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Mount Everest Quotes

Almost all of us are aware of the fact how dangerous and tough task it is to climb the Mount Everest. Everest has become an example people often use in their conversations to describe a difficult task. Some interesting things have been said about this fabulous mountain which are quoted below:

The ardent golfer would play Mount Everest if somebody put a flagstick on top.
Pete Dye

I can’t understand why men make all this fuss about Everest—it’s only a mountain.
Junko Tabei

If it is a shame to be the second man on Mount Everest, then I will have to live with this shame.
Tenzing Norgay

Mountains don’t kill people, they just sit there.
Ed Viesturs

If you have adventure in you, make your first step towards the Everest.
Author Unknown

We encourage young people to go out and exceed thier goals. Everest is an icon of that.
Neil Beidleman

Mount Everest is very easy to climb, only just a little too high.
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Mountains are not fair or unfair, they are just dangerous.
Reinhold Messner

Had I been a man, I might have explored the Poles or climbed Mount Everest, but as it was, my spirit found outlet in the air.
Amy Johnson

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Breakup Quotes

Breakup has left many hearts broken and shattered. Some people with sensitivity have seen this, been through this and felt this; and as a result have said some amazing things about breakup which I am going to quote on this page. So, here are some quotable quotes about obesity:

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Love is unconditional, relationships are not.
Grant Gudmundson

Take away love and our earth is a tomb.
Robert Browning

Never regret. If it’s good, it’s wonderful. If it’s bad, it’s experience.
Victoria Holt

Sadness flies away on the wings of time.
Jean de La Fontaine

When you break up, your whole identity is shattered. It’s like death.
Dennis Quaid

God is closest to those with broken hearts.
Jewish Saying

Ever has it been that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.
Kahlil Gibran

My love-lies-bleeding.
Thomas Campbell

Trying to forget someone you love is like trying to remember someone you never knew.
Anonymous

Maybe part of loving is learning to let go.
From the television show The Wonder Years

The stupidest mistake in life is thinking the one who hurt you the most, won’t hurt you again.
Anonymous

Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.
Charlie Brown

It takes a minute to like someone, and hour to love someone, but to forget someone takes a life time.
Unknown Author

I don’t know why they call it heartbreak.  It feels like every other part of my body is broken too.
Missy Altijd

Giving up doesn’t always mean you are weak; sometimes it means that you are strong enough to let go.
Unknown Author

To fall in love is awfully simple, but to fall out of love is simply awful.
Bess Myerson

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Protest Quotes

People have found different ways to protest. Some protest by starving themselves, while others do that by going topless or completely naked in the public. Here are some quotes about protesting. Hope they come handy when you need to use them.

I, Philip Kearny, an old soldier, enter my solemn protest against this order for retreat.
Philip Kearny

What if you threw a protest and no one showed up? The lack of angst and anger and emotion is a big positive.
Jay Alan Sekulow

In such ugly times, the only true protest is beauty.
Phil Ochs

We all have private ails. The troublemakers are they who need public cures for their private ails.
Eric Hoffer

It’s funny how social activists usually protest against the only things that have a credible chance of achieving the activists’ goals.
Craig Bruce

There may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice, but there must never be a time when we fail to protest.
Elie Wiesel

It’s no fun to protest on an empty stomach.
Michael Bloomberg

To sin by silence when they should protest makes cowards of men.
Abraham Lincoln

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Creativity Quotes

Without creativity this world would have been the gloomiest. It is creativity that makes this world such an amazing place to live. From movies to literature to art to sports, creativity is a necessary thing and the one that makes the difference. That has allowed man to prosper.

Here are some quotes about creativity.

