desire quotes

• Dancing: The vertical expression of a horizontal desire legalized by music. (George Bernard Shaw) [dancing/desire/music]
• Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire, you will what you imagine and at last you create what you will. (George Bernard Shaw) [imagination/creation/desire/willpower]
• Those who desire to give up freedom in order to gain security, will not have, nor do they deserve, either one. (Benjamin Franklin) [desire/give/order/security]
• The Desire of Man being Infinite, the possession is Infinite, and himself Infinite. (William Blake) [desire/being]
• Where there is no desire, there will be no industry. (John Locke) [desire/willpower]
• The desire to win is born in most of us. The will to win is a matter of training. The manner of winning is a matter of honour. (Margaret Thatcher) [desire/willpower/matter/training]
• Women desire six things: They want their husbands to be brave, wise, rich, generous, obedient to wife, and lively in bed. (Geoffrey Chaucer) [women/desire/wife]
• The way to gain a good reputation is to endeavor to be what you desire to appear. ( Socrates) [reputation/desire]
• 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) [desire]
• Certain is it that there is no kind of affection so purely angelic as of a father to a daughter. In love to our wives there is desire; to our sons, ambition; but to our daughters there is something which there are no words to express. (Joseph Addison) [love/desire/words]
• 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) [property/desire/more/more]
• All men by nature desire to know. ( Aristotle) [men/nature/desire]
• The desire of excessive power caused the angels to fall; the desire of knowledge caused men to fall. (Francis Bacon) [desire/power/desire/knowledge]
• It is a miserable state of mind to have few things to desire and many things to fear. (Francis Bacon) [state/mind/desire/fear]
• The true way to gain much, is never to desire to gain too much. (Francis Beaumont) [desire]
• Nothing retains less of desire in art, in science, than this will to industry, booty, possession. (Andre Breton) [desire/art/science/willpower]
• 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. (Claude M. Bristol) [desire/thoughts]
• The person with a fixed goal, a clear picture of his desire, or an ideal always before him, causes it, through repetition, to be buried deeply in his subconscious mind and is thus enabled, thanks to its generative and sustaining power, to realize his goal in a minimum of time and with a minimum of physical effort. Just pursue the thought unceasingly. Step by step you will achieve realization, for all your faculties and powers become directed to that end. (Claude M. Bristol) [desire/repetition/mind/power]
• All progress is based upon a universal innate desire on the part of every organism to live beyond its income. (Samuel Butler) [civilization & progress/desire/organism]
• The secret of making something work in your lives is, first of all, the deep desire to make it work: then the faith and belief that it can work: then to hold that clear definite vision in your consciousness and see it working out step by step, without one thought of doubt or disbelief. (Eileen Caddy) [desire/faith/consciousness]
• The desire for possession is insatiable, to such a point that it can survive even love itself. To love, therefore, is to sterilize the person one loves. (Albert Camus) [desire/point/love/love]
• Man wants to live, but it is useless to hope that this desire will dictate all his actions. (Albert Camus) [desire/willpower]
• If only nature is real and if, in nature, only desire and destruction are legitimate, then, in that all humanity does not suffice to assuage the thirst for blood, the path of destruction must lead to universal annihilation. (Albert Camus) [nature/nature/desire/destruction]
• For the superior morality, of which we hear so much, we too would desire to be thankful: at the same time, it were but blindness to deny that this superior morality is properly rather an inferior criminality, produced not by greater love of Virtue, but by greater perfection of Police; and of that far subtler and stronger Police, called Public Opinion. (Thomas Carlyle) [/desire/time/]
• The courage we desire and prize is not the courage to die decently, but to live manfully. (Thomas Carlyle) [courage/desire/courage]
• Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of a readiness to die. (Gilbert K. Chesterton) [courage/desire/form]
• The vulgar man is always the most distinguished, for the very desire to be distinguished is vulgar. (Gilbert K. Chesterton) [desire]
• Let reason govern desire. (Marcus Cicero) [desire]
• We are motivated by a keen desire for praise, and the better a man is the more he is inspired by glory. The very philosophers themselves, even in those books which they write in contempt of glory, inscribe their names. (Marcus Cicero) [desire/more/books/contempt]
• Another great evil arising from this desire to be thought rich; or rather, from the desire not to be thought poor, is the destructive thing which has been honored by the name of speculation; but which ought to be called Gambling. (William Cobbett) [evil/desire/desire/thing]
• Do not be desirous of having things done quickly. Do not look at small advantages. Desire to have things done quickly prevents their being done thoroughly. Looking at small advantages prevents great affairs from being accomplished. ( Confucius) [look/desire/being/being]

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