Desire Quotes - Page 17

• A life is either all spiritual or not spiritual at all. No man can serve two masters. Your life is shaped by the end you live for. You are made in the image of what you desire.

  Thomas Merton

  Life, God, Spiritual

  Thomas Merton (2011). “Thoughts In Solitude”, p.64, Macmillan

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• Loosen the bonds of avarice from your hands and neck.

  Rumi

  Hands, Necks, Avarice

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• If I find in myself a desire which no experience in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world.

  C. S. Lewis

  Inspirational, Life, Spiritual

  C. S. Lewis (2003). “A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis”, p.21, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• It's not who jumps the highest - it's who wants it the most

  Buck Williams

  Want, Highest

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• Always desire to learn something useful

  Sophocles

  Inspirational, Life, Encouragement

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• Desire is the essence of a man.

  Baruch Spinoza

  Men, Essence

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• It is said that desire is a product of the will, but the converse is in fact true: will is a product of desire.

  Denis Diderot

  Facts, Said, Converses

  Denis Diderot (1966). “Selected Writings”, New York : Macmillan

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• If we discover a desire within us that nothing in this world can satisfy, also we should begin to wonder if perhaps we were created for another world.

  C. S. Lewis

  Ministry, World, Wonder

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• Every man has business and desire, Such as it is.

  William Shakespeare

  Business, Memorable, Men

  William Shakespeare (1720). “A Collection of the Best English Plays, Chosen Out of All the Best Authors..: Vol. I.”, p.28

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• If you don't get everything you want, think of the things you don't get that you don't want.

  Oscar Wilde

  Positive, Gratitude, Appreciation

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• It belongs to the imperfection of everything human that man can only attain his desire by passing through its opposite.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Men, Opposites, Imperfection

  The Journals of Søren Kierkegaard, 1841.

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• If one wants another only for some self-satisfaction, usually in the form of sensual pleasure, that wrong desire takes the form of lust rather than love.

  Mortimer Adler

  Self, Lust, Sensual

  Mortimer Jerome Adler (1991). “Desires, Right & Wrong: The Ethics of Enough”, MacMillan Publishing Company

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• We have an obligation and a responsibility to be investing in our students and our schools. We must make sure that people who have the grades, the desire and the will, but not the money, can still get the best education possible.

  Barack Obama

  Money, Educational, Responsibility

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• Desires make slaves out of kings and patience makes kings out of slaves.

  Al-Ghazali

  Kings, Slave

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• When your desires are strong enough you will appear to possess superhuman powers to achieve.

  Napoleon Hill

  Positive, Being Strong, Dream

  Napoleon Hill (2013). “The Law of Success”, p.295, Courier Corporation

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• We are always striving for things forbidden, and coveting those denied us.

  Ovid

  Coveting, Strive, Forbidden Things

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• The beginning of reform is not so much to equalize property as to train the noble sort of natures not to desire more, and to prevent the lower from getting more.

  Aristotle

  Nature, Equality, Reform

  Aristotle (2016). “Politics”, p.58, Aristotle

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• Be careful about wanting what others have. There is always a price. Perhaps God didn’t give it to you, because He knew you wouldn’t be able to pay it.

  Yasmin Mogahed

  Inspirational, God, Religious

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• I believe passionately that Christianity is a way of life, not a theological system with which one must be in intellectual agreement. I feel that Christ would admit into discipleship anyone who sincerely desired to follow him, and allow that disciple to make his creed out of his experience; to listen, to consider, to pray, to follow, and ultimately to believe only those convictions about which the experience of fellowship made him sure.

  Leslie Weatherhead

  Life, God, Faith

  "The Christian Agnostic" by Leslie Weatherhead, (Preface, p. 16, sentences 2,3.), 1965.

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• Good character consists of knowing the good, desiring the good, and doing the good habits of the mind, habits of the heart, and habits of action.

  Thomas Lickona

  Integrity, Heart, Character

  Thomas Lickona (2009). “Educating for Character: How Our Schools Can Teach Respect and Responsibility”, p.51, Bantam

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• If you learn to set a good sail, the wind that blows will always take you to the dreams you want, the income you want, and the treasures of mind, purse, and soul you want.

  Jim Rohn

  Inspirational, Dream, Learning

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from Sep 22, 2016

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• Your dream has to be bigger than your fear.

  Steve Harvey

  Inspirational, Dream, Fear

  Twitter post from Dec 01, 2016

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• We must learn to apply all that we know so that we can attract all that we want.

  Jim Rohn

  Success, Learning, Knowledge

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from Apr 15, 2017

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• A man cannot govern a nation if he cannot govern a city; he cannot govern a city if he cannot govern a family; he cannot govern a family unless he can govern himself; and he cannot govern himself unless his passions are subject to reason

  Hugo Grotius

  Family, Leadership, Passion

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• No one is ready for a thing until he believes he can acquire it. The state of mind must be BELIEF, not mere hope or wish.

  Napoleon Hill

  Inspirational, Hope, Attitude

  "How to Be Rich".

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