Desire Quotes

I knew I was too late—and I was glad something bloodthirsty waited in the wings. For in failing at this, I forfeited any desire to live.

Las Vegas was and is a hard town that will make you pay for your inability to restrain your desires.... If you have a weakness, Las Vegas will punish you.

My desire is to be anonymous, isolated, quiet, peaceful, and concentrated.

Greatness comes to those who develop a burning desire to achieve high goals.

Women's vulnerability confessing their desire to see men as a success object is matched by men's confession of compulsiveness of sexual desire for women.

Want, or desire, arises when you are not happy. Have you seen this? When you are very happy then there is contentment. Contentment means no want.

Let no one who has the slightest desire to live in peace and quietness be tempted, under any circumstances, to enter upon the chivalrous task of trying to correct a popular error.

We prefer people who are trying to imitate us more than those who are trying to equal us. This is because imitation is a sign of esteem, but the desire to equal others is a sign of envy.

Despite many reports to the contrary, kindness, concern, and a desire to do good and make a positive difference in this life are alive and well in America. For that, I am extremely grateful.

We cannot make owners by merely giving men something to own. And, I repeat, whether there be sufficient desire for property left upon which we can work, only experience can decide.

[N]othing is less reliable than unchecked claims from political officials that their secret conduct is justified by National Security Threats and the desire to Keep Us Safe.

God does not always punish a nation by sending it adversity. More often He gives the oppressors their hearts' desire, and sends leanness withal into their soul.

Really, what I try to instill in my fans is to be healthy and happy. I have no desire to be super-skinny.

The desire to succeed has a lot less compulsion than the fear of failure.

My ardent desire is... to keep the United States free from political connexions with every other Country. To see that they may be independent of all, and under the influence of none.

When it comes time to protecting the homeland, the United States of America must be right 100 percent of the time. And the enemy, which desires to strike us again, only has to be right once.

It seems to me that there are certain thoughts and vignettes and attitudes that I have always had the desire to represent.

Is your fear of failure greater than your desire to succeed?

Your desire for consistency itself will set you on the right path. As long as you keep going up, never mind if you come down once or twice.

For, just as in the beginning it is formed by desire, so afterwards love is kept in existence only by painful anxiety.

Meditation develops the capacity to question your mind. Without it, you are at the mercy of every thought, every desire, every wave of emotion.

It is the deepest desire of my heart to have every member of the Church worthy to enter the temple.

The gift of the Truth beats all other gifts. The flavour of the Truth beats all other tastes. The joy of the Truth beats all other joys, and the cessation of desire conquers all suffering

I think that women don't bother disguising their desire and pleasure in dressing up, and that men, for whatever reason, tend to be a little more embarrassed.

When people are struggling, thats a painful place to be in, to not know who you are and where you belong and what you desire.

No one can have all he desires.

There are those who give little of the much which they have - and they give it for recognition and their hidden desire makes their gifts unwholesome.

The deepest hunger in human beings is the desire to be appreciated.

Everyone seems possessed with the desire of writing articles upon me and sends me long lists of all I am to say.

I had a desire to prove to myself that I was actually in control - that I wasnt a puppet.

The fulfillment of desire does not necessarily make you happy because there is a satiation factor. You can get some apple pie and eat it. If this is what makes you happy, why not eat ten?

A new opinion counts as true just in proportion as it gratifies the individual's desire to assimilate the novel in his experience to his beliefs in stock

The desire for knowledge shapes a man.

One should cultivate human values for healthy living. this calls for harmony in thought, word and deed. When you cultivate this harmony you will be free from desires and fears.

Nothing makes us more cowardly and unconscionable than the desire to be loved by everyone.

Human life, old and young, takes place between hope and remembrance. The young man sees all the gates to his desires open, and the old man remembers--his hopes.

To the soul's desires The body listens What the flesh requires Keeps the heart imprisoned

For a French person, lack of desire in someone is really seen as a defect.

I no longer desire anything but to be Thine.

Civility is a desire to receive civilities, and to be accounted well-bred.

He that discovers himself, till he hath made himself master of his desires, lays himself open to his own ruin, and makes himself prisoner to his own tongue.

A man can reach into anything and turn it to his cause. It's not want, or desire, just certainty. Only be assured that whatever you reach into will reach into you in turn.

Do you want to see God more than you desire security?

Countless the various species of mankind, Countless the shades which sep'rate mind from mind; No general object of desire is known, Each has his will, and each pursues his own.

To lose yourself in a book is the desire of the bookworm. I mean to be taken. That is my desire.

The craving for 'the return of the day', which the sick so constantly evince, is generally nothing but the desire for light.

The fear of loss is greater than the desire for gain.

Christ wants to lift us to where He is. Do we desire to do the same for others?

Our continual desire for praise ought to convince us of our mortality, if nothing else will.

My ruthless desire to win at all costs served me well on the bike but the level it went to, for whatever reason, is a flaw. That desire, that attitude, that arrogance.