Top Desires Quotes
I prefer to be a dreamer among the humblest, with visions to be realized, than lord among those without dreams and desires.
Kahlil Gibran
I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self.
Aristotle
Our desires always disappoint us; for though we meet with something that gives us satisfaction, yet it never thoroughly answers our expectation.
Elbert Hubbard
Nothing stops the man who desires to achieve. Every obstacle is simply a course to develop his achievement muscle. It's a strengthening of his powers of accomplishment.
Eric Butterworth
A man desires praise that he may be reassured, that he may be quit of his doubting of himself; he is indifferent to applause when he is confident of success.
Alec Waugh
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Victor Hugo All Desires Quotes
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 
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By annihilating the desires, you annihilate the mind. Every man without passions has within him no principle of action, nor motive to act.
Claude Adrien Helvetius
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My most profound confidence is however based upon the fact that at the head of Germany there stands a man by his entire development, his desires, and striving can only have been destined by fate to lead our people into a brighter future.
Alfred Jodl
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Music is the career I'm lucky enough to get paid for, but I have other desires and passions.
Layne Staley
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You must intensify and render continuous by repeatedly presenting with suggestive ideas and mental pictures of the feast of good things, and the flowing fountain, which awaits the successful achievement or attainment of the desires.
Claude M. Bristol
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Those who restrain their desires, do so because theirs is weak enough to be restrained.
William Blake
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Every man desires to live long, but no man wishes to be old.
Jonathan Swift
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Unfortunately, however, I have too many desires to make a good Buddhist.
Jim Coleman
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To manifest your hearts desires you must BE what your heart desires.
Joy Page
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