Desire quotes

“I hope that I may always desire more than I can accomplish.” Michelangelo

“We have an obligation and a responsibility to be investing in our students and our schools. We must make sure that people who have the grades, the desire and the will, but not the money, can still get the best education possible.” Barack Obama

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

“The teacher who is attempting to teach without inspiring the pupil with a desire to learn is hammering on cold iron.” Horace Mann

“I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than in attempting to satisfy them.” John Stuart Mill

“Whosoever desires constant success must change his conduct with the times.” Niccolo Machiavelli

“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.” Niccolo Machiavelli

“God's desire is that we excel.” Joel Osteen

“I think I became more productive through not having children. I never really had the desire to have them. My husband didn't want them either, so it worked out well.” Dolly Parton

“Desire and force between them are responsible for all our actions; desire causes our voluntary acts, force our involuntary.” Blaise Pascal

“Even those who write against fame wish for the fame of having written well, and those who read their works desire the fame of having read them.” Blaise Pascal

“Young people are threatened... by the evil use of advertising techniques that stimulate the natural inclination to avoid hard work by promising the immediate satisfaction of every desire.” Pope John Paul II

“The unworthy successor of Peter who desires to benefit from the immeasurable wealth of Christ feels the great need of your assistance, your prayers, your sacrifice, and he most humbly asks this of you.” Pope John Paul II

“I stand ready to lead us down a different path where we're lifted up by our desire to succeed, not dragged down by a resentment of success.” Mitt Romney

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

“Do not ever say that the desire to 'do good' by force is a good motive. Neither power-lust nor stupidity are good motives.” Ayn Rand

“A desire presupposes the possibility of action to achieve it; action presupposes a goal which is worth achieving.” Ayn Rand

“Take from the philosopher the pleasure of being heard and his desire for knowledge ceases.” Jean-Jacques Rousseau

“Everyone has been made for some particular work, and the desire for that work has been put in every heart.” Rumi

“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.” Marlene Dietrich

“Everything is perfect in the universe - even your desire to improve it.” Wayne Dyer

“Sometimes I think it's possible to mistake desire for clarity and talking in a no-nonsense way for aggression.” Richard Dawkins

“Love is something far more than desire for sexual intercourse; it is the principal means of escape from the loneliness which afflicts most men and women throughout the greater part of their lives.” Bertrand Russell

“Marriage is for women the commonest mode of livelihood, and the total amount of undesired sex endured by women is probably greater in marriage than in prostitution.” Bertrand Russell

“If there were in the world today any large number of people who desired their own happiness more than they desired the unhappiness of others, we could have a paradise in a few years.” Bertrand Russell

“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.” Bertrand Russell

“Freedom in general may be defined as the absence of obstacles to the realization of desires.” Bertrand Russell

“Indignation is a submission of our thoughts, but not of our desires.” Bertrand Russell

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

“Better murder an infant in its cradle than nurse an unacted desire.” William Blake