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Love Quote by Kiana Tom

"I feel true success comes from being able to work and the love for it"

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Kiana Tom frames success as stamina plus affection: not the trophy, but the ability to keep showing up and actually want to be there. Coming from a model and TV fitness personality, that distinction matters. Her industry is built on surfaces and scorecards - youth, measurements, bookings, likes. By centering "being able to work", she quietly shifts the focus from the fickle gaze of others to something harder to take away: capacity. Health, discipline, and a body that cooperates become a kind of currency, and for someone whose career literally depends on physical readiness, that word "able" carries a practical, almost vulnerable undertone.

The second half - "the love for it" - is the emotional alibi and the moral claim. In fields where ambition can look like vanity, love reframes the grind as devotion. It also anticipates skepticism: if you are successful in a beauty economy, people assume it was handed to you. Tom is arguing for earnedness, insisting that consistency and enjoyment are the real differentiators, not genetic luck or industry favor.

There is also a very American self-help logic baked in: success becomes internal, portable, and merit-based. That is inspiring and strategic. If success is "true" only when it aligns with work you love, then external downturns, aging, or the inevitable volatility of celebrity can be recast as detours, not defeats. The subtext is survival: stay employable, stay motivated, stay in love with the process, because the spotlight will not always be.

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APA Style (7th ed.)
Tom, Kiana. (2026, January 15). I feel true success comes from being able to work and the love for it. FixQuotes. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/i-feel-true-success-comes-from-being-able-to-work-149111/

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Tom, Kiana. "I feel true success comes from being able to work and the love for it." FixQuotes. January 15, 2026. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/i-feel-true-success-comes-from-being-able-to-work-149111/.

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"I feel true success comes from being able to work and the love for it." FixQuotes, 15 Jan. 2026, https://fixquotes.com/quotes/i-feel-true-success-comes-from-being-able-to-work-149111/. Accessed 11 Feb. 2026.

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Kiana Tom (born March 14, 1965) is a Model from USA.

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