Desire Quotes
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.Desire
Adams, John
1735-1826 Second President of the USA
I desire not to desire, for my will is without value, since I am ignorant in any case. Therefore choose Thou for me what thou knowest to be best and do not put my perdition in what my autonomy and free choice prefer.
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Al-Bistami, Bayazid
To desire is to obtain; to aspire is to achieve.
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Allen, James
1864-1912 British-born American Essayist Author of As a Man Thinketh
Desire is the key to motivation, but it s the determination and commitment to an unrelenting pursuit of your goal -- a commitment to excellence -- that will enable you to attain the success you seek.
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Andretti, Mario
1940 Italian-born American Auto Racer
The desire is thy prayers; and if thy desire is without ceasing, thy prayer will also be without ceasing. The continuance of your longing is the continuance of your prayer.
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Augustine, St.
354-430 Numidian-born Bishop of Hippo Theologian
Listen to what you know instead of what you fear.
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Bach, Richard
1936 American Author
Man is a creation of desire, not a creation of need.
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Bachelard, Gaston
1884-1962 French Scientist Philosopher Literary Theorist
The desire of excessive power caused the angels to fall; the desire of knowledge caused men to fall.
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Bacon, Francis
1561-1626 British Philosopher Essayist Statesman
Be careful what you set your heart upon -- for it will surely be yours.
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Baldwin, James
1924-1987 American Author
Those who really desire to attain an independence, have only set their minds upon it, and adopt the proper means, as they do in regard to any other object which they wish to accomplish, and the thing is easily done.
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Barnum, P.T.
1810-1891 American Showman Entertainer Circus Builder
Dreams do come true, if we only wish hard enough, You can have anything in life if you will sacrifice everything else for it.
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Barrie, Sir James M.
1860-1937 British Playwright
Want is one only of five giants on the road of reconstruction; the others are Disease, Ignorance, Squalor, and Idleness.
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Beveridge, Baron William Henry
1879-1963 Indian Economist
The desire of the lazy kill him; for his hands refuse to labor. [Proverbs 21:25]
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Bible
Sacred Scriptures of Christians and Judaism
The desire of our soul is to they name, and to the remembrance of thee. [Isaiah]
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Bible
Sacred Scriptures of Christians and Judaism
And desire shall fail: because man goeth to his long home, and the mourners go about the streets. [Ecclesiastes 12:5]
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Bible
Sacred Scriptures of Christians and Judaism
The desire accomplished is sweet to the soul. [Proverbs 13:19]
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Bible
Sacred Scriptures of Christians and Judaism
He who desires but does not act, breeds pestilence.
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Blake, William
1757-1827 British Poet Painter
A man must earnestly want.
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Book, William Frederick
We trifle when we assign limits to our desires, since nature hath set none.
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Bovee, Christian Nevell
1820-1904 American Author Lawyer
One essential to success is that your desire be an all-obsessing one, your thoughts and aim be coordinated, and your energy be concentrated and applied without letup.
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Bristol, Claude M.
1891-1951 American Author of The Magic of Believing
If you do not develop the hunger and courage to pursue your goal, you will lose your nerve and you will give up on your dream.
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Brown, Les
1945 American Speaker Author Trainer Motivator Lecturer
You gotta be hungry!
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Brown, Les
1945 American Speaker Author Trainer Motivator Lecturer
O lyric Love, half angel and half bird. And all a wonder and a wild desire.
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Browning, Robert
1812-1889 British Poet
Desire, like the atom, is explosive with creative force.
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Buser, Paul Vernon
Nothing stops the man who desires to achieve. Every obstacle is simply a course to develop his achievement muscle. It s a strengthening of his powers of accomplishment.
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Butterworth, Eric
Desire is the thing you want in incipiency.
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Cady, Emilie
I honestly believed I would make it. I had the desire. A lot of people have the ability, but they don t put forth the effort.
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Carter, Joe
1960 American Baseball Player
No matter how old you get, if you can keep the desire to be creative, you re keeping the man-child alive.
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Cassavetes, John
Almost every desire a poor man has is a punishable offence.
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Celine, Louis-Ferdinand
1894-1961 French Author
If you really want something you can figure out how to make it happen.
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Cher
1946 American Actress Director Singer
It is not the greatness of a man s means that makes him independent, so much as the smallness of his wants.
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Cobbett, William
1762-1835 British Journalist Reformer
All through nature, you will find the same law. First the need, then the means.
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Collier, Robert
American Writer Publisher
Something must be done when you find an opposing set of desires of this kind well to the fore in your category of strong desires. You must set in operation a process of competition, from which one must emerge a victor and the other set be defeated.
