desire quotes

“I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self. ”

“Bring your desires down to your present means. Increase them only when your increased means permit. ”

“All men by nature desire knowledge.”

“The beginning of reform is not so much to equalize property as to train the noble sort of natures not to desire more, and to prevent the lower from getting more.”

“Manifest plainness,
Embrace simplicity,
Reduce selfishness,
Have few desires.”

“There is no calamity greater than lavish desires.
There is no greater guilt than discontentment.
And there is no greater disaster than greed. ”

“If you start by promising what you don't even have yet, you'll lose your desire to work towards getting it.”

“When a person really desires something, all the universe conspires to help that person to realize his dream.”

“Do not impose on others what you yourself do not desire.”

“The will to win, the desire to succeed, the urge to reach your full potential... these are the keys that will unlock the door to personal excellence.”

“I desire so to conduct the affairs of this administration that if at the end... I have lost every other friend on earth, I shall at least have one friend left, and that friend shall be down inside of me. ”

“I believe everyone should have a broad picture of how the universe operates and our place in it. It is a basic human desire. And it also puts our worries in perspective.”

“Hard times arouse an instinctive desire for authenticity.”

“The great majority of men, especially in France, both desire and possess a fashionable woman, much in the way one might own a fine horse - as a luxury befitting a young man. ”

“Uncontrolled, the hunger and thirst after God may become an obstacle, cutting off the soul from what it desires. If a man would travel far along the mystic road, he must learn to desire God intensely but in stillness, passively and yet with all his heart and mind and strength.”

“We are motivated by a keen desire for praise, and the better a man is the more he is inspired by glory. The very philosophers themselves, even in those books which they write in contempt of glory, inscribe their names.”

“Yes, love indeed is light from heaven; A spark of that immortal fire with angels shared, by Allah given to lift from earth our low desire.”

“It is very certain that the desire of life prolongs it. ”

“A great many men's gratitude is nothing but a secret desire to hook in more valuable kindnesses hereafter. ”

“Politeness is a desire to be treated politely, and to be esteemed polite oneself.”

“There are various sorts of curiosity; one is from interest, which makes us desire to know that which may be useful to us; and the other, from pride which comes from the wish to know what others are ignorant of.”

“The desire to seem clever often keeps us from being so.”

“A refusal of praise is a desire to be praised twice.”

“When we disclaim praise, it is only showing our desire to be praised a second time.”

“Nothing prevents one from appearing natural as the desire to appear natural.”

“The greatest part of intimate confidences proceed from a desire either to be pitied or admired.”

“The desire of talking of ourselves, and showing those faults we do not mind having seen, makes up a good part of our sincerity.”

“Always desire to learn something useful. ”

“Almost all our desires, when examined, contain something too shameful to reveal.”

“When God desires to destroy a thing, he entrusts its destruction to the thing itself. Every bad institution of this world ends by suicide. ”