Desire Quotes

God can change our circumstances, but sometimes He waits for us to show real desire for change as well as our faith in Him.

Weak desires bring weak results, just as a small amount of fire brings a small amount of heat.

Every person is a God in embryo. Its only desire is to be born.

Man is a hungry being. But he is hungry for God. Behind all the hunger of our life is God. All desire is finally a desire for Him.

The habit of giving only enhances the desire to give.

If you desire to dig a well to reach water, your efforts are more fruitful if you dig one 100-foot-deep hole than if you dig ten holes each 10 feet deep.

Desire is the thing you want in incipiency.

There's always a tension in me between my urge to destroy and my will to live... Every morning I wake up with a new wrath, a new suspiciousness, a new desire to live.

God desires the smallest degree of purity of conscience in you more than all the works you can perform.

China has no desire to replace Western imperialism in Asia with an Oriental imperialism or isolationism of its own or anyone else.

How much I desire! Inside my little satchel, the moon, and flowers

If we are to develop an intimate relationship, we need to know each other's desires. If we wish to love each other, we need to know what the other person wants.

There is no better proof of a man's being truly good than his desiring to be constantly under the observation of good men.

Your desire is your prayer.

Inspiration gives you a desire. Decision makes it an intention. Action makes it real.

That is love, to give away everything, to sacrifice everything, without the slightest desire to get anything in return.3

Schisms do not originate in a love of truth, which is a source of courtesy and gentleness, but rather in an inordinate desire for supremacy.

Experience fails to teach where there is no desire to learn.

The desire for beauty, the hunger for union, the passion to be part of something greater than self, all arise out of our bent to worship.

A true desire is not to have but to be. We are whole creatures in potential, and the true purpose of desire is to unfold that wholeness, to become what we can be.

Singing is as much the language of holy joy as praying is of holy desire.

Merely external emancipation has made of the modern woman an artificial being. Now, woman is confronted with the necessity of emancipating herself from emancipation, if she really desires to be free.

To be an artist you have to give up everything, including the desire to be a good artist.

You desire to know the art of living, my friend? It is contained in one phrase: make use of suffering.

We can only live changes: we cannot think our way to humanity. Every one of us, every group, must become the model of that which we desire to create.

Every desire has a relation to madness.

What do you want a meaning for? Life is a desire, not a meaning.

Motivation comes from within each individual. It's a personal thing. It's pride, guts, desire, whatever you want to call it; some people have it in their bellies, and some don't.

So whatever it is you want, need or desire or just like to have, you better try to get it now, 'cause this is the only time there is.

For years I've nursed a secret desire to spend the Fourth of July in a double hammock with a swingin' redheaded broad. But I could never find me a double hammock

Whatever it is your heart desires, please go for it, it's yours to have.

Nihilism is not only despair and negation, but above all the desire to despair and to negate.

Desire presses ever forward unsubdued.

I did not love you out or boredom or loneliness or caprice. I loved you because the desire for you was stronger than any happiness.

Talent is the gift plus the passion - a desire to succeed so intense that no force on earth can stop it.

Prohibitions create the desire they were intended to cure.

The remedy against want is to moderate your desires.

Conjugal love, or the friendship of spouses, persists after sexual desires have weakened, withered, and disappeared.

Regularity, order, desire for perfection destroy art. Irregularity is the basis of all art.

If I had a prayer, it would be this: "God, spare me from the desire for love, approval, or appreciation. Amen."

Desire, even in its wildest tantrums, can neither persuade me it is love nor stop me from wishing it were.

It is not because men's desires are strong that they act ill; it is because their consciences are weak.

God often does His best work in us when He catches us by surprise and introduces a change that is completely against our own desire.

What desire can be contrary to nature since it was given to man by nature itself?

Those who act with few desires are calm, without worry or fear.

Where progress is desire, change is Inevitable.

Immoderate desire is the mark of a child, not a man.

Don't trap yourself with the desire of wanting to be liked.

I have spent my life resisting the desire to end it.

Traditional morality ... does not teach us how to let the other follow his or her own path, meet with whomever he or she desires, go where he or she wants.