Desire Quote by Imam Ali Download Open image ““whoever prolongs his desire ruins his actions”” — Imam Ali ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.5 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Desire Religious
“When a man desires a thing too much, he at once becomes ill at ease. A proud and avaricious man never rests, whereas he… — Thomas à Kempis Copy Share Image
“In their beginnings, events preserve the potential that they lose in their completion. Desire prolongs itself so long as it is not achieved.” — Édouard Levé Copy Share Image
“he has no more idea of exerting himself to overcome obstacles than he has of restraining his natural appetites; and these two things are… — Anne Brontë Copy Share Image
“He who indulges habitually in the intoxicating pleasures of imagination, for the very reason that he reaps a greater pleasure than others, must resign… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
“playing upon his hopes and fears to reduce him to complete servility, certain to kill him if he broke away, and certain to kill… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“It is a human characteristic, which has been richly exploited in every era, that while hope of survival is still alive in a man,… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
“Man did not give himself the taste for the infinite and the love of what is immortal. These sublime instincts are not born of… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
“thereby gain much leisure, and save much trouble, and therefore at every action a man must privately by way of admonition suggest unto himself,… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
“The man, who, being really on the Way, falls upon hard times in the world will not, as a consequence, turn to that friend… — Karlfried Graf Durckheim Copy Share Image
“We find ourselves suspended between a compulsion to do too much and a wish to do nothing.” — Josh Cohen Copy Share Image
“Desire gives pain to the heart from which springs both hope and worry. Out of suspicion I make mistakes that grow into lasting ills.… — Laurel Corona Copy Share Image
In the measure to which a man cuts off and humbles his own will, he proceeds toward success. But insofar as he stubbornly guards… — Ephrem the Syrian Copy Share Image
“Look for the man who's beaten. Feed him from my food, irrigate him from my water. Soul is for soul. He should be given… — Imam Ali Copy Share Image
He who practices patience will never be deprived of success, even though it may take a long time to reach him. — Imam Ali Copy Share Image
“The best which entailed from parents to children, is the good behavior.” — Imam Ali Copy Share Image
“Work for a Better Life as if you live forever, And work for Better End as if you die tomorrow” — Imam Ali Copy Share Image
“Justice is better than courage as if everyone is fair to others, then there will be no need for courage.” — Imam Ali Copy Share Image
Imam Ali divided people who prey into three parts. First, thee ones who pray to god because they want somthing from him, these are… — Imam Ali Copy Share Image
I put myself in the student's place and remember the frustrations, doubts, determination, and desires I felt when I was going through the initial… — Ted Martinez Copy Share Image
I want the municipality to be a helping hand to the man with a desire of sympathy, to help the fallen when it is… — John Burns Copy Share Image
Ye youths and virgins, when your generous blood Has drunk the warmth of fifteen summers, now The loves invite; now to new rapture wakes… — John Armstrong Copy Share Image
I have observed this in my experience of slavery, - that whenever my condition was improved, instead of its increasing my contentment, it only… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
If there is any period one would desire to be born in, is it not the age of Revolution; when the old and the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
He caught her, she fell, he caught her in his arms, he held her tightly unconscious of what he was doing. He held her… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
Teaching might even be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit. My three [great teachers] did not… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
In discovering books, you became free to explore the full range of human motives, desires, secrets, and lies. All my life, people have scolded… — Betsy Lerner Copy Share Image
I have never been in, nor have I had any strong particular desire to be in, what is termed a costume drama, but I… — Martin Freeman Copy Share Image
