Desire Quotes - Page 2

• Desire is the starting point of all achievement, not a hope, not a wish, but a keen pulsating desire which transcends everything.

  Napoleon Hill

  Inspirational, Success, Dream

  "The Law of Success". Book by Napoleon Hill, 1928.

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• The desires of man increase with his acquisitions.

  Samuel Johnson

  Men, Acquisition, Increase

  Samuel Johnson (1851). “The beauties of Johnson: choice selections from his works”, p.55

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• It's so much better to desire than to have.

  Anouk Aimee

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• If you're bored with life - you don't get up every morning with a burning desire to do things - you don't have enough goals.

  Lou Holtz

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• 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

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

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• Desire nothing, give up all desires and be happy.

  Sivananda

  Giving Up, Inspiration, Giving

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• One of the strongest motives that lead men to art and science is escape from everyday life with its painful crudity and hopeless dreariness, from the fetters of one's own ever-shifting desires. A finely tempered nature longs to escape from the personal life into the world of objective perception and thought.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  Albert Einstein (2011). “Essays in Science”, p.11, Open Road Media

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• People say "I want peace." If you remove I (ego), and your want (desire), you are left with peace.

  Sathya Sai Baba

  Life, Simple, People

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• I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self.

  Aristotle

  Inspirational, Life, Success

  Socrates, Plato, Aristotle (1967). “Wit and Wisdom of Socrates, Plato, Aristotle: Being a Treasury of Thousands of Glorious, Inspiring and Imperishable Thoughts, Views and Observations of the Three Great Greek Philosophers, Classified Under about Four Hundred Subjects for Comparative Study”

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• The first principle of success is desire - knowing what you want. Desire is the planting of your seed.

  Robert Collier

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  Robert Collier (2013). “Riches Within Your Reach”, p.14, Simon and Schuster

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  Mystery creates wonder and wonder is the basis of man's desire to understand.

  Neil Armstrong

  Inspirational, Life, Inspiring

  "Magnificent Desolation: Walking on the Moon 3D". Documentary, www.imdb.com. 2005.

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• Boredom: the desire for desires.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Boredom, Enthusiasm, Bores

  "Anna Karenina". Book by Leo Tolstoy, 1877.

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• Freedom from desire leads to inner peace.

  Laozi

  Peace, Calmness, Self Awareness

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• Desire is the very essence of man

  Baruch Spinoza

  Philosophy, Men, Essence

  Baruch Spinoza (2006). “The Essential Spinoza: Ethics and Related Writings”, p.93, Hackett Publishing

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• I used to desire many, many things, but now I have just one desire, and that's to get rid of all my other desires.

  John Cleese

  Inspirational, Life, Justice

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• Do not impose on others what you yourself do not desire.

  Confucius

  Yoga, Positivity, Chinese

  Confucius (2014). “The Analects”, Penguin

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• Life ought to be a struggle of desire toward adventures whose nobility will fertilize the soul.

  Rebecca West

  Life, Struggle, Adventure

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• I do desire we may be better strangers.

  William Shakespeare

  Inspirational, May, Stranger

  'As You Like It' (1599) act 3, sc. 2, l. [276]

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• All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.

  Aristotle

  Nature, Philosophical, Passion

  "Rhetoric". Book by Aristotle. Book I, 1369a.5,

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• The scientist is motivated primarily by curiosity and a desire for truth.

  Irving Langmuir

  Curiosity, Scientist, Motivated

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• Without a sense of urgency, desire loses its value.

  Jim Rohn

  Motivational, Good Life, Greatness

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from Apr 16, 2017

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• Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire, you will what you imagine and at last you create what you will.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Motivational, Spiritual, Art

  George Bernard Shaw (2015). “George Bernard Shaw: The Collected Plays (Illustrated): 60 plays including Caesar and Cleopatra, Pygmalion, Saint Joan, The Apple Cart, Cymbeline, Androcles And The Lion, The Man Of Destiny, The Inca Of Perusalem and Macbeth Skit”, p.2919, e-artnow

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• All human activity is prompted by desire.

  Bertrand Russell

  Humans, Human Activity, Activity

  Bertrand Russell (2013). “Human Society in Ethics and Politics”, p.160, Routledge

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• Anything you really want, you can attain, if you really go after it.

  Wayne Dyer

  Inspirational, Goal, Want

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• Almost every desire a poor man has is a punishable offence.

  Louis-Ferdinand Celine

  Men, Poor, Offence

  "Journey to the End of the Night" by Louis-Ferdinand Céline, 1932.

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