Everyone has been made for some particular work, and the desire for that work has been put in every heart.

To be happy at home is the ultimate result of all ambition, the end to which every enterprise and labor tends, and of which every desire prompts prosecution.

For you can only be free when even the desire of seeking freedom becomes a harness to you.

The things are mighty few on earth That wishes can attain. Whate'er we want of any worth We've go to work to gain.

The will to win, the desire to succeed, the urge to reach your full potential…these are the keys that will unlock the door to personal excellence.

Your radiance shines in every atom of creation yet our petty desires keep it hidden.

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

There are two ways to get enough: One is to continue to accumulate more and more. The other is to desire less.

Suppose your whole world seems to rock on its foundations. Hold on steadily, let it rock, and when the rocking is over, the picture will have reassembled itself into something much nearer to your heart's desire.

A human being has a natural desire to have more of a good thing than they need.

Unexpressed emotions will never die. They are buried alive and they will come forth later in uglier ways.

The progression of emancipation of any class usually, if not always, takes place through the efforts of individuals of that class.

Labor is prior to, and independent of, capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed.

The purpose of literature is to turn blood into ink.

Be true to your work, your word, and your friend.

The heights by great men reached and kept Where not attained by sudden flight, But they, while their companions slept, Were toiling upward in the night.