Good means not merely not to do wrong, but rather not to desire to do wrong.
~By Democritus ~
Man is a creation of desire, not a creation of need.
~By Gaston Bachelard ~
The desire to become a journalist came really because I very much like living abroad, and like to travel, and wanted to be paid for it.
~By John Pomfret ~
I never had any desire to become a well-known actress.
~By Rebecca Miller ~
The people of the Middle East share the desire for freedom. We have an opportunity - and an obligation - to help them turn this desire into reality.
~By Condoleezza Rice ~
The stoical scheme of supplying our wants by lopping off our desires, is like cutting off our feet when we want shoes.
~By Jonathan Swift ~
A person who has sympathy for mankind in the lump, faith in its future progress, and desire to serve the great cause of this progress, should be called not a humanist, but a humanitarian, and his creed may be designated as humanitarianism.
~By Irving Babbitt ~
Managers in all too many American companies do not achieve the desired results because nobody makes them do it.
~By Harold S. Geneen ~
A short cut to riches is to subtract from our desires.
~By Petrarch ~
I most sincerely wish that the world in which we live be free from the threat of a nuclear holocaust and from the ruinous arms race. It is my cherished desire that peace be not separated from freedom which is the right of every nation. This I desire and for this I pray.
~By Lech Walesa ~
By annihilating the desires, you annihilate the mind. Every man without passions has within him no principle of action, nor motive to act.
~By Claude Adrien Helvetius ~
This is part of human nature, the desire to change consciousness.
~By Michael Pollan ~
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 ~
Prayer is not so much the means whereby God's will is bent to man's desires, as it is that whereby man's will is bent to God's desires.
~By Charles Bent ~
My desire is to be a forgiving, non-judgmental person.
~By Janine Turner ~
I have no desire to be a cat, which walks so lightly that it never creates a disturbance.
~By Andrew Taylor Still ~
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've always been comfortable with my sexual desires and what I like.
~By Izabella Scorupco ~
We are moving toward a dictatorship of relativism which does not recognize anything as for certain and which has as its highest goal one's own ego and one's own desires.
~By Joseph Ratzinger ~
An original is a creation motivated by desire. Any reproduction of an originals motivated be necessity. It is marvelous that we are the only species that creates gratuitous forms. To create is divine, to reproduce is human.
~By Man Ray ~
There is no man who desires as passionately as a Russian. If we could imprison a Russian desire beneath a fortress, that fortress would explode.
~By Joseph De Maistre ~
It is easier to achieve a desired result in short pieces.
~By Gustav Mahler ~
There is one quality which one must possess to win, and that is definiteness of purpose, the knowledge of what one wants, and a burning desire to possess it.
~By Napoleon Hill ~
A lot of people just go to movies that feed into their preexisting and not so noble needs and desires: They just go to action pictures, and things like that.
~By Roger Ebert ~
So dancing was not something I had a great desire to do.
~By Suzanne Farrell ~
A teacher who is attempting to teach without inspiring the pupil with a desire to learn is hammering on cold iron.
~By Horace Mann ~
I desire an special interest in your prayers that my faith fail not in the day of adversity.
~By John Hawley ~
How can you consider flower power outdated? The essence of my lyrics is the desire for peace and harmony. That's all anyone has ever wanted. How could it become outdated?
~By Robert Plant ~
The desire of knowledge, like the thirst of riches, increases ever with the acquisition of it.
~By Laurence Sterne ~
He who reigns within himself and rules passions, desires, and fears is more than a king.
~By John Milton ~
Merely external emancipation has made of the modern woman an artificial being. Now, woman is confronted with the necessity of emancipating herself from emancipation, if she really desires to be free.
~By Emma Goldman ~
I have an unending desire to be better and make myself a better person, better mother.
~By Tanya Tucker ~
There is no desire more natural than the desire for knowledge.
~By Michel de Montaigne ~
If poetry alters the way in which the reader views the world, then it has had its desired effect.
~By John Barton ~
There is no easy walk to freedom anywhere, and many of us will have to pass through the valley of the shadow of death again and again before we reach the mountaintop of our desires.
