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Desire Quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson
- There is nothing capricious in nature and the implanting of a desire indicates that its gratification is in the constitution of the creature that feel…
- A low self-love in the parent desires that his child should repeat his character and fortune.
- For the resolute and determined, there is time and opportunity.
- Desire is possibility seeking expression.
- Our desires presage the capacities within us; they are harbingers of what we shall be able to accomplish. What we can do and want to…
- What we love that we have, but by desire we bereave ourselves of the love.
- If there is any period one would desire to be born in, is it not the age of Revolution; when the old and the new…
- We walk alone in the world. Friends, such as we desire, are dreams and fables.
- A man makes inferiors his superiors by heat; self control is the rule. Anger is an uncontrollable feeling that betrays what you are when you…
- The desire of gold is not for gold. It is for the means of freedom and benefit.
- Can anything be so elegant as to have few wants, and to serve them one's self?
- It is my desire, in the office of a Christian minister, to do nothing which I cannot do with my whole heart. Having said this,…
- The South-wind brings Life, sunshine and desire, And on every mount and meadow Breathes aromatic fire; But over the dead he has no power, The…
- The secret of fortune is joy in our hands. Welcome evermore to gods and men is the self-helping man. For him all doors are flung…
- Those who cannot tell what they desire or expect, still sigh and struggle with indefinite thoughts and vast wishes.
- A man's power to connect his thought with its proper symbol, and so to utter it, depends on the simplicity of his character, that is,…
- Friends, such as we desire, are dreams and fables.
- If there is any period one would desire to be born in, is it not the age of Revolution; when the old and the new…
- Thou art to me a delicious poison.
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