Peter F. Hamilton Quotes

Happiness does not lie in happiness, but in the achievement of it.

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

Where can you find purpose? Like success and happiness, our purpose exists in the present, and we constantly strive toward the future to maintain it. What it is for which we strive is up to each of us. The important thing is that we strive toward something.

If you have everything, then you don't want to go on. It's the lacking that makes you search for something better.

Take your victories, whatever they may be, cherish them, use them, but don't settle for them.

It's hard to be ambitious if you're content, isn't it?

I'm not motivated by vanity, glory or the quest for power.

Nobody got anywhere in the world by simply being content.

I'm living my dream now.

We are at our very best, and we are happiest, when we are fully engaged in work we enjoy on the journey toward the goal we've established for ourselves. It gives meaning to our time off and comfort to our sleep. It makes everything else in life so wonderful, so worthwhile.

When ambition ends, happiness begins.

I'm comfortable, but not satisfied and I hope to always feel that way.

I have been absolutely hag-ridden with ambition. If I could wish to have anything in the world it would be to be free of ambition.

Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.

I thought happiness came from achievement.

I know my parents are really proud of me, and they think I've become successful, so that's nice, but there's still so much I want to achieve in my life.

As far as being satisfied, I just don't think you should work towards being satisfied. If everybody were satisfied, we'd never get anything done.

Sad will be the day for any man when he becomes contented with the thoughts he is thinking and the deeds he is doing - where there is not forever beating at the doors of his soul some great desire to do something larger; which he knows he was meant and made to do.

When you have won everything in your career, what's left? Why go on?

We're constantly striving for success, fame and comfort when all we really need to be happy is someone or some thing to be enthusiastic about.

I was happier when pursuing success than I was when savoring its fruits; the attraction, perhaps the addiction, was in the process, as much as in its end.

Success, in whatever form it takes, is a tricky thing - once you've achieved your goal, then what? Where do you aim?

Everyone wants that sense of fulfilling a purpose in some way.

Happiness means nothing to me. I just want to have meaning and purpose.