Desire Quote by Christine Zolendz

“was Aristotle who said it: “All human actions have one or more of seven causes,” and then he named them: chance, nature, compulsion, habit,…

— Carole Radziwill

All human actions have one or more of these seven causes : chance, nature, compulsion, habit, reason, passion, desire.

— Aristotle

Thus every action must be due to one or other of seven causes: chance, nature, compulsion, habit, reasoning, anger, or appetite.

— Aristotle

For Aristotle, habits reigned supreme. The behaviors that occur unthinkingly are the evidence of our truest selves.

— Charles Duhigg

“We do not act because we know, but we know because we are destined for action; practical reason is the root of all reason.”

— Johann Fichte

“Aristotle wrote in Nicomachean Ethics, “hold that it is by nature that people become good, others that it is by habit, and others that…

— Charles Duhigg

“Every action, thought and feeling is motivated by an intention, and that intention is a cause that exists as one with an effect. If…

— Oprah Winfrey

“A man cannot directly choose his circumstances, but he can choose his thoughts, and so indirectly, yet surely, shape his circumstances. Nature”

— James Allen

“The true basis and propaedeutic for all knowledge of human nature is the persuasion that a man's actions are, essentially and as a whole,…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

These various habits of thought, or habitual expressions of life, are all phases of the single life sequence of the individual; therefore a habit…

— Thorstein Veblen

“You act in certain ways because you have certain thoughts that over your lifetime have become habitual. Habitual patterns of thought and perception will…

— Martha Davis

“While intent is the seed of manifestation, action is the water that nourishes the seed. Your actions must reflect your goals in order to…

— Steve Maraboli