#desire

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

— Jane Smiley

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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

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Music is the career I'm lucky enough to get paid for, but I have other desires and passions. ↗

— Layne Staley

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The desire to be rewarded for one's creativity does not justify depriving the world in general of all or part of that creativity. ↗

— Richard Stallman

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

— Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha

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I don't have a burning desire to be taken seriously as an actor. I don't have a master plan in that way. ↗

— Ben Stiller

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When you discover your mission, you will feel its demand. It will fill you with enthusiasm and a burning desire to get to work on it. ↗

— W. Clement Stone

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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

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Beauty is desired in order that it may be befouled; not for its own sake, but for the joy brought by the certainty of profaning it. ↗

— Tom Stoppard

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What pedophiles and people who have sexual desires on children lose sight of to a terrible, terrible degree - a devastating degree - is that their victims are real people who will suffer forever whatever abuses are perpetrated on them. ↗

— Jock Sturges

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