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“A burning desire is the greatest motivator of every human action. The desire for success implants 'success consciousness' which, in turn, creates a vigorous and ever-increasing 'habit of success'.”

Humans Action Desire Turns Consciousness Habit Burning Vigorous Human Actions Implants Burning Desire Desire For Success

Author:Paul J. Meyer

“Our forefather Adam... used his freedom to turn toward what was worse and to direct his desire away from what had been permitted to what was forbidden. It was in his power 'to be united to the Lord and become one spirit with God...' (I Cor. 6:15). But Adam was deceived and chose to cut himself off voluntarily from God's happy end for him, preferring by his own free choice to be drawn down to the earth (cf. Gen. 2:17) than to become God by grace.”

Ends Earth Christian Used Spirit Desire Turns Choices United Lord Grace Cutting Direct Orthodox Adam Forbidden Deceived Forefathers Cfs Free Choice

Author:Maximus the Confessor

“Is the scene always visual? It can be aural, the frame can be linguistic: I can fall in love with a sentence spoken to me: and not only because it says something which manages to touch my desire, but because of its syntactical turn (framing), which will inhabit me like a memory.”

I Can Desire Turns Fall Memories Scene Falling In Love Sentences Manage Visuals Framing

Book:A lover's discourse: fragments

Source: A lover's discourse: fragments

“Do not turn the power of your mind upon others, but turn it upon yourself in such a way that it will make you stronger, more positive, more capable, and more efficient, and as you develop in this manner, success must come of itself. There is only one way by which you can influence others legitimately, and that is through the giving of instruction, but in that case, there is no desire to influence. You desire simply to impart knowledge and information, and you exercise a most desirable influence without desiring to do so.”

Way Giving Mind Desire Turns Cases Influence Information Exercise Capable Stronger One Way Instruction Efficient Desirable Impart Makes You Stronger Knowledge And Information

Book:The Optimist Creed

Source: The Optimist Creed

“March is outside the door Flaming some old desire As man turns uneasily from his fire.”

Men Desire Turns Fire Doors March

Author:David McCord

“Artists have wild desires and a terrible hunger to achieve... Without it they haven't the juice for striving or loving. But desire also can make them greedy and turn dreams into unrealizable obsessions.”

Dream Desire Artist Turns Achieve Havens Terrible Strive Hunger Obsession Greedy Juice

Book:Affirmations for Artists

Source: Affirmations for Artists

“A man can reach into anything and turn it to his cause. It's not want, or desire, just certainty. Only be assured that whatever you reach into will reach into you in turn.”

Men Want Desire Turns Causes Certainty Assured

Book:Emperor of Thorns

Source: Emperor of Thorns

“A man of God has many brothers. He is a wounded soldier - he is familiar with the pain one feels in his heart, as a close and loving brother, when a brother falls victim of evil men or turns to evil desires (the latter sometimes even betrayal). Because of this, too, he is and must be well-acquainted with and trained in the strengths of hope and the gentleness of forgiveness and mercy.”

Men Feels Wells Heart Sometimes Pain Desire Turns Fall Evil Brother Mercy Victim Soldier Betrayal Familiar Latter Wounded Gentleness Evil Man Man Of God Wounded Soldier

Book:Killosophy

Source: Killosophy

“Men that are free, well-born, well-bred, and conversant in honest companies, have naturally an instinct and spur that prompteth them unto virtuous actions, and withdraws them from vice, which is called honour. Those same men, when by base subjection and constraint they are brought under and kept down, turn aside from that noble disposition, by which they formerly were inclined to virtue, to shake off and break that bond of servitude, wherein they are so tyrannously enslaved; for it is agreeable with the nature of man to long after things forbidden, and to desire what is denied us.”

“Perhaps you don't desire poetry as much as you would like to have my torchy knowledge of your possible futures, but I dare say poetry will do you far more good. For knowing the future only makes you timid and complacent by turns, while poetry can shape you into the kind of souls who can face any future with boldness and wisdom and nobility, so that you need not know the future at all, so that any future will be an opportunity for greatness, if you have greatness in you.”

Ifs Knows Needs Kind Soul Faces Desire Turns Opportunity Knowing Greatness Shapes Dare Nobility Boldness Complacent Knowing The Future

Book:Prentice Alvin: The Tales of Alvin Maker

Source: Prentice Alvin: The Tales of Alvin Maker

“Wherever we turn we find that the real obstacles to peace are human will and feeling, human convictions, prejudices, opinions. If we want to get rid of war we must get rid first of all of its psychological causes. Only when this has been done will the rulers of the nations even desire to get rid of the economic and political causes.”

