What does it take to be a champion? Desire, dedication, determination, concentration and the will to win.
~By Patty Berg ~
We're way too much the same person, Larry. I mean, you know, way too much the same person. We have basically the same attitudes, desires, drives. And we see ourselves the same way.
~By Jim Lampley ~
Eloquence, at its highest pitch, leaves little room for reason or reflection, but addresses itself entirely to the desires and affections, captivating the willing hearers, and subduing their understanding.
~By David Hume ~
But I think the one thing that I can say about us is that we're very consistent about certain things and part of that is our desire to do the very best work that we can and not rest on our laurels, or not allow formula to come into what we do.
~By Michael Stipe ~
Desire and force between them are responsible for all our actions; desire causes our voluntary acts, force our involuntary.
~By Blaise Pascal ~
The bad man desires arbitrary power. What moves the evil man is the love of injustice.
~By John Rawls ~
Religion is an illusion and it derives its strength from the fact that it falls in with our instinctual desires.
~By Sigmund Freud ~
I don't see myself necessarily having a burning desire to write a symphony.
~By Danny Elfman ~
I had no desire from an early age to be on the stage.
~By Ron Silver ~
I have a feeling that being in love sometimes means the projection of your desires onto another person. The important thing is that you like the other person, respect the other person and want to raise children with the other person.
~By Eric Braeden ~
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.
~By Maria Mitchell ~
There is no such thing as perpetual tranquillity of mind while we live here; because life itself is but motion, and can never be without desire, nor without fear, no more than without sense.
~By Thomas Hobbes ~
The United States have no possessions in the east and do not desire to have any, as other countries do.
~By Townsend Harris ~
Freedom is not procured by a full enjoyment of what is desired, but by controlling the desire.
~By Epictetus ~
Federer can be the best ever; he has the potential. The only question is whether he has the desire.
~By Richard Krajicek ~
Gladly we desire to make other men perfect, but we will not amend our own fault.
~By Thomas Kempis ~
Those who forget good and evil and seek only to know the facts are more likely to achieve good than those who view the world through the distorting medium of their own desires.
~By Bertrand Russell ~
I have the desire to work as an actress, but I have no ambition to be a star.
~By Ally Sheedy ~
Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of readiness to die.
~By Gilbert K. Chesterton ~
To desire is to obtain; to aspire is to achieve.
~By James Allen ~
Maybe a thing that you do not like is really in your interest. It is possible that a thing that you may desire may be against your interest.
~By Abu Bakr ~
Man is the only animal whose desires increase as they are fed; the only animal that is never satisfied.
~By Henry George ~
First rule of Economics 101: our desires are insatiable. Second rule: we can stomach only three Big Macs at a time.
~By Douglas Horton ~
I had no desire to be an film actress, to always play somebody else, to be always beautiful with somebody constantly straightening out your every eyelash. It was always a big bother to me.
~By Marlene Dietrich ~
It is hard to contend against one's heart's desire; for whatever it wishes to have it buys at the cost of soul.
~By Heraclitus ~
Nothing prevents one from appearing natural as the desire to appear natural.
~By Francois de La Rochefoucauld ~
Everything a writer learns about the art or craft of fiction takes just a little away from his need or desire to write at all. In the end he knows all the tricks and has nothing to say.
~By Raymond Chandler ~
Some artists shrink from self-awareness, fearing that it will destroy their unique gifts and even their desire to create. The truth of the matter is quite opposite.
~By James Broughton ~
I think from a very young age I always have this desire to perform.
~By Victor Garber ~
What do you want a meaning for? Life is a desire, not a meaning.
~By Charlie Chaplin ~
Every man makes a god of his own desire.
~By Virgil ~
You can love more than one person in your life, but things will be different. There'll be a different dynamic. Needs and desires change.
~By Francesca Annis ~
Desire nothing, give up all desires and be happy.
~By Swami Sivananda ~
Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire, you will what you imagine and at last you create what you will.
~By George Bernard Shaw ~
It is the soul's duty to be loyal to its own desires. It must abandon itself to its master passion.
~By Rebecca West ~
I have heard of novels started in the middle, at the end, written in patches to be joined together later, but I have never felt the slightest desire to do this.