Power is domination, control, and therefore a very selective form of truth which is a lie.
Wole Soyinka

Control your life through insanity.
Cliff Burton

When you take charge of your life, there is no longer a need to ask permission of other people or society at large. When you ask permission, you give someone veto power over your life.”
Geoffrey F. Abert

A part of me has become immortal, out of my control.
Brian Eno

Liberty is the prevention of control by others.
John Acton

Acting touches nerves you have absolutely no control over.
Alan Rickman

I am in control at all times.
GG Allin

To know is to control.
Scott Reed

I wouldn’t play together with someone who likes to control everything like me.
Lenny Kravitz

The secret to success is to own nothing, but control everything.
Nelson Rockefeller

Give me control of a nation’s money and I care not who makes her laws.
Mayer Amschel Rothschild

Religion is just mind control.
George Carlin

Be yourself, take control of your life.
Emma Bunton

I cannot always control what goes on outside. But I can always control what goes on inside.
Wayne Dyer

Control success before it controls you.
Dwight Yoakam

Money is a mechanism for control.
David Korten

Culture means control over nature.
Johan Huizinga

When you relinquish the desire to control your future, you can have more happiness.
Nicole Kidman

As long as I live I will have control over my being.
Artemisia Gentileschi

One ought to hold on to one’s heart; for if one lets it go, one soon loses control of the head too.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Control your own destiny or someone else will.
Jack Welch

Man does not control his own fate. The women in his life do that for him.
Groucho Marx

Goals allow you to control the direction of change in your favor.
Brian Tracy

Two things control men’s nature, instinct and experience.
Blaise Pascal

What a man’s mind can create, man’s character can control.
Thomas A. Edison

It takes tremendous discipline to control the influence, the power you have over other people’s lives.
Clint Eastwood

Control thy passions lest they take vengence on thee.
Epictetus

A journey is like marriage. The certain way to be wrong is to think you control it.
John Steinbeck

To enjoy freedom we have to control ourselves.
Virginia Woolf

One man with a gun can control 100 without one.
Vladimir Lenin

I cannot trust a man to control others who cannot control himself.
Robert E. Lee

Immense power is acquired by assuring yourself in your secret reveries that you were born to control affairs.
Andrew Carnegie

When you control a man’s thinking you do not have to worry about his actions.
Carter G. Woodson

If everything seems under control, you’re just not going fast enough.
Mario Andretti

We have created trouble for ourselves in organizations by confusing control with order.
Margaret J. Wheatley

I think all art is about control – the encounter between control and the uncontrollable.
Richard Avedon

Do not let circumstances control you. You change your circumstances.
Jackie Chan

Do what you fear most and you control fear.
Tom Hopkins

If you’ve experienced having control, you don’t want to be moved to a subordinate position, if you have your druthers.
Julius Erving

Grammar, which knows how to control even kings.
Moliere

Not being able to govern events, I govern myself, and apply myself to them, if they will not apply themselves to me.
Michel de Montaigne

Rule your mind or it will rule you.
Horace

It is a man’s own mind, not his enemy or foe, that lures him to evil ways.
Buddha

He who angers you conquers you.
Elizabeth Kenny

The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it.
Oscar Wilde

The highest possible stage in moral culture is when we recognize that we ought to control our thoughts.
Charles Robert Darwin

What makes resisting temptation difficult for many people is they don’t want to discourage it completely.
Franklin P. Jones

When we direct our thoughts properly, we can control our emotions…
W. Clement Stone

As long as I have you there is just one other thing I’ll always need – tremendous self control.
Ashleigh Brilliant

Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

You can’t always control the wind, but you can control your sails.
Anthony Robbins

No man is fit to command another that cannot command himself.
William Penn

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Confidence Quotes

Here are some inspirational quotes about confidence for you to get inspired. Tell us how do you feel after reading these quotable quotations by commenting below.

Nobody can make you feel inferior without your consent.
Eleanor Roosevelt

Besides pride, loyalty, discipline, heart, and mind, confidence is the key to all the locks.
Joe Paterno

All you need is ignorance and confidence and the success is sure.
Mark Twain

It’s not who you are that holds you back, it’s who you think you’re not.
Unknown

With confidence, you have won before you have started.
Marcus Garvey

Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.
Helen Keller

Whatever we expect with confidence becomes our own self-fulfilling prophecy.
Brian Tracy

