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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.Showing Quotes on desires
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 heavenShowing 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?Showing 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 thingsShowing 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
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 somethingShowing 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-squareShowing 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 desireShowing Quotes on desires
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 busyShowing 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
Quote 2175
The true way to gain much, is never to desire to gain too muchShowing 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?Showing 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.Showing Quotes on desires
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Quote 2085
Those who restrain their desires, do so because theirs is weak enough to be restrainedShowing Quotes on desires