Ambition Quote by William Cobbett

It is by attempting to reach the top in a single leap that so much misery is produced in the world.

— William Cobbett

What needs to be grasped is that the system itself is the cause of all of the misery in the world. This is a…

— Michael Yates

The world has been forced to its knees. Unhappily, we seldom find our way there without being beaten to it by suffering.

— Anne Morrow Lindbergh

It's like the human race has been programmed for misery.

— Tom Perrotta

One thing about being on the top of the world.. it gives you a long, long way to fall.

— Gossip Girl

To take all that we are and have and hand it over to God may not be easy; but it can be done; and…

— Paul Scherrer

We are tempted to believe that certain achievements and possessions will give us enduring satisfaction. We are invited to imagine ourselves scaling the steep…

— Alain de Botton

No small misery is caused by overworked and unhappy people, in the dark views which they necessarily take up themselves, and force upon others,…

— John Ruskin

Refusal to accept the flow of the world is the root of all misery.

— Devdutt Pattanaik

There's enough misery in the world today without going out of the way to create more.

— Fred MacMurray

It is only a step from boredom to disillusionment, which leads naturally to self-pity, which in turn ends in chaos.

— Manly Hall

I think a lot of the misery that people experience comes from that sensation of boundlessness, of infinite possibility.

— Ian Bogost