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Quotes about desire
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I was taught that everything is attainable if you are prepared to give up, to sacrifice, to get it. Whatever you want to do, you can do it, if you want it badly enough, and I do believe that. I believe that if I wanted to run a mile is four minutes I could do it. I would have to give up everything else in my life, but I could run a mile in four minutes. I believe that if a man wanted to walk on water and was prepared to give up everything else in life, he could do that. (Cleese John)
We are ever striving after what is forbidden, and coveting what is denied us. (Cleese John)
The more wild and incredible your desire, the more willing and prompt God is in fulfilling it, if you will have it so. (Cleese John)
There is a vast difference in some instances between what we really need and that which we think we must have, and the realization of this truth will greatly lessen the seeming discomfort in doing without. (Cleese John)
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You can really have everything you want, if you go after it, but you will have to want it. The desire for success must be so strong within you that it is the very breath of your life -- your first though when you awaken in the morning, your last thought when you go to bed at night... (Cleese John)
We do not succeed in changing things according to our desire, but gradually our desire changes. (Cleese John)
First deserve then desire. (Cleese John)
Unbridled gratification produces unbridled desire. (Cleese John)
There are no better masters than poverty and wants. (Cleese John)
More than we use is more than we want. (Cleese John)
Every human mind is a great slumbering power until awakened by a keen desire and by definite resolution to do. (Cleese John)
Without a sense of urgency, desire loses its value. (Cleese John)
When you know what you want, and want it bad enough, you will find a way to get it. (Cleese John)
Why not spend some time determining what is worthwhile for us, and then go after that? (Cleese John)
All human activity is prompted by desire. (Cleese John)
I learned that if you want to make it bad enough, no matter how bad it is, you can make it. (Cleese John)
The man never feels the want of what it never occurs to him to ask for. (Cleese John)
Our necessities are few, but our wants are endless. (Cleese John)
There is a supply for every demand. (Cleese John)
Desire is the most important factor in the success of any athlete. (Cleese John)
I have always believed that anybody with a little guts and the desire to apply himself can make it, can make anything he wants to make of himself. (Cleese John)
A desire arises in the mind. It is satisfied immediately another comes. In the interval which separates two desires a perfect calm reigns in the mind. It is at this moment freed from all thought, love or hate. Complete peace equally reigns between two mental waves. (Cleese John)
An intense anticipation itself transforms possibility into reality; our desires being often but precursors of the things which we are capable of performing. (Cleese John)
The fewer our wants the more we resemble the Gods. (Cleese John)
Desire is the essence of a man. (Cleese John)
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