Desire Quotes

The very urge to get rid of desire is still desire, is it not?

What everyone in the astronaut corps shares in common is not gender or ethnic background, but motivation, perseverance, and desire - the desire to participate in a voyage of discovery.

Desire sets our compass, but real life steers our course.

I had a God who knew my every desire. He also knew how I would fall. And yet he was waiting on the other side of my failure and my shattered dreams with some dreams of his own.

It all comes down, as it must, to the desires of individual men. Oh, and women too of course, bless their empty little heads.

There is one kind of prison where the man is behind bars, and everything that he desires is outside; and there is another kind where the things are behind the bars, and the man is outside.

They told me to take a streetcar named Desire and then transfer to one called Cemeteries and ride six blocks and get off at - Elysian Fields!

There is no group or type of people anywhere in the world that is excluded from salvation, because God desires that the gospel be proclaimed to all without exception.

A BURNING DESIRE TO BE, AND TO DO is the starting point from which the dreamer must take off. Dreams are not born of indifference, laziness, or lack of ambition.

Women who try to be equivalent with men need desire.

The real purpose of the martial arts must be to purge oneself of petty ambitions and desire, to obtain control of one’s own character.

Never give up on your dream...Perseverance is all important. If you don't have the desire and the belief in yourself to keep trying after you've been told you should quit, you'll never make it.

The upper class desire to remain so, the middle class wish to overthrow the upper class, and the lower class want a classless system.

The significance of a man is not in what he attains, but rather what he longs to attain.

The world you desire can be won, it exists, it is real, it is possible, it is yours.

What drives me? In every mission I'm on, the thing that drives me most is the desire to find my limits-and extend them.

A memory is a beautiful thing, it's almost a desire that you miss.

The Lord would so cleanse the motive and desires of our hearts that we will seek but one thing only, and that is, His glory.

Desire toward God and you will have desires from God and He will meet you on the line of those desires when you reach out in simple faith.

I envy people that know love. That have someone who takes them as they are.

We should see the desire for neatness, the desire for sharp impressions, as a desire in art.

God never denies us our hearts desire except to give us something better.

The desire of any war photographer is to be put out of business.

To desire a state is to have it.

My desires sprang forth as a mighty sun - all embracing - associating in the form - vortex, to enjoy ALL consciousness

My definition of financial freedom is simple: it is the ability to live the lifestyle you desire without having to work or rely on anyone else for money.

When we look back, the only things we cherish are those which in some way met our original want; the desire which formed in us in early youth, undirected, and of its own accord.

If you want to touch the other shore badly enough, barring an impossible situation, you will. If your desire is diluted for any reason, you'll never make it.

Your part is to awaken your desire to accomplish your worthy objectives. Then whip your will into action until it follows the way of wisdom that is shown to you.

What we teach children to love and desire will always outweigh what we make them learn.

The desire for true happiness is nothing to feel ashamed about.

Desire is a pain which seeks easement through possession.

Desire is half of life, indifference is half of death.

Lay not on any soul a load that you would not wish to be laid upon you, and desire not for any one the things you would not desire for yourself.

What puts you on the road is your desire to enjoy. What brings you home is being in love

We do not succeed in changing things according to our desire, but gradually our desire changes.

Bad people...are in conflict with themselves; they desire one thing and will another, like the incontinent who choose harmful pleasures instead of what they themselves believe to be good.

The truth must essentially be regarded as in conflict with this world; the world has never been so good, and will never become so good that the majority will desire the truth.

Hanuman not only gives liberation, he also fulfills our beneficial desires.

Let your desires be ruled by reason.

If you don't first handle fear and desire, and you get rich, you'll only be a highpay slave.

When the will is enslaved to a desire, it will in turn enslave the mind.

Intense, burning desire is the motivational force that enables you to overcome any obstacle and achieve almost any goal

The popularity of conspiracy theories is explained by people's desire to believe that there is - some group of folks who know what they're doing

You are probably at your sanest when you come to the place where you abandon all else but your desire for God.

Nor is it credible that any one should possess so little understanding as to desire the faith and yet be destitute of the most necessary faculty to enable him to receive it.

I am in competition with no one. I have no desire to play the game of being better than anyone. I am simply trying to be better than the person I was yesterday.

The state (the U.S. Constitution) has not the right to leave every man free to profess and embrace whatever religion he may desire.

Where there is no desire, there will be no industry.

From the desert I come to thee, On a stallion shod with fire; And the winds are left behind In the speed of my desire.