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“If kings would only determine not to extend their dominions until they had filled them with happiness, they would find the smallest territories too large, but the longest life too short for the full accomplishment of so grand and so noble an ambition.”

Ifs Happiness Kings Ambition Filled Determine Noble Accomplishment Territory Smallest Too Short Dominion Life Too Short

Book:Remarks on the Talents of Lord Byron and the Tendencies of Don Juan

Source: Remarks on the Talents of Lord Byron and the Tendencies of Don Juan

“Never look down to test the ground before taking your next step; only he who keeps his eye fixed on the far horizon will find the right road.”

“Every man of ambition has to fight his century with its own weapons. What this century worships is wealth. The God of this century is wealth. To succeed one must have wealth. At all costs one must have wealth.”

Men Happiness Success Fighting Wealth Century Cost Succeed Ambition Worship Weapons Every Man

Book:Collected Works of Oscar Wilde: The Plays, the Poems, the Stories and the Essays Including De Profundis

Source: Collected Works of Oscar Wilde: The Plays, the Poems, the Stories and the Essays Including De Profundis

“Finally I am coming to the conclusion that my highest ambition is to be what I already I am.”

Happiness Ambition Mindfulness Highest Insight Conclusion

Book:A search for solitude: pursuing the monk's true life

Source: A search for solitude: pursuing the monk's true life

“Well-being and happiness never appeared to me as an absolute aim. I am even inclined to compare such moral aims to the ambitions of a pig.”

Wells Happiness Goal Moral Ambition Absolutes Aim Well Being Compare Pigs Circle Of Friends Precocious

Author:Albert Einstein

“The road to happiness lies in two simple principles: find what it is that interests you and that you can do well, and when you find it put your whole soul into it-every bit of energy and ambition and natural ability you have.”

“The perfection of wisdom, and the end of true philosophy is to proportion our wants to our possessions, our ambitions to our capacities, we will then be a happy and a virtuous people.”

People Want Ends Philosophy Wisdom Happiness Ambition Capacity Perfection Possession Proportion Virtuous Pursuit Of Happiness

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Mark Twain (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Mark Twain (Illustrated)

“Ambition makes the same mistake concerning power that avarice makes concerning wealth. She begins by accumulating power as a means to happiness, and she finishes by continuing to accumulate it as an end.”

Mean Ends Happiness Wealth Mistake Ambition Continuing Avarice My Ambition Same Mistakes

Book:Remarks on the Talents of Lord Byron and the Tendencies of Don Juan

Source: Remarks on the Talents of Lord Byron and the Tendencies of Don Juan

“Happiness is man's greatest aim in life. Tranquility and rationality are the cornerstones of happiness.”

Men Happiness Ambition Aim Tranquility Rationality Cornerstones

Author:Epicurus