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~ Everyone believes very easily whatever they fear or desire. ~

~ Successful men are influenced by desire for pleasing results. Failures are influenced by desire for pleasing methods. ~

Frank E. Brennan

~ There are various sorts of curiosity; one is from interest, which makes us desire to know that which may be useful to us; and the other, from pride which comes from the wish to know what others are ignorant of. ~

Kin Hubbard

~ Everything is perfect in the universe, even your desire to improve it. ~

Dyer

~ Stress: The confusion created when one's mind overrides the body's basic desire to choke the living daylights out of some jerk who desperately deserves it ~

Unknown

~ Every nation sincerely desires peace; and all nations pursue courses which if persisted in, must make peace impossible ~

Norman Angell

~ A woman's appetite is twice that of a man's; her sexual desire, four times; her intelligence, eight times ~

Unknown

~ The truly brave, When they behold the brave oppressed with odds, Are touched with a desire to shield and save:-- A mixture of wild beasts and demi-gods Are they--now furious as the sweeping wave, Now moved with pity; even as sometimes nods The rugged tree unto the summer wind, Compassion breathes along the savage mind. ~

Lord Byron

~ Desire is the key to motivation, but it's determination and commitment to an unrelenting pursuit of your goal - a commitment to excellence - that will enable you to attain the success you seek. ~

Mario Andretti

~ 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. ~

P.T. Barnum

~ Education would be much more effective if its purpose was to ensure that by the time they leave school every boy and girl should know how much they do not know, and be imbued with a lifelong desire to know it. ~

William Haley

~ The chief reason for drinking is the desire to behave in a certain way, and to be able to blame it on alcohol. ~

Mignon McLaughlin

~ Patriotism in its simplest, clearest and most indubitable signification is nothing else but a means of obtaining for the rulers their ambitions and covetous desires, and for the ruled the abdication of human dignity, reason, conscience, and a slavish enthrallment to those in power. ~

Leo Toystoy

~ April is the cruellest month, breeding lilacs out of the dead land, mixing memory and desire, stirring dull roots with spring rain. ~

T S Eliot

~ Every sale has five basic obstacles: no need, no money, no hurry, no desire, no trust. ~

Zig Ziglar

~ Dancing is a perpendicular expression of a horizontal desire. ~

George Bernard Shaw

~ Language is a skin: I rub my language against the other. It is as if I had words instead of fingers, or fingers at the tip of my words. My language trembles with desire. ~

Roland Barthes

~ Fashion is the science of appearances, and it inspires one with the desire to seem rather than to be. ~

Montaigne

~ Only one who liberates himself from his psychological desires and fears indeed in truth qualify as liberation hero. ~

Vellupillai Pirapakaran

~ Through the intensive aspiration of the human soul arises in man the desire for independence. ~

Vellupillai Pirapakaran

~ A person may desire to live for hundreds of years if he works according to this truth because that sort of work will not bind him to the law of karma. And there is no alternative to this way for man. ~

Sri Ishopanishad, Mantra Two

~ Your ability to use the principle of autosuggestion will depend, very largely, upon your capacity to concentrate upon a given desire until that desire becomes a burning obsession. ~

Napoleon Hill

~ Pride makes us esteem ourselves; vanity makes us desire the esteem of others. ~

Hugh Blair

~ Boredom: the desire for desires. ~

Leo Tolstoy

~ People who fail to achieve their goals usually get stopped by frustration. They allow frustration to keep them from taking the necessary actions that would support them in achieving their desire. You get through this roadblock by plowing through frustration, taking each setback as feedback you can learn from, and pushing ahead. I doubt you'll find many successful people who have not experienced this. All successful people learn that success is buried on the other side of frustration. ~

Anthony Robbins

~ knowledge is hidden by selfish desire - hidden by this unquenchable fire for self-satisfaction. ~

Bhagavad-Gita

~ Self is ingenious, crooked, and, governed by subtle and snaky desire, admits of endless turnings and qualifications, and the deluded worshippers of self vainly imagine that they can gratify every worldly desire, and at the same time possess the Truth ~

James Allen

~ No man is a true believer unless he desireth for his brother that which he desireth for himself ~

Muhammad

~ The more you seek security, the less of it you have. But the more you seek opportunity, the more likely it is that you will achieve the security that you desire. ~

Brian Tracy

~ You can have anything you want--if you want it badly enough. You can be anything you want to be, do anything you set out to accomplish if you hold to that desire with singleness of purpose ~

William Adams

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