Desire Quotes

Desire is everything, not talent. It's the degree of one's desire that will dictate the extent of one's success, in any endeavour.

The power of making war often prevents it, and in our case would give efficacy to our desire of peace.

The desire of glory is the last infirmity cast off even by the wise.

There is no more desire to live past one's time than to die before it.

Those who, from the desire of our perfection, have the keenest eye far our faults generally compensate for it by taking a higher view of our merits than we deserve.

You may win your heart's desire, but in the end you're cheated of it by death.

I have no desire to go anywhere near drugs. People say, "Aren't you tempted?" No, because of the ridiculousness of it.

However it is debased or misinterpreted, love is a redemptive feature. To focus on one individual so that their desires become superior to yours is a very cleansing experience.

If we go down into ourselves, we find that we possess exactly what we desire.

I only desire sincere relations with the worthiest of my acquaintance, that they may give me an opportunity once in a year to speak the truth.

The desire to know is natural to good men.

Is it reasonable to take it ill, that anybody desires of us that which is their own? All we have is the Almighty's; and shall not God have his own when he calls for it?

I believe, I desire, that social and economic ills may be remedied.

LADY BRACKNELL Algernon is an extremely, I may almost say an ostentatiously, eligible young man. He has nothing, but he looks everything. What more can one desire?

Every man's road in life is marked by the grave of his personal likings.

Men praise poverty, as the African worships Mumbo Jumbo--from terror of the malign power, and a desire to propitiate at.

A lot of people just go to movies that feed into their preexisting and not so noble needs and desires: They just go to action pictures, and things like that.

Death is not evil, for it frees man from all ills and takes away his desires along with desire's rewards.

And this gray spirit yearning in desire To follow knowledge like a sinking star, Beyond the utmost bound of human thought.

I have no desire to vote for French politicians, and I'm not entitled to vote in Switzerland.

All you have to do is desire it, and if you desire it enough and understand why -- really know -- it will come.

You must learn to follow privately the Lord's bidding: not to speak empty words, not to adorn yourself, always to obey authority, not to look at a woman with desire, not to be angry and much else.

We believe easily what we fear of what we desire

What sets men at variance is but the treachery of language, for always they desire the same things.

Fidel Castro gave it all to make his nation serviceable to all who desire real change. That's why I love Fidel Castro, and that's why he will never die.

Obsession led me to write. It's been that way with every book I've ever written. I become completely consumed by a theme, by characters, by a desire to meet a challenge.

For you see this scripture fulfilled this day and therefore I desire you as you tender the Lord and the church and commonwealth to consider and look what you do.

You used to say. "Desire doubled is love and love doubled is madness." Madness doubled is marriage I added when the caustic was cool, not intending to produce a golden rule.

Sin always finds it's root in our own selfish desires and self-gratification.

the desire to enforce our own moral and spiritual criteria upon posterity is quite as strong as the desire to enforce them upon contemporaries.

The self forms at the edge of desire, and a science of self arises in the effort to leave that self behind.

Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve. Thoughts are things! Strong, deeply rooted desire is the starting point of all achievement.

Prayer involves transformed passions. In prayer, real prayer, we begin to think God's thoughts after Him: to desire the things He desires, to love the things He loves, to will the things He wills.

I think it was a desire to be able to find my own voice. I think that was the big urge within me.

Your desire to communicate must be bigger than your relationship with the chaotic and unfair realities.

I'm simply saying that our deepest thoughts, desires and preoccupations manifest themselves in art, whether we intend them to or not. That's what art is for; it's not cerebral, it's emotional.

I'm glad I want everything in the world - good and bad - bitter and sweet - I want it all.

What is the real origin of my own anger? Is it the ego defending its territory, or is it something that has its source in the desire for the well-being of all?

You make choices, as a young man. I knew I wanted to be an actor, so I pursued that, but the desire to compete still stayed with me.

Life is a race; desire the goal.

My father was against the death penalty, and that was hard in the Son of Sam summer when fear was driving the desire for the death penalty.

I had the desire to paint the figure without actually painting the figure.

REASON, v.i. To weight probabilities in the scales of desire.

aim, n. The task we set our wishes to.

My Jesus! What a lovable contrivance this holy Sacrament was - that You would hide under the appearance of bread to make Yourself loved and to be available for a visit by anyone who desires You!

I never worked at painting as if it were a job; it was always out of interest or for fun, a desire to try something.

I have an insane desire to shave a stroke or two off my handicap.

It is hard to prevent oneself from believing what one so keenly desires.

We who have turned our lives over to Christ need to know how very much he longs to eat with us, to commune with us. He desires a perpetual Eucharistic feast in the inner sanctuary of the heart.

Curiosity, n. An objectionable quality of the female mind. The desire to know whether or not a woman is cursed with curiosity is one of the most active and insatiable passions of the masculine soul.