Here are some sayings and famous quotes about human desires.
The desire of the man is for the woman, but the desire of the woman is for the desire of the man.
~Madame de Stael
One must not lose desires. They are mighty stimulants to creativeness, to love, and to long life.
~Alexander A. Bogomoletz
Every man has business and desire, Such as it is.
~William Shakespeare
Wealth and rank are what people desire, but unless they are obtained in the right way they may not be possessed.
~ Confucius
It is much easier to suppress a first desire than to satisfy those that follow.
~Benjamin Franklin
Man is an animal which, alone among the animals, refuses to be satisfied by the fulfilment of animal desires.
~Alexander Graham Bell
One must desire something to be alive.
~Margaret Deland
We grow like flowers, and bear desire, The odor of the human flowers.
~Richard Henry Stoddard
In order to succeed, your desire for success should be greater than your fear of failure.
~Bill Cosby
How helpless we are, like netted birds, when we are caught by desire!
~Belva Plain
Burning desire to be or do something gives us staying power – a reason to get up every morning or to pick ourselves up and start in again after a disappointment.
~ Marsha Sinetar
The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring.
~ Carl Sandburg
If you desire many things, many things will seem few.
~Benjamin Franklin
Do not impose on others what you yourself do not desire.
~Confucius
Dwell not upon thy weariness, thy strength shall be according to the measure of thy desire.
~Arab Proverb
The desire to annoy no one, to harm no one, can equally well be the sign of a just as of an anxious disposition.
~Friedrich Nietzsche
Those who restrain desire, do so because theirs is weak enough to be restrained.
~William Blake
A goal is not the same as a desire, and this is an important distinction to make. You can have a desire you don’t intend to act on. But you can’t have a goal you don’t intend to act on.
~Tom Morris
Wealth and rank are what people desire, but unless they are obtained in the right way they may not be possessed.
~ Confucius
I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who overcomes his enemies.
~Aristotle
Why then, can one desire too much of a good thing?
~William Shakespeare
Where perception is, there also are pain and pleasure, and where these are, there, of necessity, is desire.
~Aristotle
Again, men in general desire the good, and not merely what their fathers had.
~Aristotle
In my experience, there is only one motivation, and that is desire. No reasons or principle contain it or stand against it.
~ Jane Smiley
A desire presupposes the possibility of action to achieve it; action presupposes a goal which is worth achieving.
~Ayn Rand
The way to gain a good reputation is to endeavor to be what you desire to appear.
~Socrates
The wise man will love; all others will desire.
~Afranius
The first principle of success is desire — knowing what you want. Desire is the planting of your seed.
~Robert Collier
If you desire to drain to the dregs the fullest cup of scorn and hatred that a fellow human being can pour out for you, let a young mother hear you call dear baby “it.”
~ T.S. Eliot
Desire of having is the sin of covetousness.
~William Shakespeare
The desire to write grows with writing.
~ Desiderius Erasmus
And the desire to run grows from running.. How true a quote.
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