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While man's desires and aspirations stir he cannot choose but err.
Johann von Goethe
Man is a creation of desire, not a creation of need.
Gaston Bachelard
If wishes were horses, beggars would ride.NOTE: this is a proverb that is traced back to Proverbs in Scot by J. Carmichael (1628)
James Halliwell, Nursery Rhymes
The desire of our soul is to thy name, and to the remembrance of thee. Isaiah 26:8
Bible
The desire of the lazy kill him; for his hands refuse to labor. Proverbs 21:25
Every human mind is a great slumbering power until awakened by a keen desire and by definite resolution to do.
Edgar F. Roberts
Desire and force between them are responsible for all our actions; desire causes our voluntary acts, force our involuntary.
Blaise Pascal
More than we use is more than we want.
Scottish Proverb
The more clear you are on what you want, the more power you will have.
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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.
The distance between success and failure can only be measured by one's desire.
Desire for security keeps littleness little and threatens the great with smallness.
We accomplish things by directing our desires, not by ignoring them.
The man who really wants to do something finds a way, the other finds an excuse.
If you don't get everything you want, think of the things you don't get that you don't want.
Convince a man of what he wants, and he'll move heaven and earth to get it.
A woman never knows what she really wants until she fins out what her husband cannot afford.
Winning isn't everything, but wanting to win is.
Vince Lombardi
The discipline of desire is the background of character.
John Locke
If I find in myself a desire which no experience in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world.
C.S. Lewis