Success comes in cans, not cant’s.
Unknown

Courage is a mean with regard to fear and confidence.
Aristotle

Faith is deliberate confidence in the character of God whose ways you may not understand at the time.
Oswald Chambers

Put your future in good hands – your own.
Unknown

We do not so much need the help of our friends as the confidence of their help in need.
Epicurus

Confidence is a very fragile thing.
Joe Montana

If you doubt yourself, then indeed you stand on shaky ground.
Henrik Ibsen

If you have no confidence in self, you are twice defeated in the race of life. With confidence, you have won even before you have started.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

Confidence cannot find a place wherein to rest in safety.
Virgil

Most of the confidence which I appear to feel, especially when influenced by noon wine, is only a pretense.
Tennessee Williams

A gold medal is a nice thing – but if you’re not enough without it, you’ll never be enough with it.
From Cool Runnings

Confidence in others’ honesty is no light testimony of one’s own integrity.
Michel de Montaigne

In fact, the confidence of the people is worth more than money.
Carter G. Woodson

Skill and confidence are an unconquered army.
George Herbert

A person can grow only as much as his horizon allows.
John Powell

I was always looking outside myself for strength and confidence but it comes from within. It is there all the time.
Anna Freud

Confidence is something you’re born with. I know I had loads of it even at the age of 15.
Hedy Lamarr

What’s the worst thing that can happen to a quarterback? He loses his confidence.
Terry Bradshaw

As is our confidence, so is our capacity.
William Hazlitt

Confidence contributes more to conversation than wit.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Confidence is everything in this business.
Reese Witherspoon

Confidence is key. Sometimes, you need to look like you’re confident even when you’re not.
Vanessa Hudgens

You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them.
Michael Jordan

All anything takes, really, is confidence.
Rachel Ward

It’s lack of faith that makes people afraid of meeting challenges, and I believe in myself.
Muhammad Ali

You get confidence with wins.
Dave Rose

Power without a nation’s confidence is nothing.
Catherine II

The big gap between the ability of actors is confidence.
Kathleen Turner

Sun Tzu: Self Confidence Quotes
Know yourself and you will win all battles.

Zig Ziglar: Confidence Quotations
You cannot consistently perform in a manner which is inconsistent with the way you see yourself.

The height of your accomplishments will equal the depth of your convictions.
William F. Scolavino

People become really quite remarkable when they start thinking that they can do things. When they believe in themselves they have the first secret of success.
Norman Vincent Peale

The whole world steps aside for the man who knows where he is going.
Unknown

Confidence is the companion of success.
Unknown

Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings.
Samuel Johnson

Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgment that something else is more important than fear.
Ambrose Redmoon

Sooner or later, those who win are those who think they can.
Richard Bach

First thing every morning before you arise say out loud, I believe.
Norman Vincent Peale

He who fears being conquered is sure of defeat.
Napoleon Bonaparte

Give me where to stand, and I will move the earth.
Archimedes

Trust yourself, then you will know how to live.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

If you have confidence you have patience. Confidence, that is everything.
Ilie Nastase

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Fame Quotes

Many have wanted to be famous, some even died trying to attain fame, but only a few have become famous. Read the quotes below to know what some of the famous people have said about the fame.

The fame you earn has a different taste from the fame that is forced upon you.
Gloria Vanderbilt

Talent is God given. Be humble. Fame is man-given. Be grateful. Conceit is self-given. Be careful.
John Wooden

Fame is like a river, that beareth up things light and swollen, and drowns things weighty and solid.
Francis Bacon

If fame is only to come after death, I am in no hurry for it.
Martial

Fame is a fickle food upon a shifting plate.
Emily Dickinson

Fame has sent a number of celebrities off the deep end, and in the case of Michael Jackson, to the kiddy pool.
Bill Maher

Fame is the thirst of youth.
Lord Byron

If you modestly enjoy your fame you are not unworthy to rank with the holy.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Fame usually comes to those who are thinking about something else.
Oliver Wendell Holmes

Fame is only good for one thing – they will cash your check in a small town.
Truman Capote

