Desires Quotes

We take the elevator to the third floor, to the office of Dr. Harrison Chance. His name alone has put me off. Why not Dr. Victor?

Jodi Picoult

You need to be right, you need to make money, you need to be successful. It's the neediness that's the problem. Instead, become that which attracts those things.

David R. Hawkins

What we all want, really, is to be loved. That craving drives our worst behavior.

Jodi Picoult

I respect the man who knows distinctly what he wishes. The greater part of all mischief in the world arises from the fact that men do not sufficiently understand their own aims. They have undertaken to build a tower, and spend no more labour on the foundation than would be necessary to erect a hut.

Johann von Goethe

Understand clearly that when a great need appears a great use appears also; when there is small need there is small use; it is obvious, then, that full use is made of all things at all times according to the necessity thereof.

Dogen Zenji

I desire not to desire, for my will is without value, since I am ignorant in any case. Therefore choose Thou for me what thou knowest to be best and do not put my perdition in what my autonomy and free choice prefer.

Bayazid AlBistami

Listen to what you know instead of what you fear.

Richard Bach

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

There are no better masters than poverty and wants.

Danish proverb

Make sure you want it enough.

Frank Kingdon

Anything you really want, you can attain, if you really go after it.

Wayne Dyer

O lyric Love, half angel and half bird. And all a wonder and a wild desire.

Robert Browning

A burning desire is the greatest motivator of every human action. The desire for success implants success consciousness which, in turn, creates a vigorous and ever-increasing habit of success.

Paul J. Meyer

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

Can anything be so elegant as to have few wants, and to serve them one's self?

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Benjamin Franklin

While spirituality provides an efficient and endless fuel for your mind and body, you must burn that fuel with human action towards your goals, dreams, and desires.

Steve Maraboli

One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar.

Helen Keller

Try to eliminate the word SHOULD from your vocabulary. And try doing so without replacing it with OUGHT or YOU BETTER.

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Getting anything changes it from being desirable to just being taken for granted.

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