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Collier, Robert
American Writer Publisher
Very few persons, comparatively, know how to Desire with sufficient intensity. They do not know what it is to feel and manifest that intense, eager, longing, craving, insistent, demanding, ravenous Desire which is akin to the persistent, insistent, ardent, overwhelming desire of the drowning man for a breath of air; of the shipwrecked or desert-lost man for a drink of water; of the famished man for bread and meat
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Collier, Robert
American Writer Publisher
The first principle of success is desire -- knowing what you want. Desire is the planting of your seed.
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Collier, Robert
American Writer Publisher
Supply always comes on the heels of demand.
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Collier, Robert
American Writer Publisher
You can have anything you want -- if you want it badly enough. You can be anything you want to be, have anything you desire, accomplish anything you set out to accomplish -- if you will hold to that desire with singleness of purpose.
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Collier, Robert
American Writer Publisher
Plant the seed of desire in your mind and it forms a nucleus with power to attract to itself everything needed for its fulfillment.
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Collier, Robert
American Writer Publisher
It sometimes seems that we have only to love a thing greatly to get it.
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Collier, Robert
American Writer Publisher
Desire is proof of the availability...
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Collier, Robert
American Writer Publisher
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.
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Collier, Robert
American Writer Publisher
Whenever we confront an unbridled desire we are surely in the presence of a tragedy-in-the-making.
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Crisp, Quentin
1908 British Author
It is said that desire is a product of the will, but the converse is in fact true: will is a product of desire.
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Diderot, Denis
1713-1784 French Philosopher
Anything you really want, you can attain, if you really go after it.
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Dyer, Wayne
1940 American Psychotherapist Author Lecturer
Some people wanted champagne and caviar when they should have had beer and hot dogs.
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Eisenhower, Dwight D.
1890-1969 Thirty-fourth President of the USA
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.
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Emerson, Ralph Waldo
1803-1882 American Poet Essayist
Can anything be so elegant as to have few wants, and to serve them one s self?
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Emerson, Ralph Waldo
1803-1882 American Poet Essayist
I never desired to please the rabble. What pleased them, I did not learn; and what I knew was far removed from their understanding.
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Epicurus
c341-270 BC Greek Philosopher
It is not from nature, but from education and habits, that our wants are chiefly derived.
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Fielding, Henry
1707-1754 British Novelist Dramatist
Know what you want. Become your real self.
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Fink, David Harold
It is much easier to suppress a first desire than to satisfy those that follow.
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Franklin, Benjamin
1706-1790 American Scientist Publisher Diplomat
If you desire many things, many things will seem few.
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Franklin, Benjamin
1706-1790 American Scientist Publisher Diplomat
The significance of a man is not in what he attains, but rather what he longs to attain.
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Gibran, Kahlil
1883-1931 Lebanese Poet Novelist
While man s desires and aspirations stir he cannot choose but err.
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Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von
1749-1832 German Poet Dramatist Novelist
People seek within a short span of life to satisfy a thousand desires, each of which is insatiable.
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Goldsmith, Oliver
1728-1774 Anglo-Irish Author Poet Playwright
When desire dies, fear is born.
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Gracian, Baltasar
1601-1658 Spanish Philosopher Writer
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.
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Graham, Sheila
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.
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Guthrie, Janet
American Race Car Driver
Just what you want to be, you will be in the end.
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Hayward, Justin
1946 British songwriter musician
A strong passion for any object will ensure success, for the desire of the end will point out the means.
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Hazlitt, William
1778-1830 British Essayist
By annihilating the desires, you annihilate the mind. Every man without passions has within him no principle of action, nor motive to act.
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Helvetius, Claude A.
1715-1771 French Philosopher
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.
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Hill, Napoleon
1883-1970 American Speaker Motivational Writer Think and Grow Rich
Desire is the starting point of all achievement, not a hope, not a wish, but a keen pulsating desire which transcends everything.
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Hill, Napoleon
1883-1970 American Speaker Motivational Writer Think and Grow Rich
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.
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Hill, Napoleon
1883-1970 American Speaker Motivational Writer Think and Grow Rich
When your desires are strong enough you will appear to possess superhuman powers to achieve.
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Hill, Napoleon
1883-1970 American Speaker Motivational Writer Think and Grow Rich
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.
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Hill, Napoleon
1883-1970 American Speaker Motivational Writer Think and Grow Rich
Desire creates the power.
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Holliwell, Raymond
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.
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Huxley, Aldous
1894-1963 British Author
Events are influenced by our very great desires.
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James, William
1842-1910 American Psychologist Professor Author
If you care enough for a result, you will most certainly attain it.
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James, William
1842-1910 American Psychologist Professor Author
I can do whatever I want -- I m rich, I m famous, and I m bigger than you.
