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Stanley Kunitz

What makes the engine go Desire, desire, desire.

SCOTT: _Lay of the Last Minstrel,_ Canto v., St. 13.

It liveth not in fierce desire, With dead desire it doth not die.

Ayn Rand

A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others.

E. B. White

I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve the world and a desire to enjoy the world. This makes it hard to plan the day.

Bhagavad Gita

When a man dwells on the objects of sense, he creates an attraction for them attraction develops into desire, and desire breeds anger.

Andrew Carnegie

In bestowing charity, the main consideration: should be to help those who will help themselves; to provide part of the means by which those who desire to improve may do so; to give those who desire to rise the aids by which they may rise; to assist, but r

Napolean Hill

The starting point of all achievement is desire. Keep this constantly in mind. Weak desire brings weak results, Just as a small amount of fire makes a small amount of heat.

Maitri Upanishads

You are what your deep driving desire is As your deep driving desire is, so is your will As your will is so is your deed As your deed is so is your destiny.

English Proverb

First deserve, and then desire.

Leo Tolstoy

Boredom: the desire for desires.

Afranius

The wise man will love all others will desire.

La Rochefoucauld

Nothing so much prevents our being natural as the desire to seem so.

William Shakespeare

Every man has business and desire, Such as it is.

J. G. Gallimore

Image creates desire. You will what you imagine.

Edward Dahlberg

What men desire is a virgin who is a whore.

Lord Byron

'Tis very certain the desire of life prolongs it.

Sallust

Few men desire liberty The majority are satisfied with a just master.

Saint Thomas Aquinas

Three things are necessary for the salvation of man to know what he ought to believe to know what he ought to desire and to know what he ought to do.

William Shakespeare

Hereafter, in a better world than this, I shall desire more love and knowledge of you.

Robert Joseph Bob Dole

We'll all be riding that streetcar of desire.

Juvenal

Two things only the people actually desire bread and circuses.

Louis D. Brandeis

If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectable.

Michelangelo Buonarroti

Lord grant that I might always desire more than I can accomplish.

George Bernard Shaw

There are two tragedies in life. One is not to get your heart's desire. The other is to get it.

Belva Plain

How helpless we are, like netted birds, when we are caught by desire

Confucius

Wealth and rank are what people desire, but unless they be obtained in the right way they may not be possessed.

Nicole Kidman

When you reliquish the desire to control your future, you can have more happiness.

Robert Frost

Dancing is a vertical expression of a horizontal desire.

Euripides

For with slight efforts how should we obtain great results It is foolish even to desire it.

William Adams

You can have anything you want--if you want it badly enough. You can be anything you want to be, do anything you set out to accomplish if you hold to that desire with singleness of purpose.

Johann von Goethe

Love and desire are the spirit's wings to great deeds.

Smiley Blanton

The desire for success lubricates secret prostitutions in the soul.

Zig Ziglar

Every sale has five basic obstacles no need, no money, no hurry, no desire, no trust.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

Freedom from the desire for an answer is essential to the understanding of a problem.

Napoleon Hill

War grows out of the desire of the individual to gain advantage at the expense of his fellow man.

SHAKS.: _Richard III.,_ Act ii., Sc. 1.

'Tis death to me to be at enmity; I hate it, and desire all good men's love.

Bill Cosby

In order to succeed, your desire for success should be greater than your fear of failure.

Marquis de Sade

One must do violence to the object of one's desire when it surrenders, the pleasure is greater.

Aristotle

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

DRYDEN: _Alex. Feast,_ Line 160.

Could swell the soul to rage, or kindle soft desire

Henri Frdric Amiel

You desire to know the art of living, my friend It is contained in one phrase make use of suffering.

ADDISON: _Cato,_ Act v., Sc. 1.

It must be so, Plato, thou reasonest well!-- Else whence this pleasing hope, this fond desire, This longing after immortality?

Charles Pierce

There is one thing even more vital to science than intelligent methods; and that is, the sincere desire to find out the truth, whatever it may be.

Kahlil Gibran

Cast aside those who liken godliness to whimsy and who try to combine their greed for wealth with their desire for a happy afterlife.

Charles Sanders Pierce

There is one thing even more vital to science than intelligent methods and that is, the sincere desire to find out the truth, whatever it may be.

