He that flatters you more than you desire either has deceived you or wishes to deceive.

He that flatters you more than you desire either has deceived you or wishes to deceive.

Is it not strange that desire should so many years outlive performance?

Is it not strange that desire should so many years outlive performance?

Desire, like the atom, is explosive with creative force.

Desire, like the atom, is explosive with creative force.

The starting point of all achievement is desire.

The starting point of all achievement is desire.

Dreams do come true, if we only wish hard enough, You can have anything in life if you will sacrifice read more

Dreams do come true, if we only wish hard enough, You can have anything in life if you will sacrifice everything else for it.

More than we use is more than we want.

More than we use is more than we want.

It's so much better to desire than to have. . . . The moment of desire, when you know something read more

It's so much better to desire than to have. . . . The moment of desire, when you know something is going to happen -- that's the most exalting.

Passing into higher forms of desire, that which slumbered in the
plant, and fitfully stirred in the beast, awakes read more

Passing into higher forms of desire, that which slumbered in the
plant, and fitfully stirred in the beast, awakes in the man.

A desire presupposes the possibility of action to achieve it; action presupposes a goal which is worth achieving.

A desire presupposes the possibility of action to achieve it; action presupposes a goal which is worth achieving.