Desire Quote by Francois de La Rochefoucauld

There are few things we should keenly desire if we really knew what we wanted.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Sometime what we wish for is not what we really need...

— Jesse Joseph

If things do not turn out as we wish, we should wish for them as they turn out.

— Aristotle

We should desire very few things passionately if we did but perfectly know the nature of the things we desire.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

There is no wish more natural than the wish to know.

— Michel de Montaigne

If I were to wish for anything, I should not wish for wealth and power, but for the passionate sense of potential -- for…

— Soren Kierkegaard

What we desire for ourselves, we wish for all

— J. S. Woodsworth

We should scarcely desire things ardently if we were perfectly acquainted with what we desire.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Desire is the starting point of all achievement, not a hope, not a wish, but a keen pulsating desire which transcends everything.

— Napoleon Hill

But nothing is more insidious than the evolution of wishes from mere fancies, and of wants from mere wishes.

— Thomas Hardy

If wishes would prevail with me, my purpose should not fail with me.

— William Shakespeare

What we want or desire is not necessarily we need.

— Anonymous