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Struggling with Success? Sigmund Freud spent years mastering this exact challenge. This collection captures their most practical insights on Success, each quote backed by source context so you can trace the thinking. Whether you need immediate guidance or long-term frameworks, Sigmund Freud's approach cuts through the noise and gives you actionable wisdom. Use this archive whenever you're making decisions about Success and need clarity from someone who's been there.
"One day, in retrospect, the years of struggle will strike you as the most beautiful."
"In the case of neurotic anxiety, the ego is making an attempt to escape from the demands of its libido."
"Every affect belonging to an emotional impulse is transformed into anxiety if it is repressed."
"The ego feels itself hated and persecuted by the super-ego instead of being loved."
"The first state of anxiety... arose on the occasion of the separation from the mother."
"How bold one gets when one is sure of being loved."
"The ego's dread of the super-ego is the fear of conscience."
"Translation: A man who has been the indisputable favorite of his mother keeps for life the feeling of a conqueror, that confidence of success that often induces real success. From The Life and Works of Sigmund Freud by Ernest Jones, Vol. I, ch. 1 (1953) p. 5"
"Moral anxiety is the ego's fear of the super-ego."
"The ego is the actual seat of anxiety."
"It is impossible to escape the impression that people commonly use false standards of measurement."
"Also quoted as, "Yes, America is gigantic, but a gigantic mistake." in Memories of a Psycho-analyst, ch.9 (1959) by Ernest Jones; and as, "America is the most grandiose experiment the world has seen, but I am afraid it is not going to be a success." in Freud: the Man and his Cause, pt. 3, ch. 12, (1980), by Ronald W. Clark; as quoted in Penguin Dictionary of Modern Quotations by Robert Andrews, Penguin Books, 2001."
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"The only person with whom you have to compare yourself is who you were in the past."
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