Desire Quotes And Sayings

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“The more wild and incredible your desire, the more willing and prompt God is in fulfilling it, if you will have it so.”
– Coventry Patmore

“‘There is a vast difference in some instances between what we really need and that which we think we must have, and the realization of this truth will greatly lessen the seeming discomfort in doing without.”
– William M. Peck

“You can really have everything you want, if you go after it, but you will have to want it. The desire for success must be so strong within you that it is the very breath of your life — your first though when you awaken in the morning, your last thought when you go to bed at night…”
– Charles E. Popplestone

“We do not succeed in changing things according to our desire, but gradually our desire changes.”
– Marcel Proust

“There’s nothing like desire to prevent the things one says from having any resemblance to the things in one’s mind.”

– Marcel Proust

“First deserve then desire.”
– Proverb

“Unbridled gratification produces unbridled desire.”
– Proverb

“There are no better masters than poverty and want.”
– Dutch Proverb

“More than we use is more than we want.”
– Gaelic Proverb

“An intense anticipation itself transforms possibility into reality; our desires being often but precursors of the things which we are capable of performing.”
– Samuel Smiles

“A desire arises in the mind. It is satisfied immediately another comes. In the interval which separates two desires a perfect calm reigns in the mind. It is at this moment freed from all thought, love or hate. Complete peace equally reigns between two mental waves.”
– Sri Swami Sivanandra

“I have always believed that anybody with a little guts and the desire to apply himself can make it, can make anything he wants to make of himself.”
– Willie Shoemaker

“Desire is the most important factor in the success of any athlete.”
– Willie Shoemaker

“There is a supply for every demand.”
– Florence Scovel Shinn

“Every man’s road in life is marked by the grave of his personal likings.”
– Alexander Smith

“Life contains but two tragedies. One is not to get your heart‘s desire; the other is to get it.”
– Socrates

“The fewer our wants the more we resemble the Gods.”
– Socrates

“Desire is the essence of a man.”
– Baruch Spinoza

“The desire of the man is for the woman, but the desire of the woman is for the desire of the man.”
– Germaine De Stael

“I do want to get rich but I never want to do what there is to do to get rich.”
– Gertrude Stein

“To know what you prefer instead of humbly saying Amen to what the world tells you ought to prefer is to have kept your soul alive.”
– Robert Louis Stevenson

“In all ranks of life the human heart yearns for the beautiful; and the beautiful things that God makes are his gift to all alike.”
– Harriet Beecher Stowe

“From the desert I come to thee, On a stallion shod with fire; And the winds are left behind In the speed of my desire.”
– Bayard Taylor

“If a man constantly aspires is he not elevated?”
– Henry David Thoreau

“Desire will in due time externalize itself as concrete fact.”
– Thomas Troward

“I can teach anybody how to get what they want out of life. The problem is that I can’t find anybody who can tell me what they want.”
– Mark Twain

“Convince a man of what he wants, and he’ll move heaven and earth to get it.”
– Unknown

“A woman never knows what she really wants until she fins out what her husband cannot afford.”
– Unknown

“Desire for security keeps littleness little and threatens the great with smallness.”
– Unknown

“If you don’t get everything you want, think of the things you don’t get that you don’t want.”
– Unknown

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