#desire

Life contains but two tragedies. One is not to get your heart's desire; the other is to get it. ↗

— George Bernard Shaw

#desire #get #heart #life #other

Dancing is a perpendicular expression of a horizontal desire. ↗

— George Bernard Shaw

#desire #expression #horizontal #perpendicular

Why, except as a means of livelihood, a man should desire to act on the stage when he has the whole world to act in, is not clear to me. ↗

— George Bernard Shaw

#clear #desire #except #livelihood #man

It is true that the Chinese are not so religious as the Hindus, or even as the Japanese; and they are certainly not so religious as the Christian missionaries desire them to be. ↗

— Hu Shih

#chinese #christian #desire #even #hindus

Though we may have desires or bold goals, for whatever reason, most of us don't think we can achieve something beyond what we're qualified to achieve. Why, I ask, do we let reality interfere with our dreams? ↗

— Simon Sinek

#ask #beyond #bold #desires #dreams

Burning desire to be or do something gives us staying power - a reason to get up every morning or to pick ourselves up and start in again after a disappointment. ↗

— Marsha Sinetar

#again #burning #burning desire #desire #disappointment

An intense anticipation itself transforms possibility into reality; our desires being often but precursors of the things which we are capable of performing. ↗

— Samuel Smiles

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In my experience, there is only one motivation, and that is desire. No reasons or principle contain it or stand against it. ↗

— Jane Smiley

#contain #desire #experience #motivation #only

Great ambition, the desire of real superiority, of leading and directing, seems to be altogether peculiar to man, and speech is the great instrument of ambition. ↗

— Adam Smith

#ambition #desire #directing #great #instrument

Desire-Aspire-Perspire-Inspire but, don't Expire! ↗

— Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha

#aspire #desire #dream #expire #inspirational