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

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

Desire is the essence of a man.

The desire of power in excess caused the angels to fall; the desire of knowledge in excess caused man to fall.

It is not because men's desires are strong that they act ill; it is because their consciences are weak.

Plant the seed of desire in your mind and it forms a nucleus with power to attract to itself everything needed for its fulfillment.

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.''

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

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.

I have a deeply hidden and inarticulate desire for something beyond the daily life.

Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.

Bless a thing and it will bless you. Curse it and it will curse you. . . If you bless a situation, it has no power to hurt you, and even if it is troublesome for a time, it will gradually fade out, if you sincerely bless it.

I frame no hypotheses; for whatever is not deduced from the phenomena is to be called an hypothesis; and hypotheses, whether metaphysical or physical, whether of occult qualities or mechanical, have no place in experimental philosophy.

And if all others accepted the lie which the Party imposed—if all records told the same tale—then the lie passed into history and became truth.

When we are tired, we are attacked by ideas we conquered long ago.

Men should strive to think much and know little.

The oldest, shortest words - “yes” and “no” - are those which require the most thought.