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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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