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A refusal of priase is a DESIRE to be praised twice.	François De La Rochefoucauld
Again, men in general DESIRE the good, and not merely what their fathers had.	Aristotle
All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsion, habit, reason, passion, and DESIRE.	Aristotle
All men by nature DESIRE knowledge.	Aristotle
Champions aren't made in the gyms. Champions are made from something they have deep inside them a DESIRE, a dream, a vision.	Muhammad Ali
Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong DESIRE to live, taking the form of readiness to die.	G.K. Chesterton
Follow your dream as long as you live, do not lessen the time of following DESIRE, for wasting time is an abomination of the spirit.	Plato
Heav’n but the Vision of fulfill’d DESIRE, And Hell the Shadow from a Soul on fire.	Omar Khayyam
I shall DESIRE more love and knowledge of you.	William Shakespeare
Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you DESIRE, you will what you imagine and at last you create what you will.	George Bernard Shaw
In men of the highest character and noblest genius there is to be found an insatiable DESIRE for honour, command, power, and glory.	Cicero
It is easier to suppress the first DESIRE than to satisfy all that follow it.	Benjamin Franklin
It is the nature of DESIRE not to be satisfied, and most men live only for the gratification of it.	Aristotle
Let us train our minds to DESIRE what the situation demands.	Seneca
Only for performing noble deeds, in persuasion of divine ordained duties, would one DESIRE to live a hundred years.	Rig Veda