After thorough reflection, I realized that my desire to achieve my goals in this sport outweighed my self-doubt. This perseverance has helped… — Jonathan Horton Copy Share Image
Capitalists are motivated not chiefly by the desire to consume wealth or indulge their appetites, but by the freedom and power to… — George Gilder Copy Share Image
And what does every child believe every adult capable of doing? Of actually being able to bend the world to an inner… — Joseph Chilton Pearce Copy Share Image
But Humanity, in its desire for comfort, had over-reached itself. It had exploited the riches of nature too far. Quietly and complacently,… — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
Most political leaders acquire their position by causing large numbers of people to believe that these leaders are actuated by altruistic desires — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“Those who haven't visualise their dreams yet talk about people and things but those who already grasped their dreams talk about desires… — Euginia Herlihy Copy Share Image
How innocent, how happy, how truly delightful, even, would life be if we were to desire nothing but what is to be… — Pliny the Elder Copy Share Image
“A man may begin by following the craving of desire, until he comes to see how hollow and unreal a thing is… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
I was taught that everything is attainable if you are prepared to give up, to sacrifice, to get it. Whatever you want… — Stirling Moss Copy Share Image
“I inhale slowly, soaking it all in. I step forward and backward, my neck twisting and turning, memorizing every corner. I feel… — Corey M.P Copy Share Image
There is no satisfying the senses, not even with a shower of money. "The senses are of slight pleasure and really suffering."… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
The more successful you become, the more the demands of your ego will increase. In the beginning, you simply want to succeed,… — Gelek Rimpoche Copy Share Image
There is no long interval between the sense of thirst and the trickling of the stream over the parched lip; but ever… — Alexander MacLaren Copy Share Image
The one distinct feature of our Association has been the right of the individual opinion for every member. We have been beset… — Susan B. Anthony Copy Share Image
“By means of poetry all this suffering and effort could be transformed into dream; no matter how much of the ephemeral existed,… — Nikos Kazantzakis Copy Share Image
Your word determines your day, who you are, where you are and where you are bound. You are headed somewhere and God… — E. Bernard Jordan Copy Share Image
When desire, having rejected reason and overpowered judgment which leads to right, is set in the direction of the pleasure which beauty… — Socrates Copy Share Image
There's always another adventure if you keep your head above water and I don't have any desire to slow down because it… — Jim Ross Copy Share Image
“And it is in this gap between resemblance and identity that nostalgic desire arises. The nostalgic is enamored of distance, not of… — Susan Stewart Copy Share Image
“Like a bird, Tasha sees acutely on the periphery, and for a moment, before fear sets in, this feels somewhat prophetic. The… — Emma Richler Copy Share Image
Lay not on any soul a load that you would not wish to be laid upon you, and desire not for any… — Bahá'u'lláh Copy Share Image
“God is my desire, Faith is my guardian, and the Love of Christ is my portion forever. For God is Love and… — Anya vonderLuft Copy Share Image
I talk to teachers, nurses, police officers, and families nearly every day in North Carolina. Their desire to make a difference inspires… — Roy Cooper Copy Share Image
“What I didn’t realize was that wanting to test desire is nothing more than a ruse to get what we want without… — André Aciman Copy Share Image
If I ever go looking for my heart's desire again, I won't look any further than my own back yard. Because if… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
God has allowed some magical reversal to occur, so that you see the scorpion pit as an object of desire, and all… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Between your body and my desire for it Stretches the chasm of you being conscious. If only I could love and possess… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
There is no pain worse than not achieving a dream when it is your fault. If God did not want you to… — Will Smith Copy Share Image
Whatever we, as prospective participants unaware of our specific features, would desire society to be like is what, morally speaking, we ought… — Thomas Pogge Copy Share Image
I long for truth, and yet I cannot stay from that My better self disowns, For a man's attention Brings such satisfaction… — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
The corporation is not an independent "person" with its own rights, needs, and desires that regulators must respect. It is a state… — Joel Bakan Copy Share Image
We are primitive men; we taboo what we desire and need. How did the denying of love come to be associated with… — Christina Stead Copy Share Image
“It would be comical if it wasn’t so sad: all of our desires to make ourselves worthy of this world but unfit… — Brennan Manning Copy Share Image
We all have a relentless yearning to attach and connect, to love and be loved. This relationship hunger is the fiercest longing… — Dave Earley Copy Share Image
Each week I am forced to revise my original opinion that Facebook is a great innovation for keeping people in touch, to… — Emily Yoffe Copy Share Image
Learn to distinguish what you can and can't control. Within our control are our own opinions, aspirations, desires and the things that… — Epictetus Copy Share Image
But at power or wealth, for the sake of which wars, and all kinds of strife, arise among mankind, we do not… — Sallust Copy Share Image
I have a weakness for treating people's economic interests as their only interest, ignoring things like belonging and pride and the desire… — Anand Giridharadas Copy Share Image
Now Eros makes a man really want, not a woman, but one particular woman. In some mysterious but quite indisputable fashion the… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
For me, the desire exists less to get myself a degree than to just go and have the whole college experience, and… — Joshua Jackson Copy Share Image
