Desires Quotes

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You can never get rich, or start the creative power into action, by sending out unformed longings and vague desires. — Wallace D. Wattles
I had learned, from years of experience with men, that when a man really desires a thing so deeply that he is willing to stake… — Napoleon Hill
Man's word is his wand filled with magic and power! Man comes into the world financed by God, with all that he desires or requires already… — Florence Scovel Shinn
Be sympathetic with the other person's ideas and desires. — Dale Carnegie
If it weren't for the unconventionality of my desires, my mind might never have been forced to reckon with my body. — Alison Bechdel
Most of us live in a condition of secrecy: secret desires, secret appetites, secret hatreds and relationship with the institutions which is extremely intense and… — John le Carre
I love women whose hidden desires make horses put an end to their lives at the threshold — Mahmoud Darwish
If your desires are not great, a little will seem much to you; for small appetite makes poverty equivalent to wealth. — Democritus
Philosophy is the microscope of thought. Everything desires to flee from it, but nothing escapes it. — Victor Hugo
Let the future remain uncertain, for that is the canvas to receive our desires. — Brian Herbert
If I can create the minimum of my plans and desires there shall be no regrets. — Bessie Coleman
Our lives are complex; our emotions are complex; our intellectual desires are complex. I believe that architecture … needs to mirror that complexity in every… — Daniel Libeskind
If you want to make peace with your enemy, you have to work with your enemy. Then he becomes your partner.”[/box] [box] “There is no… — Nelson Mandela
A. T. Stewart started life with a dollar and fifty cents. This merchant prince began by calling at the doors of houses in order to… — Grenville Kleiser
To be a good father and mother requires that the parents defer many of their own needs and desires in favor of the needs of… — James E. Faust
Whereas the average individuals "often have not the slightest idea of what they are, of what they want, of what their own opinions are," self-actualizing… — Abraham Maslow
Teams make you better than you are, multiply your value, enable you to do what you do best, allow you to help others do their… — John C. Maxwell
Soil is not usually lost in slabs or heaps of magnificent tonnage. It is lost a little at a time over millions of acres by… — Wendell Berry
A technique can only work if it is in harmony with universal principles. Such principles need to be grasped through Mind, pure consciousness. Selfish desires… — Morihei Ueshiba
The greatest trouble with most of us is that our demands upon ourselves are so feeble, the call upon the great within of us so… — Orison Swett Marden
Contentment is a pearl of great price, and whoever procures it at the expense of ten thousand desires makes a wise and a happy purchase. — John Balguy
Awareness is something apart from, and different from, all that of which we are aware: thoughts, emotions, images, sensations, desires and memory. Awareness is the… — Arthur J. Deikman
Spend time cultivating your deepest desires, no matter how impractical or impossible they seem. It's perfectly OK to want the impossible. It's not OK to… — Steve Pavlina
The first thing a man must do if he desires to be used in the Lord's work, is to make an unconditional surrender of himself… — Dwight L. Moody
You can be sure that your deepest desires reveal important truths about your spiritual condition. — Tullian Tchividjian

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