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When once you have tasted flight, you will forever walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward, for there you have been and there you will always long to return.
Leonardo DaVinci
Want is one only of five giants on the road of reconstruction; the others are Disease, Ignorance, Squalor, and Idleness.
Baron William Henry Beveridge
But I say to you, that every one who looks on a woman to lust for her has committed adultery with her already in his heart. Matthew 5:28
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You gotta be hungry!
Les Brown
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.
This is the monstrosity in love, lady, that the will is infinite and the execution confined; that the desire is boundless, and the act a slave to limit.
William Shakespeare
This gift is from God and not of man's deserving. But certainly no one ever receives such a great grace without tremendous labor and burning desire.
Richard of Saint Victor
Lord, grant that I may always desire more than I can accomplish.
Michelangelo Buonarroti
We trifle when we assign limits to our desires, since nature hath set none.
Christian Nevell Bovee
Those who really desire to attain an independence, have only set their minds upon it, and adopt the proper means, as they do in regard to any other object which they wish to accomplish, and the thing is easily done.
P. T. (Phineas Taylor) Barnum
Dreams do come true, if we only wish hard enough, You can have anything in life if you will sacrifice everything else for it.
James Barrie
Almost every desire a poor man has is a punishable offence.
LouisFerdinand Celine
To educate the intelligence is to expand the horizon of its wants and desires.
James Russell Lowell
No one every suddenly became depraved.
Juvenal
The desire of the man is for the woman, but the desire of the woman is for the desire of the man.
Germaine De Stael
Desire is a powerful force that can be used to make things happen.
Marcia Wieder
Desire creates the power.
Raymond Holliwell
All human activity is prompted by desire.
Bertrand Russell
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
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.
