Desire Quote by Pierre Corneille Download Open image “They who overcome their desires once can overcome them always.” — Pierre Corneille ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.6 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Desire
Desires are like wild horses it requires intelligence and character to conquer them. — Tasneem Hameed Copy Share Image
“They strive to attain their wishes by every available means, instructing and compelling themselves to dishonest and difficult acts. And when their labour is… — Seneca Copy Share Image
“The one who has become worthy of people’s reverence has no desires. The one who is unworthy of reverence has desires.” — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
And desires are never here and now - they are non-existential. They are just mental, in the mind. And they cannot be fulfilled because… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There are two types of people with desire. the first one is a path which leads to greed and suffering. The second is a… — Melchor Lim Copy Share Image
“People who are achievers were once dreamers; but not all dreamers eventually become achievers. Before a person gets to become who he/she was meant… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
It is a happy circumstance that when nature gives us true burning desires, she also gives us the means to satisfy them. Those who… — Ed Seykota Copy Share Image
Satisfied if they themselves can escape from the hard labour of thought, they willingly abandon to others the guardianship of their thoughts. — Friedrich Schiller Copy Share Image
Desires must be simple and definite. They defeat their own purpose should they be too many, too confusing, or beyond a man's training to… — George S. Clason Copy Share Image
Success in life comes to those who simply refuse to give up; individuals with vision so strong that obstacles, failure and loss only act… — Silken Laumann Copy Share Image
The passionate ones, the ones who go after what they want, may not get what they want, but they remain vital, in touch with… — Charlie Kaufman Copy Share Image
The person capable of distinguishing between his desires and needs and realizes what should be preferred in the ever changing situations of life, never… — Senora Roy Copy Share Image
Such is the caprice of Romans... who reject kings in name but not in practice, and accept an Emperor mightier than a hundred kings. — Pierre Corneille Copy Share Image
To take revenge halfheartedly is to court disaster; either condemn or crown your hatred. — Pierre Corneille Copy Share Image
By speaking of our misfortunes we often relieve them. [Fr., A raconter ses maux souvent on les soulage.] — Pierre Corneille Copy Share Image
I don't know how to defend myself: surprised innocence cannot imagine being under suspicion. — Pierre Corneille 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
