Desire Quotes

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The desire for economic prosperity is itself not culturally determined but almost universally shared — Francis Fukuyama
The desire to achieve grand utopian plans often poses a grave threat to freedom — Margaret Thatcher
People say "I want peace." If you remove I (ego), and your want (desire), you are left with peace. — Sathya Sai Baba
This war has been motivated by pride or arrogance, by a desire to control oil wealth, by a desire to implant our programs. (talking about… — Jimmy Carter
Many people don't have the ability to be rich, because they're too lazy or they don't have the desire or the stick-to-itiveness. It's a talent.… — Donald Trump
Add to this the pride of achievement; the desire to rank among the successful souls on earth, and we have the factors which have brought… — Lewis Howard Latimer
First get a clear notion of what you desire to accomplish and then in all probability you will succeed in doing it. — Henry Maudslay
We are thus brought to a conception of Democracy not merely as a sentiment which desires the well-being of all men, nor yet as a… — Jane Addams
Resentment is an extremely bitter diet, I have no desire to make my own toxins. — Neil Kinnock
The desire for liberty has also made itself felt as struggle against domestic tyranny or arbitrary rule. — Emily Greene Balch
One of the amazing things we have been given as humans is the unquenchable desire to have dreams of a better life, and the ability… — Jim Rohn
Desires must be simple and definite. They defeat their own purpose should they be too many, too confusing, or beyond a man's training to accomplish — George S. Clason
[The original development of the Spinning Mule was a] continual endeavour to realise a more perfect principle of spinning; and though often baffled, I as… — Samuel Crompton
When the rhythms of our body-mind are in synch with nature's rhythms, when we are living in harmony with life, we are living in the… — Deepak Chopra
A true and safe leader is likely to be one who has no desire to lead, but is forced into a position of leadership by… — Aiden Wilson Tozer
The best state for human nature is that in which, while no one is poor, no one desires to be richer, nor has any reason… — John Stuart Mill
Desire is a teacher: When we immerse ourselves in it without guilt, shame, or clinging, it can show us something special about our own minds… — Mark Epstein
Desire presses ever forward unsubdued. — Sigmund Freud
Count not thyself to have found true peace, if thou hast felt no grief; nor that then all is well if thou hast no adversary;… — Thomas a Kempis
Each thing tends to move towards its own nature. I always desire happiness which is my true nature. My nature is never a burden to… — Adi Shankara
The desire of the moth for the star, Of the night for the morrow, The devotion to something afar From the sphere of our sorrow. — Percy Bysshe Shelley
We are moving toward a dictatorship of relativism which does not recognize anything as definitive and has as its highest value one's own ego and… — Pope Benedict XVI
Consume my heart away, sick with desire And fastened to a dying animal It knows not what it is, and gather me Into the artifice… — William Butler Yeats
If it be true that any beautiful thing raises the pure and just desire of man from earth to God, the eternal fount of all,… — Michelangelo
A man that advances in spiritual and in temporal matters at the same time, minding to keep the spiritual first, will not let the temporal… — Unknown Author

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