Quotes with desire

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  • Leo Tolstoy Boredom: the desire for desires.
    Leo Tolstoy
    Russian writer (1828 - 1910)
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  • Channing Pollock Calm self-confidence is as far from conceit as the desire to earn a decent living is remote from greed.
    Channing Pollock
    American actor (1880 - 1946)
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  • Kahlil Gibran Cast aside those who liken godliness to whimsy and who try to combine their greed for wealth with their desire for a happy afterlife.
    Kahlil Gibran
    Libian painter and writer (1883 - 1931)
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  • John Dewey Complete adaptation to environment means death. The essential point in all response is the desire to control environment.
    John Dewey
    American philosopher (1859 - 1952)
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  • Mahatma Gandhi Consciously or unconsciously, every one of us does render some service or other. If we cultivate the habit of doing this service deliberately, our desire for service will steadily grow stronger, and will make, not only our own happiness, but that of the world at large.
    Mahatma Gandhi
    Indian politician (1869 - 1948)
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  • Gilbert Keith Chesterton Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of a readiness to die.
    Gilbert Keith Chesterton
    English writer (1874 - 1936)
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  • Gilbert Keith Chesterton Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of readiness to die.
    Gilbert Keith Chesterton
    English writer (1874 - 1936)
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  • Rose Macaulay Cranks live by theory, not by pure desire. They want votes, peace, nuts, liberty, and spinning-looms not because they love these things, as a child loves jam, but because they think they ought to have them. That is one element which makes the crank.
    Rose Macaulay
    English writer (1881 - 1958)
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  • Napoleon Hill Create a definite plan for carrying out your desire and begin at once, whether you ready or not, to put this plan into action.
    Napoleon Hill
    American self-help author (1883 - 1970)
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  • Oscar Wilde Culture depends on cookery. For myself, the only immortality I desire is to invent a new sauce.
    Vera, or the Nihilists (1883)
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • George Bernard Shaw Dancing is a perpendicular expression of a horizontal desire.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Bryant H. McGill Death is the great hope of all life; the desire to expend itself; to be used and consumed by its own longing for itself.
    Bryant H. McGill
    American journalist and author (1969 - )
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  • Mark Victor Hansen Dedicate yourself to the good you deserve and desire for yourself. Give yourself peace of mind. You deserve to be happy. You deserve delight.
    Mark Victor Hansen
    American motivational speaker and author (1948 - )
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  • Blaise Pascal Desire and force between them are responsible for all our actions; desire causes our voluntary acts, force our involuntary.
    Blaise Pascal
    French mathematician, physicist and philosopher (1623 - 1662)
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  • Raymond Holliwell Desire creates the power.
    Raymond Holliwell
    American author
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  • Marcia Wieder Desire is a powerful force that can be used to make things happen.
    Marcia Wieder
    CEO and Founder of Dream University
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  • Baruch Spinoza Desire is the essence of a man.
    Baruch Spinoza
    Dutch philosopher (1632 - 1677)
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  • Willie Shoemaker Desire is the most important factor in the success of any athlete.
    Willie Shoemaker
    American jockey (1931 - 2003)
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  • Emilie Cady Desire is the thing you want in incipiency.
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  • Thomas Hobbes Desire to know why, and how - curiosity, which is a lust of the mind, that a perseverance of delight in the continued and indefatigable generation of knowledge - exceedeth the short vehemence of any carnal pleasure.
    Thomas Hobbes
    British philosopher (1588 - 1679)
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