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QUOTES AND APHORISMS ON DESIRE 2
More than we use is more than we want.
Gaelic Proverb (Sayings of Gaelic origin)
I wept because I had no shoes, until I saw a man who had no feet.
Persian Proverb (Sayings of Persian origin)
This gift is from God and not of man's deserving. But certainly no one ever receives such a great grace without tremendous labor and burning desire.
Richard of Saint Victor
Every human mind is a great slumbering power until awakened by a keen desire and by definite resolution to do.
Edgar F. Roberts
When you know what you want, and want it bad enough, you will find a way to get it.
Jim Rohn (American businessman, author, speaker, philosopher) Author's website: www.jimrohn.com
Without a sense of urgency, desire loses its value.
Jim Rohn (American businessman, author, speaker, philosopher) Author's website: www.jimrohn.com
Why not spend some time determining what is worthwhile for us, and then go after that?
William Ross
First deserve then desire.
Author Unknown
Tell me what you like and I'll tell you what you are.
John Ruskin (1819-1900, British critic, social theorist)
All human activity is prompted by desire.
Bertrand Russell (1872-1970, British philosopher, mathematician, essayist)
All human activity is prompted by desire.
Bertrand Russell (1872-1970, British philosopher, mathematician, essayist)
I learned that if you want to make it bad enough, no matter how bad it is, you can make it.
Gayle Sayers (American football player)
Your desires and true beliefs have a way of playing blind man's bluff. You must corner the inner facts...
David Seabury (American doctor, author)
Our necessities are few, but our wants are endless.
George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950, Irish-born British dramatist)
There is a supply for every demand.
Florence Scovel Shinn (1876-1953, American artist, metaphysics teacher, author)
Desire is the most important factor in the success of any athlete.
Willie Shoemaker (1931-, American racing jockey and trainer)
Desire is the most important factor in the success of any athlete.
Willie Shoemaker (1931-, American racing jockey and trainer)
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 Sivananda (1887-1963, Indian physician, sage)
Every man's road in life is marked by the grave of his personal likings.
Alexander Smith (1830-1867, Scottish poet, author)
If all misfortunes were laid in one common heap whence everyone must take an equal portion, most people would be contented to take their own and depart.
Socrates (BC 469-399, Greek philosopher of Athens)
Life contains but two tragedies. One is not to get your heart's desire; the other is to get it.
Socrates (BC 469-399, Greek philosopher of Athens)
The fewer our wants the more we resemble the Gods.
Socrates (BC 469-399, Greek philosopher of Athens)
The fewer our wants the more we resemble the Gods.
Socrates (BC 469-399, Greek philosopher of Athens)
Desire is the essence of a man.
Baruch Benedict de Spinoza (1632-1677, Dutch philosopher and theologian)
The desire of the man is for the woman, but the desire of the woman is for the desire of the man.
Anne Germain De Stael (1766-1817, French-Swiss novelist)
I do want to get rich, but I never want to do what there is to do to get rich.
Gertrude Stein (1874-1946, American author)
We accomplish things by directing our desires, not by ignoring them.
Author Unknown
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 (1850-1895, Scottish essayist, poet, novelist)
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 (1850-1895, Scottish essayist, poet, novelist)
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 (1811-1896, American novelist, antislavery campaigner)
And desire shall fail: because man goeth to his long home, and the mourners go about the streets.
The Holy Bible (Sacred scriptures of Christians and Judaism) Source: Ecclesiastes 12:5
The desire accomplished is sweet to the soul.
The Holy Bible (Sacred scriptures of Christians and Judaism) Source: Proverbs 13:19
The desire of our soul is to they name, and to the remembrance of thee.
The Holy Bible (Sacred scriptures of Christians and Judaism)
If a man constantly aspires is he not elevated?
Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862, American essayist, poet, naturalist)
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 (1835-1910, American humorist, writer)
A woman never knows what she really wants until she finds out what her husband cannot afford.
Author Unknown
Convince a man of what he wants, and he'll move heaven and earth to get it.
Author Unknown
Desire for security keeps littleness little and threatens the great with smallness.
Author Unknown
If you don't get everything you want, think of the things you don't get that you don't want.
Author Unknown
No person can arise above his real desire. Desires are of value only when they drive us to action. Will and work must accompany desire. Then high resolve is born. Desire is the design that will spur us into achievement.
Author Unknown
The distance between success and failure can only be measured by one's desire.
Author Unknown
The man who really wants to do something finds a way, the other finds an excuse.
Author Unknown
The more clear you are on what you want, the more power you will have.
Author Unknown
Unbridled gratification produces unbridled desire.
Author Unknown
Desire! That's the one secret of every man's career. Not education. Not being born with hidden talents. Desire.
Bobby Unser (1934-, American race car driver)
As an eagle, weary after soaring in the sky, folds its wings and flies down to rest in its nest, so does the shining Self enter the state of dreamless sleep, where one is freed from all desires.
Brihadaranyaka Upanishad (Ancient Hindu scripture expounding the identity of the real self)
You are what your deep driving desire is.
Brihadaranyaka Upanishad (Ancient Hindu scripture expounding the identity of the real self)
The want of a thing is perplexing enough, but the possession of it, is intolerable.
Sir John Vanbrugh (1664-1726, British playwright and baroque architect)
Out of need springs desire, and out of desire springs the energy and the will to win.
Denis Waitley (1933-, American author, speaker, trainer, peak performance expert) Author's website: www.deniswaitley.com
Where there is no power... there is never any desire to do a thing; and where there is strong desire to do a thing... the power to do it is strong.
Wallace D. Wattles
Desire is a powerful force that can be used to make things happen.
Marcia Wieder (American speaker, trainer, author)
It's not who jumps the highest -- it's who wants it the most
Buck Williams (1960-, American basketball player)
You learnt that, whatever you are doing in life, obstacles don't matter very much. Pain or other circumstances can be there, but if you want to do a job bad enough, you'll find a way to get it done.
Jack Youngblood
Understand clearly that when a great need appears a great use appears also; when there is small need there is small use; it is obvious, then, that full use is made of all things at all times according to the necessity thereof.
Dogen Zenji
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