The highest form of vanity is love of fame.
George Santayana

Some people obtain fame, others deserve it.
Doris Lessing

Fame often makes a writer vain, but seldom makes him proud.
W. H. Auden

Fame comes only when deserved, and then is as inevitable as destiny, for it is destiny.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Fame comes only when deserved, and then is as inevitable as destiny, for it is destiny.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Fame means millions of people have the wrong idea of who you are.
Erica Jong

Love of fame is the last thing even learned men can bear to be parted from.
Tacitus

I think it’s easy for people to assume that fame is equal to glory, but it can be a very isolating experience.
Sophia Bush

I feel like fame is wasted on me.
Ben Affleck

To want fame is to prefer dying scorned than forgotten.
Emile M. Cioran

What is popularly called fame is nothing but an empty name and a legacy from paganism.
Desiderius Erasmus

The reward of art is not fame or success but intoxication: that is why so many bad artists are unable to give it up.
Jean Cocteau

A life without fame can be a good life, but fame without a life is no life at all.
Clive James

If you live for fame, men may turn against you.
Matthew Simpson

Fame makes me feel wanted and loved, anybody wants that.
Michael Hutchence

Fame was thrilling only until it became grueling. Money was fun only until you ran out of things to buy.
Gloria Swanson

Fame is a very confusing thing, because you are recognized by a lot of people that you’ve never seen before, and they’re at a great advantage.
Scott Hamilton

Fame is a vapor, popularity an accident, and riches take wings. Only one thing endures and that is character.
Horace

People can get certain good things out of fame, but until it killed a princess nobody ever talked about how bad it can be.
Sherry Stringfield

Fame and tranquility can never be bedfellows.
Michel de Montaigne

Fame lost its appeal for me when I went into a public restroom and an autograph seeker handed me a pen and paper under the stall door.
Marlo Thomas

I always thought I should be treated like a star.
Madonna

Fame is the perfume of heroic deeds.
Socrates

If you come to fame not understanding who you are, it will define who you are.
Oprah Winfrey

Even the best things are not equal to their fame.
Henry David Thoreau

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Depression Quotes

Depression is a silent killer to those who suffer from it. As it damages ones personality and appearance, it also hurts ones thoughts, social behavior and health. Read these selected quotes from some famous authors and see what they think about depression.

Art saved me; it got me through my depression and self-loathing, back to a place of innocence.
Jeanette Winterson

I used to be good friends with my depression, saying oh I’m so depressed, or life is terrible.
Tony Curtis

My depression is the most faithful mistress I have known — no wonder, then, that I return the love.
Soren kierkegaard

Coming down off crack is like the worst depression. The worst.
Ray Brown

I have suffered from depression for most of my life. It is an illness.
Adam Ant

Depression is rage spread thin.
George Santayana

Depression, as far as I’m concerned, is just a waste of time.
Helen Reddy

Depression is something that makes you lose your sight.
Michael Schenker

Depression is when you have lots of love, but no one’s taking.
Doug Coupland

Depression is the inability to construct a future.
Rollo May

I didn’t feel the Depression at all. I always had a pocketful of money.
Walter Annenberg

I, I don’t think anybody’s continually happy, uh, except idiots, you know. You know, you have to have little moments of depression.
Rube Goldberg

In a strange way, I had fallen in love with my depression.
Elizabeth Wurtzel

My recovery from manic depression has been an evolution, not a sudden miracle.
Patty Duke

Just like other illnesses, depression can be treated so that people can live happy, active lives.
Tom Bosley

Noble deeds and hot baths are the best cures for depression.
Dodie Smith

The only way to escape the abyss is to look at it, gauge it, sound it out and descend into it.
Cesare Pavese

We all know pain doesn’t exist without some coexisting depression.
Jerry Hall

Mysteriously and in ways that are totally remote from natural experience, the gray drizzle of horror induced by depression takes on the quality of physical pain.
William Styron

For me being depressed means you can spend all day in bed, and still not get a good night’s rest.
Unknown

Depression is nourished by a lifetime of ungrieved and unforgiven hurts.
Penelope Sweet

