The way to gain a good reputation is to endeavor to be what you desire to appear.
Desire Quotes
In the endless variety of tastes and circumstances that diversify mankind, nothing is so superfluous, but that some one desires it: or so common, but that someone is compelled to buy it. As nothing is useless but because it is in improper hands, what is thrown away by one is gathered up my another; and […]
Each man has his own desires; all do not possess the same inclinations.
Desire is the very essence of man.
The desires of mankind are much more numerous than their attainments, and the capacity of imagination much larger than actual enjoyment. Multitudes are therefore unsatisfied with their allotment.
There is nothing like desire for preventing the thing one says from bearing any resemblance to what one has in one’s mind.
An aspiration is a joy for ever, a possession as solid as a landed estate.
It is very common for us to desire most what we are least qualified to obtain.
We do not succeed in changing things according to our desire, but gradually our desire changes. The situation that we hoped to change because it was intolerable becomes unimportant. We have not managed to surmount the obstacle, as were absolutely determined to do, but life has taken us around it, led us past it, and […]
Man wants but little; nor that little, long.
