Our destiny changes with our thought; we shall become what we wish to become, do what we wish to do, when our habitual thought corresponds with our desire. - Orison Swett Marden
Part of the western movement is this desire that we, Americans, have to keep pressing on. - Beau Bridges
Let others laugh when you sacrifice desire to duty, if they will. You have time and eternity to rejoice in. - Theodore Parker
It is the desire of the good people of the whole country that sectionalism as a factor in our politics should disappear...' - Rutherford B. Hayes
Your ability to use the principle of autosuggestion will depend, very largely, upon your capacity to concentrate upon a given desire until that desire becomes a burning obsession. - Napoleon Hill
There are two kinds of artists in this world; those that work because the spirit is in them, and they cannot be silent if they would, and those that speak from a conscientious desire to make apparent to others the beauty that has awakened their own admiration. - Anna Katharine Green
But I must own that I also felt stirred by an unselfish desire to voice all the joys and sorrows, the hopes and ambitions, of the American Negro, in classic musical form. - James Weldon Johnson
All personal achievement starts in the mind of the individual. Your personal achievement starts in your mind. The first step is to know exactly what your problem, goal or desire is. - W. Clement Stone
Women desire six things: They want their husbands to be brave, wise, rich, generous, obedient to wife, and lively in bed. - Geoffrey Chaucer
A great many men's gratitude is nothing but a secret desire to hook in more valuable kindnesses hereafter. - Francois de La Rochefoucauld
When I first started acting, I started in opera and had a great desire to play grand, tragic characters. I got sidetracked in musical theater and ended up doing a lot of comedy. - Leslie Easterbrook
It has never demonstrated any desire to provide humane treatment to captured Americans. If anything, the murders of Nicholas Berg and Daniel Pearl declare al Qaeda's intentions to kill even innocent civilian prisoners. - John Yoo
The passion of hatred is so long lived and so obstinate a malady that the surest sign of death in a sick person is their desire for reconciliation. - Jean de la Bruyere
My art springs from my desire to have things in the world which would otherwise never be there. - Carl Andre
From the beginning, I wanted to live my own life, and patiently I shored up that desire against wind and tide. - Ella Maillart
The voice of the intelligence is drowned out by the roar of fear. It is ignored by the voice of desire. It is contradicted by the voice of shame. It is biased by hate and extinguished by anger. Most of all it is silenced by ignorance. - Karl A. Menninger
The presentations and conceptions of the average man of the world are formed and dominated, not by the full and pure desire for knowledge as an end in itself, but by the struggle to adapt himself favourably to the conditions of life. - Ernst Mach
If you start by promising what you don't even have yet, you'll lose your desire to work towards getting it. - Paulo Coelho
What is the single most important quality in a tennis champion? I would have to say desire, staying in there and winning matches when you are not playing that well. - John McEnroe
I believe our editorial decisions reflected our constant desire to make sure that we fully cover and analyze any issue and give our viewers all the information they need. - Jim Walton
In an industrial society which confuses work and productivity, the necessity of producing has always been an enemy of the desire to create. - Raoul Vaneigem
I suppose I have had more advantages and privileges than most of you, who are slaves have ever known, and I believe more than many white people have enjoyed, for which I desire to bless God, and pray that he may bless those who have given them to me. - Jupiter Hammon
Good men, whether they be Christians or rationalists, do not desire to discriminate between races, but the distinctions implanted by Nature are too conspicuous to escape the observation of our senses. - Arthur Keith
There is such a desire to give everybody a piece, we're probably wasting a great deal of homeland security money trying to be politically correct, when we really need to make sure that our cities get the money they need. - Shelley Berkley
The less we read the Word of God, the less we desire to read it, and the less we pray, the less we desire to pray. - George Muller
Is this not the true romantic feeling; not to desire to escape life, but to prevent life from escaping you. - Thomas Wolfe
Love is something far more than desire for sexual intercourse; it is the principal means of escape from the loneliness which afflicts most men and women throughout the greater part of their lives. - Bertrand Russell
It is the sincere desire of the writer that our citizens should early understand that the genuine source of correct republican principles is the bible, particularly the New Testament or the Christian religion. - Noah Webster
I have long been convinced that my artistic ideal stands or falls with Germany. Only the Germany that we love and desire can help us achieve that ideal. - Richard Wagner