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A desire to be observed, considered, esteemed, praised, beloved, and admired by his fellows is one of the earliest as well as the keenest dispositions discovered in the heart of man.
John Adams
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A strong passion for any object will ensure success, for the desire of the end will point out the means.
William Hazlitt
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A woman never knows what she really wants until she fins out what her husband cannot afford.
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All human activity is prompted by desire.
Bertrand Russell
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All through nature, you will find the same law. First the need, then the means.
Robert Collier
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Almost every desire a poor man has is a punishable offence.
Louis-Ferdinand Céline
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An intense anticipation itself transforms possibility into reality; our desires being often but precursors of the things which we are capable of performing.
Samuel Smiles
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And desire shall fail: because man goeth to his long home, and the mourners go about the streets. -- Ecclesiastes 12:5
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Anything you really want, you can attain, if you really go after it.
Wayne Dyer
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Be careful what you set your heart upon -- for it will surely be yours.
James Baldwin
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Can anything be so elegant as to have few wants, and to serve them one's self?
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Convince a man of what he wants, and he'll move heaven and earth to get it.
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Desire and force between them are responsible for all our actions; desire causes our voluntary acts, force our involuntary.
Blaise Pascal
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Desire for security keeps littleness little and threatens the great with smallness.
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Desire is proof of the availability...
Robert Collier
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Desire is the essence of a man.
Baruch Spinoza
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Desire is the starting point of all achievement, not a hope, not a wish, but a keen pulsating desire which transcends everything.
Napoleon Hill
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Desire will in due time externalize itself as concrete fact.
Thomas Troward
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Dreams do come true, if we only wish hard enough, You can have anything in life if you will sacrifice everything else for it.
J. M. Barrie
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Events are influenced by our very great desires.
William James
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Every man's road in life is marked by the grave of his personal likings.
Alexander Smith
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First deserve then desire.
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First the stalk -- then the roots. First the need -- then the means to satisfy that need. First the nucleus -- then the elements needed for its growth.
Robert Collier
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He who desires but does not act, breeds pestilence.
William Blake
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I can teach anybody how to get what they want out of life. The problem is that I can't find anybody who can tell me what they want.
Mark Twain
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I do want to get rich but I never want to do what there is to do to get rich.
Gertrude Stein
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I never desired to please the rabble. What pleased them, I did not learn; and what I knew was far removed from their understanding.
Epicurus
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If a man constantly aspires is he not elevated?
Henry David Thoreau
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If men could regard the events of their own lives with more open minds, they would frequently discover that they did not really desire the things they failed to obtain.
André Maurois
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If you care enough for a result, you will most certainly attain it.
William James
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If you desire many things, many things will seem few.
Benjamin Franklin
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If you do not develop the hunger and courage to pursue your goal, you will lose your nerve and you will give up on your dream.
Les Brown
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If you don't get everything you want, think of the things you don't get that you don't want.
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Ignore what a man desires and you ignore the very source of his power
Walter Lippmann
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In all ranks of life the human heart yearns for the beautiful; and the beautiful things that God makes are his gift to all alike.
Harriet Beecher Stowe
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It belongs to the imperfection of everything human that man can only attain his desire by passing through its opposite.
Søren Kierkegaard
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It is much easier to suppress a first desire than to satisfy those that follow.
Benjamin Franklin
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It is not from nature, but from education and habits, that our wants are chiefly derived.
Henry Fielding
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It is not the greatness of a man's means that makes him independent, so much as the smallness of his wants.
William Cobbett
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It is said that desire is a product of the will, but the converse is in fact true: will is a product of desire.
Denis Diderot
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It sometimes seems that we have only to love a thing greatly to get it.
Robert Collier
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Life contains but two tragedies. One is not to get your heart's desire; the other is to get it.
Socrates
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Life is a progress from want to want, not from enjoyment to enjoyment.
Samuel Johnson
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Limited in his nature, infinite in his desire, man is a fallen god who remembers heaven.
Alphonse de Lamartine
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Listen to what you know instead of what you fear.
Richard Bach
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Lord, grant that I may always desire more than I can accomplish.
Michelangelo
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Man is a creation of desire, not a creation of need.
Gaston Bachelard
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Manifest plainness, embrace simplicity, reduce selfishness, have few desires.
Laozi
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More than we use is more than we want.
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No person can arise above his real desire. Desires are of value only when they drive us to action. Will and work must accompany desire. Then high resolve is born. Desire is the design that will spurs us into achievement.
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Nothing stops the man who desires to achieve. Every obstacle is simply a course to develop his achievement muscle. It's a strengthening of his powers of accomplishment.
Eric Butterworth
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O lyric Love, half angel and half bird. And all a wonder and a wild desire.
Robert Browning
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One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar.
Helen Keller
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One essential to success is that your desire be an all-obsessing one, your thoughts and aim be coordinated, and your energy be concentrated and applied without letup.
Claude M. Bristol
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Our necessities are few, but our wants are endless.
