Desire Quotes

If a person has enough desire, he will acquire the talent, he will build his skills.

I do now most heartily desire to live but to exalt Jesus; to live preaching and to die preaching; to preach to perishing sinners till I drop down dead.

Jealousy is an ugly emotion, but it tells the truth. You mostly envy those who have what you desire.

Nothing has happened too fast, nothing has happened too slow. It has been a mellow rise, and I'm thankful for that. I haven't lost my head, and I haven't lost my desire to keep growing.

There is not a woman born who desires to eat the bread of dependence.

Chess has this in common with making poetry; that the desire for it comes upon the amateur in gusts.

I have nothing against Bosniaks/Islam, but it is the desire to direct political processes that is completely unacceptable.

The impulse to share the lives of the poor, the desire to make social service, irrespective of propaganda, express the spirit of Christ, is as old as Christianity itself.

Characters are story. And any great plot or subplot is driven by the characters' wants and desires.

Wonder was the motive that led people to philosophy ... wonder is a kind of desire in knowledge. It is the cause of delight because it carries with it the hope of discovery.

The ambitious climb high and perilous stairs, and never care how to come down; the desire of rising hath swallowed up their fear of a fall.

I just have a desire not to judge and view things compassionately.

Our problem with desire is that we want too little.

I've never felt a desire (and I don't believe I ever shall) to bring the public to my work... a certain popularity seems to me the least desirable of things.

We are puppets of our subconscious desires.

God has made me desire always what he most wants to give me.

I think everyone has the desire in their life to be the best at something that touches them, that reaches them.

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.

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

I have no desire to write my own biography, as long as I have strength and means to do better work.

Everything, alas, is an abyss, — actions, desires, dreams, words!

All movement, of every creature, comes from the desire after something better.

No one comes unless they're drawn by the voice of desire that leads em along, to the redemption of what went wrong by the blood that covers the Innocent One.

Discipline is the highest of all virtues. Only so may strength and desire be counterbalanced and the endeavors of man bear fruit.

All athletic accomplishments begin with volition; that is, the desire and willpower necessary to succeed. Volition affects more than thoughts and feelings - it affects physical performance.

To desire to be an artist is to desire to be a complete man in respect to some one function, to realize yourself utterly. A man is a poor thing who is content not to be an artist.

I didn't know what narcissism was until I beheld my own naricssus.

Take time to compliment people every day. Do it sincerely and with no desire to gain anything but a smile in return.

In every person, even in such as appear most reckless, there is an inherent desire to attain balance.

I just want to keep working, really. I just want to keep acting. Playing one part for a very long time builds up in you a desire to play as many different things as you can.

I'm not looking for sequels, but when something comes to you, and you're already a fan of that world, you have the desire to do it your way.

Love, desire, ambition, faith - without them, life's so simple, believe me.

God's faithful servant has no desire for people to say or to give to him, or what he likes to hear or see, for his first and greatest aim is to hear what is most pleasing to God.

The desire of love, Joy:The desire of life, Peace:The desire of the soul, Heaven:The desire of God ... a flame-white secret forever.

When I see two women kissing, my only physical reaction is a strong desire to vomit in both of their mouths.

Next to love is the desire for love.

Your mind will really talk to you when you begin to deny fulfillment to your desires, and you will find how subtle and shameless it is.

Expect the best, not the worst, and you will attain your heart's desire.

The desire for riches is simply the capacity for a larger life seeking fulfillment; every desire is the effort of an unexpressed possibility come into action.

As an allegorical art, then, photography would represent our desire to fix the transitory, the ephemeral, in a stable and stabilizing image.

Criminals interest me, because they're driven by the same desires as we are, but they take these disastrous shortcuts and end up in a real mess.

Desire's wind blasts the thorntree but after it becomes from a bramblebush to be a rose upon the rood of time.

My real motivation came from my desire for music videos to have the same equal soul-touching emotional resonance that straight music does.

A passion for his art, and an eager desire to excel, will more than supply an artist with the place of method.

For me, who only desire to become wise, not more learned or eloquent, these logical or Aristotelian dispositions of parts are of no use.

Love is the sun, desire - only flash.

That love of the practice of ending suffering will probably be all of the awakening that you would ever desire.

When his lips return to mine, it's not just about lust or desire - it's about making us whole.

We are never present with, but always beyond ourselves; fear, desire, hope, still push us on toward the future.

Hope is merely another face of desire.