Desire Quotes

Every man makes a god of his own desire

Warm, eager, living life-to be rooted in life-to learn, to desire, to know, to feel, to think, to act. This is what I want. And nothing less. That is what I must try for.

After I left the podium in Atlanta, I felt so fulfilled in my career that I lost my desire to compete at that level again.

The desire for bad art is the desire bred of habit: like the smoker's desire for tobacco, more marked by the extreme malaise of denial than by any very strong delight in fruition.

Progress means movement in a desired direction, and we do not all desire the same things for our species.

When we free ourselves of desire, we will know serenity and freedom.

Stress appears in your life because you have a rigid view of 'This is the way the world should be,' and the Universe pays scant regard to your desires. And you refuse to accept this.

Let a thousand wrangling desires become one Love.

Join me in my quest for a greater understanding of our existence. Join me in my desire for a greater self. Join me as I seek the humility to love and understand my fellow man.

If desires are not uprooted, sorrows grow again in you.

Sit Rest Work. Alone with yourself, Never weary. On the edge of the forest Live joyfully, Without desire.

Sometimes I think it's possible to mistake desire for clarity and talking in a no-nonsense way for aggression.

He who has made a thousand things and he who has made none, both feel the same desire: to make something.

Desire is never final, desire is imprecise and impractical [...]

I think Dwight loves being number two. I don't think he has any desire to be number one. He wants to be number two no matter where he goes. It's like Avis. 'We try harder.' That's Dwight.

Not a desire, act, wish, or thought does the Holy Ghost indulge in contrary to that which is dictated by the Father

Ever since we invented fire and the wheel, we've been demonstrating both our ability and our inherent desire to fix things that we don't like about ourselves and our environment.

All my feelings have the color you desire to paint.

My true desire is to relieve others of their pain, though I myself may fall into hell.

The clearer you are about the consequences of your actions and the more intensely you desire to enjoy the consequences that your behaviors may lead to, the more motivated you will be.

I shall consider human actions and desires in exactly the same manner, as though I were concerned with lines, planes and solids.

The intelligent desire self-control; children want candy.

In one way, I'm never going to get out of this material world unless it's by His grace but then again, His grace is relative to the amount of desire I can manifest in myself.

Life is found in the dance between your deepest desire and your greatest fear.

The great desire of this age is for a doctrine which may serve to condense our knowledge, guide our researches, and shape our lives, so that conduct may really be the consequence of belief

Increasing wealth is attended by care and by the desire of greater increase.

God’s wealth circulates in my life, it flows to me in avalanches of abundance. All my needs, desires and goals are met instantaneously, for I am one with God and he is everything!

The artistic desire reveals itself in dark form - in karaoke bars [or] trolling on the Internet.

An effort impelled by desire must also have an automatic or subconscious energy to aid its realization.

An original is a creation motivated by desire.

A 'whim' is a desire experienced by a person who does not know and does not care to discover its cause.

I dare not say with Paul that I am the slave of Christ, but my highest aspiration and desire is to be the slave of Christ.

For everything that God desires to do in the earth, He enters into partnership with those to whom He has already given dominion.

There is no man who desires as passionately as a Russian. If we could imprison a Russian desire beneath a fortress, that fortress would explode.

I want to inspire people to desire to see the praise that comes from the one and only true God. Above all else. That is what God has laid on my heart and the message that I bring to you.

There is no inborn longing that shall not be fulfilled. I think that is as certain as the forgiveness of sins.

Let yourself be gently pulled by the deeper desire of what you want.

The Bush administration does not desire to see Islam practiced in its pristine purity.

The events we most desire do not happen; or, if they do, it is neither in the time nor in the circumstances when they would have given us extreme pleasure.

If we desire peace, we must prepare for peace. The most important thing is to build a culture of peace.

We always strive after what is forbidden, and desire the things refused us.

It is to be doubted whether he will ever find the way to heaven who desires to go thither alone.

Man, as an originator of action, is a union of desire and intellect.

It is not from nature, but from education and habits, that our wants are chiefly derived.

[I]t is rather the case that we desire something because we believe it to be good than that we believe a thing to be good because we desire it. It is the thought that starts things off.

Man by Nature desires to know.

I don't spend too much time attempting to defend myself against people who seem to have zero desire to have a substantive conversation.

On the contrary, my desire is that the viewer sees the background coming forward in the lower portion of the canvas, fighting for space, demanding presence.

It [Adam's act] cast off the authority of God, usurped his prerogative, and gave the mind up to the dominion of natural desire

I lost part of myself to him then, and a soaring sense of freedom revealed that this must have been my purpose from the first: to become a part of Phineas.