Famous Quotes & Sayings

Matthew Quick

You need to know it's your actions that will make you a good person, not desire.

Plautus

Know this, that troubles come swifter than the things we desire.

Plato

There is in every one of us, even those who seem to be most moderate, a type of desire that is terrible, wild, and lawless.

Plato

Desires are only the lack of something: and those who have the greatest desires are in a worse condition than those who have none, or very slight ones.

Plato

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

Plato

Poverty doesn't come because of the decrease of wealth but because of the increase of desires.

Philip Seymour Hoffman

Sometimes I'm uncomfortable with the level of fame I've got! It all depends on the day and what's going on. I don't desire any more fame. I don't need it.

Paula Deen

Change doesn’t happen overnight. It starts with the desire, then one small step in the right direction.

Jonathan Safran Foer

They do not desire anything more than everything they have known.

Jonathan Safran Foer

Factory farmers talk about their desire to feed the world. That's not what they're doing. They're feeding the world with really, really cheap stuff.

Narendra Modi

Our nation is filled with tremendous energy of the youth. Whatever future we desire of, we must keep the youth at the centre. If we do this, we can surge ahead at an unmatchable pace!

Napoleon Hill

The subconscious acts first on the dominating desires.

Napoleon Hill

Desire is the factor that determines what your definite purpose in life shall be.

Napoleon Hill

Your ability to use the principle of autosuggestion will depend, very largely, upon your capacity to concentrate upon a given desire until that desire becomes a burning obsession.

Napoleon Hill

Willpower and desire, when properly combined, make an irresistible pair.

Napoleon Hill

If you are influenced by the opinions of others, you will have no DESIRE of your own.

Napoleon Hill

You wouldn't desire something if you didn't have the talent to carry it out.

Napoleon Hill

Nothing is impossible to the person who backs DESIRE with enduring FAITH.

Napoleon Hill

Desire backed by faith knows no such word as impossible.

Napoleon Bonaparte

Whatever you ardently and passionately desire, that you obtain.

Napoleon Bonaparte

I have seen only yoU, I have admired only yoU, I desire only You

Os Guinness

Either we conform our desires to the truth or we conform the truth to our desires.

These are instructions in desire. It's a staged, idealized vision of a perfectly happy household.

These guys have intelligence and great desire to work. For the young guys, 'patience' is not in their dictionary. They want to play right away. They're on track.

Eric Hoffer

The less satisfaction we derive from being ourselves, the greater is our desire to be like others.

Eric Hoffer

The desire to belong is partly a desire to lose oneself.

Eric Hoffer

Every intense desire is perhaps a desire to be different from what we are.

You can see that the older kids have that desire to get this team to another level.

Norman Mailer

The desire for success lubricates secret prostitutions in the soul

Zach Wamp

The desire for new leadership was the order of the day.

You will live your life secure in that you are no longer manipulated by what other people want you to do and be, but are directed by your own inner desires.

Hu Jintao

All this gives expression to the shared desire of our two peoples for peace, friendship and mutual development.

The donations to hurricane relief reflect our desire to reach out to the victims of this terrible disaster.