~By C. S. Forester ~
My thought has been shaped by books; my desires by pictures.
~By Mason Cooley ~
When a marriage culture fails, sexual desire no longer unites; instead it fragments.
~By Maggie Gallagher ~
We cannot fashion our children after our desires, we must have them and love them as God has given them to us.
~By Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ~
When mankind first saw the necessity of government, it is probable that many had conceived the desire of ruling.
~By Thomas Clarkson ~
Man is a creation of desire, not a creation of need.
~By Gaston Bachelard ~
Life ought to be a struggle of desire toward adventures whose nobility will fertilize the soul.
~By Rebecca West ~
It is one of my sources of happiness never to desire a knowledge of other people's business.
~By Dolley Madison ~
The reason can give nothing at all Like the response to desire.
~By Wallace Stevens ~
Heterosexuality is dangerous. It tempts you to aim at a perfect duality of desire.
~By Marguerite Duras ~
Love is when the desire to be desired takes you so badly that you feel you could die of it.
~By Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec ~
People desire power. I don't know why they want it so. It seems to me it implies a hugely superior intellect which separates them from most of the populace.
~By F. Murray Abraham ~
Nothing gives us courage more readily than the desire to avoid looking like a damn fool.
~By Dean Koontz ~
I have zero desire, just so you know, to be in the limelight. I don't think it's good for the country to have a former president criticize his successor. You're not going to see me giving my opinions in the public arena, until I start selling my book. I'm going to emerge then submerge.
~By George W. Bush ~
The desire of gold is not for gold. It is for the means of freedom and benefit.
~By Ralph Waldo Emerson ~
The righteousness of Jesus Christ is one of those great mysteries, which the angels desire to look into, and seems to be one of the first lessons that God taught men after the fall.
~By George Whitefield ~
Desire of having is the sin of covetousness.
~By William Shakespeare ~
But I must own that I also felt stirred by an unselfish desire to voice all the joys and sorrows, the hopes and ambitions, of the American Negro, in classic musical form.
~By James Weldon Johnson ~
Civilization never stands still; if in one country it is falling back, in another it is changing, evolving, becoming more complicated, bringing fresh experience to body and mind, breeding new desires, and exploiting Nature's cupboard for their satisfaction.
~By Arthur Keith ~
My lord, I have some matter of law relating to the indictment, and I desire counsel to speak to it.
~By William Kidd ~
Long before the terrifying potential of the arms race was recognized, there was a widespread instinctive abhorrence of nuclear weapons, and a strong desire to get rid of them.
~By Joseph Rotblat ~
I have a desire to create more film, more beauty, more art, more love, but I don't feel desperate. It's not about creating or building a career.
~By Lisa Bonet ~
Seek freedom and become captive of your desires. Seek discipline and find your liberty.
~By Frank Herbert ~
It is my desire, in the office of a Christian minister, to do nothing which I cannot do with my whole heart. Having said this, I have said all.
~By Ralph Waldo Emerson ~
Fraternity among nations, however, touches the deepest desire of human nature.
~By Hjalmar Branting ~
My desire, my passion, was to help moms with practical encouragement.
~By Lisa Whelchel ~
The moguls are driven by their respective desires for profit - period.
~By Todd Gitlin ~
It is not only our duty to pray for others, but also to desire the prayers of others for ourselves.
~By William Gurnall ~
From time immemorial, man has desired to comprehend the complexity of nature in terms of as few elementary concepts as possible.
~By Abdus Salam ~
Desire is the very essence of man.
~By Baruch Spinoza ~
I distrust those people who know so well what God wants them to do, because I notice it always coincides with their own desires.
~By Susan B. Anthony ~
Citizen participation is a device whereby public officials induce nonpublic individuals to act in a way the officials desire.
~By Daniel P. Moynihan ~
You desire that which exceeds my humble powers, but I trust in the compassion and mercy of the All-powerful God.
~By Saint Stephen ~
I began the study of medicine, impelled by a desire for knowledge of facts and of man. The resolution to do disciplined work tied me to both laboratory and clinic for a long time to come.
~By Karl Jaspers ~
War grows out of the desire of the individual to gain advantage at the expense of his fellow man.
