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"...One of the strongest motives that lead men to art and science is escape from everyday life with its painful crudity and hopeless dreariness, from the fetters of one's own ever-shifting desires. A finely tempered nature longs to escape from the personal life into the world of objective perception and thought." Albert Einstein 4.2857 average rating Rate this Quote
"A desire to be in charge of our own lives, a need for control, is born in each of us. It is essential to our mental health, and our success, that we take control." Robert F. Bennett 4.5000 average rating Rate this Quote
"A human being is part of a whole, called by us the 'Universe,' a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings, as something separated from the rest--a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circles of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty." Albert Einstein 4.6429 average rating Rate this Quote
"A man without ambition is dead. A man with ambition but no love is dead. A man with ambition and love for his blessings here on earth is ever so alive." Pearl Bailey 4.2222 average rating Rate this Quote
"A teacher who is attempting to teach without inspiring the pupil with a desire to learn is hammering on a cold iron." Horace Mann 4.6667 average rating Rate this Quote
"All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire." Aristotle 4.4375 average rating Rate this Quote
"All men by nature desire to know." Aristotle 4.5610 average rating Rate this Quote
"Ambition can creep as well as soar." Edmund Burke 3.5000 average rating Rate this Quote
"Ambition is a poor excuse for not having sense enough to be lazy." Charlie McCarthy 4.3333 average rating Rate this Quote
"Ambition is but avarice on stilts and masked." Walter Savage Landor Rate this Quote
"Ambition is like a frog sitting on a Venus's-flytrap. The flytrap can bite and bite, but it won't bother the frog because it only has little tiny plant teeth. But some other stuff could happen and it could be like ambition." Jack Handey [Deep Thoughts] 3.9091 average rating Rate this Quote
"An empowered organization is one in which individuals have the knowledge, skill, desire, and opportunity to personally succeed in a way that leads to collective organizational success." M. Shawn Covey 4.7143 average rating Rate this Quote
"At twenty you have many desires which hide the truth, but beyond forty there are only real and fragile truths-your abilities and your failings." Gérard Depardieu 2.0000 average rating Rate this Quote
"Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experiences of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, vision cleared, ambition inspired and success achieved." Helen Adams Keller 4.6875 average rating Rate this Quote
"Citizen participation [is] a device whereby public officials induce nonpublic individuals to act in a way the officials desire." Daniel Patrick Moynihan 5.0000 average rating Rate this Quote
"Count not thyself to have found true peace, if thou hast felt no grief; nor that then all is well if thou hast no adversary; nor that this is perfect, if all things fall out according to thy desire." Honoré de Balzac 4.6667 average rating Rate this Quote
"Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of a readiness to die." Gilbert Keith Chesterton 4.5714 average rating Rate this Quote
"Dancing is a vertical expression of a horizontal desire." Robert Lee Frost 4.7091 average rating Rate this Quote
"Desire nothing, Chafe not at fate, nor at Nature's changeless laws. But struggle only with the personal, the transitory, the evanescent and the perishable." H(elena) P(etrovna) Hahn Blavatsky 4.0000 average rating Rate this Quote
"Different people have different duties assigned to them by Nature; Nature has given one the power or the desire to do this, and the other that. Each bird must sing with his own throat." Henrik Ibsen 4.3333 average rating Rate this Quote
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Ralph Waldo Emerson Rene Descartes Robert Burton
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