Horace Mann

A teacher who is attempting to teach without inspiring the pupil with a desire to learn is hammering on a cold iron.

Henri Matisse

You study, you learn, but you guard the original naivete. It has to be within you, as desire for drink is within the drunkard or love is within the lover.

Lois McMaster Bujold

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.

Diana Nyad

If you want to touch the other shore badly enough, barring an impossible situation, you will. If your desire is diluted for any reason, you'll never make it.

SHAKS.: _Love's L. Lost,_ Act i., Sc. 1.

At Christmas I no more desire a rose Than wish a snow in May's new-fangled mirth; But like of each thing that in season grows.

What makes the engine go? Desire, desire, desire.

I believe that God has planted in every human heart the desire to live in freedom. And even when that desire is crushed by tyranny for decades, it will rise again.

For whereas the mind works in possibilities, the intuitions work in actualities, and what you intuitively desire, that is possible to you. Whereas what you mentally or consciously desire is nine times out of ten impossible; hitch your wagon to star, or

The desire for freedom resides in every human heart. And that desire cannot be contained forever by prison walls, or martial laws, or secret police. Over time, and across the Earth, freedom will find a way.

If the world were merely seductive, that would be easy. If it were merely challenging, that would be no problem. But I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve the world, and a desire to enjoy the world. This makes it hard to plan the day.

People unfit for freedom - who cannot do much with it - are hungry for power. The desire for freedom is an attribute of a have type of self. It says: leave me alone and I shall grow, learn, and realize my capacities. The desire for power is basically an

We desire nothing so much as what we ought not to have.

Every man has business and desire, Such as it is.

Do not impose on others what you yourself do not desire.

Desire, ask, believe, receive.

One must desire something to be alive.

He who does not desire power is fit to hold it.

The wise man will love; all others will desire.

Desire creates the power.

All men by nature desire knowledge.

I hope that I may always desire more than I can accomplish.

Three things are necessary for the salvation of man: to know what he ought to believe; to know what he ought to desire; and to know what he ought to do.

Everyone believes very easily whatever they fear or desire.

Those who restrain desire, do so because theirs is weak enough to be restrained.

The discipline of desire is the background of character.

Again, men in general desire the good, and not merely what their fathers had.

Hereafter, in a better world than this, I shall desire more love and knowledge of you.

Envy is the consuming desire to have everybody else as unsuccessful as you are.

Knowledge is the eye of desire and can become the pilot of the soul.

The way to gain a good reputation is to endeavor to be what you desire to appear.

What is allowed us is disagreeable, what is denied us causes us intense desire.

Dwell not upon thy weariness, thy strength shall be according to the measure of thy desire.

Dancing: A vertical manifestation of a horizontal desire.

Love is the irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.

Fashion is the science of appearances, and it inspires one with the desire to seem rather than to be.

I want to believe in intelligent design, and hence I am suspicious of anything that seems to confirm my desire to believe.

Repulsion is the sentry that guards the gate to all that we most desire.

It is the nature of desire not to be satisfied, and most men live only for the gratification of it.

How helpless we are, like netted birds, when we are caught by desire!

Love is an irresistable desire to be irresistably desired.

The habit of giving only enhances the desire to give.

The more wild and incredible your desire, the more willing and prompt God is in fulfilling it, if you will have it so.

Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.

Few men desire liberty: The majority are satisfied with a just master.

If you greatly desire something, have the guts to stake everything on obtaining it.

When you relinquish the desire to control your future, you can have more happiness.

A human being has a natural desire to have more of a good thing than he needs.

Study without desire spoils the memory, and it retains nothing that it takes in.

Humans are driven by a perpetual and restless desire of power.

Desire for security keeps littleness little and threatens the great with smallness.

The desire to take medicine is perhaps the greatest feature which distinguishes man from animals.

Where desire writhed there stands a stone; the change was sudden and complete.

You desire to know the art of living, my friend? It is contained in one phrase: make use of suffering.

We have a hunger of the mind which asks for knowledge of all around us; and the more we gain, the more is our desire. The more we see, the more we are capable of seeing.

Art is the desire of a man to express himself, to record the reactions of his personality to the world he lives in.