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Quotes about desire
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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. (Cleese John)
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. (Cleese John)
To desire is to obtain; to aspire is to achieve. (Cleese John)
The desire is thy prayers; and if thy desire is without ceasing, thy prayer will also be without ceasing. The continuance of your longing is the continuance of your prayer. (Cleese John)
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Man is a creation of desire, not a creation of need. (Cleese John)
Listen to what you know instead of what you fear. (Cleese John)
The desire of excessive power caused the angels to fall; the desire of knowledge caused men to fall. (Cleese John)
Be careful what you set your heart upon -- for it will surely be yours. (Cleese John)
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. (Cleese John)
Dreams do come true, if we only wish hard enough, You can have anything in life if you will sacrifice everything else for it. (Cleese John)
Want is one only of five giants on the road of reconstruction; the others are Disease, Ignorance, Squalor, and Idleness. (Cleese John)
He who desires but does not act, breeds pestilence. (Cleese John)
A man must earnestly want. (Cleese John)
We trifle when we assign limits to our desires, since nature hath set none. (Cleese John)
One essential to success is that your desire be an all-obsessing one, your thoughts and aim be coordinated, and your energy be concentrated and applied without letup. (Cleese John)
O lyric Love, half angel and half bird. And all a wonder and a wild desire. (Cleese John)
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. (Cleese John)
You gotta be hungry! (Cleese John)
Desire, like the atom, is explosive with creative force. (Cleese John)
Desire is the thing you want in incipiency. (Cleese John)
Almost every desire a poor man has is a punishable offence. (Cleese John)
If you really want something you can figure out how to make it happen. (Cleese John)
All through nature, you will find the same law. First the need, then the means. (Cleese John)
Something must be done when you find an opposing set of desires of this kind well to the fore in your category of strong desires. You must set in operation a process of competition, from which one must emerge a victor and the other set be defeated. (Cleese John)
Very few persons, comparatively, know how to Desire with sufficient intensity. They do not know what it is to feel and manifest that intense, eager, longing, craving, insistent, demanding, ravenous Desire which is akin to the persistent, insistent, ardent, overwhelming desire of the drowning man for a breath of air; of the shipwrecked or desert-lost man for a drink of water; of the famished man for bread and meat (Cleese John)
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