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170 quotesWhen your desires are strong enough you will appear to possess superhuman powers to achieve.
Desire
Napoleon Hill
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It sometimes seems that intense desire creates not only its own opportunities, but its own talents.
Opportunity
Eric Hoffer
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Desire creates the power.
Desire
Raymond Holliwell
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The avarice person is ever in want; let your desired aim have a fixed limit.
Greed
Horace
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You must avoid sloth, that wicked siren.
Laziness
Horace
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Many people would be more truthful were it not for their uncontrollable desire to talk.
Truth
Edgar Watson Howe
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He that flatters you more than you desire either has deceived you or wishes to deceive.
Flattery
Italian Proverb
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Events are influenced by our very great desires.
Desire
William James
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Ah! Sir, a boy's being flogged is not so severe as a man's having the hiss of the world against him.
Public Opinion
Samuel Johnson
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Difficult do you call it, Sir? I wish it were impossible.
Music
Samuel Johnson
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I never desire to converse with a man who has written more than he has read.
Conversation
Samuel Johnson
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Sir, a man may be so much of everything, that he is nothing of anything.
Identity
Samuel Johnson
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Sir, I have found you an argument; but I am not obliged to find you an understanding.
Understanding
Samuel Johnson
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Sir, you have but two topics, yourself and me. I am sick of both.
Bores and Boredom
Samuel Johnson
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Why, Sir, most schemes of political improvement are very laughable things.
Reform
Samuel Johnson
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Those who desire to become rich, desire it at once.
Patience
(Decimus Junius Juvenalis) Juvenal
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Two things only the people anxiously desire, bread and the circus games.
Sports
(Decimus Junius Juvenalis) Juvenal
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It is vanity to desire a long life and to take no heed of a good life.
Life and Living
Thomas Kempis
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We are valued in this world at the rate we desire to be valued.
self-esteem
Jean De La Bruyere
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Everyone believes very easily whatever they fear or desire.
Belief
Jean De La Fontaine
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A refusal of praise is a desire to be praised twice.
Praise
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
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Nothing prevents one from appearing natural as the desire to appear natural.
Style
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
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Nothing so much prevents our being natural as the desire to seem so.
Appearance
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
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The desire to seem clever often keeps us from being so.
Cleverness
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
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We never desire strongly, what we desire rationally.
Desire
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun