Desires Quotes

I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self.
Aristotle

Self, Him, Victory

Every one desires to live long, but no one would be old.
Abraham Lincoln

Live, Long, Old

There is no easy walk to freedom anywhere, and many of us will have to pass through the valley of the shadow of death again and again before we reach the mountaintop of our desires.
Nelson Mandela

Freedom, Death, Through

When a person really desires something, all the universe conspires to help that person to realize his dream.
Paulo Coelho

Help, Person, Dream

From the deepest desires often come the deadliest hate.
Socrates

Hate, Often, Deepest

I prefer to be a dreamer among the humblest, with visions to be realized, than lord among those without dreams and desires.
Khalil Gibran

Dreams, Lord, Dreamer

Bring your desires down to your present means. Increase them only when your increased means permit.
Aristotle

Down, Means, Present

Manifest plainness, embrace simplicity, reduce selfishness, have few desires.
Lao Tzu

Few, Simplicity, Embrace

I distrust those people who know so well what God wants them to do, because I notice it always coincides with their own desires.
Susan B. Anthony

God, Wants, Distrust

Our desires always disappoint us; for though we meet with something that gives us satisfaction, yet it never thoroughly answers our expectation.
Elbert Hubbard

Though, Meet, Answers

The petty man is eager to make boasts, yet desires that others should believe in him. He enthusiastically engages in deception, yet wants others to have affection for him. He conducts himself like an animal, yet wants others to think well of him.
Xun Zi

Him, Others, Deception

Whosoever desires constant success must change his conduct with the times.
Niccolo Machiavelli

Success, Change, Times

When your desires are strong enough you will appear to possess superhuman powers to achieve.
Napoleon Hill

Strong, Enough, Achieve

Death is a release from the impressions of the senses, and from desires that make us their puppets, and from the vagaries of the mind, and from the hard service of the flesh.
Marcus Aurelius

Death, Mind, Hard

Purity of speech, of the mind, of the senses, and of a compassionate heart are needed by one who desires to rise to the divine platform.
Chanakya

Mind, Heart, Speech

In giving us children, God places us in a position of both leadership and service. He calls us to give up our lives for someone else's sake - to abandon our own desires and put our child's interests first. Yet, according to His perfect design, it is through this selflessness that we can become truly fulfilled.
Charles Stanley

Leadership, God, Design

Boredom: the desire for desires.
Leo Tolstoy

Boredom, Desire

To fall in love is easy, even to remain in it is not difficult; our human loneliness is cause enough. But it is a hard quest worth making to find a comrade through whose steady presence one becomes steadily the person one desires to be.
Anna Louise Strong

Love, Loneliness, Human

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

Men, Simple, Find

We cannot fashion our children after our desires, we must have them and love them as God has given them to us.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Love, God, Children

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.
Thomas Carlyle

Nothing, Achieve, Simply

Uncontrolled, the hunger and thirst after God may become an obstacle, cutting off the soul from what it desires. If a man would travel far along the mystic road, he must learn to desire God intensely but in stillness, passively and yet with all his heart and mind and strength.
Aldous Huxley

God, Strength, Travel

A strong, successful man is not the victim of his environment. He creates favorable conditions. His own inherent force and energy compel things to turn out as he desires.
Orison Swett Marden

Successful, Strong, Energy

Religion is an illusion and it derives its strength from the fact that it falls in with our instinctual desires.
Sigmund Freud

Religion, Strength, Fact

Almost all our desires, when examined, contain something too shameful to reveal.
Victor Hugo

Almost, Reveal, Shameful

When God desires to destroy a thing, he entrusts its destruction to the thing itself. Every bad institution of this world ends by suicide.
Victor Hugo

God, Bad, Destroy

I am no longer sure of anything. If I satiate my desires, I sin but I deliver myself from them; if I refuse to satisfy them, they infect the whole soul.
Jean-Paul Sartre

Soul, Whole, Sure

Those who forget good and evil and seek only to know the facts are more likely to achieve good than those who view the world through the distorting medium of their own desires.
Bertrand Russell

Good, Forget, Evil

Freedom in general may be defined as the absence of obstacles to the realization of desires.
Bertrand Russell

Freedom, May, Obstacles

Indignation is a submission of our thoughts, but not of our desires.
Bertrand Russell

Thoughts, Submission

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