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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All people desire what they believe will make them happy. If a person is not full of desire for God, we can only conclude that he is engaged with another happiness.
William Law 
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It is the desire of our hearts, and as we believe God's will under this dispensation, that all the children of God should be gathered together as such, and, consequently, as not of the world.
John Nelson Darby
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It is great good health to believe, as the Hindus do, that there are 33 million gods and goddesses in the world. It is great good health to want to understand one's dreams. It is great good health to desire the ambiguous and paradoxical.
Clive Barker
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This life is a hospital in which every patient is possessed with a desire to change his bed.
Charles Baudelaire
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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.
William Vickrey
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It is my really sincere desire that we get an opportunity to play long enough for people to really grab on and become fans, because I think it's a great project.
Ron Glass
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A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others.
Ayn Rand
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The way to gain a good reputation is to endeavor to be what you desire to appear.
Socrates
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A woman in love will do almost anything for a man, except give up the desire to improve him.
Nathaniel Branden
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