Desire Quotes
Through our faith, we gain the courage to take action. And through action, we move one step closer toward the manifestation of our desires.
Research indicates that the desire to achieve the skills associated with success is more highly correlated with achievement than the desire for success itself.
A problem only exists if there is a difference between what is actually happening and what you desire to be happening.
... our natural Will is to have God, and the Good Will of God is to have us; and we may never cease from willing nor from longing till we have Him in fullness of joy: and then may we no more desire.
Imagination consists in expelling from reality several incomplete persons, and then using the magic and subversive powers of desire to bring them back in the form of one entirely satisfying presence.
Americans and their desire to be novelists, the American novel should be listed in medical dictionaries alongside Megalomania and Obsessional Neuroses.
First get a clear notion of what you desire to accomplish and then in all probability you will succeed in doing it.
The way to get things done is to stimulate competition. I do not mean in a sordid, money-getting way, but in the desire to excel.
If your desire is a 10 but your self-esteem is a 5, you'll never perform at the level of a 10. You'll perform as a 5 or lower. People are ever able to outperform their self-image.
To increase desires to an unbearable level whilst making the fulfillment of them more and more inaccessible: this was the single principle upon which Western society was based.
Therefore, whether the desire for prayer is on you or not, get to your closet at the set time; shut yourself in with God; wait upon Him; seek His face; realize Him; pray.
The desire to be singular and to astonish by ways out of the common seems to me to be the source of many virtues.
Going after the unknown is always fascinating, I think. It becomes part of your life, this desire to know.
Over the years I have discovered that ideas come through an intense desire for them; continually desiring, the mind becomes a watchtower on the lookout for incidents that may excite the imagination.
The will is infinite and the execution confin'd, the desire is boundless and the act a slave to limit.
When you give your best, that's all you can ask of yourself, all that people can ask of you and all that god desires from you. No matter what the result, walk with your head held high.
A poignant paradox is that sometimes the very desire to be a good mother or father will lead the parent to mistake duty for love.
Between the desire And the spasm, Between the potency And the existence, Between the essence And the descent, Falls the Shadow.
Land of Heart's Desire Where beauty has no ebb, decay no flood, But joy is wisdom, time an endless song.
If the school sends out children with a desire for knowledge and some idea of how to acquire and use it, it will have done its work.
Sensuality reconciles us with the human race. The misanthropy of the old is due in large part to the fading of the magic glow of desire.
Man the sum of what have you. A problem in impure properties carried tediously to an unvarying nil: stalemate of dust and desire.
Only listen to the observations of the enlightened because everyone else is self-centered, egocentric and bound by the net of desire.
I believe everyone should have a broad picture of how the universe operates and our place in it. It is a basic human desire. And it also puts our worries in perspective.
At the deepest level people are madder than they want to believe. You will find that they fear being eaten, and are alarmed by their desire to devour others.
There is nothing wrong in wanting to get rich. The desire for riches is really the desire for a richer, fuller, and more abundant life, and that desire is praise worthy.
You can do amazing things if you have strong faith, deep desire, and just hang in there.
Prayer continues in the desire of the heart, though the understanding be employed on outward things.
