Quotes About Desire

The average man is rich enough when he has a little more than he has got.

Avarice is as destitute of what it has as poverty is of what it has not.

To be able to dispense with good things is tantamount to possessing them.

We don't need to increase our goods nearly as much as we need to scale down our wants. Not wanting something is as good as possessing it.

Of all the people in the world, those who want the most are those who have the most.

Who covets more is evermore a slave.

A sleeping fox counts hens in his dreams.

Geniuses are the luckiest of mortals because what they must do is the same as what they most want to do.

It is vain to say human beings ought to be satisfied with tranquility: they must have action; and they will have it if they cannot find it.

The significance of a man is not in what he attains but rather in what he longs to attain.

Ours is a world where people don't know what they want and are willing to go through hell to get it.

Well is it known that ambition can creep as well as soar.

You have to have a dream so you can get up in the morning.

The poor man is not he who is without a cent, but he who is without a dream.

Everything's in the mind. That's where it all starts. Knowing what you want is the first step toward getting it.

Unhappiness is in not knowing what we want and killing ourselves to get it.

Having a dream isn't stupid. ... It's not having a dream that's stupid.

The only people who attain power are those who crave for it.

People can have many different kinds of pleasure. The real one is that for which they will forsake the others.

The man who seeks one thing in life, and but one May hope to achieve it before life be done. But he who seeks all things wherever he goes Only reaps from the hopes which around him he sows A harvest of barren regrets.

One should want only one thing and want it constantly. Then one is sure of getting it. But I desire everything, and consequently get nothing.

There is no such thing as expecting too much.

Man's reach should exceed his grasp, or what's a heaven for?

If ambition doesn't hurt you, you haven't got it.