This collection holds 410 desires quotes, drawn from writers, leaders, artists and thinkers across the QuoteForever archive. The most quoted voices here are John Stuart Mill, Susan B. Anthony and Nelson Mandela.

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I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather ... - John Stuart Mill

I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than in attempting to satisfy them.

I distrust those people who know so well what God wants them to do, ... - Susan B. Anthony

I distrust those people who know so well what God wants them to do, because I notice it always coincides with their own desires.

There is no easy walk to freedom anywhere, and many of us will have ... - Nelson Mandela

There is no easy walk to freedom anywhere, and many of us will have to pass through the valley of the shadow of death again and again before we reach the mountaintop of our desires.

Everybody has their own desires.

Our visions begin with our desires.

Our deep desires define us, really.

Let him who desires peace prepare for war.

He who desires, but acts not, breeds pestilence.

In moderating, not satisfying desires, lies peace.

My maternal desires are fully satisfied with my dogs.

A short cut to riches is to subtract from our desires.

Every coach desires to bring in his own support staff.

From the deepest desires often come the deadliest hate.

Every one desires to live long, but no one would be old.

I don't have the desires of a spoiled child. I never did.

Only he who desires is amiable and not he who is satiated.

You have to respect everybody's desires and way of living.

Every man desires to live long, but no man wishes to be old.

Teens in the '90s had the same basic desires as they do now.

My thought has been shaped by books; my desires by pictures.

Human beings place their desires ahead of the collective good.

They who overcome their desires once can overcome them always.

Intellects whose desires have outstripped their understanding.

Folly enlarges men's desires while it lessens their capacities.

I follow my desires, and I'm prepared to take the consequences.

Human anger does not produce the righteousness that God desires.

Indignation is a submission of our thoughts, but not of our desires.

I've always been comfortable with my sexual desires and what I like.

To manifest your hearts desires you must BE what your heart desires.

The moguls are driven by their respective desires for profit - period.

Everyone desires to laugh sometimes, and I want to make that available.

Each man has his own desires; all do not possess the same inclinations.

Whatever it is your heart desires, please go for it, it's yours to have.

The desires of adults are not more important than the needs of children.

Unfortunately, however, I have too many desires to make a good Buddhist.

We all feel the urge to conform; it is the most normal of human desires.

Burzum is the reflections of my personality. It's my dreams and desires.

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

Whosoever desires constant success must change his conduct with the times.

We trifle when we assign limits to our desires, since nature hath set none.

By the time I reached 50, I'd accumulated many unresolved fears and desires.

I don't have much of a bucket list. I don't have a lot of needs and desires.

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

To educate the intelligence is to expand the horizon of its wants and desires.

The people's desires have changed, but we're still stuck in our old issue set.

If I can create the minimum of my plans and desires, there shall be no regrets.

Almost all our desires, when examined, contain something too shameful to reveal.

Bhanurekhan never wanted to be an actress. She had different dreams and desires.

I think there is some overlap in terms of artistic desires and Christian desires.

Men and women's needs and desires overlap but go in different directions as well.

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