George Bernard Shaw
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Out of need springs desire, and out of desire springs the energy and the will to win.
Denis Waitley
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People seek within a short span of life to satisfy a thousand desires, each of which is insatiable.
Oliver Goldsmith
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Plant the seed of desire in your mind and it forms a nucleus with power to attract to itself everything needed for its fulfillment.
Robert Collier
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Some desire is necessary to keep life in motion, and he whose real wants are supplied must admit those of fancy.
Samuel Johnson
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Some people wanted champagne and caviar when they should have had beer and hot dogs.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
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Something must be done when you find an opposing set of desires of this kind well to the fore in your category of strong desires. You must set in operation a process of competition, from which one must emerge a victor and the other set be defeated.
Robert Collier
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Supply always comes on the heels of demand.
Robert Collier
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Tell me what you like and I'll tell you what you are.
John Ruskin
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The battle is all over except the shouting when one knows what is wanted and has made up his mind to get it, whatever the price may be.
Napoleon Hill
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The desire accomplished is sweet to the soul. -- Proverbs 13:19
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The desire for success lubricates secret prostitution's in the soul.
Norman Mailer
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The desire is thy prayers; and if thy desire is without ceasing, thy prayer will also be without ceasing. The continuance of your longing is the continuance of your prayer.
Augustine of Hippo
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The desire of excessive power caused the angels to fall; the desire of knowledge caused men to fall.
Francis Bacon
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The desire of our soul is to they name, and to the remembrance of thee. -- Isaiah 26:8
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The desire of the lazy kill him; for his hands refuse to labor. -- Proverbs 21:25
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The desire of the man is for the woman, but the desire of the woman is for the desire of the man.
Anne Louise Germaine de Staël
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The discipline of desire is the background of character.
John Locke
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The distance between success and failure can only be measured by one's desire.
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The fewer our wants the more we resemble the Gods.
Socrates
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The first principle of success is desire -- knowing what you want. Desire is the planting of your seed.
Robert Collier
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The key that unlocks energy is Desire. It's also the key to a long and interesting life. If we expect to create any drive, any real force within ourselves, we have to get excited.
Earl Nightingale
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The man never feels the want of what it never occurs to him to ask for.
Arthur Schopenhauer
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The man who really wants to do something finds a way, the other finds an excuse.
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The more clear you are on what you want, the more power you will have.
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The significance of a man is not in what he attains, but rather what he longs to attain.
Khalil Gibran
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The starting point of all achievement is desire. Keep this constantly in mind. Weak desires bring weak results, just as a small amount of fire makes a small amount of heat.
Napoleon Hill
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There are confessable agonies, sufferings of which one can positively be proud. Of bereavement, of parting, of the sense of sin and the fear of death the poets have eloquently spoken. They command the world's sympathy. But there are also discreditable anguishes, no less excruciating than the others, but of which the sufferer dare not, cannot speak. The anguish of thwarted desire, for example.
Aldous Huxley
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There are ways which lead to everything, and if we have sufficient will we should always have sufficient means.
François de La Rochefoucauld
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There is nothing capricious in nature and the implanting of a desire indicates that its gratification is in the constitution of the creature that feel it.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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There's nothing like desire to prevent the things one says from having any resemblance to the things in one's mind.
Marcel Proust
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Through some strange and powerful principle of mental chemistry which she has never divulged, nature wraps up in the impulse of strong desire, that something which recognizes no such word as impossible, and accepts no such reality as failure.
Napoleon Hill
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To desire is to obtain; to aspire is to achieve.
James Allen
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To educate the intelligence is to expand the horizon of its wants and desires.
James Russell Lowell
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To know what you prefer instead of humbly saying Amen to what the world tells you ought to prefer is to have kept your soul alive.
Robert Louis Stevenson
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Unbridled gratification produces unbridled desire.
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Very few persons, comparatively, know how to Desire with sufficient intensity. They do not know what it is to feel and manifest that intense, eager, longing, craving, insistent, demanding, ravenous Desire which is akin to the persistent, insistent, ardent, overwhelming desire of the drowning man for a breath of air; of the shipwrecked or desert-lost man for a drink of water; of the famished man for bread and meat
Robert Collier
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We accomplish things by directing our desires, not by ignoring them.
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We are ever striving after what is forbidden, and coveting what is denied us.
Ovid
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We do not succeed in changing things according to our desire, but gradually our desire changes.
Marcel Proust
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We never desire strongly, what we desire rationally.
François de La Rochefoucauld
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We trifle when we assign limits to our desires, since nature hath set none.
Christian Nevell Bovee
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When desire dies, fear is born.
Baltasar Gracián y Morales
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When you know what you want, and want it bad enough, you will find a way to get it.
Jim Rohn
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When your desires are strong enough you will appear to possess superhuman powers to achieve.
Napoleon Hill
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Whenever we confront an unbridled desire we are surely in the presence of a tragedy-in-the-making.
Quentin Crisp
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