Desire Quote by W. Somerset Maugham

What I'm trying to tell you is that there are men who are possessed by an urge so strong to do some particular thing…

— W. Somerset Maugham

A man's not doing much until the cause he works for possesses all there is of him. Desire, when harnessed, is power.

— John Wanamaker

It comes as second nature to men to sacrifice themselves, and their women to let them do it.

— Lucy, Lady Duff-Gordon

What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the…

— Bruce Barton

it so often happens that, when men are convinced that they have to die, a desire to bear themselves well and to leave life's…

— Winston Churchill

I cannot describe to you the despairing sensation of trying to do something for a man who seems incapable or unwilling to do anything…

— Lord Byron

Men take on the nature and the habits and the power of thought of those with whom they associate in a spirit of sympathy…

— Napoleon Hill

The flesh is willing to flatter itself, and many who now give themselves every indulgence, promise to themselves an easy entrance into life. THus…

— John Calvin

Men submit from habit to everything that seeks power.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

For some men, the stronger their desire, the more difficult it is for them to act.

— Gustave Flaubert

If men as individuals surrender to the call of their elementary instincts, avoiding pain and seeking satisfaction only for their own selves, the result…

— Albert Einstein

Men are victims of their own impulses.

— Gloria Steinem