Quotes about desire

"Ignore what a man desires and you ignore the very source of his power"

Lippmann, Walter on desire   

"The discipline of desire is the background of character."

Locke, John on desire
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"Winning isn't everything, but wanting to win is."

Lombardi, Vince on desire
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"To educate the intelligence is to expand the horizon of its wants and desires."

Lowell, James Russell on desire
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"The desire for success lubricates secret prostitution's in the soul."

Mailer, Norman on desire
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"Desires are the pulses of the soul; as physicians judge by the appetite, so may you by desires."

Manton on desire   

"If men could regard the events of their own lives with more open minds, they would frequently discover that they did not really desire the things they failed to obtain."

Maurois, Andre on desire   

"The intensity of your desire governs the power with which the force is directed."

Mcdonald, John on desire
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"A burning desire is the greatest motivator of every human action. The desire for success implants success consciousness which, in turn, creates a vigorous and ever-increasing habit of success."

Meyer, Paul J. on desire   

"Lord, grant that I may always desire more than I can accomplish."

Michelangelo on desire   

"I was taught that everything is attainable if you are prepared to give up, to sacrifice, to get it. Whatever you want to do, you can do it, if you want it badly enough, and I do believe that. I believe that if I wanted to run a mile is four minutes I could do it. I would have to give up everything else in my life, but I could run a mile in four minutes. I believe that if a man wanted to walk on water and was prepared to give up everything else in life, he could do that."

Moss, Stirling on desire   

"I know that if I ever go looking for my heart's desire, I'll never go any further than my own back yard. For if it isn't there, I never really lost it. (Dorothy)"

Movie, Wizard of Oz on desire   

"The key that unlocks energy is Desire. It's also the key to a long and interesting life. If we expect to create any drive, any real force within ourselves, we have to get excited."

Nightingale, Earl on desire   

"We are ever striving after what is forbidden, and coveting what is denied us."

Ovid on desire
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"Desire and force between them are responsible for all our actions; desire causes our voluntary acts, force our involuntary."

Pascal, Blaise on desire
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"The more wild and incredible your desire, the more willing and prompt God is in fulfilling it, if you will have it so."

Patmore, Coventry on desire   

"There is a vast difference in some instances between what we really need and that which we think we must have, and the realization of this truth will greatly lessen the seeming discomfort in doing without."

Peck, William M. on desire   

"You can really have everything you want, if you go after it, but you will have to want it. The desire for success must be so strong within you that it is the very breath of your life -- your first though when you awaken in the morning, your last thought when you go to bed at night..."

Popplestone, Charles E. on desire   

"We do not succeed in changing things according to our desire, but gradually our desire changes."

Proust, Marcel on desire
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"There's nothing like desire to prevent the things one says from having any resemblance to the things in one's mind."

Proust, Marcel on desire   

"First deserve then desire."

Proverb on desire
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"Unbridled gratification produces unbridled desire."

Proverb on desire   

"There are no better masters than poverty and want."

Proverb, Dutch on desire   

"More than we use is more than we want."

Proverb, Gaelic on desire   

"This gift is from God and not of man's deserving. But certainly no one ever receives such a great grace without tremendous labor and burning desire."

Richard of Saint Victor on desire   

"Every human mind is a great slumbering power until awakened by a keen desire and by definite resolution to do."

Roberts, Edgar F. on desire   

"Without a sense of urgency, desire loses its value."

Rohn, Jim on desire
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"When you know what you want, and want it bad enough, you will find a way to get it."

Rohn, Jim on desire
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"Why not spend some time determining what is worthwhile for us, and then go after that?"

Ross, William on desire   

"Tell me what you like and I'll tell you what you are."

Ruskin, John on desire   

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"All human activity is prompted by desire."

Russell, Bertrand on desire   

"I learned that if you want to make it bad enough, no matter how bad it is, you can make it."

Sayers, Gayle on desire   

"The man never feels the want of what it never occurs to him to ask for."

Schopenhauer, Arthur on desire   

"Your desires and true beliefs have a way of playing blind man's bluff. You must corner the inner facts..."

Seabury, David on desire   

"Our necessities are few, but our wants are endless."

Shaw, George Bernard on desire
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"There is a supply for every demand."

Shinn, Florence Scovel on desire   

"Desire is the most important factor in the success of any athlete."

Shoemaker, Willie on desire   

"I have always believed that anybody with a little guts and the desire to apply himself can make it, can make anything he wants to make of himself."

Shoemaker, Willie on desire   

"A desire arises in the mind. It is satisfied immediately another comes. In the interval which separates two desires a perfect calm reigns in the mind. It is at this moment freed from all thought, love or hate. Complete peace equally reigns between two mental waves."

Sivananda, Sri Swami on desire
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"An intense anticipation itself transforms possibility into reality; our desires being often but precursors of the things which we are capable of performing."

Smiles, Samuel on desire
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