When women are depressed, they eat or go shopping. Men invade another country. It’s a whole different way of thinking. ~
Elayne Boosler

I drink to stay warm, and to kill selected memories.
Conor Oberst

I find nothing more depressing than optimism.
Paul Fussell

Many people think that depression is something you just have to live with when you get older, but it’s not.
Tom Bosley

Depression is a treatable medical illness like cancer and heart disease. ~
Judith Peacock

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Obedience Quotes

A great work is made out of a combination of obedience and liberty.
Nadia Boulanger

Obedience is the mother of success and is wedded to safety.
Aeschylus

I don’t see success as the goal. Obedience is the goal.
Jerry B. Jenkins

The strongest is never strong enough to be always the master, unless he transforms strength into right, and obedience into duty.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Obedience is an act of faith; disobedience is the result of unbelief.
Edwin Louis Cole

I know the power obedience has of making things easy which seem impossible.
Saint Teresa

It is with obedience to your call that I take up the burden of government leadership for the final time.
Kamisese Mara

If men make war in slavish obedience to rules, they will fail.
Ulysses S. Grant

Obedience of the law is demanded; not asked as a favor.
Theodore Roosevelt

Strength was the virtue of paganism; obedience is the virtue of Christianity.
David Hare

One act of obedience is better than one hundred sermons.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Teachability and trust always leads to total obedience.
Ed Townsend

There is no shame in taking orders from those who themselves have learned to obey.
William Edward Forster

What we call “morals” is simply blind obedience to words of command.
Henry Ellis

Obedience is the mother of success and is wedded to safety.
Aeschylus

When someone demands blind obedience, you’d be a fool not to peek.
Jim Fiebig

The only safe ruler is he who has learned to obey willingly.
Thomas à Kempis

Let the child’s first lesson be obedience, and the second will be what thou wilt.
Benjamin Franklin

A great many of us must move from words to acts – from words of dissent to acts of disobedience.
Barbara Deming

Obedience alone gives the right to command.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

No principle is more noble, as there is none more holy, than that of a true obedience.
Henry Giles

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Effort Quotes

A free lunch is only found in mousetraps.
John Capuzzi

The next best thing to winning is losing! At least you’ve been in the race.
Nellie Hershey Tullis

Do a little more each day than you think you possibly can.
Lowell Thomas

You get the best out of others when you give the best of yourself.
Harry Firestone

Sweat plus sacrifice equals success.
Charles O. Finley

I’ve got a theory that if you give 100 percent all of the time, somehow things will work out in the end.
Larry Bird

The difference between try and triumph is just a little umph!
Marvin Phillips

All the so-called “secrets of success” will not work unless you do.
Unknown

He who labors diligently need never despair; for all things are accomplished by diligence and labor.
Menander

Much good work is lost for the lack of a little more.
Edward H. Harriman

For every disciplined effort there is a multiple reward.
Jim Rohn

The person who is waiting for something to turn up might start with their shirt sleeves.
Garth Henrichs

Continuous effort – not strength or intelligence – is the key to unlocking our potential.
Winston Churchill

Most of one’s life is one prolonged effort to prevent oneself thinking.
Aldous Huxley

The achievements of an organization are the results of the combined effort of each individual.
Vince Lombardi

Trees are the earth’s endless effort to speak to the listening heaven.
Rabindranath Tagore

Education comes from within; you get it by struggle and effort and thought.
Napoleon Hill

The mode by which the inevitable comes to pass is effort.
Oliver Wendell Holmes

Effort only fully releases its reward after a person refuses to quit.
Napoleon Hill

The one thing that matters is the effort.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery

The less effort, the faster and more powerful you will be.
Bruce Lee

A great thing can only be done by a great person; and they do it without effort.
John Ruskin

Theology is the effort to explain the unknowable in terms of the not worth knowing.
H. L. Mencken

Always make a total effort, even when the odds are against you.
Arnold Palmer

Great effort springs naturally from great attitude.
Pat Riley

The effort of art is to keep what is interesting in existence, to recreate it in the eternal.
George Santayana

