Desire Quotes And Sayings

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“Desire is proof of the availability…”
– Robert Collier

“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.”
– Robert Collier

“Whenever we confront an unbridled desire we are surely in the presence of a tragedy-in-the-making.”
– Quentin Crisp

“It is said that desire is a product of the will, but the converse is in fact true: will is a product of desire.”
– Denis Diderot

“Anything you really want, you can attain, if you really go after it.”
– Wayne Dyer

“Some people wanted champagne and caviar when they should have had beer and hot dogs.”
– Dwight D. Eisenhower

“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.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Manifest plainness, embrace simplicity, reduce selfishness, have few desires.”
– Lao Tzu

“Limited in his nature, infinite in his desire, man is a fallen god who remembers heaven.”
– Alphonse De Lamartine

“There are ways which lead to everything, and if we have sufficient will we should always have sufficient means.”
– Francois De La Rochefoucauld

“We never desire strongly, what we desire rationally.”
– Francois De La Rochefoucauld

“It belongs to the imperfection of everything human that man can only attain his desire by passing through its opposite.”
– Soren Kierkegaard

“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.”
– Judd H. Stanley

“Some desire is necessary to keep life in motion, and he whose real wants are supplied must admit those of fancy.”
– Samuel Johnson

“I can do whatever I want — I’m rich, I’m famous, and I’m bigger than you.”
– Don Johnson

“Ignore what a man desires and you ignore the very source of his power”
– Walter Lippmann

“The discipline of desire is the background of character.”
– John Locke

“Winning isn’t everything, but wanting to win is.”
– Vince Lombardi

“To educate the intelligence is to expand the horizon of its wants and desires.”
– James Russell Lowell

“The desire for success lubricates secret prostitution’s in the soul.”
– Norman Mailer

“Desires are the pulses of the soul; as physicians judge by the appetite, so may you by desires.”
– 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.”
– Andre Maurois

“The intensity of your desire governs the power with which the force is directed.”
– John Mcdonald

“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.”
– Paul J. Meyer

“Lord, grant that I may always desire more than I can accomplish.”
– Michelangelo

“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.”
– Stirling Moss

“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. (Dorothy)”
– Wizard of Oz

“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.”
– Earl Nightingale

“We are ever striving after what is forbidden, and coveting what is denied us.”
– Ovid

“Desire and force between them are responsible for all our actions; desire causes our voluntary acts, force our involuntary.”
– Blaise Pascal

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