Dreams Quote by Max Scheler

To be an object of hatred and aversion to their contemporaries has been the usual fate of all those whose merit has raised them…

— Thucydides

“Everybody on this island has one ambition, which may be summed up very simply. It is to do something, however small it may be,…

— Arthur C. Clarke

“When the same qualities which we admire in ourselves are seen in others, even though they be superior, maliciously lower and carp at them.”

— John Calvin

“When wealth and honours lead to arrogancy, this brings its evil on itself.”

— Lao Tzu

“That’s how it seems to go: we’re never happy with what we have, we want what others have too. We want to have more…

— Ryan Holiday

Cast out envy; you can have all that you want, and you need not envy any man what he has. Above all things, see…

— Wallace D. Wattles

“Back of all this demand for new and better things, there is one quality which one must possess to win, and that is definiteness…

— Napoleon Hill

“The important thing is to strive towards a goal which is not immediately visible. That goal is not the concern of the mind, but…

— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

Covetous ambition, thinking all too little which presently it hath, supposeth itself to stand in need of that which it hath not.

— Walter Raleigh

The gratification which affluence of wealth, extent of power, and eminence of reputation confer, must be always, by their own nature, confined to a…

— Samuel Johnson

“Since this craving (for material possessions) is in the nature of competition, it only brings happiness when we outdistance a rival, to whom it…

— Bertrand Russell

“The good things which belong to prosperity are to be wished, but the good things that belong to adversity are to be admired.”

— Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi