Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

James Cook

Going without a thing enhances the desire to get it.

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.

Oliver Cromwell

My desire is to make what haste I can to be gone.

Emile M. Cioran

All the concessions we make to Eros are holes in our desire for the absolute.

Emily Greene Balch

There is a great interest in comparative religion and a desire to understand faiths other than our own and even to experiment with exotic cults.

Sathya Baba

Desire plus life is man, Life minus desire is God.

Sathya Baba

Desire makes man forget his real nature and reduces him to be status of a beast.

It's something intangible. It's a desire to do the right thing.

It was plain for everyone to see we showed the desire to keep the unbeaten running which is what the manager went over on Friday. They were very focused on doing that.

Ernest Dowson

They are not long, the weeping and the laughter, / Love and desire and hate: / I think they have no portion in us after / We pass the gate.

It wasn't a numbers game at all. It was a desire to have a leadership team that was uniquely selected to serve the Greenville market.

J. Taylor

No man is poor who does not think himself so. But if in a full fortune with impatience he desires more, he proclaims his wants and his beggarly condition.

Not every one of our desires can be immediately gratified. We've got to learn towait patiently for our dreams to come true, especially on the path we've chosen.

It just goes to show, if you have the drive and the desire, we have the resources here at the University.

It's an important goal of ours to have strategic relationships with all the major platform suppliers. Specifically noteworthy, we have a desire to work with IBM. But people say, 'IBM has a database.' We don't see that as an issue.

E. O. Wilson

It's going to be a great race. I can't imagine an environment where someone would leave this kind of situation that has so many positive attributes. What I like the most about Katherine is that she is tenacious in her desire to help Florida and it's going to show through and the race is going to get closer.

Wherefore I desire that ye faint not at my tribulations for you, which is your glory.

Pierre Loti

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.

Nellie McKay

Music can make the cerebral accessible, the subconscious hummable. It communicates our shared needs and desires as sentient beings better than any other medium.

Caroline Knapp

Desires collide; the wish to eat bumping up against the wish to be thin, the desire to indulge conflicting with the injunction to restrain. Small wonder food makes a woman nervous.