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Desire Quotes
The drive behind every goal worth chasing.
This collection frames desire as fuel - for personal energy, industry leadership, and even the universe's own push toward improvement. It's a theme that swings between ambition and restraint. Explore related lines under Dream.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
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- Nov 07, 2020
The great increase in longevity has produced a surge in the desire to accumulate assets for retirement. It has outpaced the ability of the private sector to produce assets, so we need a larger government debt.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've been attracted to imagery and occasionally I've drawn from it, but I never thought I'd be painting these paintings. I didn't have any desire to. I didn't think there was any reason to.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
The desire to take medicine is perhaps the greatest feature which distinguishes man from animals.
- Matter
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- Nov 07, 2020
My lord, I have some matter of law relating to the indictment, and I desire counsel to speak to it.
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- Nov 07, 2020
We have no desire to convince anyone that there is only one way by which faith can be acquired.
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is not only our duty to pray for others, but also to desire the prayers of others for ourselves.
- Influence
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- Nov 07, 2020
Perseverance is an active principle, and cannot continue to operate but under the influence of desire.
- Company
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- Nov 07, 2020
The majority of the senior class of Vassar does not desire my company and I must confess, having read specimens of their thought and sentiments, that I do not desire the company of the majority of the senior class of Vassar.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have known more men destroyed by the desire to have wife and child and to keep them in comfort than I have seen destroyed by drink and harlots.
- Creation
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- Nov 07, 2020
Desire is creation, is the magical element in that process. If there were an instrument by which to measure desire, one could foretell achievement.
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- Nov 07, 2020