~By Nelson Mandela ~
The majority of the senior class of Vassar does not desire my company and I must confess, having read specimens of their thought and sentiments, that I do not desire the company of the majority of the senior class of Vassar.
~By William F. Buckley, Jr. ~
I don't know what a painting is; who knows what sets off even the desire to paint? It might be things, thoughts, a memory, sensations, which have nothing to do directly with painting itself. They can come from anything and anywhere.
~By Philip Guston ~
Listen to the desires of your children. Encourage them and then give them the autonomy to make their own decision.
~By Denis Waitley ~
God grant you all your desires and accept my own hearty thanks for all your attention to me. Although indeed, those attentions have tried me more than death can now terrify me.
~By Jane Grey ~
It is a strange desire, to seek power, and to lose liberty; or to seek power over others, and to lose power over a man's self.
~By Francis Bacon ~
I was appalled at the amount of study necessary in order to qualify in medicine, and gradually my desire was blunted by a keener - and secret - wish to become an actor.
~By Conrad Veidt ~
We trifle when we assign limits to our desires, since nature hath set none.
~By Christian Nestell Bovee ~
My own will and desires were now very much broken, and my heart was with much earnestness turned to the Lord, to whom alone I looked for help in the dangers before me.
~By John Woolman ~
If you start by promising what you don't even have yet, you'll lose your desire to work towards getting it.
~By Paulo Coelho ~
All that spirits desire, spirits attain.
~By Khalil Gibran ~
The starting point of all achievement is desire.
~By Napoleon Hill ~
According to its doctors, my one intransigent desire is to have been a Confederate general, and because I could not or would not become anything else, I set up for poet and beg an to invent fictions about the personal ambitions that my society has no use for.
~By Allen Tate ~
All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.
~By Aristotle ~
A life is either all spiritual or not spiritual at all. No man can serve two masters. Your life is shaped by the end you live for. You are made in the image of what you desire.
~By Thomas Merton ~
Perhaps our only sickness is to desire a truth which we cannot bear rather than to rest content with the fictions we manufacture out of each other.
~By Lawrence Durrell ~
My most ardent desire is that my country will recapture its historic opportunity for a peaceful evolution and that Poland will prove to the world that even the most complex situations can be solved by a dialogue and not by force.
~By Lech Walesa ~
Art includes everything that stimulates the desire to live.
~By Remy de Gourmont ~
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 ~
Desire is creation, is the magical element in that process. If there were an instrument by which to measure desire, one could foretell achievement.
~By Willa Cather ~
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 ~
Ambition is the immoderate desire for power.
~By Baruch Spinoza ~
To me that's what art is about - when you don't really have any control over your desires to do it.
~By Noah Taylor ~
An intense anticipation itself transforms possibility into reality; our desires being often but precursors of the things which we are capable of performing.
~By Samuel Smiles ~
Much that we read of Russia is imagination and desire only.
~By Agnes Smedley ~
When someone has the desire to go to school and has the ability but can't get into our schools, that's wrong. Education drives the economy and the quality of life.
~By Jack Miller ~
I believe an international criminal court is very much to be desired.
~By Harold Pinter ~
Calm self-confidence is as far from conceit as the desire to earn a decent living is remote from greed.
~By Channing Pollock ~
And thus I take my leave of the world and of you all, and I heartily desire you all to pray for me.
~By Anne Boleyn ~
The desire is thy prayers; and if thy desire is without ceasing, thy prayer will also be without ceasing. The continuance of your longing is the continuance of your prayer.
~By Saint Augustine ~
When a marriage culture fails, sexual desire no longer unites; instead it fragments.
~By Maggie Gallagher ~
We all have different desires and needs, but if we don't discover what we want from ourselves and what we stand for, we will live passively and unfulfilled.
~By Bill Watterson ~
A man's desire for a son is usually nothing but the wish to duplicate himself in order that such a remarkable pattern may not be lost to the world.
~By Helen Rowland ~
Life ought to be a struggle of desire toward adventures whose nobility will fertilize the soul.
~By Rebecca West ~
I am surprised that I cannot recall whether my desire to become a minister transformed itself into a wish to lead the more militant life of missionary, by a slow process or suddenly.
