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Quote 3090
Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successfulShowing Quotes on desires
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Quote 3089
If you want to build a ship, don't drum up the men to gather wood, divide the work and give orders. Instead, teach them to yearn for the vast and endless seaShowing Quotes on desires
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Quote 3045
You might not always get what you want, but you always get what you expect.Showing Quotes on desires
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Quote 2910
The discipline of desire is the background of character.by: John LockeShowing Quotes on desires
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Quote 2900
Much can be inferred about a man from his mistress: in her one beholds his weaknesses and his dreamsShowing Quotes on desires
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Quote 2859
There is no greater impediment to progress in the sciences than the desire to see it take place too quicklyShowing Quotes on desires
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Quote 2735
Health is my expected heavenby: John KeatsShowing Quotes on desires
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Quote 2708
Who would wish to be among the commonplace crowd of the little famous - who are each individually lost in a throng made up of themselves?by: John KeatsShowing Quotes on desires
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Quote 2667
It belongs to the imperfection of everything human that man can only attain his desire by passing through its oppositeShowing Quotes on desires
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Quote 2616
I do not read advertisements. I would spend all of my time wanting thingsby: Franz KafkaShowing Quotes on desires
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Quote 2569
People in high life are hardened to the wants and distresses of mankind as surgeons are to their bodily painsShowing Quotes on desires
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Quote 2533
Every act of will is an act of self-limitation. To desire action is to desire limitation. In that sense, every act is an act of self-sacrifice. When you choose anything, you reject everything elseShowing Quotes on desires
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Quote 2531
Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of readiness to dieShowing Quotes on desires
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Quote 2415
Every act you have ever performed since the day you were born was performed because you wanted somethingby: Andrew CarnegieShowing Quotes on desires
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Quote 2357
We are valued in this world at the rate we desire to be valuedShowing Quotes on desires
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Quote 2351
As long as men are liable to die and are desirous to live, a physician will be made fun of, but he will be well paidShowing Quotes on desires
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Quote 2285
Had I but plenty of money, money enough and to spare, the house for me, no doubt, were a house in the city-squareby: Robert BrowningShowing Quotes on desires
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Quote 2260
As is your sort of mind, so is your sort of search: You'll find what you desireby: Robert BrowningShowing Quotes on desires
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Quote 2254
When a man's busy, why leisure strikes him as wonderful pleasure: faith, and at leisure once is he? Straightaway he wants to be busyby: Robert BrowningShowing Quotes on desires
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Quote 2184
In all ranks of life the human heart yearns for the beautiful; and the beautiful things that God makes are his gift to all alikeShowing Quotes on desires
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Quote 2175
The true way to gain much, is never to desire to gain too muchby: Francis BeaumontShowing Quotes on desires
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Quote 2158
If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectableShowing Quotes on desires
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Quote 2133
Things and actions are what they are, and the consequences of them will be what they will be: why then should we desire to be deceived?by: Joseph ButlerShowing Quotes on desires
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Quote 2100
Man's desires are limited by his perceptions; none can desire what he has not perceived.by: William BlakeShowing Quotes on desires
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Quote 2085
Those who restrain their desires, do so because theirs is weak enough to be restrainedby: William BlakeShowing Quotes on desires
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Quote 2055
This life is a hospital in which every patient is possessed with a desire to change his bedShowing Quotes on desires
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Quote 2050
If you desire faith, then you have faith enough.Showing Quotes on desires
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Quote 2005
Heaven wheels above you, displaying to you her eternal glories, and still your eyes are on the groundby: Dante AlighieriShowing Quotes on desires
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Quote 1952
It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wifeby: Jane AustenShowing Quotes on desires
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Quote 1848
Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside desperate to get outShowing Quotes on desires
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Quote 1830
Is not marriage an open question, when it is alleged, from the beginning of the world, that such as are in the institution wish to get out, and such as are out wish to get in?Showing Quotes on desires
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Quote 1802
Plenty of people wish to become devout, but no one wishes to be humbleby: Joseph AddisonShowing Quotes on desires
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Quote 1649
Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imaginedShowing Quotes on desires
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Quote 1629
I love those who yearn for the impossibleShowing Quotes on desires
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Quote 1617
I wish I could write as mysterious as a catby: Edgar Allan PoeShowing Quotes on desires
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Quote 1607
Whenever a man has cast a longing eye on offices, a rottenness begins in his conduct.by: Thomas JeffersonShowing Quotes on desires
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Quote 1579
Men's arguments often prove nothing but their wishesShowing Quotes on desires
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Quote 1566
Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romanceShowing Quotes on desires
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Quote 1537
It is the privilege of the gods to want nothing, and of godlike men to want littleby: DiogenesShowing Quotes on desires
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Quote 1527
Time is what we want most, but what we use worstby: William PennShowing Quotes on desires
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Quote 1512
Men for the sake of getting a living forget to liveby: Margaret FullerShowing Quotes on desires
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Quote 1403
Be not angry that you cannot make others as you wish them to be, since you cannot make yourself as you wish to beby: Thomas a KempisShowing Quotes on desires
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Quote 1388
In every living thing there is the desire for loveShowing Quotes on desires
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Quote 1166
Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wantsby: EpiktetShowing Quotes on desires
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Quote 1072
Ambition is the immoderate desire for powerShowing Quotes on desires
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Quote 1033
Always desire to learn something usefulby: SophoclesShowing Quotes on desires
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Quote 1032
All who call on God in true faith, earnestly from the heart, will certainly be heard, and will receive what they have asked and desiredby: Martin LutherShowing Quotes on desires
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Quote 1015
In the affairs of this world, men are saved not by faith, but by the want of itShowing Quotes on desires
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Quote 990
Dream no small dreams for they have no power to move the hearts of menShowing Quotes on desires
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Quote 973
Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruitby: AristotleShowing Quotes on desires
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