Desire Quotes

Success - keeping your mind awake and your desire asleep.

What we insistently desire, over time, is what we become.

Ambition. An overmastering desire to be vilified by enemies while living and made ridiculous by friends when dead.

You wouldn't desire something if you didn't have the talent to carry it out.

Deliberately seek the company of people who influence you to think and act on building the life you desire.

If you desire the spirit of God you must keep the commandments of God.

If you are influenced by the opinions of others, you will have no DESIRE of your own.

Low class men desire wealth;middle class men both wealth and respect; but the noble, honour only; hence honour is the noble man's true wealth.

God, grant us our desires, and grant them quickly.

If you real desire is to be good, there is no need to wait for the money before you do it; you can do it now, this very moment, and just where you are.

Babies who have not yet been taught to speak any language are the only race of the earth, the race of man: all the rest is pretence, what we call civilization, hatred, fear, desire for strength.

Everything you desire is outside your comfort zone - otherwise, you would already have it.

When I desire you a part of me is gone.

Everyone believes very easily whatever they fear or desire.

Every desire of your body is holy; Every desire of your body is Holy.

Poor people have the desire to prosper but their mindset stop them.

Innovative organizations provide the freedom to act which arouses the desire to act.

Giving up an addiction means re-programming that part of your brain that makes you restless and unhappy if a desire is not realized.

The vulgar man is always the most distinguished, for the very desire to be distinguished is vulgar.

Love' is the name for our pursuit of wholeness, for our desire to be complete.

Fraternity among nations, however, touches the deepest desire of human nature

A kung fu man lives without being dependant on the opinions of others, and a master, unlike the beginner, holds himself in reserve. He is quiet and unassuming, with no desire to show off.

When there is no desire, all things are at peace

We are made in the image of God; we carry within us the desire for our true life of intimacy and adventure. To say we want less than that is to lie.

They say 'He cannot be found'. Something that cannot be 'found' is what I desire.

Desire is the key to motivation.

That the desires of the majority of the people are often for injustice and inhumanity against the minority, is demonstrated by every page of the history of the world.

If we are serious about loving someone, we have to surrender all the desires within us to manipulate the relationship.

Any unique image that you desire probably already exists on the internet or in some database... the problem today is no longer how to create the right image, but how to find an already existing one.

Life contains but two tragedies. One is not to get your heart's desire; the other is to get it.

The impulse of modern art was this desire to destroy beauty.

Dream, but expect nothing. Desire, but expect nothing. Hope, but expect nothing. Release your need to control and gain real control.

I once had a thousand desires. But in my one desire to know you all else melted away.

The desire to be loved is the last illusion. Give it up and you will be free.

It is my earnest desire that some of you should carry on this scientific work and keep for your ambition the determination to make a permanent contribution to science.

The trouble in modern democracy is that men do not approach to leadership until they have lost the desire to lead anyone.

And if God choose I shall but love thee better after death.

Your Heart's Desire is the Voice of God, and that Voice must be obeyed sooner or later.

Photography, alone of the arts, seems perfected to serve the desire humans have for a moment - this very moment - to stay.

Everyone surrounding you has gone through similar things. The search for love or the desire to have a family or the loss of a child.

Happy are those who find wisdom... She is more precious than jewels, and nothing you desire can compare with her. Her ways are ways of pleasantness, and all her paths are peace.

If it be true that any beautiful thing raises the pure and just desire of man from earth to God, the eternal fount of all, such I believe my love.

From morning to night keep Jesus in thy heart, long for nothing, desire nothing, hope for nothing but to have all that is within thee changed into the spirit and temper of the holy Jesus.

He is a king who fears nothing, he is a king who desires nothing!

The desire to win is born in most of us. The will to win is a matter of training. The manner of winning is a matter of honour.

In the same way that rain breaks into a house with a bad roof, desire breaks into the mind that has not been practising meditation.

God takes men's hearty desires and will, instead of the deed, where they have not power to fulfill it; but he never took the bare deed instead of the will.

We have now gone beyond 100 in number, and the desire to join seems rather to increase, though it was thought the foundations would retard it, it seems quite otherwise.

Time is just memory Mixed in with Desire.

The desire to be part of something greater and to occupy life more fully, is also a desire to touch and be touched by the living imagination that sustains each soul and all of life.