~By Napoleon Hill ~
The ability and desire to transform the mundane materials at hand that we both bring into the collaboration well beyond the sum total of the parts - to birth a new baby neither of us could claim single parentage of.
~By Gary Lucas ~
When you do portraits professionally it's not a desire, it's for money.
~By Imogen Cunningham ~
Travel can also be the spirit of adventure somewhat tamed, for those who desire to do something they are a bit afraid of.
~By Ella Maillart ~
Your desires and true beliefs have a way of playing blind man's bluff. You must corner the inner facts.
~By David Seabury ~
The inner thought coming from the heart represents the real motives and desires. These are the cause of action.
~By Raymond Holliwell ~
All people desire what they believe will make them happy. If a person is not full of desire for God, we can only conclude that he is engaged with another happiness.
~By William Law ~
I am a red man. If the Great Spirit had desired me to be a white man he would have made me so in the first place.
~By Sitting Bull ~
Because when you have millions of people with this kind of need for gratification, and the culture is saying that it's possible for everyone to satisfy all of their needs and desires all of the time, there are obviously going to be clashes - clashes of ego.
~By Taylor Hackford ~
Dedicate yourself to the good you deserve and desire for yourself. Give yourself peace of mind. You deserve to be happy. You deserve delight.
~By Hannah Arendt ~
What most men desire is a virgin who is a whore.
~By Edward Dahlberg ~
To the totality of purposes of the perfect Law there belong the abandonment, depreciation, and restraint of desires in so far as possible.
~By Maimonides ~
The preparation, commitment and desire to win will be no less than the last time I drove a grand prix car in anger.
~By Nigel Mansell ~
This bored fantastic woman, with her animal nature, giving herself the pleasure of seeing her enemy struck down, not a particularly keen one for her because she is so weary of having all her desires satisfied.
~By Gustave Moreau ~
I don't just want to be the girl boys get excited about, I have no desire for people to see me in a sexy way. I won't do nudity ever.
~By Alicia Silverstone ~
It is my really sincere desire that we get an opportunity to play long enough for people to really grab on and become fans, because I think it's a great project.
~By Ron Glass ~
A big element of what they regard as conformity is simply a desire to have an audience.
~By Karel Reisz ~
Our desires always disappoint us; for though we meet with something that gives us satisfaction, yet it never thoroughly answers our expectation.
~By Elbert Hubbard ~
They who overcome their desires once can overcome them always.
~By Pierre Corneille ~
He that desireth to acquire any art or science seeketh first those means by which that art or science is obtained. If we ought to do so in things natural and earthly, how much more then in spiritual?
~By Robert Barclay ~
To educate the intelligence is to expand the horizon of its wants and desires.
~By James Russell Lowell ~
From time immemorial artistic insights have been revealed to artists in their sleep and in dreams, so that at all times they ardently desired them.
~By Paracelsus ~
We were sent to this country by the President, who desires to promote the welfare of Japan, and are quite different from the ambassadors of other countries.
~By Townsend Harris ~
I consider no man honest who does not observe towards other nations the principles which he desires to be observed towards his own: and therefore I will not interfere in your domestic questions.
~By Lajos Kossuth ~
Hard times arouse an instinctive desire for authenticity.
~By Coco Chanel ~
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.
~By Marcus Tullius Cicero ~
God touches and moves, warns and desires all equally, and He wants one quite as much as another. The inequality lies in the way in which His touch, His warnings, and His gifts are received.
~By Johannes Tauler ~
If one wants another only for some self-satisfaction, usually in the form of sensual pleasure, that wrong desire takes the form of lust rather than love.
~By Mortimer Adler ~
I do not believe in pure idioms. I think there is naturally a desire, for whoever speaks or writes, to sign in an idiomatic, irreplaceable manner.
~By Jacques Derrida ~
Once you have made the decision to do the film, once you have identified the desire and all the deep and personal, intimate, artistic reasons why you want to do the film, then it's more a matter of how to do things.
~By Isabelle Huppert ~
For myself, therefore, I desire to declare that the principle that will govern me in the high duty to which my country calls me is a strict adherence to the letter and spirit of the Constitution as it was designed by those who framed it.
~By Martin Van Buren ~
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