Desires Quotes & Sayings
These desires quotes and desires sayings are from our famous and inspiring collection.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 [Aristoteles]
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