Fame is a constant effort.
Jules Renard

Quality is never an accident. It is always the result of intelligent effort.
John Ruskin

Much effort, much prosperity.
Euripides

We all have dreams. But in order to make dreams come into reality, it takes an awful lot of determination, dedication, self-discipline, and effort.
Jesse Owens

A winning effort begins with preparation.
Joe Gibbs

Effort is only effort when it begins to hurt.
Jose Ortega y Gasset

The footprint of the owner is the best manure.
English Proverb

The only place where success comes before work is in the dictionary.
Vidal Sassoon and Donald Kendall

About the only thing that comes to us without effort is old age.
Gloria Pitzer

If you train hard, you’ll not only be hard, you’ll be hard to beat.
Herschel Walker

One that would have the fruit must climb the tree.
Thomas Fuller

Do not confuse motion and progress. A rocking horse keeps moving but does not make any progress.
Alfred A. Montapert

Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort.
Franklin D. Roosevelt

Children are our future we must take care of them with maximum effort.
Naomi Campbell

Put the uncommon effort into the common task… make it large by doing it in a great way.
Orison Swett Marden

If one is to be called a liar, one may as well make an effort to deserve the name.
A. A. Milne

The reward of eternal life requires effort.
Thomas S. Monson

Superhuman effort isn’t worth a damn unless it achieves results.
Ernest Shackleton

What is written without effort is in general read without pleasure.
Samuel Johnson

To listen is an effort, and just to hear is no merit. A duck hears also.
Igor Stravinsky

Success is dependent on effort.
Sophocles

I made a game effort to argue but two things were against me: the umpires and the rules.
Leo Durocher

I really didn’t try to make an effort to make urban music, but I am a product of my inspirations.
Justin Timberlake

The man who can drive himself further once the effort gets painful is the man who will win.
Roger Bannister

Everyone makes a greater effort to hurt other people than to help himself.
Alexis Carrel

Again, it may be said, that to love justice and equality the people need no great effort of virtue; it is sufficient that they love themselves.
Maximilien Robespierre

Understand from top to bottom what the effort requires.
Bill Toomey

In the final phase of cocaine intoxication, when suicide is likely, the victim cannot save himself by an effort of will. He has lost the power.
Carroll O’Connor

For those who are willing to make an effort, great miracles and wonderful treasures are in store.
Isaac Bashevis Singer

I just find that the harder you work and the more effort you put into yourself, the better you’ll be.
Jason Schwartzman

The greater the effort, the greater the glory.
Pierre Corneille

We’ve put more effort into helping folks reach old age than into helping them enjoy it.
Frank Howard Clark

Reading is a huge effort for many people, a bore for others, and, believe it or not, many people prefer watching TV.
Hugh Mackay

Effort and result are never simultaneous. In art, only the result counts.
Jose Bergamin

Nobody’s a natural. You work hard to get good and then work hard to get better.
Paul Coffey

Anyone can negatively criticize – it is the cheapest of all comment because it requires not a modicum of the effort that suggestion requires.
Chuck Jones

Men who do things without being told draw the most wages.
Edwin H. Stuart

There’s no ceiling on effort!
Harvey C. Fruehauf

Laziness may appear attractive but work gives satisfaction.
Ann Frank

Nobody ever drowned in his own sweat.
Ann Landers

Continuous effort – not strength or intelligence – is the key to unlocking our potential.
Liane Cordes

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Desire Quotes

Some desire is necessary to keep life in motion.
Samuel Johnson

Everything is perfect in the universe – even your desire to improve it.
Wayne Dyer

Without a sense of urgency, desire loses its value.
Jim Rohn

The desire not to be anything is the desire not to be.
Ayn Rand

War grows out of the desire of the individual to gain advantage at the expense of his fellow man.
Napoleon Hill

Desire of having is the sin of covetousness.
William Shakespeare

The starting point of all achievement is desire.
Napoleon Hill

Do not ever say that the desire to “do good” by force is a good motive. Neither power-lust nor stupidity are good motives.
Ayn Rand

