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• The individual who wants to reach the top in business must appreciate the might and force of habit. He must be quick to break those habits that can break him-and hasten to adopt those practices that will become the habits that help him achieve the success he desires.

  J. Paul Getty

  Business, Practice, Discipline

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• If we desire peace, we must prepare for peace. The most important thing is to build a culture of peace.

  Anwarul Karim Chowdhury

  Peace, Important, Culture

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• No man can be a good teacher unless he has feelings of warm affection toward his pupils and a genuine desire to impart to them what he believes to be of value.

  Bertrand Russell

  Teacher, Believe, Teaching

  Bertrand Russell (2009). “The Basic Writings of Bertrand Russell”, p.417, Routledge

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• Experience fails to teach where there is no desire to learn.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Teacher, Teaching, Experience

  George Bernard Shaw (2015). “George Bernard Shaw: The Collected Plays (Illustrated): 60 plays including Caesar and Cleopatra, Pygmalion, Saint Joan, The Apple Cart, Cymbeline, Androcles And The Lion, The Man Of Destiny, The Inca Of Perusalem and Macbeth Skit”, p.2005, e-artnow

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• This is the duty of our generation as we enter the twenty-first century - solidarity with the weak, the persecuted, the lonely, the sick, and those in despair. It is expressed by the desire to give a noble and humanizing meaning to a community in which all members will define themselves not by their own identity but by that of others.

  Elie Wiesel

  Lonely, Loneliness, Responsibility

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• Desire is the most important factor in the success of any athlete.

  Bill Shoemaker

  Success, Congratulations, Athlete

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• Never give up on your dream...Perseverance is all important. If you don't have the desire and the belief in yourself to keep trying after you've been told you should quit, you'll never make it.

  Tawni O'Dell

  Inspirational, Success, Dream

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• It is not from nature, but from education and habits, that our wants are chiefly derived.

  Henry Fielding

  Nature, Want, Habit

  Henry Fielding (1832). “The History of Amelia”, p.173

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• First the stalk - then the roots. First the need - then the means to satisfy that need. First the nucleus -then the elements needed for its growth.

  Robert Collier

  Mean, Roots, Growth

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• Through some strange and powerful principle of mental chemistry which she has never divulged, nature wraps up in the impulse of strong desire, that something which recognizes no such word as impossible, and accepts no such reality as failure.

  Napoleon Hill

  Strong, Powerful, Failure

  Napoleon Hill (2015). “Think and grow rich: Brazilian edition”, p.42, CDG Edições e Publicações LTDA

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• Every man's road in life is marked by the grave of his personal likings.

  Alexander Smith

  Men, Life Is, Graves

  Alexander Smith (1863). “Dreamthorp: A Book of Essays Written in the Country”, p.170

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• I do want to get rich but I never want to do what there is to do to get rich.

  Gertrude Stein

  Literature, Want, Rich

  Everybody's Autobiography ch. 3 (1937)

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• Something must be done when you find an opposing set of desires of this kind well to the fore in your category of strong desires. You must set in operation a process of competition, from which one must emerge a victor and the other set be defeated.

  Robert Collier

  Strong, Kindness, Competition

  Robert Collier (2013). “The Magic Word”, p.106, Simon and Schuster

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• It is not the greatness of a man's means that makes him independent, so much as the smallness of his wants.

  William Cobbett

  Mean, Independent, Greatness

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• The desire not to be anything is the desire not to be.

  Ayn Rand

  Inspirational, Addiction

  Ayn Rand (2016). “Atlas Shrugged”, p.792, Hamilton Books

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• One might as well try to ride two horses moving in different directions, as to try to maintain in equal force two opposing or contradictory sets of desires.

  Robert Collier

  Horse, Moving, Two

  Robert Collier (1971). “Riches Within Your Reach: The Law of the Higher Potential”

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• Where there is no power, there is never any desire to do that thing; and where there is strong desire to do a thing, it is certain proof that the power to do it is strong, and only requires to be developed and applied in the Right Way.

  Wallace D. Wattles

  Strong, Strong Desire

  "The Science of Wallace D. Wattles".

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• The more wild and incredible your desire, the more willing and prompt God is in fulfilling it, if you will have it so.

  Coventry Patmore

  Incredibles, Coventry, Willing

  Coventry Patmore (2016). “The Rod, the Root and the Flower”, p.13, Lulu.com

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• The scientific attitude of mind involves a sweeping away of all other desires in the interest of the desire to know.

  Bertrand Russell

  Attitude, Knowledge, Science

  Bertrand Russell (2015). “Mysticism and Logic and Other Essays: Top Philosophy Collections”, p.29, 谷月社

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• What is commonly called love, namely the desire of satisfying a voracious appetite with a certain quantity of delicate white human flesh.

  Henry Fielding

  Sex, White, Flesh

  'Tom Jones' (1749) bk. 6, ch. 1

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• If you don't put a value on money and seek wealth, you most probably won't receive it. You must seek wealth for it to seek you. If no burning desire for wealth arises within you, wealth will not arise around you. Having definiteness of purpose for acquiring wealth is essential for its acquisition.

  John Frederick Demartini

  Essentials, Acquisition, Purpose

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• Desire is a teacher: When we immerse ourselves in it without guilt, shame, or clinging, it can show us something special about our own minds that allows us to embrace life fully.

  Mark Epstein

  Inspirational, Teacher, Mind

  Mark Epstein (2006). “Open to Desire: The Truth About What the Buddha Taught”, p.12, Penguin

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• Desire presses ever forward unsubdued.

  Sigmund Freud

  Inspirational, Presses

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• For me, the desire exists less to get myself a degree than to just go and have the whole college experience, and throw myself into the brain pool and see if I can swim.

  Joshua Jackson

  College, Swim, Brain

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Why is discipline important? Discipline teaches us to operate by principle rather than desire. Saying no to our impulses (even the ones that are not inherently sinful) puts us in control of our appetites rather than vice versa. It deposes our lust and permits truth, virtue, and integrity to rule our minds instead.

  John F. MacArthur

  Integrity, Discipline, Lust

  John F. MacArthur (2012). “Moments of Truth: Unleashing God's Word One Day at a Time”, p.328, Thomas Nelson Inc

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