"A human being is happiest and most successful when dedicated to a cause outside his own individual, selfish satisfaction."

-- Benjamin Spock

#Selfish Quotes #Successful Quotes #Satisfaction Quotes

“In the expression of the emotions, originality merits the first consideration... The words used, however, should be old ones.”
“A revolutionary career does not lead to banquets and honorary titles, interesting research and professorial wages. It leads to misery, disgrace, ingratitude, prison and a voyage into the unknown, illuminated by only an almost superhuman belief.”
“I like to know what I'm celebrating before I put on a party hat.”
“For me life is continuously being hungry. The meaning of life is not simply to exist, to survive, but to move ahead, to go up, to achieve, to conquer.”
“A Shakespearean tragedy as so far considered may be called a story of exceptional calamity leading to the death of a man in high estate. But it is clearly much more than this, and we have now to regard it from another side.”
“The successful man doesn't use others, other people use the successful man, for above all the success is of service.”
“The monk, the inquisitor, and the Jesuit were lords of Spain,- sovereigns of her sovereign, for they had formed the dark and narrow mind of that tyrannical recluse. They had formed the minds of her people, quenched in blood every spark of rising heresy, and given over a noble nation to a bigotry blind and inexorable as the doom of fate. Linked with pride, ambition, avarice, every passion of a rich, strong nature, potent for good and ill, it made the Spaniard of that day a scourge as dire as ever fell on man.”

Source : Francis Parkman (1927). “The Works of Francis Parkman”
“At 21, there's lots more room there, plenty of things to improve on as you get older.”

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