I don't think competition is good in music. What is good, is the desire and the ambition to create your best work. — Tom Odell Copy Share Image
It is not the pursuit of greater and greater states of happiness and bliss that leads to enlightenment, but the yearning for… — Adyashanti Copy Share Image
A man's not doing much until the cause he works for possesses all there is of him. Desire, when harnessed, is power. — John Wanamaker Copy Share Image
Every human being was wired with the desire for happiness. And we will try different things all in the pursuit of that… — Kirk Franklin Copy Share Image
I think my intention was there, and my love for the music was apparent. And there are very few singers who get… — Kurt Elling Copy Share Image
It is an unquestionable truth, that the body of the people in every country desire sincerely its prosperity. But it is equally… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
Like myself, all Americans have a deep concern for the well-being of Iran. With them I have watched closely your courageous efforts,… — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
“I am dead because I lack desire, I lack desire because I think I possess, I think I possess because I do… — Rene Daumal Copy Share Image
The practice of inhibiting impulses, which is to a great extent necessary to civilized life, makes mistakes easier, by preventing experience of… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
But the desire of obtaining the advantages, and of escaping the burthens, of political society, is a perpetual and inexhaustible source of… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
Water and petrol both come from the earth, and though they seem to be alike and even the same, they are in… — Sadhu Sundar Singh Copy Share Image
A vast black sleep falls over my life sleep, all hope sleep, all desire. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“We’re not broken. We’re not in the wrong bodies. We’re not inadequate. We’re not lesser. We’re not unwanted. We’re not fraudulent. We’re… — Agnostic Zetetic Copy Share Image
The desire to have power dissolves. The desire to dominate people for love dissolves. On the other hand, it's a relief to… — Allen Ginsberg Copy Share Image
“We do not feel God’s Love because we have chosen to become self-reliant. It is hard for Divine Love to come in… — Padma Aon Prakasha Copy Share Image
Whenever a great physician treats diseases, he has to be mentally calm and his disposition firm. He should not give way to… — Sun Simiao Copy Share Image
Father, I desire to please You in everything I do. I declare that You are good and faithful. I trust You with… — Joel Osteen Copy Share Image
Buddhism teaches that a craving for things outside ourselves causes an unhappy and pointless search for security. It teaches me to stop… — Tiger Woods Copy Share Image
No man can hope to accomplish anything great in this world until he throws his whole soul, flings the force of his… — Orison Swett Marden Copy Share Image
I never desire to know anything of the detail of political measures, lest even those which I think best should lose anything… — Fanny Kemble Copy Share Image
This food-and-shelter theory concerning man's efforts is without insight. The desire for praise is more imperative than the desire for food and… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
The tamer my love, the farther away it is from love. In fierceness, in heat, in longing, in risk, I find something… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
Be a function of your values rather than a function of the impulse or desire of any given moment. — Stephen Covey Copy Share Image
All The Desirable Things In Life Are Either Illegal, Expensive Or Married : — Ritu Ghatourey Copy Share Image