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Johnson, Don
1949 American Actor Director Producer Singer
Life is a progress from want to want, not from enjoyment to enjoyment.
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Johnson, Samuel
1709-1784 British Author
Some desire is necessary to keep life in motion, and he whose real wants are supplied must admit those of fancy.
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Johnson, Samuel
1709-1784 British Author
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.
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Judd, H. Stanley
American Author
One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar.
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Keller, Helen
1880-1968 American Blind/Deaf Author Lecturer Amorist
It belongs to the imperfection of everything human that man can only attain his desire by passing through its opposite.
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Kierkegaard, Soren
1813-1855 Danish Philosopher Writer
We never desire strongly, what we desire rationally.
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La Rochefoucauld, Francois De
1613-1680 French Classical Writer
There are ways which lead to everything, and if we have sufficient will we should always have sufficient means.
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La Rochefoucauld, Francois De
1613-1680 French Classical Writer
Limited in his nature, infinite in his desire, man is a fallen god who remembers heaven.
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Lamartine, Alphonse De
1790-1869 French Poet Statesman Historian
Manifest plainness, embrace simplicity, reduce selfishness, have few desires.
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Lao-Tzu
BC 600 Chinese Philosopher Founder of Taoism Author of the Tao Te Ching
Ignore what a man desires and you ignore the very source of his power
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Lippmann, Walter
1889-1974 American Journalist
The discipline of desire is the background of character.
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Locke, John
1632-1704 British Philosopher
Winning isn t everything, but wanting to win is.
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Lombardi, Vince
1913-1970 American Football Coach
To educate the intelligence is to expand the horizon of its wants and desires.
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Lowell, James Russell
1819-1891 American Poet Critic Editor
The desire for success lubricates secret prostitution s in the soul.
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Mailer, Norman
1923 American Author
Desires are the pulses of the soul; as physicians judge by the appetite, so may you by desires.
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Manton
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.
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Maurois, Andre
1885-1967 French Writer
The intensity of your desire governs the power with which the force is directed.
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Mcdonald, John
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.
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Meyer, Paul J.
American Businessman Author Motivator
Lord, grant that I may always desire more than I can accomplish.
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Michelangelo
1474-1564 Italian Renaissance Painter Sculptor
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.
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Moss, Stirling
1929 British Motor Racing Driver
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.
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Movie, Wizard of Oz - Dorothy
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.
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Nightingale, Earl
1921-1989 American Radio Announcer Author Motivator Speaker
We are ever striving after what is forbidden, and coveting what is denied us.
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Ovid
BC 43-18 AD Roman Poet
Desire and force between them are responsible for all our actions; desire causes our voluntary acts, force our involuntary.
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Pascal, Blaise
1623-1662 French Scientist Religious Philosopher
The more wild and incredible your desire, the more willing and prompt God is in fulfilling it, if you will have it so.
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Patmore, Coventry
1823-1896 British Poet
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.
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Peck, William M.
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...
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Popplestone, Charles E.
We do not succeed in changing things according to our desire, but gradually our desire changes.
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Proust, Marcel
1871-1922 French Novelist
There s nothing like desire to prevent the things one says from having any resemblance to the things in one s mind.
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Proust, Marcel
1871-1922 French Novelist
First deserve then desire.
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Proverb
Unbridled gratification produces unbridled desire.
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Proverb
There are no better masters than poverty and wants.
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Proverb, Dutch
Sayings of Dutch Origin
More than we use is more than we want.
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Proverb, Gaelic
Sayings of Gaelic Origin
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.
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Richard of Saint Victor
Every human mind is a great slumbering power until awakened by a keen desire and by definite resolution to do.
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Roberts, Edgar F.
Without a sense of urgency, desire loses its value.
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Rohn, Jim
American Businessman Author Speaker Philosopher
When you know what you want, and want it bad enough, you will find a way to get it.
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Rohn, Jim
American Businessman Author Speaker Philosopher
Why not spend some time determining what is worthwhile for us, and then go after that?
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Ross, William
Tell me what you like and I ll tell you what you are.
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Ruskin, John
1819-1900 British Critic Social Theorist
All human activity is prompted by desire.
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Russell, Bertrand
1872-1970 British Philosopher Mathematician Essayist
I learned that if you want to make it bad enough, no matter how bad it is, you can make it.
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Sayers, Gayle
American Football Player
The man never feels the want of what it never occurs to him to ask for.
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Schopenhauer, Arthur
1788-1860 German Philosopher
Your desires and true beliefs have a way of playing blind man s bluff. You must corner the inner facts...
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Seabury, David
American Doctor Author
Our necessities are few, but our wants are endless.
