Desire Quotes
7210 Desire quotes by 3487 unique authors
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Pentagon's readiness and modernization problems are not due to budget cuts. The are the result of habitual modes of conduct evolved during the Cold War…
— Unknown Author
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You may fly over a land forever; you may bomb it, atomize it, and wipe it clean of life - but if you desire to…
— T. R. Fehrenbach
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Failure, to me, is not having the desire to try. Having the desire to try is in it own way success.
— Bobby Knight
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Have fun doing whatever it is that you desire to accomplish. Learn it one step at a time, emphasizing the fundamentals, and do it because…
— Paul Westphal
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What I've talked about the entire series and throughout this playoffs is about intensity and effort, desire and will of our players.
— Bill Laimbeer
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When women got the vote, they did not redefine voting. When African-Americans got the right to sit at a lunch counter alongside white people, they…
— Cynthia Nixon
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Geology is rapidly taking its place as an introduction to the higher history of man. If the author has sought to exalt a favorite science,…
— James Dwight Dana
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We grow like flowers, and bear desire, the odor of the human flowers.
— Richard Henry Stoddard
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The hybridoma technology was a by-product of basic research. Its success in practical applications is to a large extent the result of unexpected and unpredictable…
— Cesar Milstein
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Some people do not like to hear much of repentance; but I think it is so necessary that if I should die in the pulpit,…
— Matthew Henry
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No man should desire to be happy who is not at the same time holy. He should spend his efforts in seeking to know and…
— Aiden Wilson Tozer
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There are only two kinds of people in the end: those who say to God, "Thy will be done," and those to whom God says,…
— C.S. Lewis
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The cultivated mind is the guardian genius of democracy. It is the only dictator that free man acknowledges. It is the only security that free…
— Mirabeau B. Lamar
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It is often better to be restricted to necessity than unconfined in the measure of our desires: prosperity destroys more individuals than adversity ruins.
— Norm MacDonald
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Desire of praise disposeth to laudable actions.
— Thomas Hobbes
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Talent is the gift plus the passion - a desire to succeed so intense that no force on earth can stop it.
— Neil Simon
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If there is a defining aspect of UNC women's soccer, and its success, it is what we call the competitive cauldron. It is the pinnacle…
— Anson Dorrance
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Desire is making people build ships and cities, has made men conquer nations... and it can defeat that nicotine
— Napoleon Hill
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My desire, my passion, was to help moms with practical encouragement.
— Lisa Whelchel
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I couldn't have foreseen all the good things that have followed my mother's death. The renewed energy, the surprising sweetness of grief. The tenderness I…
— Mary Schmich
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Life is found in the dance between your deepest desire and your greatest fear.
— Tony Robbins
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The deepest longing in the human breast is the desire for appreciation.
— William James
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Therefore, whether the desire for prayer is on you or not, get to your closet at the set time; shut yourself in with God; wait…
— Robert Forman Horton
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Kiss me out of desire, but not consolation.
— Jeff Buckley
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Persons who have no desire to live have a very slight chance of recovery. We can continue to extend to them our love, sympathy, and…
— Michio Kushi
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