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" Quotes and Sayings About desire

There is a deep—and usually frustrated—desire in the heart of everyone to act with benevolence rather than selfishness, and one fine instance of generosity can inspire dozens more.

A deep Frustrated Benevolence
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Desire is the key to motivation, but it’s determination and commitment to an unrelenting pursuit of your goal - a commitment to excellence - that will enable you to attain the success you seek.

Desire Key Motivation Determination
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I've always said, 'I didn't have a Plan B in life.' I was in pursuit of my dream from the very beginning. It's all about desire and passion. At all costs.

Life Pursuit My dream Very beginning
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I think that the trouble we now face in the world is caused mainly by the refusal to try and see another man’s point of view, to try and persuade by example - and the refusal to meet a rather passionate desire to impose your own will upon others, either by force or other means

Truoble I think World Passionate
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No power on earth can proscribe the undying desire of people to attain liberty

Power Earth Desire Attain liberty
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To love someone means that you sometimes are fulfilled the most by putting their deepest desires above your own.

To love Someone Fulfilled Putting
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You desire to be used of God and to be his mouthpiece, you must be different, you must sacrifice something.

You desire God Mouthpiece Sacrifice something
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My characters are driven by a passionate desire for justice. They are rebellious and incorruptible.

My characters Passionate desire Rebellious
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In a dark time, the eye begins to see. I meet my shadow in the deepening shade...Dark, dark my light, and darker my desire.

Dark time Eye To see Deepening shade
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We have been told that freedom is the ability to pursue petty, trivial desires when true freedom is freedom from these petty, trivial desires.

Freedom Ability Pursue petty Trivial desires
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All desires are the inappropriate substitute for the desire to be at one with God.

All desire Inappropriate substitute God
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I'll never forget the moment I became a dad. It's hard to describe-that level of responsibility, the desire to give such joy, the clarity: Nothing is more important than this.

Moment Became Dad Responsibility
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Don't force your kids into sports. I never was. To this day, my dad has never asked me to go play golf. I ask him. It's the child's desire to play that matters, not the parent's desire to have the child play. Fun. Keep it fun.

Force Your kids Sports Play golf
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Few things are brought to a successful issue by impetuous desire, but most by calm and prudent forethought.

Few things Successful issue Impetuous desire
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It is the habit of mankind to entrust to careless hope what they long for, and to use sovereign reason to thrust aside what they do not desire

Habit Mankind Entrust Careless hope
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The world knows how hard we strove to avoid the civil war. Our objectives in fighting the war to crush Ojukwu’s rebellion were always clear. We desired to preserve the territorial integrity and unity of Nigeria.

The world Hard Ojukwu Rebellion
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Because man loves and honors man as long as he is not able to judge him, and desire is a product of lacking knowledge

Man loves Honors Not able Judge him
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To find peace in the presence of the faultless is the desire of the one who seeks excellence; and is not nothingness a form of perfection?

Find peace Faultless Desire Seeks excellence
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Like any lover, he desired to please; suffered agonies at the thought of failure.

Any lover Desired To please Suffered agonies
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It is always nice for brothers to live and dwell in peace with each other, that is my desire.
Always nice Brothers Live In peace
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To get to a place where you could love anything you chose--not to need permission for desire--well now _that_ was freedom.

Place Love anything Permission Desire
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I never felt that there was anything enviable in youth. I cannot recall that any of us, as youths, admired our condition to excess or had a desire to prolong it

Never felt Anything enviable In youth Cannot recall
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There are two futures, the future of desire and the future of fate, and man's reason has never learned to separate them.

Two futures Desire Fate Man's reason
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My dear brothers, take note of this: Everyone should be quick to listen, slow to speak and slow to become angry, for man's anger does not bring about the righteous life that God desires.

Everyone To listen Slow Speak
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We desire truth and find within ourselves only uncertainty

Desire truth Find within Ourselves Uncertainty
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The immediate desire of the office of the Attorney General of the Federation is the enforcement of our laws to confine impunity to the past.

Immediate desire Office Attorney general Federation
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Do you know my friend that each one of us is a dark mystery, a maze of conflicting passions and desire and aptitudes?

My friend Dark mystery A maze Conflicting passion
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Life is complex in its expression, involving more than percipience, namely desire, emotion, will, and feeling

Life Complex Its expression Percipience
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I have no desire ... to preach a high-minded and merely edifying version of love

Desire Preach Edifyng Love
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If it weren't for the unconventionality of my desires, my mind might never have been forced to reckon with my body.

Unconventionality My desires Mind Never
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I must keep my head and not give in to desire, for desire is what causes women to drown.

Must keep My head Give in Desire
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Limited in his nature, infinite in his desires, man is a fallen god who remembers the heavens.

Limited Nature Desires Man
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Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you don't have, for what you have is desired by many around the world who don't have.

Spoil what You have By desiring By many
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Peace, above all things, is to be desired, but blood must sometimes be spilled to obtain it on equable and lasting terms

Peace Things Desired Blood
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I desire therefore I exist.

I Desire Therefore Exist
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An accurate knowledge of the past of a country is necessary for everyone who would understand its present, and who desires to judge of its future.

Accurate knowledge The past A country Is necessary
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I see her as a series of marvellous shapes formed at random in the kaleidoscope of desire.

See Marvellous Shapes Random
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Those who desire power want to be immune to the power of others.
Who Desire Power Want
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The shape of my life is, of course, determined by many things; my background and childhood, my mind and its education, my conscience and its pressures, my heart and its desires.

The shape My life Determine by My background
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Repentance brings an intense desire for God, deep gratitude, and a growth in self-awareness that increases our freedom to love.

Repentance Intense Desire God
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Our visions begin with our desires.

Visions Begins Desires
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The burning desire to overcome the limitations that confine our people to poverty, inequality and undignified life, compelled us to formulate the HPP, as a tool to fast-track development and draw us closer to the attainment of our National Development Plans and Vision 2030.

Burning desire Overcome The limitations To poverty
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What do you want a meaning for? Life is a desire, not a meaning.

Meaning for Life A desire
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Let reason govern desire,

Let reason Govern desire
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African leaders can be placed in cages, but their desire to control every aspect of your life cannot be contained.

Leaders Be placed In cages Their desire
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There's nothing wrong with having a desire to want nice things.

Nothing wrong With having A desire Nice things
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Good means not merely not to do wrong, but rather not to desire to do wrong.

Good Means Wrong Desire
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Men ask for health in their prayers to the gods: they do not realize that the power to achieve it lies in themselves. Lacking self-control, they perform contrary actions and betray health to their desires.

Men Health Prayers Desires
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It is hard to fight desire; but to control it is the sign of a reasonable man.

Hard Desire Control Man
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Not until one person desires to keep his own bread for himself does hunger ensue.

Person desires To keep Own bread Hunger ensue
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