Desire Quotes and Sayings - Page 3
One must not lose desires. They are mighty stimulants to creativeness, to love, and to long life.
Alexander A. Bogomoletz
We never desire strongly, what we desire rationally.
Francois de la Rochefoucauld
If you desire many things, many things will seem but a few.
Benjamin Franklin
Naked I seek the camp of those who desire nothing.
Horace
We do not succeed in changing things according to our desire, but gradually our desire changes.
Marcel Proust
He that flatters you more than you desire either has deceived you or wishes to deceive.
Italian Proverb
Without a sense of urgency, desire loses its value.
Jim Rohn
The desire not to be anything is the desire not to be.
Ayn Rand
In moderating, not in satisfying desires, lies peace.
Reginald Heber
How helpless we are, like netted birds, when we are caught by desire!
Belva Plain
The desire to know is natural to good men.
Leonardo da Vinci
By believing passionately in something that still does not exist, we create it. The nonexistent is whatever we have not sufficiently desired.
Anonymous
It is the nature of desire not to be satisfied, and most men live only for the gratification of it.
Aristotle
Man is an animal which, alone among the animals, refuses to be satisfied by the fulfilment of animal desires.
Alexander Graham Bell
Why then, can one desire too much of a good thing?
William Shakespeare
The desire to write grows with writing.
Desiderius Erasmus
Your feet will bring you to where your heart is.
Irish Proverb
Dwell not upon thy weariness, thy strength shall be according to the measure of thy desire.
Arab Proverb
Serendipity. Look for something, find something else, and realize that what you’ve found is more suited to your needs than what you thought you were looking for.
Lawrence Block
We desire nothing so much as what we ought not to have.
Publilius Syrus
A desire to be observed, considered, esteemed, praised, beloved, and admired by his fellows is one of the earliest as well as the keenest dispositions discovered in the heart of man.
John Adams
Be careful what you set your heart upon – for it will surely be yours.
James Baldwin
Desire is half of life; indifference is half of death.
Kahlil Gibran
Everyone believes very easily whatever they fear or desire.
Jean de La Fontaine
Most people can do extraordinary things if they have the confidence or take the risks. Yet most people don’t. They sit in front of the telly and treat life as if it goes on forever.
Philip Andrew Adams
I do desire we may be better strangers.
William Shakespeare
Again, men in general desire the good, and not merely what their fathers had.
Aristotle
Love is something far more than desire for sexual intercourse; it is the principal means of escape from the loneliness which afflicts most men and women throughout the greater part of their lives.
Bertrand Russell
Burning desire to be or do something gives us staying power – a reason to get up every morning or to pick ourselves up and start in again after a disappointment.
Marsha Sinetar
Life ought to be a struggle of desire toward adventures whose nobility will fertilize the soul.
Rebecca West
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