Browsing Quotes With Tag: desire (18)
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Not wanting something is as good as possessing it.
Speaker: Donald HorbanSource: the Simple Guide to a Minimalist LifePosted: 09 Feb 2014 at 5:34 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
The secret of happiness, you see, is not found in seeking more, but in developing the capacity to enjoy less.
Speaker: SocratesSource: the Simple Guide to a Minimalist LifePosted: 09 Feb 2014 at 5:32 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Earth provides enough to satisfy every man’s need, but not every man’s greed.
Speaker: Mahatma GandhiSource: Thriving on LessPosted: 09 Feb 2014 at 5:19 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Who is rich? He who rejoices in his portion.
Source: the TalmudPosted: 09 Feb 2014 at 5:18 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
It is not the man who has too little, but the man who craves more, that is poor
Speaker: SenecaPosted: 19 Feb 2010 at 9:41 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
It is the nature of desire not to be satisfied, and most men live only for the gratification of it.
Speaker: AristotlePosted: 18 Mar 2009 at 5:51 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Do not hire a man who does your work for money, but him who does it for love of it.
Speaker: Henry David ThoreauPosted: 17 Nov 2008 at 8:02 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
In order to succeed, your desire for success should be greater than your fear of failure.
Speaker: Bill CosbyPosted: 22 Oct 2008 at 9:29 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Human beings have the capacity to learn to want almost any conceivable material object. Given, then, the emergence of a modern industrial culture capable of producing almost anything, the time is ripe for opening the storehouse of infinite need!... It is the modern Pandora’s box, and its plagues are loose upon the world.
Speaker: Jules HenrySource: 4 Hour WorkweekPosted: 26 Aug 2008 at 8:59 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
True freedom is much more than having enough income and time to do what you want. It is quite possible – actually the rule rather than the exception – to have financial and time freedom but still be caught in the throes of the rat race. One cannot be free from the stresses of a speed- and size-obsessed culture until you are free from the materialistic addictions, time-famine mind-set, and comparative impulses that created it in the first place.
Speaker: Timothy FerrissSource: 4 Hour WorkweekPosted: 26 Aug 2008 at 8:58 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
’Tis easier to suppress the first desire, than to satisfy all that follow it.
Speaker: Benjamin FranklinPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 4:18 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
I respect the man who knows distinctly what he wishes. The greater part of all mischief in the world arises from the fact that men do not sufficiently understand their own aims. They have undertaken to build a tower and spend no more labor on the foundation than would be necessary to erect a hut.
Speaker: GoethePosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 4:09 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Heavenly Father wants men of passion.
Speaker: President MarvinPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 12:53 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
There are two things to aim at in life: first, to get what you want; and, after that, to enjoy it. Only the wisest of mankind achieve the second.
Speaker: Logan Pearsall SmithPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 8:14 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
First, arouse in the other person an eager want. He who can do this has the world with him. He who cannot walks a lonely way.
Speaker: Harry A. OverstreetPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 7:38 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other one thing.
Speaker: Abraham LincolnPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 7:21 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
In almost any subject, your passion for the subject will save you. If you care enough for a result, you will most certainly attain it. If you wish to be good, you will be good. If you wish to be rich, you will be rich. If you wish to be learned, you will be learned. Only then you must really wish these things and wish them with exclusiveness and not wish one hundred other incompatible things just as strongly.
Speaker: William JamesPosted: 20 Aug 2008 at 5:03 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
“Jill, of all the nonsense that twists the world, the concept of 'altruism’ is the worse. People do what they want to, every time. If it pains them to make a choice – if the choice looks like a 'sacrifice’ – you can be sure that it is no nobler than the discomfort caused by greediness… the necessity of deciding between two things you want when you can’t have both. The ordinary bloke suffers every time he chooses between spending a buck on beer or tucking it away for his kids, between getting up to go to work or losing his job. But he always chooses what hurts least or pleasures most. The scoundrel and the saint make the same choices on a larger scale.”
Speaker: Robert HeinleinPosted: 20 Aug 2008 at 11:54 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment!