Desire Quotes

You lose your anonymity just like a helium balloon with a string. Therefore people are going to have their own opinion and they're going to write in whatever clever manner they desire

He who desires, but acts not, breeds pestilence.

My desire is to live more to God to-day than yesterday, and to be more holy this hour than the last.

Drink, sir, is a great provoker of three things . . . nose-painting, sleep, and urine. Lechery, sir, it provokes, and unprovokes; it provokes the desire, but it takes away the performance.

Always desire to learn something useful

There is a desire for change. There is a millennial generation that doesn't like what they're seeing, but doesn't quite know what the solution is.

Yet one more item is needed to complete success, and that is the rendering of service to others in the community. Without this the mere satisfaction of selfish desire does not reach the top notch.

Without a sense of urgency, desire loses its value.

When I became a man I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown up.

Love between a man and a woman is founded on the mating instinct and is not free from desire and self-seeking. But to have a friend and to be true under any and all trials is the mark of a man!

A person is truly a human if he or she learns, and teaches, and inspires others. It is difficult to regard as truly human someone who is ignorant and has no desire to learn.

I am not poor. Poor are those who desire many things.

People often say that I'm curious about too many things at once... But can you really forbid a man from harbouring a desire to know and embrace everything that surrounds him?

Knowledge is the eye of desire and can become the pilot of the soul.

May God so fill us today with the heart of Christ that we may glow with the divine fire of holy desire.

Desire nothing except desirelessness. Hope for nothing except to rise above all hopes. Want nothing and you will have everything.

To the totality of purposes of the perfect Law there belong the abandonment, depreciation, and restraint of desires in so far as possible.

It provokes the desire but it takes away the performance. Therefore much drink may be said to be an equivocator with lechery: it makes him and it mars him; it sets him on and it takes him off.

I don't think there's a day that goes by that I don't feel like I've had enough and there's nothing left, but desire means...never quit.

Whatever the circumstances of your life, the understanding of type can make your perceptions clearer, your judgements sounder, and your life closer to your heart's desire

Most people fail, not because of lack of desire, but, because of lack of commitment.

You can't always get what you want, but if you try sometimes, you might find, you get what you need.

It is true that we may desire much more. But let us use what we have, and God will give us more.

Remember how the first world war broke out. It broke out as a result of the desire to redivide the world.

Desire is a bonfire that burns with greater fury, asking for more fuel.

Deep in his heart, every man longs for a battle to fight, an adventure to live, and a beauty to rescue.

The combination of some data and an aching desire for an answer does not ensure that a reasonable answer can be extracted from a given body of data.

Prayer is not a painful effort to gain from God help in the varying needs of life. Prayer is the desire to possess God Himself

The art of Mime encompasses all the feelings of the soul. The Dance, on the other hand, is essentially an expression of joy, a desire to follow the rhythms of the music.

You must want! You have the right to ask! You must desire.

The desire that guides me in all I do is the desire to harness the forces of nature to the service of mankind.

I cannot rest, I must draw, however poor the result, and when I have a bad time come over me it is a stronger desire than ever.

Lastly, do I vow, that mine eyes desire you above all things.

If your desires are not great, a little will seem much to you; for small appetite makes poverty equivalent to wealth.

The only thing of which one can be guilty is of having given ground relative to one's desire.

Ultimately, it is the desire, not the desired, that we love.

Love is not a desire for beauty; it is a yearning for completion.

Peace is a desire, war is a fact; and history has never paid heed to human desires and ideals.

The moguls are driven by their respective desires for profit - period.

Remove the conflict between your desires and your duties, peace will come.

I think it's ultimately inhuman to only see things for their functionality. We want things to be more than that. The desire for beauty is something that's in us, and it's not trivial.

God authors desires in your heart, then fulfills His Will by enabling you to realize those desires.

Every man if he so desires becomes sculptor of his own brain.

Love enjoys knowing everything about you; desire needs mystery.

The problem for us is not are our desires satisfied or not. The problem is how do we know what we desire.

Justice is the firm and continuous desire to render to everyone that which is his due.

Horizontality is a desire to give up, to sleep. Verticality is an attempt to escape. Hanging and floating are states of ambivalence.

A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others.

Dive into your heart center. Sit in the silence. Desire self-realization with all your heart, with all your mind, and all your soul. Everything will take care of itself.

Want is one only of five giants on the road of reconstruction; the others are Disease, Ignorance, Squalor, and Idleness.