Ambition Quote by Lyman Abbott

But there must be some pleasure in condemning everything--in perceiving faults where others think they see beauties.' 'You mean there is pleasure in having…

— Voltaire

And as for Pleasure, there is little in this World that is true and sincere, besides the Pleasure of doing our Duty, and of…

— John Tillotson

Pleasure has no logic; it never treads in its own footsteps.

— Alexander Smith

For all the happiness mankind can gain Is not in pleasure, but in rest from pain.

— John Dryden

No pleasure is comparable to the standing upon the vantage-ground of truth.

— Francis Bacon

The aim of the wise is not to secure pleasure, but to avoid pain.

— Aristotle

There is no sensual pleasure in the world comparable to the delight and satisfaction that a good man takes in doing good.

— Alone Boy

“It results from the preceding considerations, that there is in reality nothing desired except happiness. Whatever is desired otherwise than as a means to…

— John Stuart Mill

There is little pleasure in the world that is true and sincere beside the pleasure of doing our duty and doing good.

— John Tillotson

Thus also every keen pleasure is an error and an illusion, for no attained wish can give lasting satisfaction.

— Anonymous

“ To reach satisfaction in all, desire satisfaction in nothing. To come to possess all, desire the possession of nothing. To arrive at being all,…

— John of the Cross

Satisfaction does not arrive simply when we do what makes us feel good. It comes when we serve others.

— Senoraroy