Desire Quotes
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.
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.
First get a clear notion of what you desire to accomplish and then in all probability you will succeed in doing it.
Americans and their desire to be novelists, the American novel should be listed in medical dictionaries alongside Megalomania and Obsessional Neuroses.
The chief reason for drinking is the desire to behave in a certain way, and to be able to blame it on alcohol.
The image of your goal properly planted and constantly nourished with positive, expectant thought-energy will cause your goal to develop into a burning desire.
Shakespeare reveals human nature brilliantly: he shines a light on our instinctive desire to dominate each other.
Possibly, more people kill themselves and others out of hurt vanity than out of envy, jealousy, malice or desire for revenge.
There is nothing capricious in nature and the implanting of a desire indicates that its gratification is in the constitution of the creature that feel it.
We protest solemnly in the face of mankind, that we desire peace at any sacrifice, save that of honor.
Desire is creation, is the magical element in that process. If there were an instrument by which to measure desire, one could foretell achievement.
Those who cannot tell what they desire or expect, still sigh and struggle with indefinite thoughts and vast wishes.
Wisdom in relationships involves a selfless desire to do what's best for the other person.
I have no desire to crow over anybody or to see anybody eating crow, figuratively or otherwise. We should all get together and make a country in which everybody can eat turkey whenever he pleases.
To achieve our eternal destiny, we will desire and work for the qualities required to become an eternal being.
Electric light is just another instrument. I have no desire to contrive fantasies mediumistically or sociologically over it or beyond it.
By the delusions of seeming good the people are often misled to desire their own ruin; and they are frequently influenced by great hopes and brave promises.
The Christian is not always praying; but within his bosom is a heaven-kindled love--fires of desire, fervent longings--which make him always ready to pray, and often engage him in prayer.
How do you resign yourself to something that will never be? You stop wanting just that thing. You go numb. Or you kill the agent of desire.
American inventiveness and the desire to build developed because we were guaranteed the right to own our success.
Everybody thinks himself so well supplied with common sense that even those most difficult to please. . . never desire more of it than they already have.
There is a great interest in comparative religion and a desire to understand faiths other than our own and even to experiment with exotic cults.
Key in life is to be able to answer the question "How much is enough?" Modern society has a desire to accumulate stuff & do nothing with it
What is the relationship between love and desire? How do they relate, and how do they conflict? ... Therein lies the mystery of eroticism.
Man desires to be free and he desires to feel important. This places him in a dilemma, for the more he emancipates himself from necessity the less important he feels.
Trying harder doesn’t work for me. Slowly I’ve learned to pray for God’s help and He has become my greatest love and desire.
This missile test reflects India's mindset, ... India's desire to control the subcontinent will never become a reality.
The stronger and more intense my desire becomes to capture and record that which is unsayable, the more tightly my mouth stays shut.
Probably the most potent desire for a painter, an image-maker, is to see it. To see what the mind can think and imagine, to realize it for oneself, through oneself, as concretely as possible.
To desire with one’s very soul every second of every day to accomplish one’s aim.
It is of the nature of desire not to be satisfied, and most men live only for the gratification of it.
Nostalgia in reverse, the longing for yet another strange land, grew especially strong in spring.
Suddenly I've got an overwhelming desire to surround myself with the aura of classical and Romantic art.
The Fremen were supreme in that quality the ancients called "spannungsbogen" -- which is the self-imposed delay between desire for a thing and the act of reaching out to grasp that thing.
A man must have limits and cannot give in to the wild desires to be everything and everyone and everything to everyone.
To desire to write poems that endure-we undertake such a goal certain of two things: that in all likelihood we will fail, and if we succeed we will never know it
Violence among young people is an aspect of their desire to create. They don't know how to use their energy creatively so they do the opposite and destroy.
