Success Quotes

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

25498 quotes

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"Ambition is often mistaken for virtue when it serves the greater good."
Baruch Spinoza
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"Fortune is the reward of those who understand the laws of causality."
Baruch Spinoza
B
"The perfection of a thing consists in the degree to which it actualizes its nature."
Baruch Spinoza
A
"In the great mercantile state, self-interest becomes the engine of mutual benefit."
Adam Smith
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"The wealth of nations is measured not in gold but in the industry and skill of its people."
Adam Smith
A
"The natural effort of every man to better his condition is so powerful that it is alone capable of carrying on society to wealth and grandeur."
Adam Smith
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"The utility of all things is the measure of their excellence."
Thomas Hobbes
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"All men are desirous of honor and preferment."
Thomas Hobbes
T
"A man's worth is measured by what he can accomplish."
Thomas Hobbes
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"Constancy in the pursuit of an object is the secret of success."
José de San Martín
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"In the end, it is the quality of character that determines success."
José de San Martín
J
"To do more for the world than the world does for you, that is success."
John Locke
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"Success comes not to those who wait, but to those who take action."
Toussaint L'Ouverture
J
"El verdadero éxito no se mide en oro, sino en dignidad."
José de San Martín
J
"No hay gloria sin sacrificio."
José de San Martín
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"Felicity consists in having a prosperous passage through the various ages of our life."
Thomas Hobbes
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"The secret of success is to do the common thing uncommonly well."
Thomas Hobbes
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"Perfection consists in an increase of power; imperfection in its decrease."
Baruch Spinoza
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"The most decisive mark of the prosperity of any country is the increase of the number of its inhabitants."
Adam Smith
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"The natural effort of every individual to better his own condition is a principle of preservation capable of preventing and correcting, in many respects, the abuses of the monopoly."
Adam Smith
A
"The prosperity of a people depends not upon wealth, but upon the character of the people."
Adam Smith
A
"The wealth of a nation is measured not by its gold, but by the productivity of its people."
Adam Smith
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"Success in life is often measured by how we overcome obstacles."
David Hume
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"Success measured only in wealth is a hollow victory."
Peter Kropotkin
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"To fail for a just cause is to succeed in ways that matter."
José de San Martín
J
"Success is measured not in years of rule, but in lives transformed."
José de San Martín
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"A chief is not judged by the applause he receives but by the success of his measures."
Simón Bolívar
S
"Success consists of putting your whole effort into whatever you undertake."
Simón Bolívar
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"The enemy of progress is not failure, but the refusal to try."
Benito Juárez
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"The revolution's success is measured not in battles won, but in freedoms secured for generations to come."
Toussaint L'Ouverture