Desired Quotes

463 Desired quotes by 375 unique authors

Avoid fragmentation: Find your focus and seek simplicity. Purposeful living calls for elegant efficiency and economy of effort-expanding the minimum time and energy necessary to… — Dan Millman
Which 20% of sources are causing 80% of my problems and unhappiness? Which 20% of sources are resulting in 80% of my desired outcomes and… — Tim Ferriss
It was the secrets of heaven and earth that I desired to learn. — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Now while they were thus drawing towards the gate, behold, a company of the heavenly host came to meet them; to whom it was said… — John Bunyan
In the way our Fathers originally left the slavery question, the institution was in the course of ultimate extinction, and the public mind rested in… — Abraham Lincoln
For such is man: a Theological Dogma might be refuted to him a thousand times - provided however, that he had need of it, he… — Friedrich Nietzsche
Since most of our fears are based on dark imaginings, it is vital for us to dwell on our magnificent obsessions and desired results -… — Denis Waitley
As the tall dark and handsome male star, Carey Grant always stands for male beauty and desirability, whether in a 30s screwball, a 40s film… — Steven A. Cohen
Maturity is not equated with independence though it includes a certain capacity for independence...The independence of the mature person is simply that he does not… — Nancy Chodorow
A penny here, and a dollar there, placed at interest, goes on accumulating, and in this way the desired result is attained. — P T Barnum
As the component parts of all new machines may be said to be old[,] it is a nice discriminating judgment, which discovers that a particular… — Robert Fulton
[A]ny desired additional nicotine 'kick' could be easily obtained through pH regulation. — R. J. Reynolds
Ultimately one loves one's desires and not that which is desired. — Friedrich Nietzsche
Prayer brings to us blessings which we need, and which only God can give, and which prayer can alone convey to us ... This service… — Gerhard Tersteegen
Indeed, so deep is my pleasure in the work of the garden that, if there be a dimension after death in which grieving for the… — Hal Porter
I do not believe war the most certain means of enforcing principles. Those peaceable coercions which are in the power of every nation, if undertaken… — Thomas Jefferson
There is a special sadness in achievement, in the knowledge that a long-desired goal has been attained at last, and that life must now be… — Arthur C. Clarke
He can be regarded as the great master of simplification. The art of resolving the tension at the critical moment and in the most effacious… — Max Euwe
The minority has discovered a powerful help in influencing majorities. It has been found possible so to mold the mind of the masses that they… — Edward Bernays
Success depends on getting good at saying no without feeling guilty. You cannot get ahead with your own goals if you are always saying yes… — Jack Canfield
I find the Doomsday picture Al Gore is painting - a six-meter sea level rise, fifteen times the IPCC number - entirely without merit...I protest… — Hendrik Tennekes
When an issue becomes a vital part of a political agenda, as is the case with climate, then the politically desired position becomes a goal… — Richard Lindzen
No person will deny that the highest degree of attainable accuracy is an object to be desired, and it is generally found that the last… — Charles Babbage
I understood . . . that those who desired salvation should act like the trustee who, though having control over great possessions, regards not an… — Mahatma Gandhi
It is true that the mental aspect of kung-fu is the desired end; however, to achieve this end, technical skill must come first. — Bruce Lee

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