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To earnestly want or long for something is what can be described as desire. Unless you live an inert life, where you aren’t guided by any particular aspiration or human/material longing, you are likely to be pestered with desires every off and on. From name to fame to material goods and more, human desires are almost unlimited. The biggest hitch about desires is that they often feed upon themselves and no matter what you do to satiate your wants; the list of desires always continues to expand. Here is an amazing list of famous long quotations and sayings to help you delve deep into the subject.

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A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others.

Ayn Rand

A desire presupposes the possibility of action to achieve it; action presupposes a goal which is worth achieving.

Ayn Rand

I only wish that ordinary people had an unlimited capacity for doing harm; then they might have an unlimited power for doing good.

Socrates

The way to gain a good reputation is to endeavor to be what you desire to appear.

Socrates

I always wanted to be some kind of writer or newspaper reporter. But after college... I did other things.

Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis

At the age of six I wanted to be a cook. At seven I wanted to be Napoleon. And my ambition has been growing steadily ever since.

Salvador Dali

With out passion you don't have energy, with out energy you have nothing.

Donald Trump

As far as I knew white women were never lonely, except in books. White men adored them, Black men desired them and Black women worked for them.

Maya Angelou

“It is my earnest desire that some of you should carry on this scientific work and keep for your ambition the determination to make a permanent contribution to science.

Marie Curie

Some people want it to happen, some wish it would happen, others make it happen.

Michael Jordan

I hope all you young girls see yourself up there... we were just like you.

Mia Hamm

I am no longer sure of anything. If I satiate my desires, I sin but I deliver myself from them; if I refuse to satisfy them, they infect the whole soul.

Jean Paul Sartre

Even the rich are hungry for love, for being cared for, for being wanted, for having someone to call their own.

Mother Teresa

Create a definite plan for carrying out your desire and begin at once, whether you ready or not, to put this plan into action.

Napolean Hill

Desire is the starting point of all achievement, not a hope, not a wish, but a keen pulsating desire which transcends everything.

Napolean Hill

In order to succeed, your desire for success should be greater than your fear of failure.

Bill Cosby

Does anybody really think that they didn't get what they had because they didn't have the talent or the strength or the endurance or the commitment?

Nelson Mandela

If there must be trouble, let it be in my day, that my child may have peace.

Thomas Paine

There is no easy walk to freedom anywhere, and many of us will have to pass through the valley of the shadow of death again and again before we reach the mountaintop of our desires.

Nelson Mandela

Happiness is the longing for repetition.

Milan Kundera

How can you consider flower power outdated? The essence of my lyrics is the desire for peace and harmony. That's all anyone has ever wanted. How could it become outdated?

Robert Plant

I like the idea of being alone. I like the idea of often being alone in all aspects of my life. I like to feel lonely. I like to need things.

Robert Plant

Freedom is not procured by a full enjoyment of what is desired, but by controlling the desire.

Epictetus

I need more sex, OK? Before I die I wanna taste everyone in the world.

Angelina Jolie

A tramp, a gentleman, a poet, a dreamer, a lonely fellow, always hopeful of romance and adventure.

Charlie Chaplin

I began revolution with 82 men. If I had to do it again, I do it with 10 or 15 and absolute faith. It does not matter how small you are if you have faith and plan of action.

Fidel Castro

Audiences like their blues singers to be miserable.

Janis Joplin

Oh Lord, won't you buy me a Mercedes Benz.

Janis Joplin

Heaven will be no heaven to me if I do not meet my wife there.

Andrew Jackson

Peace, above all things, is to be desired, but blood must sometimes be spilled to obtain it on equable and lasting term.

Andrew Jackson

May you live your life as if the maxim of your actions were to become universal law.

Immanuel Kant

I just want to live happily ever after, every now and then.

Jimmy Buffett

Religion is an illusion and it derives its strength from the fact that it falls in with our instinctual desires.

Sigmund Freud

The teacher must derive not only the capacity, but the desire, to observe natural phenomena. The teacher must understand and feel her position of observer: the activity must lie in the phenomenon.

Maria Montessori

I want to be with those who know secret things or else alone.

Rainer Maria Rilke

Perhaps everything terrible is in its deepest being something helpless that wants help from us.

Rainer Maria Rilke

In my early days, I was eager to learn and to do things, and therefore I learned quickly.

Sitting Bull

He put in your heart certain wishes and plans; in my heart, he put other different desires.

Sitting Bull

If the Great Spirit had desired me to be a white man, he would have made me so in the first place.

Sitting Bull

Indeed, man wishes to be happy even when he so lives as to make happiness impossible.

