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Desire Quotes by Abraham Lincoln
- I have an irrepressible desire to live till I can be assured that the world is a little better for my having lived in it.
- I think slavery is wrong, morally, and politically. I desire that it should be no further spread in these United States, and I should not…
- Now, I confess myself as belonging to that class in the country who contemplate slavery as a moral, social and political evil, having due regard…
- What I want is to get done what the people desire to have done, and the question for me is how to find that out…
- And whereas this House desires to obtain a full knowledge of all the facts which go to establish whether the particular spot of soil which…
- It is your business to rise up and preserve the Union and liberty, for yourselves, and not for me. I desire they shall be constitutionally…
- Every one desires to live long, but no one would be old.
- I desire so to conduct the affairs of this administration that if at the end... I have lost every other friend on earth, I shall…
- You can have anything you want if you want it badly enough. You can be anything you want to be, do anything you set out…
- I have always thought that all men should be free; but if any should be slaves, it should be first those who desire for themselves,…
- It is my ambition and desire to so administer the affairs of the government while I remain President that if at the end I have…
- Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any one thing.
More Desire Quotes
- Dedicate yourself to the good you deserve and desire for yourself. Give yourself peace of mind. You deserve to be happy. You… — Hannah Arendt
- The ultimate end of human acts is eudaimonia, happiness in the sense of living well, which all men desire; all acts are… — Hannah Arendt
- I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self. — Aristotle
- All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. — Aristotle
- All men by nature desire knowledge. — Aristotle
- Bring your desires down to your present means. Increase them only when your increased means permit. — Aristotle
- The beginning of reform is not so much to equalize property as to train the noble sort of natures not to desire… — Aristotle
- Listen to what you know instead of what you fear. — Richard Bach
- Mystery creates wonder and wonder is the basis of man's desire to understand. — Neil Armstrong
- I was a supporter of the desire, in my section of Nigeria, to leave the federation because it was treated very badly… — Chinua Achebe
- Do you wish to be great? Then begin by being. Do you desire to construct a vast and lofty fabric? Think first… — Saint Augustine
- Blessedness consists in the accomplishment of our desires, and in our having only regular desires. — Saint Augustine