Desire
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If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectable.
Great ambition, the desire of real superiority, of leading and directing, seems to be altogether peculiar to man, and speech is the great instrument of ambition.
The way to gain a good reputation is to endeavor to be what you desire to appear.
Together let us desire, conceive, and create the new structure of the future, which will embrace architecture and sculpture and painting in one unity and which will one day rise toward Heaven from the hands of a million workers like the crystal symbol of a new faith.
Without a sense of urgency, desire loses its value.
I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve the world and a desire to enjoy the world. This makes it hard to plan the day.
All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsion, habit, reason, passion, and desire.
Human behavior flows from three main sources: desire, emotion, and knowledge.
A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others.
Time and memory are true artists; they remould reality nearer to the heart's desire.
Romantic lovers require from each other at least the facade of reason: We desire to be what romantic love makes us appear in the other's eyes. We want to imagine we are deserving of the love we inspire.
Part of the western movement is this desire that we, Americans, have to keep pressing on.
A desire arises in the mind. It is satisfied immediately another comes. In the interval which separates two desires a perfect calm reigns in the mind. It is at this moment freed from all thought, love or hate. Complete peace equally reigns between two mental waves.
If we desire a society in which men are brothers, then we must act towards one another with brotherhood. If we can build such a society, then we would have achieved the ultimate goal of human freedom.
Whatever you vividly imagine, ardently desire, sincerely believe, and enthusiastically act upon... must inevitably come to pass!
Political tags — such as royalist, communist, democrat, populist, fascist, liberal, conservative, and so forth — are never basic criteria. The human race divides politically into those who want people to be controlled and those who have no such desire.
Within all of us is a divine capacity to manifest and attract all that we need and desire.
Few things are brought to a successful issue by impetuous desire, but most by calm and prudent forethought.
If you're doing this because you feel like you have a burning desire to do it, then you'll find a way to do it, no matter what. If you're doing this because you're thinking, 'Hey, this will be really cool. I'll be famous. I'll be on YouTube', then you'll probably quit, because it's not easy to do for the long haul.
This life is a hospital in which every patient is possessed with a desire to change his bed.
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