Source: Ends and Means: An Inquiry into the Nature of Ideals

“I would like to write a novel, or at least try to write one, although my motives are not entirely pure. For one thing, I get asked about writing novels so much that I feel guilty about never having written one. And although I have no strong desire to write a novel, I would hate not to try. That would just be silly. On the other hand, I hate the idea of slogging through something that turns out to be not good.”

Feels Writing Trying Ideas Hands Desire Hate Turns Strong Novel Written One Thing Pure I Hate Silly Guilty Motive Being Silly Strong Desire

Author:Kelly Link

“In proportion as the people are accustomed to manage their affairs by their own active intervention, instead of leaving them to the government, their desires will turn to repelling tyranny, rather than to tyrannizing: while in proportion as all ready initiative and direction resides in the government, and individuals habitually feel and act as under its perpetual tutelage, popular institutions develop in them not the desire of freedom, but an unmeasured appetite for place and power.”

“Surely if living creatures saw the results of all their evil deeds, they would turn away from them in disgust. But selfhood blinds them, and they cling to their obnoxious desires. They crave pleasure for themselves and they cause pain to others; when death destroys their individuality, they find no peace; their thirst for existence abides and their selfhood reappears in new births. Thus they continue to move in the coil and can find no escape from the hell of their own making.”

Ifs Pain Moving Desire Turns Evil Causes Pleasure Results Existence Hell Saws Birth Creatures Individuality Deeds Karma Disgusting Thirst Crave Living Creatures Obnoxious

Author:Gautama Buddha

“The disappointed man turns his thoughts toward a state of existence where his wiser desires may be fixed with the certainty of faith; the successful man feels that the objects which he has ardently pursued fail to satisfy the cravings of an immortal spirit; the wicked man turneth away from his wickedness, that he may save his soul alive.”

Source: On Sir Francis Burdett's motion for parliamentary reform.-On the conduct of the war.-On the cry of the Whigs for peace, 1810.-Army and navy reforms, 1810.-On the economical reformers, 1811.-On the state of the poor.-The principle of Mr. Malthus's essay on population.-The manufacturing system, 1812.-On the state of the poor.-On the accounts of England by foreign travellers and the state of public opinion, 1816.-On the state of public opinion and the political reformers, 1816.-v.2 A letter to Will

“If we desire rules to govern our spiritual development we turn back to the Sermon on the Mount.”

Ifs Spiritual Desire Turns Development Sermons Spiritual Development Sermon On The Mount

Book:In His Image: By William Jennings Bryan

Source: In His Image: By William Jennings Bryan

“I knock unbidden once at every gate-- If sleeping, wake--if feasting, rise before I turn away--it is the hour of fate, And they who follow me reach every state Mortals desire, and conquer every foe Save death, but those who doubt of hesitate, Condemned to failure, penury and woe, Seek me in vain and uselessly implore, I answer not, and I return no more.”

Ifs States Desire Turns Opportunity Hours Sleep Answers Doubt Fate Return Mortals Conquer Vain Gates Woe Foe Follow Me Feasting Opportunity Knocking

Author:John James Ingalls

“A man may be buoyed up by the efflation of his wild desires to brave any imaginable peril; but he cannot calmly see one he loves braving the same peril; simply because he cannot feel within turn that which prompts another. He sees the danger, and feels not the power that is to overcome it.”

Men Feels May Desire Turns Danger Overcoming Brave Sympathy Peril Prompts

Author:George Henry Lewes

“Self-reflection is a desire felt by the body, as well as the soul. As dancers, healers, and saints all know, when you turn your attention toward even the simplest physical process - breath, the small movements of the eyes, the turning of a foot in midair - what might have seemed dull matter suddenly awakens.”

Source: The Book of the Courtesans: A Catalogue of Their Virtues

“Once you're a mom, all of your personal desires come secondary as the survival of the child becomes your life's priority, which leads you to worry each day and every night the little one turn out right.”

Children Littles Desire Night Turns Worry Mom Survival Priorities Each Day Every Night Personal Desire

Author:Kimberly Guilfoyle

“Turn yourself inside out. Live with absolute certainty that you have the power to create anything that you desire-anything!-because the power you need is the power of the Universe flowing through you.”

Needs Desire Turns Universe Absolutes Certainty Absolute Certainty

Author:Sonia

“The boycott of parliamentary institutions on the part of anarchists and semianarchists is dictated by a desire not to submit their weakness to a test on the part of the masses, thus preserving their right to an inactive hauteur which makes no difference to anybody. A revolutionary party can turn its back to a parliament only if it has set itself the immediate task of overthrowing the existing regime.”

Ifs Desire Turns Differences Party Mass Weakness Tasks Tests Institutions Revolutionary Regimes Submit Parliament Anarchist Parliamentary Boycott

Book:History of the Russian Revolution

Source: History of the Russian Revolution