Desire Quotes

I think if you don't have it [desire], you're not going to be pushed into anything. You've got to want to do something.

Champions are propelled by desire, not compelled by fear

I'm ready to forgive him for the desire to be a king, but not for wanting to have 23 million court jesters.

EVERY intense desire is perhaps basically a desire to be different from what we are.

For every man who has learned to fight in arms will desire to learn the proper arrangement of an army, which is the sequel of the lesson.

There's a desire in me to express something - to match what I hear in my head.

Every satisfaction he attains lays the seeds of some new desire, so that there is no end to the wishes of each individual will.

To desire immortality is to desire the eternal perpetuation of a great mistake

Desire increases when fulfillment is postponed.

Those who restrain desire, do so because theirs is weak enough to be restrained.

A lot of what has pushed me forward is desire, and I have expressed that in my songwriting - perhaps because it's safer!

You can't ever get everything you want. It is impossible. Luckily, there is another option: You can learn to control your mind, to step outside of the endless cycle of desire and aversion.

The beginning of reform is not so much to equalize property as to train the noble sort of natures not to desire more, and to prevent the lower from getting more.

The mystical impulse in men is somehow a desire to possess the universe. In women, it's a desire to be possessed.

All men by nature desire to know. An indication of this is the delight we take in our senses; for even apart from their usefulness they are loved for themselves...

The life of children, as much as that of intemperate men, is wholly governed by their desires.

All sport... is one of the few activities where young people can proceed along traditional avenues, where objectives are clear, where the desire to win is not only permissible, but encouraged.

I have no desire to prolong uncertainty.

Can one desire too much of a good thing?

A human soul devoid of longing was a soul deformed, deprived of its highest good, sick unto death.

The law is reason unaffected by desire.

I can change, but as we speak now, I really have zero desire to see my name in the press.

I have no desire to look back, I only want to look forward to the things that are still ahead of me.

I don't have the desire to be the best standup in the UK but I do have the desire to be the best at everything else I do in terms of writing and acting.

I was not pleased that Hamas has refused to announce its desire to destroy Israel.

I have to say that I reject somewhat the distinction between something called art and something called public art. I think all art demands and desires to be seen.

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.

Mathematics is good for the soul, getting things right enlivens a sense of truth, efforts to understand automatically purify desires.

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

Hope is a memory that desires, the memory is a memory that has enjoyed.

A man must have limits and cannot give in to the wild desires to be everything and everyone and everything to everyone.

Run as far as you can in the direction of your best and happiest dreams across the bridge that was built by your own desire to heal.

If we want to find the manna hidden in our vocation, let us restrict and confine all our desires within it.

I have found that great ideas come when you have a great desire to have them.

Desire is life trying to continue to be life. All living things desire... Life is wanting.

Man everywhere has an unconquerable desire to be the master of his own destiny.

I gave everything I had to basketball. The passion is still there but the desire to play is not. It was a great ride.

Integrity, or the lack of it, touches almost every facet of our lives-everything we say, every thought and desire.

In the ordinary church, it is suppressed by respectability, by a desire to appear better than we really are.

I do not want players who do not have a keen desire to win and do not play hard and aggressively to accomplish that objective.

The dead don't desire revenge, but the happiness of the livng. To dirty your small hands would bring joy to no one. -Kenshin to Eiji

Creativity is a space for solitary longing, the desire to be elsewhere in space and time, to be in a new ideal world where life is as it should be.

If what the heart approves conforms to proper patterns, then even if one's desires are many, what harm would they be to good order?

I Love Jesus Christ and that is why I am on fire with the desire to give Him souls, first of all my own, and then an incalculable number of others.

I desire to have a dialogue that's positive, and communicative and moves forward, and is about something real, not just consumption.

We trifle when we assign limits to our desires, since nature hath set none.

When I am most deeply rooted, I feel the wildest desire to uproot myself.

Any government that has a sincere desire for reform and progress should understand the benefit of objective and constructive criticism.

I have no desire to make windows into men's souls.

The day we receive Jesus Christ as our Savior is one of the greatest days of our lives. Not only are our sins washed away, but God puts His Spirit inside of us and gives us new desires.