Desire Quotes - Page 35

• The wonder of Independence is that it encourages open minds and the desire to improve.

  Monty Roberts

  Independence, Mind, Wonder

  FaceBook post by Monty Roberts from Jul 04, 2015

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• The boy's (Hack Wilson) got talent and desire, but he ain't got no neck.

  John McGraw

  Boys, Necks, Talent

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• Just as a waterfall grows slower and more lightly suspended as it plunges down, so the great man of action tends to act with greater calmness than his tempestuous desires prior to the deed would lead one to expect.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Men, Deeds, Waterfalls

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• And what is Genius but finer love, a love impersonal, a love of the flower and perfection of things, and a desire to draw a new picture or copy of the same? It looks to the cause and life: it proceeds from within outward, whilst Talent goes from without inward.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Flower, Perfection

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1870). “The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.118, Рипол Классик

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• The desire to perform impedes conversation.

  Mason Cooley

  Conversation

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• The extravagance of intellect outstrips the extravagance of desire.

  Mason Cooley

  Extravagance, Excess, Intellect

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• Altruism is for those who cannot endure their desires.

  Mason Cooley

  Endure, Altruism

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• The desire to be significant casts a pall.

  Mason Cooley

  Significant, Significance, Casts

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• Smiling half-reluctance seems to promise more than the frankest gesture of desire.

  Mason Cooley

  Smile, Promise, Half

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• You desire to be learned, wealthy, and great, without labor; it is one of the follies still extant in the world.

  George Pope Morris

  World, Wealthy, Folly

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• The life of a thinking man will probably be divided into two parts -- the first in which he desires to exterminate modern thinkers, and the second in which he desires to watch them exterminating each other. ... Suppose, for instance, there is an old story and a new skeptic who is skeptical of the story. We have only to wait a little while for a yet newer skeptic who is skeptical of the skeptic. He will probably find the old notion actually a help in his new notion. This process is an abstract truth applying to anything, apart from agreement or disagreement.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Truth, Men, Thinking

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• I tell you naught for your comfort, Yea, naught for your desire, Save that the sky grows darker yet And the sea rises higher.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Sea, Sky, Comfort

  'The Ballad of the White Horse' (1911) bk. 1, p. 18

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• To desire money is much nobler than to desire success. Desiring money may mean desiring to return to your country, or marry the woman you love, or ransom your father from brigands. But desiring success must mean that you take an abstract pleasure in the unbrotherly act of distancing and disgracing other men.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Country, Money, Father

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• The thing that I'm always left with is this overwhelming desire for people to be rooted and the only way that they feel rooted is through another person.

  John R. Allen

  Overwhelming Desire, People, Way

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• The Scoutmaster guides the boy in the spirit of an older brother... He has simply to be a boy-man, that is: (1) He must have the boy spirit in him: and must be able to place himself in the right plane with his boys as a first step. (2) He must realise the needs, outlooks and desires of the different ages of boy life. (3) He must deal with the individual boy rather than with the mass. (4) He then needs to promote a corporate spirit among his individuals to gain the best results.

  Robert Baden-Powell

  Brother, Boys, Men

  "Aids to Scoutmastership". Book by Robert Baden-Powell, 1919.

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• A desire to succeed in politics is propelled by these two seemingly contradictory forces, which frequently change places and sometimes coexist: to save others and to save oneself.

  Madeleine M. Kunin

  Two, Succeed, Politics

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• Like art, political action gives shape and expression to the things we fear as well as to those we desire. It is a creative process, drawing on the power to imagine as well as to act.

  Madeleine M. Kunin

  Art, Drawing, Expression

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• Ambition, as that passion is generally understood,- a strong desire to rise above others, to occupy the first place, - formed no part of Lafayette's character. In him the passion was nothing more than a constant and irresistible wish to do good.

  Marquis de Lafayette

  Strong, Passion, Ambition

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• Guilt can interfere with our desires to move forward, to heal properly and to become a person who has the mental health and means of proper recompense.

  Bryant H. McGill

  Moving, Mean, Guilt

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• Though we may not desire to detect fraud, we must not, on that account, endeavor to be insensible of it, for, as cunning is a crime, so is duplicity a fault, and if men dread knaves, they also despise fools.

  Norm MacDonald

  Men, Duplicity, May

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• A capacity for hating the object of desire is, perhaps, the best cure for love in cases of disappointment.

  Norm MacDonald

  Love, Disappointment, Hate

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• Love is an artful arrangement of artless pretensions, whereby we labor to appear innocent in what we desire to be most cunning.

  Norm MacDonald

  Love, Innocent, Cunning

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• If you desire praise or esteem, endeavor to merit it.

  Norm MacDonald

  Merit, Praise, Endeavor

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• I do not desire to give myself any fresh political label. Though the formation of the Union of Democratic Control it has been possible for me to work in close co-operation with several of your leaders and this joint effort on the part of the Labour members and radicals is having I think a very beneficial effect. I do not desire to alienate myself from any of my former political associates but rather to endeavour to urge them along the same path which I myself am treading.

  Arthur Ponsonby, 1st Baron Ponsonby of Shulbrede

  Thinking, Giving, Political

  Letter to Herbert Bryan, May 19, 1916.

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• Thank God we in Iran have neither the desire nor the need to suffer from democracy.

  Mohammed Reza Pahlavi

  Iran, Suffering, Democracy

  "The Shah and I: The Confidential Diary of Iran's Royal Court, 1968-77". Book by Asadollah Alam, p. 233, 1991.

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