Success Quotes

Success means different things to different people. These quotes redefine what it means to truly succeed.

25498 quotes

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"The highest form of intelligence is the ability to adapt to change."
Arnold Toynbee
"Success without integrity is hollow."
Eric Hobsbawm
"Great empires are built not by conquest alone, but by the slow work of commerce."
Fernand Braudel
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"Great thinkers stand on the shoulders of their predecessors."
Quentin Skinner
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"The measurement of progress must include improvements in human dignity and freedom."
E.P. Thompson
"Civilizations rise not from individual genius but from accumulated social structures."
Fernand Braudel
"Social mobility is an illusion unless the structures themselves change."
Fernand Braudel
"Progress is not a law of nature but a human achievement."
Eric Hobsbawm
"Success belongs to the side that understands its own moment in history."
Eric Hobsbawm
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"Success is measured by the depth of our engagement, not external rewards."
Maurice Natanson
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"Success means living according to your values."
Maurice Natanson
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"Crouzet believed that greatness consists in understanding one's era deeply enough to transcend it."
Michel Crouzet
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"Success is measured not by what we gain, but by what we become."
Michel Crouzet
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"Success without integrity is merely a beautiful prison."
Michel Crouzet
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"We become who we are through countless small choices, made and remade."
Maurice Natanson
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"Success measured by internal peace is the only true success."
Philip Rieff
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"Success is measured by what one has given up to achieve it."
Philip Rieff
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"Success is often measured by external standards."
David Riesman
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"Success that comes at the cost of self-knowledge is merely success."
Maurice Natanson
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"Success without meaning is merely accumulation."
Maurice Natanson
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"We confuse the expansion of possibility with the achievement of value"
Philip Rieff
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"Success is alignment between effort and values."
Lucien Goldmann
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"Success without integrity is mere accumulation."
Lucien Goldmann
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"Character is increasingly determined by consumption patterns."
David Riesman
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"Consumption has replaced production as the locus of identity."
David Riesman
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"Success is measured by integrity, not wealth."
Siegfried Kracauer
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"Biography becomes the interpretive strategy by which we make sense of our lives."
Thomas Luckmann
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"The self is a project rather than a possession in modern society."
Thomas Luckmann
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"Biography is the bridge between individual consciousness and social structure."
Thomas Luckmann
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"Success is not a destination, but a direction."
Ernst Bloch