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A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others.
View quotes by Ayn Rand

All women's dresses are merely variations on the eternal struggle between admitted desire to dress and the unadmitted desire to undress.
View quotes by Lin Yutang

It is said that desire is a product of the will, but the converse is in fact true: will is a product of desire.
View quotes by Denis Diderot

Every intense desire is perhaps a desire to be different from what we are.
View quotes by Eric Hoffer

If thou desire to profit, read with humility, simplicity, and faithfulness; nor even desire the repute of learning
View quotes by Thomas A Kempis

'This time I'm going to be the bride. She got me these pink panties with a big bow on them.' - Expressing a desire to re-wed Angelina in the back garden
View quotes by Billy Bob Thornton

April is the cruellest month, breeding lilacs out of the dead land, mixing memory and desire, stirring dull roots with spring rain.
View quotes by T S Eliot

'Mystery creates wonder & wonder is the basis of man's desire to understand'
View quotes by Neil Armstrong

Desire is the key to motivation, but it's determination and commitment to an unrelenting pursuit of your goal - a commitment to excellence - that will enable you to attain the success you seek.
View quotes by Mario Andretti

I put for the general inclination of all mankind, a perpetual and restless desire of power after power, that ceaseth only in death. (Leviathan)
View quotes by Thomas Hobbes

I admit it is better fun to punt than be punted, and that a desire to have all the fun is nine-tenths of the law of chivalry.
View quotes by Dorothy L Sayers

'The work of the political activist inevitably involves a certain tension between the requirement that position be taken on current issues as they arise and the desire that one's contributions will somehow survive the ravages of time.'
View quotes by Angela Davis

It's so much better to desire than to have.
View quotes by Anouk Aimee

Where there is much desire to learn, there of necessity will be much arguing, much writing, many opinions; for opinions in good men is but knowledge in the making.
View quotes by John Milton

All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsion, habit, reason, passion, and desire.
View quotes by Aristotle

In men of the highest character and noblest genius there is to be found an insatiable desire for honour, command, power, and glory.
View quotes by Cicero

Few men desire liberty: The majority are satisfied with a just master.
View quotes by Sallust

In economics, hope and faith coexist with great scientific pretension and also a deep desire for respectability.
View quotes by Galbraith

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.
View quotes by John Adams

Dedicate yourself to the good you deserve and desire for yourself. Give yourself peace of mind. You deserve to be happy. You deserve delight.
View quotes by Hannah Arendt



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