„It is high time the ideal of success should be replaced with the ideal of service.“

— Albert Einstein

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„If a man does not have an ideal and try to live up to it, then he becomes a mean, base, and sordid creature, no matter how successful.“
— Theodore Roosevelt
„No one can conceive the variety of feelings which bore me onwards, like a hurricane, in the first enthusiasm of success. Life and death appeared to me ideal bounds, which I should first break through, and pour a torrent of light into our dark world.“
— Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
„Yes, there will be setbacks and there will be frustrations, and there will be moments of doubt and moments of despair. The currents of history ebb and flow, but over time they flow toward freedom -- more people, in every corner of the Earth, standing up and reaching to claim those rights that are universal. And that’s why, in the end, our ideals are stronger. And that’s why, in the end, our ideals will win.“
— Barack Obama