Success Quotes

"Success measured by others' standards is a form of inauthenticity and self-deception."

"To achieve success defined by others is to lose yourself; define your own measures of achievement."

"The only true failure is not trying."

"Success is not final, failure is not fatal."

"Success is measured not by external standards but by personal fulfillment."

"Success comes from aligning action with understanding."

"The virtues represent the possibility of human excellence and flourishing."

"The internal goods of a practice define what counts as excellence in that practice."

"The virtues enable us to achieve the goods internal to human practices and communities."

"Primary goods—liberty, opportunity, income, wealth, and self-respect—are what all rational people want."

"Inequality arising from voluntary exchanges reflects justice, not injustice."

"Just societies emerge when individuals freely choose to cooperate and exchange."

"Justice permits vast inequalities if they arise from voluntary exchanges."

"People have the right to keep and use what they justly acquire through their efforts."

"Man can certainly strive toward his goals, but he cannot always achieve them."

"What we call progress is not inevitable; we must choose it consciously."

"Success is measured by authenticity, not achievement."

"Success is not the opposite of failure; both are essential to growth."

"In the long run, the man who builds a character builds a fortune."

"The exclusive worship of the bitch-goddess Success is our national disease."

"Success or failure in business is caused more by mental attitude even than by mental capacities."

"Survival of the fittest."

"The secret of success is to do the common thing uncommonly well."

"In the struggle for existence, it is the fittest who survive and pass on their inheritance."

"Arriving at one goal is the starting point to another."

"Success is the alignment of action with authentic purpose, not the accumulation of external rewards."

"Success that violates one's principles is a form of failure; it corrodes the self."

"The ultimate good lies in the evolutionary process itself."

"The secret of excellence is discipline."

"In the struggle for existence, it is the fittest who survive."