Desire Quotes

I believe I did what honor dictated and that belief sustains me, except for a slight desire to be dead which I'm sure will pass.

Some have courage in pleasures, and some in pains: some in desires, and some in fears, and some are cowards under the same conditions.

A person who is emotionally free has no desire to convince, cajole, insist, beg, seduce, manipulate or control. He/she is free to love

There are two futures, the future of desire and the future of fate, and man's reason has never learnt to separate them.

They have a desire to put on plays and to fulfill that traditional role of a theater in a community: to be the place where people go to hear the truth.

Our desires are never wholly transparent, even to ourselves.

Those who desire to give up freedom in order to gain security will not have either one.

The desire for success lubricates secret prostitution in the soul.

My visual quest is driven by a desire to create a universe capable of supporting feelings and ideas.

One who rushes madly after inordinate desire, runs the risk of encountering destruction and death.

Softly! Softly! I want none but the judges to hear me. The Jews have already gotten me into a fine mess, as they have many other gentleman. I have no desire to furnish further grist for their mills.

You are undoubtedly acquainted with my Reputation, and as for my Penmanship it must speak for itself; this is to desire your Approbation to keep a public school.

In moderating, not satisfying desires, lies peace.

Julian once wrote that coincidences are the scars of fate. There are no coincidences, Daniel. We are puppets of our subconscious desires.

If you suffer and make your loved ones suffer, there is nothing that can justify your desire.

Desire is the key to motivation. It is the key to develop a healthy personality and a positive attitude towards oneself and others.

Desires are but pain and torment, and enjoyment is sweet because it delivers us from them.

Ardent love or desire introduced, as passionately longing to please and glorify the Divine Being, to be in every respect conformed to him, and in that way to enjoy him.

The idea that a war can be won by standing on the defensive and waiting for the enemy to attack is a dangerous fallacy, which owes its inception to the desire to evade the price of victory.

When God has given you your heart's desire, what have you done with your heart's desire?

As we see the beauty of God and feel His weightiness in our hearts, our hearts begin to desire Him more than we desire sin. Before the Bible says,"Stop sinning", it says,"Behold your God".

I have always had a hidden wish, a frustrated desire, to run a hotel.

Most software has a tiny essence that justifies its existence, everything after that is wants and desires mistaken for needs and necessities.

Whatever posessions and objects of its desires the lower self may obtain, it hangs on to them, refusing to let them go out of greed for more, or out of fear of poverty and need.

The desire of excellence is the necessary attribute of those who excel. We work little for a thing unless we wish for it.

The life of a mathematician is dominated by an insatiable curiosity, a desire bordering on passion to solve the problems he is studying.

It's vital to understand that while you are alive, there is no end to desire, since the seed of your every thought and your every action is a desire.

By annihilating desires, you annihilate the mind.

Love points the way. Desire is its ignorant advisor.

The desire to force love to live only in its most positive form is what causes love ultimately to fall over dead.

Anguish of suspense made men even desire the arrival of enemies.

The enabling power of the Atonement strengthens us to do and be good and to serve beyond our own individual desire and natural capacity.

A pure heart means a single heart, a heart in which only one desire lives: love.

Christians today like to play it safe. We want to put ourselves in situations where we are safe 'even if there is no God.' But if we truly desire to please God, we cannot live that way.

There is a supply for every demand.

The desire to die was my one and only concern; to it I have sacrificed everything, even death.

Weak thoughts, weak desires: he felt their force.

A tear is enough water to float a desire to God.

I have no desire to suffer twice, in reality and then in retrospect.

Desire is a teacher: When we immerse ourselves in it without guilt, shame, or clinging, it can show us something special about our own minds that allows us to embrace life fully.

I had to be healed of my desire to be healed.

The retouching is excessive. I do not look like that and more importantly, I don't desire to look like that.

When we disclaim praise, it is only showing our desire to be praised a second time.

Life is made for the strong. There is no mercy in it for the weak– none...Such is the tragedy of desire.

If you don't feel like praying, pray to God to give you the desire.

Success is focusing the full power of all you are on what you have a burning desire to achieve.

When you see your own desire to be happy, you can't avoid seeing the same desire in others.

Each country, if it so desires, will make its own revolution. And if no such desire exists, no revolution will occur.

The fulfillment of every desire only reveals its inadequacy.

I've learned over the years that the writing is smarter and far larger than the writer and his or her own desires for it.