Desire Quotes - page 2

Lord, grant that I may always desire more than I accomplish. (Michelangelo)
Everyone believes very easily whatever they fear or desire. View quote
Jean de La Fontaine
All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. View quote
Aristotle
A teacher who is attempting to teach without inspiring the pupil with a desire to learn is hammering on cold iron. View quote
Horace Mann
I desire no future that will break the ties of the past. View quote
George Eliot
No evil dooms us hopelessly except the evil we love, and desire to continue in, and make no effort to escape from. View quote
George Eliot
I never desire to converse with a man who has written more than he has read. View quote
Samuel Johnson
The desire to die was my one and only concern; to it I have sacrificed everything, even death. View quote
Emil Cioran
If history and science have taught us anything, it is that passion and desire are not the same as truth. View quote
E. O. Wilson
Another great evil arising from this desire to be thought rich; or rather, from the desire not to be thought poor, is the destructive thing which has been honored by the name of "speculation"; but which ought to be called Gambling. View quote
William Cobbett
Some prices are just too high, no matter how much you may want the prize. The one thing you can't trade for your heart's desire is your heart. (Lois McMaster Bujold)
Desire is creation, is the magical element in that process. If there were an instrument by which to measure desire, one could foretell achievement. View quote
Willa Cather
If we desire to avoid insult, we must be able to repel it; if we desire to secure peace, one of the most powerful instruments of our rising prosperity, it must be known, that we are at all times ready for War. View quote
George Washington
The desire to seem clever often keeps us from being so. View quote
François de La Rochefoucauld
All progress is based upon a universal innate desire on the part of every organism to live beyond its income. View quote
Samuel Butler (novelist)
Love is something far more than desire for sexual intercourse; it is the principal means of escape from the loneliness which afflicts most men and women throughout the greater part of their lives. View quote
Bertrand Russell
To attempt the destruction of our passions is the height of folly. What a noble aim is that of the zealot who tortures himself like a madman in order to desire nothing, love nothing, feel nothing, and who, if he succeeded, would end up a complete monster! View quote
Denis Diderot
Practice means to perform, over and over again in the face of all obstacles, some act of vision, of faith, of desire. Practice is a means of inviting the perfection desired. View quote
Martha Graham
If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectable. View quote
Louis Brandeis
We are told that talent creates its own opportunities. But it sometimes seems that intense desire creates not only its own opportunities, but its own talents. View quote
Eric Hoffer
The desire to win is born in most of us. The will to win is a matter of training. The manner of winning is a matter of honour. (Margaret Thatcher)
If I find in myself a desire which no experience in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world. View quote
C. S. Lewis
We always strive after what is forbidden, and desire the things refused us. View quote
Ovid
Nothing great is created suddenly, any more than a bunch of grapes or a fig. If you tell me that you desire a fig. I answer you that there must be time. Let it first blossom, then bear fruit, then ripen. View quote
Epictetus
The difficulty we have in accepting responsibility for our behavior lies in the desire to avoid the pain of the consequences of that behavior. View quote
M. Scott Peck
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