Desire Quotes
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The Scoutmaster guides the boy in the spirit of an older brother... He has simply to be a boy-man, that is: (1) He must have the boy spirit in him: and must be able to place himself in the right plane with his boys as a first step. (2) He must realise the needs, outlooks and desires of the different ages of boy life. (3) He must deal with the individual boy rather than with the mass. (4) He then needs to promote a corporate spirit among his individuals to gain the best results.
Robert Baden-Powell
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Yet one more item is needed to complete success, and that is the rendering of service to others in the community. Without this the mere satisfaction of selfish desire does not reach the top notch.
Robert Baden-Powell
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When I started out, I didn't have any desire to be an actress or to learn how to act. I just wanted to be famous.
Katharine Hepburn
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Prayer is not a painful effort to gain from God help in the varying needs of life. Prayer is the desire to possess God Himself
Sadhu Sundar Singh
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But on the other hand, while disclaiming any change in my opinions, I desire equally to disclaim the representations of those opinions which have been put forward in some quarters.
Joseph Barber Lightfoot
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We have this consolation, that it was the evident dispensation of God which brought us to this country; and still further, that if the world was all before us, where to choose our place of rest, we should not desire to leave Burmah.
Adoniram Judson
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I rather disdained than coveted the luxuries I saw : alas ! we desire riches more for others than ourselves.
Letitia Elizabeth Landon
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Life contains but two tragedies. One is not to get your heart's desire; the other is to get it.
George Bernard Shaw
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If I had a prayer, it would be this: 'God spare me from the desire for love, approval, and appreciation. Amen.'
Byron Katie
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You may never understand How the Stranger is inspired, But he is not always evil, And he is not always wrong. Though you drown in good intentions, You will never quench the fire. You'll give in to your desire When the Stranger comes along.
Billy Joel
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The truth doesn't die. The desire for liberty cannot be fully suppressed.
John F. Kennedy
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I don't have a burning desire to act, strangely enough. I don't know that if I hadn't been an actor as a young person, I don't know that I ever would have chosen this because it's not really my personality.
Jodie Foster
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Comparison will be the number one thing that will keep you from doing what God's calling you to do. He's put a gift and a call and a desire in your heart that is different than anyone else's. And you're wired that way for a reason.
Kari Jobe
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Every man has obligations which belong to his station. Duties extend beyond obligations, and direct the affections, desires, and intentions, as well as the actions.
William Whewell
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The instinct to impersonate produces the actor; the desire to provide pleasure by impersonations produces the playwright; the desire to provide this pleasure with adequate characterization and dialogue memorable in itself produces dramatic literature.
George Pierce Baker
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For the truth is that men do not desire to be the Common Man any more than they are the Common Man. They need greatness in others and the occasion to discover the greatness in themselves.
C. V. Wedgwood
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It's absurd to think that desire for attention doesn't drive both women and men. Why are women scrutinized for it more, then?
Emily Ratajkowski
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No person among us desires any other reward for performing a brave and worthy action, but the consciousness of having served his nation.
Joseph Brant
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I think when you embrace celibacy other elements of the relationship have to come forth. There isn't an opportunity for you to be blinded by your sexual desires there is an opportunity to see things more clearly.
Edwina Findley
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Often when He comes, He finds the soul occupied. Other guests are there, and He has to turn away. He cannot gain entry, for we love and desire other things; therefore, His gifts, which He is offering to everyone unceasingly, must remain outside.
Johannes Tauler
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I didn't harbor a huge desire to become a chef until I graduated from college.
Alex Guarnaschelli
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Immoderate desire is the mark of a child, not a man.
Democritus
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Experience, as a desire for experience, does not come off. We must not study ourselves while having an experience.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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What is it men in women do require: The lineaments of gratified desire. What is it women do in men require: The lineaments of gratified desire.
William Blake