If you desire many things, many things will seem few.
Benjamin Franklin

Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.
Robert Frost

Human behavior flows from three main sources: desire, emotion, and knowledge.
Plato

Men freely believe that which they desire.
Julius Caesar

The key to success is to focus our conscious mind on things we desire not things we fear.
Brian Tracy

Freedom is not procured by a full enjoyment of what is desired, but by controlling the desire.
Epictetus

Boredom: the desire for desires.
Leo Tolstoy

Better murder an infant in its cradle than nurse an unacted desire.
William Blake

The desire to take medicine is perhaps the greatest feature which distinguishes man from animals.
William Osler

The discipline of desire is the background of character.
John Locke

What do you want a meaning for? Life is a desire, not a meaning.
Charlie Chaplin

If you start by promising what you don’t even have yet, you’ll lose your desire to work towards getting it.
Paulo Coelho

The first principle of success is desire – knowing what you want. Desire is the planting of your seed.
Robert Collier

The first principle of success is desire – knowing what you want. Desire is the planting of your seed.
Robert Collier

Take from the philosopher the pleasure of being heard and his desire for knowledge ceases.
Jean Jacques Rousseau

Let us train our minds to desire what the situation demands.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

If you desire faith, then you have faith enough.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning

To desire is to obtain; to aspire is to achieve.
James Allen

It is hard to contend against one’s heart’s desire; for whatever it wishes to have it buys at the cost of soul.
Heraclitus

Of all the gods only death does not desire gifts.
Aeschylus

There is no desire more natural than the desire for knowledge.
Michel de Montaigne

Knowledge is the eye of desire and can become the pilot of the soul.
Will Durant

Love is simply the name for the desire and the pursuit of the whole.
Aristophanes

When desire dies, fear is born.
Baltasar Gracian

Every man makes a god of his own desire.
Virgil

I put for the general inclination of all mankind, a perpetual and restless desire of power after power, that ceaseth only in death.
Thomas Hobbes

It is a waste of money to help those who show no desire to help themselves.
Taylor Caldwell

I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve the world and a desire to enjoy the world. This makes it hard to plan the day.
E. B. White

Forbid us something, and that thing we desire.
Geoffrey Chaucer

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

A great many men’s gratitude is nothing but a secret desire to hook in more valuable kindnesses hereafter.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

I never desire to converse with a man who has written more than he has read.
Samuel Johnson

The desire to seem clever often keeps us from being so.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

A refusal of praise is a desire to be praised twice.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

The desire to write grows with writing.
Desiderius Erasmus

If you desire ease, forsake learning.
Nagarjuna

I want to swim in both directions at once. Desire success, court failure.
Alan Rickman

If you care enough for a result, you will most certainly attain it.
William James

Almost every desire a poor man has is a punishable offence.
Louis-Ferdinand Celine

Desire creates the power.
Raymond Hollingwell

Almost every desire a poor man has is a punishable offence.
Louis-Ferdinand Celine

The beginning of wisdom is to desire it.
Solomon Ibn Gabirol

A shot glass of desire is greater than a pitcher of talent.
Andy Munthe

Desire creates the power.
Raymond Hollingwell

If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.
Henry David Thoreau

There will always be a battle between the sexes because men and women want different things. Men want women and women want men.
George Burns

Image creates desire. You will want what you imagine.
J. G. Gallimore

There is no use whatever trying to help people who do not help themselves. You cannot push anyone up a ladder unless he be willing to climb himself.
Andrew Carnegie

We trifle when we assign limits to our desires, since nature hath set none.
Christian Nevell Bovee

Out of need springs desire, and out of desire springs the energy and the will to win.
Denis Waitley

When you can’t have what you want, it’s time to start wanting what you have.
Kathleen A. Sutton

No one does anything from a single motive.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge

You don’t have to do anything you don’t want to do.
David Harold Fink

The poorest man is not without a cent, but without a dream.
Unknown

You’ve got to be before you can do, and do before you can have.
Zig Ziglar

The first principle of success is desire – knowing what you want. Desire is the planting of your seed.
Robert Collier

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