Desire Quotes

"Stranger, if you passing meet me and desire to speak to me, why should you not speak to me? And why should I not speak to you?"

"So long as they don't get violent, I want to let everyone say what they wish, for I myself have always said exactly what pleased me."

"Consciously or unconsciously, everyone of us does render some service or another. If we cultivate the habit of doing this service deliberately, our desire for service will steadily grow stronger, and it will make not only for our own happiness, but that of the world at large."

"l do desire we be better strangers"

"In order to succeed, your desire for success should be greater than your fear of failure."

"If you care enough for a result, you will most certainly attain it."

"Those who desire to give up freedom in order to gain security will not have, nor do they deserve, either one."

"When your desires are strong enough, you will appear to possess superhuman powers to achieve"

"I don't want to earn my living; I want to live."

"A human being has a natural desire to have more of a good thing than he needs."

"Those who restrain their desires, do so because theirs is weak enough to be restrained."

"A sentimentalist is simply one who desires to have the luxury of an emotion without paying for it"

"Where there is much desire to learn, there of necessity will be much arguing, much writing, many opinions; for opinions in good men is but knowledge in the making"

"Just as eating contrary to the inclination is injurious to the health, so study without desire sports the memory, and it retains nothing that it takes in."

"I like the truth sometimes, but I don't care enough for it to hanker after it"

"We are always more anxious to be distinguished for a talent which we do not possess, than to be praised for the fifteen which we do possess"

"Some say the world will end in fire,/ Some say in ice./ From what I've tasted of desire/ I hold with those who favor fire./ But if it had to perish twice,/ I think I know enough of hate/ To say that for destruction ice/ Is also great/ And would suffice."

"You will find that the mere resolve not to be useless, and the honest desire to help other people, will, in the quickest and delicatest ways, improve yourself."

"The desire to win is born in most of us. The will to win is a matter of training. The manner of winning is a matter of honour."

"It must be so - Plato, thou reason'st well! -/ Else whence this pleasing hope, this fond desire, / This longing after immortality?"