Charles Spurgeon Quotes

True contentment depends not upon what we have; a tub was large enough for Diogenes, but a world was too little for Alexander.

He who has nothing and wants something is less frustrated than he who has something and wants more.

But if one had everything one could ever need or want, what was left to dream of?

A mind content both crown and kingdom is.

A wise man is cured of ambition by ambition itself; his aim is so exalted that riches, office, fortune and favour cannot satisfy him.

A youthful mind is seldom totally free from ambition; to curb that, is the first step to contentment, since to diminish expectation is to increase enjoyment.

From success you get a lot of things, but not that great inside thing that love brings you.

I want to have it all.

Whoever does not regard what he has as most ample wealth, is unhappy, though he be master of the world.

I hope I don't get driven to the point where, to be honest, I'm never satisfied. I hope there's some part of me that can be content.

Any fool can be happy. What I'm interested in is satisfaction. There's got to be more to life than just being happy. You've got to be fulfilled. You've got to be satisfied; philosophically satisfied is what I mean.

Let me be content with being happy, without sighing that I am not distinguished.

I'm living the dream.

I can think of some things that would be fun, but I'm living my dreams.

I'm living my dream now.

I should have been smart enough to stay happy. But my ambition ruled my life.

If I had known what it would be like to have it all - I might have been willing to settle for less.

My ambition is to be happy.

We cannot be contented because we are happy, and we cannot be happy because we are contented.

You don't find happiness by being able to buy everything you want, whenever you want it.

When ambition ends, happiness begins.

Success is about enjoying what you have and where you are, while pursuing achievable goals.

Stuff can't make you happy.

Money will never make you happy and happy will never make you money.

Another car is not going to help me out, a nicer car, I've already got it. A bigger house ain't gonna do anything for me, and you know, a yacht, it's not going to do anything for me anymore. So how can I find happiness?