Quotes about desire

"First the stalk -- then the roots. First the need -- then the means to satisfy that need. First the nucleus -- then the elements needed for its growth."

Collier, Robert on desire   

"Whenever we confront an unbridled desire we are surely in the presence of a tragedy-in-the-making."

Crisp, Quentin on desire   

"It is said that desire is a product of the will, but the converse is in fact true: will is a product of desire."

Diderot, Denis on desire
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"Anything you really want, you can attain, if you really go after it."

Dyer, Wayne on desire
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"Some people wanted champagne and caviar when they should have had beer and hot dogs."

Eisenhower, Dwight D. on desire   

"There is nothing capricious in nature and the implanting of a desire indicates that its gratification is in the constitution of the creature that feel it."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on desire
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"Can anything be so elegant as to have few wants, and to serve them one's self?"

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on desire
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"I never desired to please the rabble. What pleased them, I did not learn; and what I knew was far removed from their understanding."

Epicurus on desire
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"It is not from nature, but from education and habits, that our wants are chiefly derived."

Fielding, Henry on desire   

"Know what you want. Become your real self."

Fink, David Harold on desire
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"It is much easier to suppress a first desire than to satisfy those that follow."

Franklin, Benjamin on desire
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"If you desire many things, many things will seem few."

Franklin, Benjamin on desire
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"The significance of a man is not in what he attains, but rather what he longs to attain."

Gibran, Kahlil on desire
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"While man's desires and aspirations stir he cannot choose but err."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on desire   

"People seek within a short span of life to satisfy a thousand desires, each of which is insatiable."

Goldsmith, Oliver on desire   

"When desire dies, fear is born."

Gracian, Baltasar on desire   

"You can have anything you want if you want it desperately enough. You must want it with an inner exuberance that erupts through the skin and joins the energy that created the world."

Graham, Sheila on desire   

"It (racing) is a matter of spirit, not strength. It is a matter of doing your best each little moment. There's never a break. You must have desire, a very intense desire to keep going."

Guthrie, Janet on desire   

"Just what you want to be, you will be in the end."

Hayward, Justin on desire   

"A strong passion for any object will ensure success, for the desire of the end will point out the means."

Hazlitt, William on desire   

"By annihilating the desires, you annihilate the mind. Every man without passions has within him no principle of action, nor motive to act."

Helvetius, Claude A. on desire
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"The starting point of all achievement is desire. Keep this constantly in mind. Weak desires bring weak results, just as a small amount of fire makes a small amount of heat."

Hill, Napoleon on desire
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"Desire is the starting point of all achievement, not a hope, not a wish, but a keen pulsating desire which transcends everything."

Hill, Napoleon on desire
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"Through some strange and powerful principle of mental chemistry which she has never divulged, nature wraps up in the impulse of strong desire, that something which recognizes no such word as impossible, and accepts no such reality as failure."

Hill, Napoleon on desire
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"When your desires are strong enough you will appear to possess superhuman powers to achieve."

Hill, Napoleon on desire
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"The battle is all over except the shouting when one knows what is wanted and has made up his mind to get it, whatever the price may be."

Hill, Napoleon on desire
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"Desire creates the power."

Holliwell, Raymond on desire
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"There are confessable agonies, sufferings of which one can positively be proud. Of bereavement, of parting, of the sense of sin and the fear of death the poets have eloquently spoken. They command the world's sympathy. But there are also discreditable anguishes, no less excruciating than the others, but of which the sufferer dare not, cannot speak. The anguish of thwarted desire, for example."

Huxley, Aldous on desire
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"Events are influenced by our very great desires."

James, William on desire
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"If you care enough for a result, you will most certainly attain it."

James, William on desire
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"I can do whatever I want -- I'm rich, I'm famous, and I'm bigger than you."

Johnson, Don on desire   

"Life is a progress from want to want, not from enjoyment to enjoyment."

Johnson, Samuel on desire   

"Some desire is necessary to keep life in motion, and he whose real wants are supplied must admit those of fancy."

Johnson, Samuel on desire   

"You will live your life secure in that you are no longer manipulated by what other people want you to do and be, but are directed by your own inner desires."

Judd, H. Stanley on desire   

"One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar."

Keller, Helen on desire   

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"It belongs to the imperfection of everything human that man can only attain his desire by passing through its opposite."

Kierkegaard, Søren on desire
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"We never desire strongly, what we desire rationally."

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De on desire
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"There are ways which lead to everything, and if we have sufficient will we should always have sufficient means."

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De on desire   

"Limited in his nature, infinite in his desire, man is a fallen god who remembers heaven."

Lamartine, Alphonse De on desire
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"Manifest plainness, embrace simplicity, reduce selfishness, have few desires."

Lao-Tzu on desire
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