Desires Quotes

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

Thoughts, Submission

Those who restrain their desires, do so because theirs is weak enough to be restrained.
William Blake

Enough, Weak, Restrain

One that desires to excel should endeavor in those things that are in themselves most excellent.
Epictetus

Themselves, Excellent, Endeavor

Energy is an eternal delight, and he who desires, but acts not, breeds pestilence.
William Blake

Energy, Eternal, Acts

If thou wilt make a man happy, add not unto his riches but take away from his desires.
Epicurus

Happy, Away, Riches

He who desires, but acts not, breeds pestilence.
William Blake

I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than in attempting to satisfy them.
John Stuart Mill

Happiness, Learned, Rather

Listen to the desires of your children. Encourage them and then give them the autonomy to make their own decision.
Denis Waitley

Children, Decision, Give

Our body has this defect that, the more it is provided care and comforts, the more needs and desires it finds.
Saint Teresa of Avila

Care, Body, Needs

Our duty is to be useful, not according to our desires but according to our powers.
Henri Frederic Amiel

Duty, Useful, According

Every man is rich or poor according to the proportion between his desires and his enjoyments.
Samuel Johnson

Rich, Poor, Between

The child who desires education will be bettered by it; the child who dislikes it disgraced.
John Ruskin

Education, Child, Dislikes

Do not follow vain desires; for verily he who prospers is preserved from lust, greed and anger.
Abu Bakr

Anger, Greed, Lust

The unworthy successor of Peter who desires to benefit from the immeasurable wealth of Christ feels the great need of your assistance, your prayers, your sacrifice, and he most humbly asks this of you.
Pope John Paul II

Great, Sacrifice, Wealth

He who reigns within himself and rules passions, desires, and fears is more than a king.
John Milton

Himself, Within, Rules

Most people think that shadows follow, precede or surround beings or objects. The truth is that they also surround words, ideas, desires, deeds, impulses and memories.
Elie Wiesel

Truth, Words, Memories

Every man desires to live long, but no man wishes to be old.
Jonathan Swift

Live, Long, Old

To educate the intelligence is to expand the horizon of its wants and desires.
James Russell Lowell

Wants, Horizon, Expand

It is the awareness of unfulfilled desires which gives a nation the feeling that it has a mission and a destiny.
Eric Hoffer

Feeling, Destiny, Nation

My thought has been shaped by books; my desires by pictures.
Mason Cooley

Thought, Books, Pictures

Seek freedom and become captive of your desires. Seek discipline and find your liberty.
Frank Herbert

Freedom, Find, Liberty

An intense anticipation itself transforms possibility into reality; our desires being often but precursors of the things which we are capable of performing.
Samuel Smiles

Reality, Often, Capable

I used to desire many, many things, but now I have just one desire, and that's to get rid of all my other desires.
John Cleese

Used, Desire, Rid

What pedophiles and people who have sexual desires on children lose sight of to a terrible, terrible degree - a devastating degree - is that their victims are real people who will suffer forever whatever abuses are perpetrated on them.
Jock Sturges

Children, Real, Lose

We are moving toward a dictatorship of relativism which does not recognize anything as for certain and which has as its highest goal one's own ego and one's own desires.
Joseph Ratzinger

Moving, Ego, Goal

Most of us are consumed with our own thoughts and desires and are not always thinking about what other people may want. This is not necessarily being egocentric; it is just being human.
Bo Bennett

Human, Thinking, May

Human beings place their desires ahead of the collective good.
Deepak Chopra

Good, Human, Place

Children in a family are like flowers in a bouquet: there's always one determined to face in an opposite direction from the way the arranger desires.
Marcelene Cox

Family, Children, Face

My dear brothers, take note of this: Everyone should be quick to listen, slow to speak and slow to become angry, for man's anger does not bring about the righteous life that God desires.
Beverly Sills

Life, God, Anger

He put in your heart certain wishes and plans; in my heart, he put other different desires.
Sitting Bull

Heart, Different, Put

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