Success Quotes

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

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"Virtue alone is sufficient for contentment."
Porphyry
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"The path of virtue is the path of true prosperity."
Porphyry
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"The measure of a man is not what he possesses, but what he understands."
Strabo
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"Success is measured by the good one does."
Strabo
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"Success is not measured by what you achieve, but by the obstacles you overcome."
Petronius
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"Success is a journey, not a destination."
Petronius
"Success measured only in coins is failure measured in meaning."
Diogenes Laërtius
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"The greatest wealth is poverty of desires."
Desiderius Erasmus
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"Fortune is the rod of the weak and the staff of the brave."
Desiderius Erasmus
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"When the flower blooms, bees come uninvited."
Plutarch
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"Pleasure is a shadow, wealth is an echo, power is a shadow."
Plutarch
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"Every man is the architect of his own fortune."
Plutarch
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"To achieve something worthy of the effort, you must do what you came to do."
Plutarch
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"Fame is a vapor; popularity an accident; riches take wings."
Michel de Montaigne
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"The pursuit of understanding is the highest form of moral excellence."
Hypatia
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"One's legacy is not measured in years lived but in minds illuminated."
Hypatia
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"Success built on exploitation is ultimately a form of failure."
Porphyry
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"Wealth flows to those who understand the land."
Strabo
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"The greatest success is to be needed by those you love."
Petronius
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"Success that comes without struggle is quickly lost."
Petronius
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"In the arena of human life, the honors and rewards fall to those who show their good qualities in action."
Apuleius
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"Success is not final, failure is not fatal."
Apuleius
"Success is not a destination but a particular way of traveling."
Diogenes Laërtius
"Success builds upon itself, but so does failure—choose your foundation carefully."
Diogenes Laërtius
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"It is not easy for men to rise whose qualities are thwarted by poverty."
Juvenal
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"True glory consists in doing what deserves to be written."
Juvenal
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"When the flower blooms, bees come uninvited."
Plutarch
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"The difference between a king and a beggar is opportunity."
Plutarch
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"The man who makes the fewest mistakes makes the most progress."
Plutarch
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"One life well-lived in service of knowledge is worth more than a thousand idle years."
Hypatia