Desires Quotes

1790 Desires quotes by 1069 unique authors

When ambitious desires arise in thy heart, recall the days of extremity thou have passed through. Forbearance is the root of all quietness and assurance… — Ieyasu Tokugawa
The ability to imagine oneself in another's place and understand the other's feelings, desires, ideas, and actions. The most obvious example, perhaps, is that of… — Sam Vaknin
You little know what you have done, when you have first broke the bounds of modesty; you have set open the door of your fancy… — Richard Baxter
Most software has a tiny essence that justifies its existence, everything after that is wants and desires mistaken for needs and necessities. — David Heinemeier Hansson
Man is not, like the animals, an obsequious puppet of instincts and sensual impulses. Man has the power to suppress instinctive desires, he has a… — Ludwig von Mises
So far as Feminism seeks to adjust the legal position of woman to that of man, so far as it seeks to offer her legal… — Ludwig von Mises
God, we are told, is willing to render himself inconsistent and ridiculous, to confound the curiosity of those whom, we are at the same time… — Baron d'Holbach
Free your mind from all that troubles you; God will take care of things. You will be unable to make haste in this (choice) without,… — St. Vincent
The question of whether world peace will ever be possible can only be answered by someone familiar with world history. To be familiar with world… — Oswald Spengler
The bad man desires arbitrary power. What moves the evil man is the love of injustice. — John Rawls
Every trial a man goes through, if he is faithful in that trial and does honor to God and his religion he has espoused, at… — Lorenzo Snow
As long as mankind shall continue to bestow more liberal applause on their destroyers than on their benefactors, the thirst of military glory will ever… — Edward Gibbon
Governor Christie's decision today violates the individual drive of men and women who no longer want to be tormented by unwanted homosexual desires. They are… — Maggie Gallagher
Desire is the putting of my will into God’s concern. It’s not a passive, sitting back in your easy chair, folding your arms sort of… — Jim Elliot
God knows instantly and effortlessly all matter and all matters, all mind and every mind, all spirit and all spirits, all being and every being,… — Aiden Wilson Tozer
A warlike nation like the Germans, without either cities, letters, arts, or money, found some compensation for this savage state in the enjoyment of liberty.… — Edward Gibbon
It's easy for us to feel separate from other people and from other forms of life, especially if we don't have a reliable connection to… — Sharon Salzberg
God’s wealth circulates in my life, it flows to me in avalanches of abundance. All my needs, desires and goals are met instantaneously, for I… — Tony Robbins
Success in life could be defined as the continued expansion of happiness and the progressive realization of worthy goals. Success is the ability to fulfill… — Deepak Chopra
We must remember that much spiritual growth does not occur suddenly but rather through time and experience. The encouraging message of the gospel is that… — Brent L. Top
Curiosity, like all other desires, produces pain as well as pleasure. — Samuel Johnson
But the distant hope of being one day useful or eminent ought not to mislead us too far from that study which is equally requisite… — Samuel Johnson
When the panting and thirsting soul first drinks the delicious waters of truth, when the moral and intellectual tastes and desires first seize the fragrant… — Horace Mann
To know one's own desires, their meaning and their costs requires the highest human virtue: rationality. — Ayn Rand
For original ideas to come about, you have to let them percolate under the level of consciousness in a place where we have no way… — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

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