Desire Quote by Benjamin Franklin Download Open image “It is much easier to suppress a first desire than to satisfy those that follow.” — Benjamin Franklin ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.9 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Desire Easier
“Tis easier to suppress the first desire than to satisfy all that follow it.” — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
There’s only one thing worse than not satisfying a desire. And that is not to feel any desire. — Jo Nesbo Copy Share Image
When it comes to desire, it's not a matter of avoiding desire, but rather learning to discern those desires that are helpful and necessary… — Rod Stryker Copy Share Image
It is hard to prevent oneself from believing what one so keenly desires. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
We cannot be free of nagging desires through suppression. This is like trying to keep a rubber boat beneath the water. But we remove… — Vernon Howard Copy Share Image
It is that of an unsatisfied desire which is itself more desirable than any other satisfaction. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Perhaps that's what we're all looking for - desire undiluted by habit. — David Lodge Copy Share Image
Unsatisfied desire is in itself more desirable than any other satisfaction. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Before Noah, men having only water to drink, could not find the truth. Accordingly...they became abominably wicked, and they were justly exterminated by the… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Think of these things, whence you came, where you are going, and to whom you must account. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Flowers are the alphabet of angels, whereby they write on the hills and fields mysterious truths. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
In the affairs of this world, men are saved not by faith, but by the want of it. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
By heaven we understand a state of happiness infinite in degree, and endless in duration. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
I have thought that wild flowers might be the alphabet of angels, — whereby they write on hills and fields mysterious truths, which it… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
How do you become better tomorrow? By improving yourself, the world is made better. Be not afraid of growing too slowly. Be afraid of… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
“But on the whole, though I never arrived at the perfection I had been so ambitious of obtaining, but fell far short of it,… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
The good particular men may do separately, in relieving the sick, is small, compared with what they may do collectively. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
I put myself in the student's place and remember the frustrations, doubts, determination, and desires I felt when I was going through the initial… — Ted Martinez Copy Share Image
I want the municipality to be a helping hand to the man with a desire of sympathy, to help the fallen when it is… — John Burns Copy Share Image
Ye youths and virgins, when your generous blood Has drunk the warmth of fifteen summers, now The loves invite; now to new rapture wakes… — John Armstrong Copy Share Image
I have observed this in my experience of slavery, - that whenever my condition was improved, instead of its increasing my contentment, it only… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
If there is any period one would desire to be born in, is it not the age of Revolution; when the old and the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
He caught her, she fell, he caught her in his arms, he held her tightly unconscious of what he was doing. He held her… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
Teaching might even be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit. My three [great teachers] did not… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
In discovering books, you became free to explore the full range of human motives, desires, secrets, and lies. All my life, people have scolded… — Betsy Lerner Copy Share Image
I have never been in, nor have I had any strong particular desire to be in, what is termed a costume drama, but I… — Martin Freeman Copy Share Image
