Another man Quote by Marcus Aurelius

“The man of ambition thinks to find his good in the operations of others; the man of pleasure in his own sensations; but the…

— marcus aurelius

“A noble mind finds its purest joy in the accomplishment of its duty, and to that willingly sacrifices its inclination.”

— Johann David Wyss

“Every man is said to have his peculiar ambition,” he wrote. “I have no other so great as that of being truly esteemed of…

— Doris Kearns Goodwin

“For he was a sincere man, and in spite of his superficial airs and graces, at root a humble one. And it is always…

— Chesterton Gilbert Chesterton

“But a young man should be ambitious to shine, and excel; alert, active, and indefatigable in the means of doing it.”

— Earl of Chesterfield

“What he aimed for, and succeeded some days in attaining was the remarkable equipoise of humility and confidence that is grace.”

— Christina Haag

“I felt deep within me that the highest point a man can attain is not Knowledge, or Virtue, or Goodness, or Victory, but something…

— Nikos Kazantzakis

“Delight is to him -- a far, far upward, and inward delight -- who against the proud gods and commodores of this earth, ever…

— Herman Melville

“By the grace of reality and the nature of life, man–every man–is an end in himself, he exists for his own sake, and the…

— Ayn Rand

“A man conscious of enthusiasm for worthy aims is sustained under petty hostilities by the memory of great workers who had to fight their…

— George Eliot

“It is while working with the Short Path that the man discovers he may apply its principles to his worldly existence, his earthly fortunes…

— Paul Brunton

“move from an earthly mindset that makes us bristle at the thought of submission to a joyful expectation of good, we must focus on…

— Amy Layne Litzelman