Top Desire Quotes
You are undoubtedly acquainted with my Reputation, and as for my Penmanship it must speak for itself; this is to desire your Approbation to keep a public school.
Eli Whitney
It is one of my sources of happiness never to desire a knowledge of other people's business.
Dolley Madison
To desire is to obtain; to aspire is to achieve.
James Allen
In order to succeed, your desire for success should be greater than your fear of failure.
Bill Cosby
The courage we desire and prize is not the courage to die decently, but to live manfully.
Thomas Carlyle
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Bertrand Russell All Desire Quotes
Politeness is a desire to be treated politely, and to be esteemed polite oneself.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld 
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Not that painting would have been a release. The reason for doing it is the desire to create. I've got to do it! I've seen that, I can still remember it, I've got to paint it.
Otto Dix
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Heterosexuality is dangerous. It tempts you to aim at a perfect duality of desire.
Marguerite Duras
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The Bible, as a revelation from God, was not designed to give us all the information we might desire, nor to solve all the questions about which the human soul is perplexed, but to impart enough to be a safe guide to the haven of eternal rest.
Albert Barnes
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Experience, as a desire for experience, does not come off. We must not study ourselves while having an experience.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Our destiny changes with our thought; we shall become what we wish to become, do what we wish to do, when our habitual thought corresponds with our desire.
Orison Swett Marden
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I am surprised that I cannot recall whether my desire to become a minister transformed itself into a wish to lead the more militant life of missionary, by a slow process or suddenly.
Pierre Loti
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I shall not change my course because those who assume to be better than I desire it.
Victoria Woodhull
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