Famous Quotes & Sayings

Aristotle

If, then, there is some end of the things we do, which we desire for its own sake (everything else being desired for the sake of this), and if we do not choose everything for the sake of something else (for at that rate the process would go on to infinity, so that our desire would be empty and vain), clearly this must be the good and the chief good.

Aristotle

No one who desires to become good will become good unless he does good things.

Aristotle

It is not the possessions but the desires of mankind which require to be equalized.

Elizabeth Blackwell

When life follows the course of our desires, it is easy to be swept along without thought.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

The desire to please those we admire and respect often cripples conscience.

Deepak Chopra

Accept that living in the present moment, with your present desires, is the best, the highest thing you can do.

Deepak Chopra

Inherent in every intention and desire are the mechanics for its fulfillment.

Deepak Chopra

Everything I desire is within me.

Deepak Chopra

When we become quiet and introduce our intentions into the field of pure potentiality, we harness the universe's infinite organizing power, which can manifest our desires with effortless ease.

Deepak Chopra

Human beings place their desires ahead of the collective good.

Deepak Chopra

A person who is emotionally free has no desire to convince, cajole, insist, beg, seduce, manipulate or control. He/she is free to love

Dionne Warwick

I have no desire to look back, I only want to look forward to the things that are still ahead of me.

Lemme tell you about that run. That was desire. That was heart. That was want.

George Meredith

Love that so desires would fain keep her changeless; / Fain would fling the net, and fain have her free.

Robert Frost

Love is the irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.

Many students from the social sciences have expressed a desire to learn the language because they know it will be useful in their field of work.

Serving at the Feet of the Holy Saints, all desires are fulfilled.

Albert Einstein

So long as they don't get violent, I want to let everyone say what they wish, for I myself have always said exactly what pleased me.

She's tough, smart, and has a strong desire to make the varsity team in her final season.

Mike Kerr

She's really improved a lot. She went from being a minute to two-minute player to a 10- to 12-minute player. It really comes from her desire to do the little things. She's not going to score 15 points a game, but she is going to do all the little things. That has increased her playing time dramatically.

She's got a strong desire to go on.

Edgar Cayce

From what may anyone be saved? Only from themselves! That is, their individual hell. They dig it with their own desires.

Eliza Haywood

Possession naturally abates the Vigour of Desire ...

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

And if God choose I shall but love thee better after death.

Benjamin Franklin

If you desire many things, many things will seem few.

Barbara Tuchman

Arguments can always be found to turn desire into policy.

Anton Chekhov

Formerly, when I would feel a desire to understand someone, or myself, I would take into consideration not actions, in which everything is relative, but wishes. Tell me what you want and I'll tell you who you are.

Bob Dole

We'll all be riding that streetcar of desire.

Billy Connolly

The desire to be a politician should bar you for life from ever being one.

Brigitte Bardot

It is better to be wrong than correct with no desire to be.

Barbara Cook

I have absolutely no desire and no thought of quitting ever.

Arthur Schopenhauer

It is difficult, if not impossible, to define the limit of our reasonable desires in respect of possessions.

Arthur Schopenhauer

Every satisfaction he attains lays the seeds of some new desire, so that there is no end to the wishes of each individual will.