Every man makes a god of his own desire.
Virgil

This life is a hospital in which every patient is possessed with a desire to change his bed.
Charles Baudelaire

No evil dooms us hopelessly except the evil we love, and desire to continue in, and make no effort to escape from.
George Eliot

I desire no future that will break the ties with the past.
George Eliot

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

Desire is the key to motivation, but it's determination and commitment to an unrelenting pursuit of your goal - a commitment to excellence - that will enable you to attain the success you seek.
Mario Andretti

Knowledge is the eye of desire and can become the pilot of the soul.
Will Durant

Of all the gods only death does not desire gifts.
Aeschylus

The courage we desire and prize is not the courage to die decently, but to live manfully.
Thomas Carlyle

Practice means to perform, over and over again in the face of all obstacles, some act of vision, of faith, of desire. Practice is a means of inviting the perfection desired.
Martha Graham

It is hard to contend against one's heart's desire; for whatever it wishes to have it buys at the cost of soul.
Heraclitus

If history and science have taught us anything, it is that passion and desire are not the same as truth.
E. O. Wilson

The consuming desire of most human beings is deliberately to plant their whole life in the hands of some other person. I would describe this method of searching for happiness as immature. Development of character consists solely in moving toward self-sufficiency.
Quentin Crisp

The desire to get married, which - I regret to say, I believe is basic and primal in women - is followed almost immediately by an equally basic and primal urge - which is to be single again.
Nora Ephron

There is no such thing as perpetual tranquillity of mind while we live here; because life itself is but motion, and can never be without desire, nor without fear, no more than without sense.
Thomas Hobbes

I put for the general inclination of all mankind, a perpetual and restless desire of power after power, that ceaseth only in death.
Thomas Hobbes

The teacher must derive not only the capacity, but the desire, to observe natural phenomena. The teacher must understand and feel her position of observer: the activity must lie in the phenomenon.
Maria Montessori

It is a waste of money to help those who show no desire to help themselves.
Taylor Caldwell

When desire dies, fear is born.
Baltasar Gracian