Best desire & praise Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

Source: The passionate state of mind, and other aphorisms

“No, I have no desire for riches. Honest poverty and a conscience, torpid through virtuous inaction, are more to me than corner lots and praise.”

Desire Poverty Honest Conscience Praise Prosperity Corners Riches Virtuous Inaction

Book:Tales, Speeches, Essays, and Sketches

Source: Tales, Speeches, Essays, and Sketches

“I have been so great a lover: filled my days So proudly with the splendour of Love's praise, The pain, the calm, and the astonishment, Desire illimitable, and silent content, And all dear names men use, to cheat despair, For the perplexed and viewless streams that bear Our hearts at random down the dark of life.”

Men Life Heart Has Beens Use Pain Desire Names Dark Bears Lovers Despair Praise Filled Silent Calm Dear Streams Cheat Astonishment Splendour Perplexed

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Rupert Brooke (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Rupert Brooke (Illustrated)

“I desire to bless and praise the name of God most high for appointing me my birth in a land of Gospel Light where the glorious tidings of a Saviour and of pardon and salvation through Him have been continually sounding in mine ears.”

Has Beens Light Desire Names Land Mines Birth Ears Praise Salvation Glorious Bless Pardon Saviour Tidings

Author:Robert Treat Paine

“This food-and-shelter theory concerning man's efforts is without insight. Our most persistent and spectacular efforts are concerned not with the preservation of what we are but with the building up of an imaginary conception of ourselves in the opinion of others. The desire for praise is more imperative than the desire for food and shelter.”

Men Desire Effort Opinion Building Theory Concerned Praise Insight Conception Imaginary Shelter Preservation Persistent Imperatives Spectacular Building Up

Author:Eric Hoffer

“Erasmus dramatizes a well-established political position: that of the fool who claims license to criticize all and sundry without reprisal, since his madness defines him as not fully a person and therefore not a political being with political desires and ambitions. The Praise of Folly, therefore sketches the possibility of a position for the critic of the scene of political rivalry, a position not simply impartial between the rivals but also, by self-definition, off the stage of rivalry altogether.”

Wells Persons Self Political Desire Stage Possibility Position Fool Scene Ambition Claims Madness Praise Critics Definitions Folly Criticize License Rivals Rivalry Reprisal Erasmus

Author:J. M. Coetzee

“The passion for praise, which is so very vehement in the fair sex, produces excellent effects in women of sense, who desire to be admired for that which only deserves admiration.”

Desire Passion Sex Effects Produce Deserve Fairs Praise Excellent Admiration Vehement

Book:The spectator

Source: The spectator

“Men praise poverty, as the African worships Mumbo Jumbo--from terror of the malign power, and a desire to propitiate at.”

Men Desire Poverty Worship Praise Terror

Book:Alfred Hagart's household

Source: Alfred Hagart's household

“If you want to conquer conceit, do not desire praise, laurels, nice garments, respect, favor, but like to be blamed and slandered by people.”

People Ifs Want Soul Desire Nice Praise Favors Conquer Garments Conceit Laurels

Author:Vladimir Aleksandrovich Antonov

“I have indeed - praise be to God - attained my desire in this world, which was to travel through the earth, and i have attained in this respect what no other person has attained to my knowledge.”

World Persons Earth Desire This World Praise

Author:Ibn Battuta

“Jesus has many lovers of His kingdom of heaven, but he has few bearers of His Cross. Many desire His consolation, but few desire His tribulation. He finds many comrades in eating and drinking, but He finds few hands who will be with Him in His abstinence and fastingBut those who love Jesus purely for Himself, and not for their own profit or convenience, bless Him as heartily in temptation and tribulation and in all other adversities as they do in time of consolation. And if He never sent them consolation, they would still bless and praise Him.”

“I love you Lord, you are my strength. The Lord is my rock, my fortress, and my savior. And my God is my rock in whom I find protection. He is my shield, the strength of my salvation, and my stronghold. I will call on the Lord who is worthy of praise. I praise the Lord, my God, my best friend, for giving me the ability, the desire, the love and the guidance that brought me here today. Without you, I would be nothing.”

Source: Still a Kid at Heart: My Life in Baseball and Beyond

“Remember that there is a God who desires neither praise nor glory from men created in his image, but rather that they, guided by the understanding given them, should in their actions become like unto him.”

Men Should Action Remember Desire Given Understanding Glory Praise

Author:Marcus Aurelius

“If you desire praise or esteem, endeavor to merit it.”

Ifs Desire Praise Esteem Merit Endeavor

Author:Norm MacDonald

“Vanity, or to call it by a gentler name, the desire of admiration and applause, is, perhaps, the most universal principle of humanactions.... Where that desire is wanting, we are apt to be indifferent, listless, indolent, and inert.... I will own to you, under the secrecy of confession, that my vanity has very often made me take great pains to make many a woman in love with me, if I could, for whose person I would not have given a pinch of snuff.”

Ifs Persons Made Pain Desire Names Given Principles Universal Praise Vanity If I Could Admiration Confession Indifferent Secrecy Applause Snuff

Author:Lord Chesterfield

“Our continual desire for praise ought to convince us of our mortality, if nothing else will.”

Ifs Desire Ought Praise Convince Mortality Convince Us

Author:Josh Billings

“To desire to be what one can be is purpose in life. There are no exterior forces. There are only interior forces. Who squanders talent praises death.”

Desire Purpose Force Talent Ambition Praise Purpose Of Life Interiors Exterior

Book:The Din in the Head

Source: The Din in the Head

“Humility is a fertile soil where spirituality grows and produces the fruit of inspiration to know what to do. It gives access to divine power to accomplish what must be done. An individual motivated by a desire for praise or recognition will not qualify to be taught by the Spirit. An individual who is arrogant or who lets his or her emotions influence decisions will not be powerfully led by the Spirit.”

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