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Desire Quotes by Eric Hoffer
- A mass movement attracts and holds a following not because it can satisfy the desire for self-advancement, but because it can satisfy the passion for…
- People unfit for freedom - who cannot do much with it - are hungry for power. The desire for freedom is an attribute of a…
- To believe that if we could have but this or that we would be happy is to suppress the realization that the cause of our…
- In man's life, the absence of an essential component usually leads to the adoption of a substitute. The substitute is usually embraced with vehemence and…
- The readiness to praise others indicates a desire for excellence and perhaps an ability to realize it.
- The less satisfaction we derive from being ourselves, the greater is our desire to be like others.
- The chief burden of the frustrated is the consciousness of a blemished, ineffectual self, and their chief desire is to slough off the unwanted self…
- The desire to belong is partly a desire to lose oneself.
- The desire to be different from the people we live with is sometimes the result of our rejection- real or imagined- by them.
- Proselytizing is more a passionate search for something not yet found than a desire to bestow upon the world something we already have. It is…
- It is the awareness of unfulfilled desires which gives a nation the feeling that it has a mission and a destiny.
- Every intense desire is perhaps a desire to be different from what we are.
- We are told that talent creates its own opportunities. But it sometimes seems that intense desire creates not only its own opportunities, but its own…
- Even the sober desire for progress is sustained by faith—faith in the intrinsic goodness of human nature and in the omnipotence of science. It is…
- It sometimes seems that intense desire creates not only its own opportunities, but its own talents.
More Desire Quotes
- All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. — Aristotle
- The beginning of reform is not so much to equalize property as to train the noble sort of natures not to desire… — Aristotle
- 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 men by nature desire knowledge. — Aristotle
- Listen to what you know instead of what you fear. — Richard Bach
- One of the things that distinguishes man from the other animals is that he wants to know things, wants to find out… — C.S. Lewis
- "Seek ye first the kingdom of God and all good things will be added unto you." Follow God and you shall have… — Swami Vivekananda