"Desire to have things done quickly prevents their……" — Confucius

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• Dedicate yourself to the good you deserve and desire for yourself. Give yourself peace of mind. You deserve to be… — Hannah Arendt
• The ultimate end of human acts is eudaimonia, happiness in the sense of living well, which all men desire; all… — Hannah Arendt
• I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over… — 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… — 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… — Chinua Achebe
• Do you wish to be great? Then begin by being. Do you desire to construct a vast and lofty fabric?… — Saint Augustine
• Blessedness consists in the accomplishment of our desires, and in our having only regular desires. — Saint Augustine

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