Constant Quote by Jiddu Krishnamurti

The constant desire of pleasing which is the peculiar quality of some, may be called the happiest of all desires in this that it…

— Henry Fielding

Motivation is something nobody else can give you. Others can help motivate you, but basically it must come from you and it must be…

— Joe DiMaggio

“I wanted freedom in the same way I wanted my next breath: an unspoken but constant desire.”

— Jodi Meadows

I read Aschenbach's constant desire to go beyond the works he has already produced to be the counterpart of Mann's deep wish to surpass…

— Philip Kitcher

Sometimes the very presence of God is barred by our presuppositions and our intense and constant desire for triumph.

— Ravi Zacharias

Meditation is not a matter of trying to achieve ecstasy, spiritual bliss, or tranquillity, nor is it attempting to become a better person. It…

— Pema Chodron

The English language has 112 words for deception, according to one count, each with a different shade of meaning: collusion, fakery, malingering, self-deception, confabulation,…

— Robin Marantz Henig

People always have been the foolish victims of deception and self-deception in politics, and they always will be, until they have learned to seek…

— Vladimir Lenin

I think that there is an ongoing conspiracy in the philosophical community, an organized form of self-deception, as in a cult, to simply all…

— Thomas Metzinger

I worry about anthropomorphism as a form of self-deception. (The Christian religion is an anthropomorphic account of the universe.)

— Anonymous

What destroys us most effectively is not a malign fate but our own capacity for self-deception and for degrading our own best self.

— George Eliot

The visionary lies to himself, the liar only to others.

— Friedrich Nietzsche