Desire is the very essence of man.
- Topic: Desire
- Location: Valley of Fire State Park
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The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free.
Man is a social animal.
Surely human affairs would be far happier if the power in men to be silent were the same as that to speak. But experience more than sufficiently teaches that men govern nothing with more difficulty than their tongues.
It may easily come to pass that a vain man may become proud and imagine himself pleasing to all when he is in reality a universal nuisance.
He whose honor depends on the opinion of the mob must day by day strive with the greatest anxiety, act and scheme in order to retain his reputation. For the mob is varied and inconsistent, and therefore if a reputation is not carefully preserved it dies quickly.
None are more taken in by flattery than the proud, who wish to be the first and are not.
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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.
A human being has a natural desire to have more of a good thing than they need.
I have a deeply hidden and inarticulate desire for something beyond the daily life.
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.
Desires are only the lack of something: and those who have the greatest desires are in a worse condition than those who have none, or very slight ones.
A desire to be observed, considered, esteemed, praised, beloved, and admired by his fellows is one of the earliest as well as the keenest dispositions discovered in the heart of man.
The desire of power in excess caused the angels to fall; the desire of knowledge in excess caused man to fall.
For you can only be free when even the desire of seeking freedom becomes a harness to you.
There are two ways to get enough: One is to continue to accumulate more and more. The other is to desire less.
A burning desire is the greatest motivator of every human action. The desire for success implants ''success consciousness'' which, in turn, creates a vigorous and ever-increasing ''habit of success.''
It is hard to fight desire; but to control it is the sign of a reasonable man.
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.
