In Men Of The Highest Character And Noblest Genius There Is To Be Found An Insatiable Desire For Honour, Command, Power, And Glory.
- Cicero
Let Your Desires Be Ruled By Reason. (Appetitus Rationi Pareat)
Some Prices Are Just Too High, No Matter How Much You May Want The Prize. The One Thing You Can’t Trade For Your Heart’s Desire Is Your Heart.
- Lois McMaster Bujold
Desires Are Only The Lack Of Something: And Those Who Have The Greatest Desires Are In A Worse Condition Than Those Who Have None, Or Very Slight Ones.
- Plato
It Is The Nature Of Desire Not To Be Satisfied, And Most Men Live Only For The Gratification Of It.
- Aristotle
Man Is The Only Animal Whose Desires Increase As They Are Fed; The Only Animal That Is Never Satisfied.
- Henry George
If We Desire To Avoid Insult, We Must Be Able To Repel It; If We Desire To Secure Peace, One Of The Most Powerful Instruments Of Our Rising Prosperity, It Must Be Known, That We Are At All Times Ready For War.
- George Washington
Again, Men In General Desire The Good, And Not Merely What Their Fathers Had.
Manifest Plainness,Embrace Simplicity,Reduce Selfishness,Have Few Desires.
- Lao-tzu
I Count Him Braver Who Overcomes His Desires Than Him Who Overcomes His Enemies.
While We Don’t Have Much Say Over The Desires That We Have, We Certainly Can Decide Which We Prefer-And Then Search For Ways To Act On That Basis.
- Daniel Akst
He Who Desires Is Always Poor.
- Claudianus
Dwell Not Upon Thy Weariness, Thy Strength Shall Be According To The Measure Of Thy Desire.
- Arab Proverb
There Is No Calamity Greater Than Lavish Desires.There Is No Greater Guilt Than Discontentment.And There Is No Greater Disaster Than Greed.
Man Is An Animal Which, Alone Among The Animals, Refuses To Be Satisfied By The Fulfilment Of Animal Desires.
- Alexander Graham Bell
One Must Not Lose Desires. They Are Mighty Stimulants To Creativeness, To Love, And To Long Life.
- Alexander A. Bogomoletz
Desire Creates The Power.
- Raymond Holliwell
A Human Being Has A Natural Desire To Have More Of A Good Thing Than He Needs.
- Mark Twain
If You Greatly Desire Something, Have The Guts To Stake Everything On Obtaining It.
- Brendan Francis
When You Relinquish The Desire To Control Your Future, You Can Have More Happiness.
- Nicole Kidman
The Wise Man Will Love; All Others Will Desire.
- Afranius
Every Man Has Business And Desire, Such As It Is.
- William Shakespeare
There Are Two Tragedies In Life. One Is Not To Get Your Heart’s Desire. The Other Is To Get It.
- George Bernard Shaw
We Desire Nothing So Much As What We Ought Not To Have.
- Publilius Syrus
Those Who Restrain Desire, Do So Because Theirs Is Weak Enough To Be Restrained.
- William Blake
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