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 pursuit of success is the pursuit of a mirage."
Bataille, Georges
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"Success means becoming ever more authentically human."
Rosenzweig, Franz
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"Success is measured by depth of being, not breadth of possession."
Rosenzweig, Franz
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"Success is the enemy of the work that sustains itself in failure."
Blanchot, Maurice
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"Success is merely failure that has learned to disguise itself."
Bataille, Georges
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"Success is measured by how many people benefit from our actions."
Gramsci, Antonio
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"Success must be measured against one's contribution to human liberation."
Lukács, György
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"In the life of the individual, rejection and failure define the edges of ambition."
Russell, Bertrand
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"Success is the ultimate failure—the moment we stop reaching toward the impossible."
Bataille, Georges
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"Success in modern society means perfect adaptation to its demands."
Horkheimer, Max
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"Success measured by the system's standards may be deepest failure."
Horkheimer, Max
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"Strategic action has its place, but not in domains where solidarity matters most."
Habermas, Jürgen
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"Success in this system means successful integration into domination."
Adorno, Theodor
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"Success redefined as individual achievement masks structural inequality"
Marcuse, Herbert
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"Success measured only in personal gain is the failure of humanity."
Lukács, György
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"Identity itself becomes a commodity in administered society, marketed back to us as authentic expression."
Adorno, Theodor
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"The individual is produced by exchange relations while being told it is its own achievement."
Adorno, Theodor
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"Identity becomes a product; the authentic self is the most successfully marketed illusion."
Adorno, Theodor
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"Success in an unjust system is complicity in that system."
Marcuse, Herbert
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"Success is measured by the intensity of creation, not by material gain."
Deleuze, Gilles
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"Success is measured not by achievement but by the intensity of one's becoming."
Deleuze, Gilles
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"Man is nothing else but what he makes of himself"
Sartre, Jean-Paul
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"A man is what he wills himself to be"
Sartre, Jean-Paul
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"To succeed in life, you must consider failure as the tuition you pay"
Sartre, Jean-Paul
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"We are our choices, and our choices shape who we become."
Merleau-Ponty, Maurice
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"To choose is to affirm the value of what we choose."
Sartre, Jean-Paul
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"A person is nothing else but the series of their actions."
Sartre, Jean-Paul
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"Excellence is not exceptional ability but the consistent practice of virtue."
MacIntyre, Alasdair
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"Success measured only in visible outcomes misses what matters most."
Foucault, Michel
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"The unity of virtue is achieved only by those for whom there is a unity to their lives."
MacIntyre, Alasdair