Desires Quotes & Sayings

Desires Quotes & Sayings

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Contentment is a pearl of great price, and whoever procures it at the expense of ten thousand desires makes a wise and a happy purchase. - John Balguy



By annihilating the desires, you annihilate the mind. Every man without passions has within him no principle of action, nor motive to act. - Claude Arien Helvetius



If you can't take a little bloody nose, maybe you had better go back home and crawl under your bed. It's not safe out here. It's wondrous, with treasures to satiate desires both subtle and gross, but it is not for the timid. [Star Trek: The Next Generation] - Maurice Hurley



He who desires, but acts not, breeds pestilence. - William Blake



I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is the victory over self. - Aristotle



An intense anticipation itself transforms possibility into reality; our desires being often but precursors of the things which we are capable of performing. - Samuel Smiles



Our desires always disappoint us; for though we meet with something that gives us satisfaction, yet it never thoroughly answers our expectation. - Francois De La Rochefoucauld



Whosoever desires constant success must change his conduct with the times. - Niccolo Machiavelli



Boredom: the desire for desires. - Leo Tolstoy