Desire Quotes

A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others.
Ayn Rand

Others, Creative, Achieve

In order to succeed, your desire for success should be greater than your fear of failure.
Bill Cosby

Success, Fear, Failure

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.
Confucius

Win, Succeed, Personal

I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve the world and a desire to enjoy the world. This makes it hard to plan the day.
E. B. White

Morning, Hard, Enjoy

When you are discontent, you always want more, more, more. Your desire can never be satisfied. But when you practice contentment, you can say to yourself, 'Oh yes - I already have everything that I really need.'
Dalai Lama

Yourself, Everything, Practice

The size of your success is measured by the strength of your desire; the size of your dream; and how you handle disappointment along the way.
Robert Kiyosaki

Success, Strength, Dream

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.
Abraham Lincoln

End, Friend, Lost

Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.
Robert Frost

Always desire to learn something useful.
Sophocles

All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.
Aristotle

Nature, Human, Passion

Do not impose on others what you yourself do not desire.
Confucius

Yourself, Others, Impose

My desire to devolve authority has nothing to do with a wish to shirk responsibility.
Dalai Lama

Nothing, Wish, Authority

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Everyone has been made for some particular work, and the desire for that work has been put in every heart.
Rumi

Work, Heart, Made

It is for us to pray not for tasks equal to our powers, but for powers equal to our tasks, to go forward with a great desire forever beating at the door of our hearts as we travel toward our distant goal.
Helen Keller

Great, Travel, Forward

If we desire to avoid insult, we must be able to repel it; if we desire to secure peace, one of the most powerful instruments of our rising prosperity, it must be known, that we are at all times ready for War.
George Washington

Peace, War, Powerful

Desire of having is the sin of covetousness.
William Shakespeare

Is it not strange that desire should so many years outlive performance?
William Shakespeare

Strange, Outlive

Desire is the starting point of all achievement, not a hope, not a wish, but a keen pulsating desire which transcends everything.
Napoleon Hill

Hope, Everything, Wish

All that spirits desire, spirits attain.
Khalil Gibran

Spirits, Attain

Desire is the key to motivation, but it's determination and commitment to an unrelenting pursuit of your goal - a commitment to excellence - that will enable you to attain the success you seek.
Mario Andretti

Success, Goal, Motivation

Political tags - such as royalist, communist, democrat, populist, fascist, liberal, conservative, and so forth - are never basic criteria. The human race divides politically into those who want people to be controlled and those who have no such desire.
Robert A. Heinlein

Political, Human, Liberal

All men by nature desire knowledge.
Aristotle

Nature, Men, Knowledge

If you desire many things, many things will seem few.
Benjamin Franklin

It is much easier to suppress a first desire than to satisfy those that follow.
Benjamin Franklin

Follow, Satisfy, Suppress

The desire of gold is not for gold. It is for the means of freedom and benefit.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Freedom, Means, Gold

It is my desire, in the office of a Christian minister, to do nothing which I cannot do with my whole heart. Having said this, I have said all.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Heart, Nothing, Christian

A life is either all spiritual or not spiritual at all. No man can serve two masters. Your life is shaped by the end you live for. You are made in the image of what you desire.
Thomas Merton

Life, Live, Spiritual

I hope the millions of people I've touched have the optimism and desire to share their goals and hard work and persevere with a positive attitude.
Michael Jordan

Work, Hope, Positive

We have an obligation and a responsibility to be investing in our students and our schools. We must make sure that people who have the grades, the desire and the will, but not the money, can still get the best education possible.
Barack Obama

Education, Money, Best

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.
Aristotle

Getting, Beginning, Noble

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