~By Pierre Loti ~
Men are so simple and yield so readily to the desires of the moment that he who will trick will always find another who will suffer to be tricked.
~By Niccolo Machiavelli ~
The desire for safety stands against every great and noble enterprise.
~By Tacitus ~
Reduce your plan to writing. The moment you complete this, you will have definitely given concrete form to the intangible desire.
~By Napoleon Hill ~
The size of your success is measured by the strength of your desire; the size of your dream; and how you handle disappointment along the way.
~By Robert Kiyosaki ~
The desire to be rewarded for one's creativity does not justify depriving the world in general of all or part of that creativity.
~By Richard Stallman ~
Nothing liberates our greatness like the desire to help, the desire to serve.
~By Marianne Williamson ~
I always feel more comfortable in chaotic surroundings. I don't know why that is. I think order is dull. There is something about this kind of desire for order, particularly in Anglo Saxon cultures, that drive out this ability for the streets to become a really exotic, amorphous, chaotic, organic place where ideas can, basically, develop.
~By Malcolm Mclaren ~
I became an actor, and because I had success as an actor, I became famous. I was acting for quite a while before I got famous; television made me famous. I guess that it's television that is responsible for everybody's desire to be famous.
~By Kelsey Grammer ~
But the deep desire for peace remained with the American people.
~By Paul Robeson ~
Bring your desires down to your present means. Increase them only when your increased means permit.
~By Aristotle ~
There is pleasure when a sore is scratched, But to be without sores is more pleasurable still. Just so, there are pleasures in worldly desires, But to be without desires is more pleasurable still.
~By Nagarjuna ~
Men freely believe that which they desire.
~By Julius Caesar ~
If you desire to be good, begin by believing that you are wicked.
~By Epictetus ~
I never desired to please the rabble. What pleased them, I did not learn; and what I knew was far removed from their understanding.
~By Epicurus ~
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.
~By Wilson Mizner ~
Better murder an infant in its cradle than nurse an unacted desire.
~By William Blake ~
What everyone in the astronaut corps shares in common is not gender or ethnic background, but motivation, perseverance, and desire - the desire to participate in a voyage of discovery.
~By Ellen Ochoa ~
Life everlasting in a state of happiness is the greatest desire of all men.
~By Joseph Franklin Rutherford ~
We will continue to count on your unwavering support and commitment to working with leaders of our continent in bringing about the desired renaissance of Africa.
~By Thabo Mbeki ~
It is true not all has been accomplished that the earnest advocates would desire, but a start has been made.
~By Frank B. Kellogg ~
Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.
~By Robert Frost ~
Almost every desire a poor man has is a punishable offence.
~By Louis-Ferdinand Celine ~
You cannot escape the results of your thoughts. Whatever your present environment may be, you will fall, remain or rise with your thoughts, your vision, your ideal. You will become as small as your controlling desire; as great as your dominant aspiration.
~By James Lane Allen ~
Those who speak of our culture as dead or dying have a quarrel with life, and I think they cannot understand its terms, but must endlessly repeat the projection of their own desires.
~By Muriel Rukeyser ~
Indignation is a submission of our thoughts, but not of our desires.
~By Bertrand Russell ~
Let me remind you that nuclear disarmament is not just an ardent desire of the people, as expressed in many resolutions of the United Nations. It is a legal commitment by the five official nuclear states, entered into when they signed the Non-Proliferation Treaty.
~By Joseph Rotblat ~
Nothing prevents one from appearing natural as the desire to appear natural.
~By Francois de La Rochefoucauld ~
A revolutionary poem will not tell you who or when to kill, what and when to burn, or even how to theorize. It reminds you... where and when and how you are living and might live, it is a wick of desire.
~By Adrienne Rich ~
So nevertheless, what I'm saying is that what one is - one's parameters are constantly narrowed by one's success, and my desire is to widen my field even if I risk failure.
~By Jeremy Irons ~
Great ambition, the desire of real superiority, of leading and directing, seems to be altogether peculiar to man, and speech is the great instrument of ambition.
~By Adam Smith ~
Manifest plainness, embrace simplicity, reduce selfishness, have few desires.
~By Lao Tzu ~
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