The shadows of our own desires stand between us and our better angels, and thus their brightness is eclipsed.
Charles Dickens – The shadows of our own desires
The desire to create continually is vulgar and betrays jealousy, envy, ambition. If one is something one really does not need to make anything –and one nonetheless does very much. There exists above the ”productive” man a yet higher species.
Friedrich Nietzsche – Creativity, Desire
It is much easier to suppress a first desire than to satisfy those that follow.
Benjamin Franklin – Desire
The desire to reach for the stars is ambitious. The desire to reach hearts is wise.
Maya Angelou – Desire
We are motivated by a keen desire for praise, and the better a man is the more he is inspired by glory. The very philosophers themselves, even in those books which they write in contempt of glory, inscribe their names.