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Shaw, George Bernard
1856-1950 Irish-born British Dramatist
There is a supply for every demand.
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Shinn, Florence Scovel
American Artist Metaphysics Teacher Author
Desire is the most important factor in the success of any athlete.
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Shoemaker, Willie
1931 American Racing Jockey and Trainer
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.
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Shoemaker, Willie
1931 American Racing Jockey and Trainer
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.
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Sivananda, Sri Swami
1887 Indian Physician Sage
An intense anticipation itself transforms possibility into reality; our desires being often but precursors of the things which we are capable of performing.
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Smiles, Samuel
1812-1904 Scottish Author
Every man s road in life is marked by the grave of his personal likings.
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Smith, Alexander
1830-1867 Scottish Poet Author
Life contains but two tragedies. One is not to get your heart s desire; the other is to get it.
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Socrates
BC 469-399 Greek Philosopher of Athens
The fewer our wants the more we resemble the Gods.
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Socrates
BC 469-399 Greek Philosopher of Athens
Desire is the essence of a man.
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Spinoza, Baruch (Benedict de)
1632-1677 Dutch Philosopher and Theologian
The desire of the man is for the woman, but the desire of the woman is for the desire of the man.
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Stael, Germaine De
1766-1817 French-Swiss Novelist
I do want to get rich but I never want to do what there is to do to get rich.
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Stein, Gertrude
1874-1946 American Author
To know what you prefer instead of humbly saying Amen to what the world tells you ought to prefer is to have kept your soul alive.
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Stevenson, Robert Louis
1850-1895 Scottish Essayist Poet Novelist
In all ranks of life the human heart yearns for the beautiful; and the beautiful things that God makes are his gift to all alike.
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Stowe, Harriet Beecher
1811-1896 American Novelist Antislavery Campaigner
From the desert I come to thee, On a stallion shod with fire; And the winds are left behind In the speed of my desire.
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Taylor, Bayard
1825-1878 American Journalist Traveler Author
If a man constantly aspires is he not elevated?
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Thoreau, Henry David
1817-1862 American Essayist Poet Naturalist
Desire will in due time externalize itself as concrete fact.
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Troward, Thomas
I can teach anybody how to get what they want out of life. The problem is that I can t find anybody who can tell me what they want.
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Twain, Mark
1835-1910 American Humorist Writer
Convince a man of what he wants, and he ll move heaven and earth to get it.
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Unknown, Source
A woman never knows what she really wants until she fins out what her husband cannot afford.
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Unknown, Source
Desire for security keeps littleness little and threatens the great with smallness.
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Unknown, Source
If you don t get everything you want, think of the things you don t get that you don t want.
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Unknown, Source
No person can arise above his real desire. Desires are of value only when they drive us to action. Will and work must accompany desire. Then high resolve is born. Desire is the design that will spurs us into achievement.
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Unknown, Source
The distance between success and failure can only be measured by one s desire.
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Unknown, Source
The man who really wants to do something finds a way, the other finds an excuse.
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Unknown, Source
The more clear you are on what you want, the more power you will have.
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Unknown, Source
We accomplish things by directing our desires, not by ignoring them.
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Unknown, Source
Desire! That s the one secret of every man s career. Not education. Not being born with hidden talents. Desire.
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Unser, Bobby
1934 American Race Car Driver
You are what your deep driving desire is.
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Upanishad, Brihadaranyaka
Ancient Hindu Scripture Expounding the Identity of the Real Self
As an eagle, weary after soaring in the sky, folds its wings and flies down to rest in its nest, so does the shining Self enter the state of dreamless sleep, where one is freed from all desires.
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Upanishad, Brihadaranyaka
Ancient Hindu Scripture Expounding the Identity of the Real Self
The want of a thing is perplexing enough, but the possession of it, is intolerable.
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Vanbrugh, Sir John
1664-1726 British Playwright and Baroque architect
Out of need springs desire, and out of desire springs the energy and the will to win.
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Waitley, Denis
1933 American Author Speaker Trainer Peak Performance Expert
Where there is no power... there is never any desire to do a thing; and where there is strong desire to do a thing... the power to do it is strong.
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Wattles, Wallace D.
Desire is a powerful force that can be used to make things happen.
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Wieder, Marcia
American Speaker Trainer Author
It s not who jumps the highest -- it s who wants it the most
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Williams, Buck
1960 American Basketball Player
You learnt that, whatever you are doing in life, obstacles don t matter very much. Pain or other circumstances can be there, but if you want to do a job bad enough, you ll find a way to get it done.
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Youngblood, Jack
Understand clearly that when a great need appears a great use appears also; when there is small need there is small use; it is obvious, then, that full use is made of all things at all times according to the necessity thereof.
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Zenji, Dogen