincoln and trying to get the 13th Amendment passed. There was just a great movie— I mean, a great play in New York called All the Way about LBJ trying to get civil rights passed. You've got to compromise if you're going to make progress. The advice that my mother gave me when I was growing up is advice I think about every day. You know, what— well, you know, you have a choice. You can either be the actor in your own life, or you can react to everybody else who's going to try to pull you into their drama. And you got to just be, you know, you just— you just have to be as true to yourself as you can. And, you know, and lots of times the best way my mother gave me advice was not by Not by telling me what to do, but by asking me questions. Are you sure— like what she just said, like the consequences. Are you sure this is the right— Going to babysit for the children of migrant farm workers who in Chicago, you know, they would come up from Mexico and they'd pick crops, they'd go through Illinois, they'd go into Michigan. And our church had a babysitting program for the youngest children on Saturday mornings so that the school-age children who went to school with us be able to go out into the fields. And so I remember babysitting these adorable little kids, and my mother learning that one of the little girls was going to have her first communion, and of course they didn't have money for a dress, and my mother took the mother of the little girl and, you know, bought a dress. And my mother was always trying to think of ways that just through her own efforts she could help somebody else, and encouraging, you know, me to do the same. So there's no doubt in my mind that she was my biggest inspiration, and her example was a great continuing reminder of what can happen. Because I'd end with this: I asked her once, I said, with all of your really suffering, what made the difference? How did you turn out the way you did? And she said to me, at so many points along the way, somebody was kind to me. It wasn't my family, but it was somebody else. And she told me about literally when she was like 4 years old and her parents were teenagers, totally irresponsible. They'd leave her for days. They'd give her a little bit of money and she'd have to get herself down the stairs of the tenement they lived in and go next door to a restaurant and ask for food with a little bit of money. And she said, looking back, she said, "I know they gave me more food than I could pay for." Or when she was in school and she would never have any lunch and never had any money to buy lunch, And the teacher noticed it, so the teacher, without embarrassing her, would bring an extra piece of fruit, would bring an extra carton of milk, and would say, "Oh, I've brought too much food. Dorothy, would you like something? Because I just can't eat all this." Again, not humiliating her, but making it possible for her to receive that kindness. And the family that she moved in to work for was the first time she was ever in an intact family that loved each other and cared about each other. Had plans for the future, and she could see all of that. So it was just a great reminder. I mean, you don't have to go into full-time philanthropy or charitable work or faith-based work or politics, but there's always something you can do that helps somebody. And if you do it in a way that preserves their dignity and gives them the feeling that it was kindness as opposed to arrogance, it can make a huge difference. In September 1995, I was at the UN Conference on Beijing. The history of women has been a history of silence. Many people in our own government and our Congress did not want me to go to Beijing, but you don't shy away from confronting human rights abuses. It is a violation of human rights when babies are denied food or drowned or suffocated —simply because they are born girls. The entire conference hall exploded in this energy and enthusiasm. Human rights are women's rights, and women's rights are human rights, once and for all. Hearing the words that she spoke, she taught me that there were no limits to what I could achieve.

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