Desire Quote by Carl Sandburg

Nothing is so hard for those who abound in riches as to conceive how others can be in want.

— Jonathan Swift

Whoever desires is always poor.

— Anonymous

Their will always be a person in need and a person with more need than that person in need

— Enrique Alcala

Desires repeatedly mastered for the sake of present duty make us richer. Lack of desire is poverty.

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

There is nothing more precious to a man than his will; there is nothing which he relinquishes with so much reluctance.

— J. G. Holland

No man is rich who is unsatisfied, but who wants nothing possess his heart's desire.

— Richard P. Feynman

It is so seldom in this world that things come just when they are wanted.

— Margaret Oliphant

Want is a bitter and a hateful good, Because its virtues are not understood; Yet many things, impossible to thought, Have been by need…

— John Dryden

Desire is when you do what you want, will is when you can do what you do not want.

— P.D. Ouspensky

Riches don't respond to wishes. They respond only to definite plans, backed by definite desires, through constant persistence.

— Napoleon Hill

It has appeared that from the inevitable laws of our nature, some human beings must suffer from want. These are the unhappy persons who,…

— Thomas Malthus

The greatest wealth is a poverty of desires.

— Anonymous