#desires

One that desires to excel should endeavor in those things that are in themselves most excellent. ↗

— Epictetus

#endeavor #excel #excellent #most #should

Despite Japan's desires and efforts, unfortunate differences in the ways that Japan, England, the United States, and China understood circumstances, together with misunderstandings of attitudes, made it impossible for the parties to agree. ↗

— Hideki Tojo

#attitudes #china #circumstances #desires #despite

When ambitious desires arise in thy heart, recall the days of extremity thou has passed through. ↗

— Ieyasu Tokugawa

#arise #days #desires #extremity #heart

Manifest plainness, embrace simplicity, reduce selfishness, have few desires. ↗

— Lao Tzu

#embrace #few #manifest #reduce #selfishness

We all have different desires and needs, but if we don't discover what we want from ourselves and what we stand for, we will live passively and unfulfilled. ↗

— Bill Watterson

#different #discover #live #needs #ourselves

However it is debased or misinterpreted, love is a redemptive feature. To focus on one individual so that their desires become superior to yours is a very cleansing experience. ↗

— Jeanette Winterson

#cleansing #desires #experience #feature #focus

Merely external emancipation has made of the modern woman an artificial being. Now, woman is confronted with the necessity of emancipating herself from emancipation, if she really desires to be free. ↗

— Emma Goldman

#being #confronted #desires #emancipation #external

Growth is kinda built into everyone's genes. It's built into management's genes, the salesman's genes, the investors' desires. People expect companies to grow. ↗

— Andy Grove

#companies #desires #everyone #expect #genes

Because when you have millions of people with this kind of need for gratification, and the culture is saying that it's possible for everyone to satisfy all of their needs and desires all of the time, there are obviously going to be clashes - clashes of ego. ↗

— Taylor Hackford

#clashes #culture #desires #ego #everyone

You know that we have a great variety of ways to gratify our own desires. ↗

— Elias Hicks

#gratify #great #know #our #own