Desire Quotes

We are always striving for things forbidden, and coveting those denied us.

Most people wish for riches, but few people provide the definite plan and burning desire which pave the road to wealth.

The distance between a person's dream and their accomplishments can only be measured by their desire.

God does not fill with His Holy Spirit those who believe in the fullness of the Spirit, or those who desire Him, but those who obey Him.

Blessedness consists in the accomplishment of our desires, and in our having only regular desires.

Challenge, and not desire, lies at the heart of seduction.

If one wants another only for some self-satisfaction, usually in the form of sensual pleasure, that wrong desire takes the form of lust rather than love.

A songwriter's heart is pure when they have the desire to keep digging deeper into music. And invariably, when you dig deeper it always leads you into the past.

War grows out of the desire of the individual to gain advantage at the expense of his fellow man.

[T]he experience of mystery comes not from expecting it but through yielding all your programs, because your programs are based on fear and desire. Drop them and the radiance comes. (16)

The inside of the old Camaro smelled like asphalt and desire, gasoline and dreams.

There will always be a desire for something new, fresh and innovative, as well as a yearning and respect for timeless elegance and beauty.

The world is little, people are little, human life is little. There is only one big thing — desire.

Our duty is to be useful, not according to our desires but according to our powers.

No settlement with the majority community is possible, as no Hindu leader speaking with any authority shows any concern or genuine desire for it.

If people have a basic understanding of right from wrong, possess a strong desire to better themselves and persist in there cause, they can break the chain of any negative environment.

Boys have a tendency to jump around a lot more than girls. Boys have that desire to want to dunk way more than girls do. It just never seemed like something we could truly fathom and do.

An editor is a person who knows more about writing than writers do but who has escaped the terrible desire to write.

Rivers are roads which move, and which carry us whither we desire to go.

At Christmas, I no more desire a rose.

Desire is the essence of a man.

A soul who loves Jesus Christ desires to be treated the way Christ was treated-desires to be poor, despised, and humiliated.

Suicide to them is an act of selfishness. Someone who is truly selfless does not think of himself often enough to desire death.

My desire to live is as intense as ever, and though my heart is broken, hearts are made to be broken: that is why God sends sorrow into the world.

Settle for nothing less than the object of your desire.

When you desire the common good, the whole world desires with you. Make humanity's desire your own and work for it. There you cannot fail.

What keeps me going? I guess it's just a desire to keep trying to contribute and do things in life.

The key that unlocks energy is desire. It's also the key to a long and interesting life. If we expect to create any drive, any real force within ourselves, we have to get excited.

It is a sin when I place myself deliberately in the place of temptation… either because I enjoy the prospect or because I’m not determined enough in my desire to overcome it.

I am dragged along by a strange new force. Desire and reason are pulling in different directions. I see the right way and approve it, but follow the wrong.

Let individuals contribute as they desire; but let us prohibit in effective fashion all corporations from making contributions for any political purpose, directly or indirectly.

Desire of having is the sin of covetousness.

He who has it in his power to commit sin, is less inclined to do so. The very idea of being able, weakens the desire.

It's not our disadvantages or shortcomings that are ridiculous, but rather the studious way we try to hide them, and our desire to act as if they did not exist.

When our desires are fulfilled, we never fail to realize the wealth of imagination and the paucity of reality.

To wait on God is to live a life of desire toward Him, delight in Him, dependence on Him, and devotedness to Him.

We are formed by what we desire

The profuse phallic symbolism of chess provides some fantasy gratification of the homosexual wish, particularly the desire for mutual masturbation.

Making every desire come true is not difficult once you realize that the same thing is always at work - you are transforming pure awareness from one state to another.

Perfection in any endeavor is an aiming point. Let the desire for it push you, but don't let the absence of it stop you.

But Chinese civilization has the overpowering beauty of the wholly other, and only the wholly other can inspire the deepest love and the profoundest desire to learn.

A garden is a place for shaping a little world of your own according to your heart's desire.

To know what you prefer instead of humbly saying Amen to what the world tells you ought to prefer, is to have kept your soul alive.

This desire of knowledge and the wonder which it hopes to satisfy are the driving power behind all the changes that we, with careless, question-begging inference, call progress.

Compassion refers to the arising in the heart of the desire to relieve the suffering of all beings.

I do not approve the maxim which desires a man to know a little of everything. Superficial knowledge, knowledge without principles, is almost always useless and sometimes harmful knowledge.

When all desires of heart die, mortal man becomes Immortal.

Judging is a preemptive attack against that which you most desire - intimacy and acceptance - that is launched before you can be rejected or refused.

Their poverty secured their freedom, since our desires and our possessions are the strongest fetters of despotism.

Do not desire crosses, unless you have borne those already laid upon you well — it is an abuse to long after martyrdom while unable to bear an insult patiently.