Desire Quotes & Sayings :: Finest Quotes

~ A shot glass of desire is greater than a pitcher of talent. ~

Andy Munthe

~ Desire creates the power. ~

Raymond Hollingwell

~ One must desire something to be alive. ~

Margaret Deland

~ The desire to fly is an idea handed down to us by our ancestors who, in their grueling travels across trackless lands in prehistoric times, looked enviously on the birds soaring freely through space, at full speed, above all obstacles, on the infinite highway of the air. ~

Wilbur Wright

~ To the totality of purposes of the perfect Law there belong the abandonment, depreciation, and restraint of desires in so far as possible. ~

Alvin Hellerstein

~ [Science is] the desire to know causes. ~

William Hazlitt

~ All that spirits desire, spirits attain. ~

Kahlil Gibran

~ Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired. ~

Robert Frost

~ Our desires always disappoint us; for though we meet with something that gives us satisfaction, yet it never thoroughly answers our expectation. ~

Elbert Hubbard

~ Energy is equal to desire and purpose. ~

Sheryl Adams

~ Out of need springs desire, and out of desire springs the energy and the will to win. ~

Denis Waitley

~ It is the awareness of unfulfilled desires which gives a nation the feeling that it has a mission and a destiny. ~

Eric Hoffer

~ Often the best way to overcome desire is to satisfy it. ~

W. Somerset Maugham

~ Rivers are roads which move, and which carry us whither we desire to go ~

Blaise Pascal

~ We were sent to this country by the President, who desires to promote the welfare of Japan, and are quite different from the ambassadors of other countries ~

Townsend Harris

~ If you desire many things, many things will seem few. ~

Benjamin Franklin

~ Every man desires to live long, but no man wishes to be old. ~

Jonathan Swift

~ You must have the dedication, determination and desire to be a friend, not a bully. ~

Chris Hollyfield

~ Men govern nothing with more difficulty than their tongues, and can moderate their desires more than their words. ~

Baruch Spinoza

~ For a transitory enchanted moment man must have held his breath in the presence of this continent, compelled into an aesthetic contemplation he neither understood nor desired, face to face for the last time in history with something commensurate to his capacity for wonder. ~

F. Scott Fitzgerald

~ I went on to discover that in its deepest sense, the will is not primarily the faculty of desire for anything known, but rather, the desire for something unknown, animate desire for something that lies beyond ourselves, a longing for something we know is missing in us... ~

Bernadette Roberts

~ Avoid fragmentation: Find your focus and seek simplicity. Purposeful living calls for elegant efficiency and economy of effort—expanding the minimum time and energy necessary to achieve desired goals. ~

Dan Millman

~ Electricity is the strain or tension set up by the two opposing desires of universal Mind thinking: the desire for balanced action and the desire for rest. ~

Walter Russell

~ Altruism is for those who cannot endure their desires. ~

Mason Cooley

~ Slaves lose everything in their chains, even the desire of escaping from them. ~

Jean Jacques Rousseau

~ I desire what is good. Therefore, everyone who does not agree with me is a traitor. ~

George III of England

~ Do not ever say that the desire to "do good" by force is a good motive. Neither power-lust nor stupidity are good motives. ~

Ayn Rand

~ If one's life is simple, contentment has to come. Simplicity is extremely important for happiness. Having few desires, feeling satisfied with what you have, is very vital: satisfaction with just enough food, clothing, and shelter to protect yourself from the elements. And finally, there is an intense delight in abandoning faulty states of mind and in cultivating helpful ones in meditation. ~

Dalai Lama

~ For whereas the mind works in possibilities, the intuitions work in actualities, and what you intuitively desire, that is possible to you. Whereas what you mentally or "consciously" desire is nine times out of ten impossible; hitch your wagon to a star, or you will just stay where you are. ~

D. H. Lawrence

~ Mathematics as an expression of the human mind reflects the active will, the contemplative reason, and the desire for aesthetic perfection. Its basic elements are logic and intuition, analysis and construction, generality and individuality. ~

Richard Courant

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