Saint Augustine

Experience, as a desire for experience, does not come off. We must not study ourselves while having an experience.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Come Fairies, take me out of this dull world, for I would ride with you upon the wind and dance upon the mountains like a flame!

William Butler Yeats

To desire is to obtain; to aspire is to achieve.

James Allen

Our desires always disappoint us; for though we meet with something that gives us satisfaction, yet it never thoroughly answers our expectation .

Elbert Hubbard

Purity of speech, of the mind, of the senses, and of a compassionate heart are needed by one who desires to rise to the divine platform.

Chanakya

Hopefully I can become the Babe Ruth of the World Wrestling Federation and be the champion at the same time.

Hulk Hogan

My dream is to save women from nature.

Christian Dior

Wouldn't it be great if we could look forward to a whole world in which no child will be left behind?

Colin Powell

Inspiration is God making contact with itself.

Ram Dass

All that spirits desire, spirits attain.

Kahlil Gibran

In all ranks of life the human heart yearns for the beautiful; and the beautiful things that God makes are his gift to all alike.

Harriet Beecher Stowe

It is good that war is so horrible, or we might grow to like it.

Robert E. Lee

Long time no see. I only pray the caliber of your questions has improved.

Kevin Smith

Prayer is translation. A man translates himself into a child asking for all there is in a language he has barely mastered.

Leonard Cohen

It is legal because I wish it.

Louis XIV

If we can play like that every week we'll get some level of consistency.

Alex Ferguson

Consider any individual at any period of his life, and you will always find him preoccupied with fresh plans to increase his comfort.

Alexis de Tocqueville

Give me five minutes with a person's checkbook, and I will tell you where their heart is.

Billy Graham

Never be lucid, never state, if you would be regarded great.

Dylan Thomas

Life is too short to be living somebody else's dream.

Hugh Hefner

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.

John Adams

Nothing liberates our greatness like the desire to help, the desire to serve.

Marianne Williamson

Another occupation might have been better.

F. H. Bradley

I don't like anything in the mainstream and they don't like me.

Bill Hicks

I don't mean to sound bitter, cold, or cruel, but I am, so that's how it comes out.

Bill Hicks

I love playing bitches. There's a lot of bitch in every woman - a lot in every man.

Joan Crawford

He who reigns within himself and rules passions, desires, and fears is more than a king.

John Milton

Love. Fall in love and stay in love. Write only what you love, and love what you write. The key word is love. You have to get up in the morning and write something you love, something to live for.

Ray Bradbury

The two big advantages I had at birth were to have been born wise and to have been born in poverty.

Sophia Loren

And when the day arrives I'll become the sky and I'll become the sea and the sea will come to kiss me for I am going home. Nothing can stop me now.

Trent Reznor

You can't just ask customers what they want and then try to give that to them. By the time you get it built, they'll want something new.

Steve Jobs

I'd rather be a lightning rod than a seismograph.

Ken Kesey

I've left specific instructions that I do not want to be brought back during a Republican administration.

Timothy Leary

Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and diligence.

Abigail Adams

After four years at the United Nations I sometimes yearn for the peace and tranquillity of a political convention.

Adlai Stevenson

I'd like to design something like a city or a museum. I want to do something hands on rather than just play golf which is the sport of the religious right..

Brad Pitt

I can imagine myself on my death-bed, spent utterly with lust to touch the next world, like a boy asking for his first kiss from a woman.

Aleister Crowley

I have now disposed of all my property to my family. There is one thing more I wish I could give them, and that is the Christian religion.

Patrick Henry

A man can succeed at almost anything for which he has unlimited enthusiasm.

Charles Schwab

I didn't mean to hit the umpire with the dirt, but I did mean to hit that bastard in the stands.

Babe Ruth

I want every girl in the world to pick up a guitar and start screaming.

Courtney Love

Generals think war should be waged like the tourneys of the Middle Ages. I have no use for knights; I need revolutionaries.

Adolf Hitler

The submission of her body without love or desire is degrading to the woman's finer sensibility, all the marriage certificates on earth to the contrary notwithstanding.

Margaret Sanger

When motherhood becomes the fruit of a deep yearning, not the result of ignorance or accident, its children will become the foundation of a new race.

Margaret Sanger

I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than in attempting to satisfy them.

John Stuart Mill

Let no man imagine that he has no influence. Whoever he may be, and wherever he may be placed, the man who thinks becomes a light and a power.

Henry George

Man is the only animal whose desires increase as they are fed; the only animal that is never satisfied.

Henry George

I want to move people.

John Legend

Sometimes I wish that I was the weather, you'd bring me up in conversation forever. And when it rained, I'd be the talk of the day.