George Washington Quotes

I don't seek power and do not run around.

I don't have a craving for money. And I don't have a craving for fame.

We are men without ambition, and all we want is to be left alone, in peace so that we can try and be happy. So few people will understand this simplicity.

I'm not a guy who needs the spotlight. It's not something I have to have. I'm content to sit at home.

I use what God had given me. I don't wish for anything else. I don't wish I can be a high-flier.

I don't have massive ambitions to be anywhere other than in this country doing good work.

I have no interest in the trappings of power.

I had no great love for the trappings of power.

It's the hardest thing in the world to accept a 'little' success and leave it that way.

We have the pleasures suitable to our lot; let us not usurp those of greatness. Ours are more natural and all the more solid and sure for being humbler. Since we will not do so out of conscience, at least out of ambition let us reject ambition.

Avoid greatness in a cottage there may be more real happiness than kings or their favourites enjoy.

I had rather be on my farm than be emperor of the world.

Almost all men are over anxious. No sooner do they enter the world than they lose that taste for natural and simple pleasures so remarkable in early life. Every hour do they ask themselves what progress they have made in the pursuit of wealth or honor and on they go as their fathers went before them till weary and sick at heart they look back with a sigh of regret to the golden time of their childhood.

It was shepherds who were the first to recognize a king that the rest of the world refused to acknowledge.

We were all brought up to want things and maybe the world isn't big enough for all that wanting. I don't know. I don't know anything

I did not set out to be beloved and just, only strong." 'A King can be better than that," the Prince insisted. "And so we all begin, determined to better our fathers' performances, knowing we can change the very nature of humanity, make it better, cleaner. But then daggers strike in the night, and peasants revolt, and all manner of atrocities become a necessity as breakfast. Only Princes believe in the greater good. Kings know there is only Reign, and all things may be committed in its holy name.

Humbling was a nice word, Rahel thought. Humbling along without a care in the world

The only thing I know as I get older is that I don't really need to be No. 1.

If everyone was satisfied with himself, there would be no heroes.

When Darius offered him ten thousand talents, and to divide Asia equally with him, "I would accept it," said Parmenio, "were I Alexander." "And so truly would I," said Alexander, "if I were Parmenio." But he answered Darius that the earth could not bear two suns, nor Asia two kings.

Kings fight for empires, madmen for applause.

All the fame you should look for in life is to have lived it quietly.

Those who are quite satisfied sit still and do nothing; those who are not quite satisfied are the sole benefactors of the world.