Desire Quotes
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- A desire to be observed, considered, esteemed, praised, beloved, and admired by his fellows is one of the earliest as well as the keenest dispositions discovered in the heart of man.~ John Adams
- All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion,desire.~ Aristotle
- All human activity is prompted by desire.~ Bertrand Russell
- All men by nature desire to know.~ Aristotle
- Almost every desire a poor man has is a punishable offence.~ Louis-Ferdinand Celine
- A wish is a desire without an attempt.~ Farmer Digest
- Because they had a vision, a desire, and they took action.~ Thomas J. Vilord
- Boredom: the desire for desires.~ Count Leo Tolstoy
- Champions aren’t made in the gyms. Champions are made from something they have deep inside them — a desire, a dream, a vision.~ Muhammad Ali
- Concentrated thoughts produce desired results.~ Zig Ziglar
- Desire, like the atom, is explosive with creative force.~ Paul Vernon Buser
- Desire creates the power.~ Raymond Holliwell
- Desire is a powerful force that can be used to make things happen.~ Marcia Wieder
- Desire is proof of the availability…~ Robert Collier
- Desire is the essence of a man.~ Baruch Benedict de Spinoza
- Desire is the key to motivation.~ Mario Andretti
- Desires are the pulses of the soul; as physicians judge by the appetite, so may you by desires.~ Thomas Manton
- Desires increase as they are fulfilled.~ Michel Eyquem De Montaigne
- Desire will in due time externalize itself as concrete fact.~ Thomas Troward
- Energy is equal to desire and purpose.~ Sheryl Adams
- Events are influenced by our very great desires.~ William James
- Every crisis offers you extra desired power.~ William Moulton Marston
- Everyone believes very easily whatever they fear or desire.~ Jean De La Fontaine
- Every one desires to live long, but no one would be old.~ Jonathan Swift
- Every sale has five basic obstacles: no need, no money, no hurry, no desire, no trust.~ Zig Ziglar
- Everything is perfect in the universe — even your desire to improve it.~ Wayne Dyer
- Every time I look at you I get a fierce desire to be lonesome.~ Oscar Levant
- From the deepest desires often come the deadliest hate.~ Socrates
- Have the courage of your desire.~ George Robert Gissing
- He is a king who fears nothing; he is a king who desires nothing!~ Marcus Annaeus Seneca
- He that flatters you more than you desire either has deceived you or wishes to deceive.~ Italian Proverb
- He who curbs his desires will always be rich enough.~ French Proverb
- Hunger goes in a straight line, desire turns in circles.~ Romanian Proverb
- If we go down into ourselves, we find that we possess exactly what we desire.~ Simone Weil
- If you desire faith, then you have faith enough.~ Elizabeth Barrett Browning
- If you desire many things, many things will seem few.~ Benjamin Franklin
- If your desires be endless, your cares and fears will be so too.~ Thomas Fuller
- If you real desire is to be good, there is no need to wait for the money before you do it; you can do it now, this very moment, and just where you are.~ James Allen
- Ignore what a man desires and you ignore the very source of his power~ Walter Lippmann
- In moderating, not satisfying desires, lies peace.~ Ben Hecht
- I prefer to be a dreamer among the humblest, with visions to be realized, than lord among those without dreams and desires.~ Kahlil Gibran
- It’s the soul’s duty to be loyal to its own desires.~ Rebecca West
- It is a miserable state of mind to have few things to desire and many things to fear.~ Francis Bacon
- Knowledge is the eye of desire and can become the pilot of the soul.~ William J. Durant
- Large desire is endless poverty.~ Indian Proverb
- Let him who desires peace prepare for war.~ Vegetius
- Let reason govern desire.~ Marcus T. Cicero
- Let us train our minds to desire what the situation demands.~ Marcus Annaeus Seneca
- Life contains but two tragedies. One is not to get your heart’s desire; the other is to get it.~ Socrates
- Limit your desires and you will improve your health.~ Spanish Proverb
- Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.~ Robert Frost
- Man is a creation of desire, not a creation of need.~ Gaston Bachelard
- Man is the one who desires, woman the one who is desired. ~ Leopold Von Sacher-Masoch
- Many pray with their lips for that for which their hearts have no desire.~ Jonathan Edwards
- Much pleasure and little grief is every man’s desire.~ Spanish Proverb
- Never let go of that fiery sadness called desire.~ Patti Smith
- Nothing so much prevents our being natural as the desire to seem so.~ Francois De La Rochefoucauld
- One of the most difficult things everyone has to learn is that for your entire life you must keep fighting and adjusting if you hope to survive. No matter who you are or what your position is you must keep fighting for whatever it is you desire to achieve.~ George Allen
- Opportunity makes desire.~ Dutch Proverb
- Our duty is to be useful, not according to our desires, but according to our powers.~ Henri Frederic Amiel
- Our visions begin with our desires.~ Audre Lorde
- Prayer is the soul’s sincere desire.~ James Montgomery
- Seek freedom and become captive of your desires. Seek discipline and find your liberty.~ Frank Herbert
- Slaves lose everything in their chains, even the desire of escaping from them.~ Jean Jacques Rousseau
- The beginning of wisdom is to desire it.~ Ibn Gabirol
- The child who desires education will be bettered by it; the child who dislikes it disgraced.~ John Ruskin
- The desire accomplished is sweet to the soul.~ The Holy Bible
- The desire to appear clever often prevents our being so.~ Francois De La Rochefoucauld
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