Success Quotes

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

25498 quotes

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"There is a standard higher than the highest happiness of an individual—his character."
Mill, John Stuart
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"The good of mankind may be served by everyone making the most of themselves."
Mill, John Stuart
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"Success is not reaching a destination but becoming who we are meant to be."
Feuerbach, Ludwig
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"Success is measured not by accolades but by fidelity to principle."
Feuerbach, Ludwig
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"The higher we soar, the smaller we appear to those who cannot fly."
Nietzsche, Friedrich
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"Ambition is the path to success. Persistence is the vehicle you arrive in."
Nietzsche, Friedrich
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"The greatest use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it."
James, William
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"The secret of success is the consistent application of effort over time."
Bentham, Jeremy
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"Progress requires both intellectual development and moral transformation."
Comte, Auguste
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"Success is measured by contribution to progress, not by wealth or conventional status."
Comte, Auguste
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"Individuality is the same thing with development and that it is only the cultivation of individuality which produces well-developed human beings."
Mill, John Stuart
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"The greatest success is the development of human potential."
Feuerbach, Ludwig
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"It is in the moment of reaching the goal that genius realizes its greatest worth."
Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich
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"Success comes to those who understand necessity."
Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich
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"Success has always been the greatest liar."
Nietzsche, Friedrich
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"The purpose of life is not happiness but accomplishment."
Nietzsche, Friedrich
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"Success is measured not by personal gain but by collective advancement."
Marx, Karl
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"The good will is good not because of what it accomplishes but because it is good in itself."
Kant, Immanuel
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"In the practical philosophy of Kant, the supreme good is moral perfection."
Kant, Immanuel
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"The greatest happiness comes from the pursuit of something greater than happiness itself."
Mill, John Stuart
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"Virtue is the happiness of those with a strong character."
Bentham, Jeremy
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"The greatest danger is not that our aim is too high and we miss it, but that it is too low and we reach it."
Kierkegaard, Søren
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"The higher we soar, the smaller we appear to those who cannot fly."
Nietzsche, Friedrich
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"The best revenge is massive success."
Nietzsche, Friedrich
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"What a man is begins to betray itself when his talent decreases."
Nietzsche, Friedrich
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"The growth of cities constitutes the best measure of economic growth."
Marx, Karl
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"Mankind always sets itself only such tasks as it can solve."
Marx, Karl
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"Success in understanding comes from abandoning false certainties."
Berkeley, George
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"There is no satisfaction in the achievement of the evil-minded."
Hume, David
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"The idea is easy. It's the execution that's hard."
Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich