Desire Quotes

There is no greater crime than desire. (Laozi)
The will to win, the desire to succeed, the urge to reach your full potential... these are the keys that will unlock the door to personal excellence. View quote
Confucius
Favor and honor sometimes fall more fitly on those who do not desire them. View quote
Livy
Good means not merely not to do wrong, but rather not to desire to do wrong. View quote
Democritus
It is the nature of desire not to be satisfied, and most men live only for the gratification of it. View quote
Aristotle
There is no desire more natural than the desire for knowledge. View quote
Michel de Montaigne
A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others. View quote
Ayn Rand
All men by nature desire to know. View quote
Aristotle
Remember that you ought to behave in life as you would at a banquet. As something is being passed around it comes to you stretch out your hand, take a portion of it politely. It passes on do not detain it. Or it has not come to you yet do not project your desire to meet it, but wait until it comes in front of you. So act toward children, so toward a wife, so toward office, so toward wealth. View quote
Epictetus
The desire for safety stands against every great and noble enterprise. View quote
Tacitus
Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired. (Robert Frost)
I desire to go to Hell and not to Heaven. In the former I shall enjoy the company of popes, kings and princes, while in the latter are only beggars, monks and apostles. View quote
Niccolò Machiavelli
Dancing Is a Perpendicular Expression of a Horizontal Desire. View quote
George Bernard Shaw
It is easier to suppress the first desire than to satisfy all that follow it. View quote
Benjamin Franklin
Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire, you will what you imagine and at last you create what you will. View quote
George Bernard Shaw
There are two tragedies in life. One is to lose your heart's desire. The other is to gain it. View quote
George Bernard Shaw
The starting point of all achievement is desire. View quote
Napoleon Hill
The desire to take medicine is perhaps the greatest feature which distinguishes man from animals. View quote
William Osler
The desire of knowledge, like the thirst of riches, increases ever with the acquisition of it. View quote
Laurence Sterne
Nothing prevents us from being natural so much as the desire to appear so. View quote
François de La Rochefoucauld
No tendency is quite so strong in human nature as the desire to lay down rules of conduct for other people. (William Howard Taft)
It is the desire of the good people of the whole country that sectionalism as a factor in our politics should disappear. View quote
Rutherford B. Hayes
Desire is the very essence of man. View quote
Baruch Spinoza
This life is a hospital in which every patient is possessed with a desire to change his bed. View quote
Charles Baudelaire
Lord, grant that I may always desire more than I accomplish. View quote
Michelangelo
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