Desire Quotes

We live alone in our cluttered psyches, possessed by our entrenched beliefs, our fatuous desires, our endless contradictions - and like it or not we have to put up with this in one another.

Should you desire the great tranquility prepare to sweat white beads.

I have no desire to take all black people back to Africa; there are blacks who are no good here and will likewise be no good there.

Show me a man of average ability but extraordinary desire and I'll show you a winner every time.

What we desire our children to become, we must endeavor to be before them

The whole army is burning with an insatiable desire to wreak violence upon South Carolina. I almost tremble for her fate.

Without hope we live in desire.

The word sharing affirms that we have something extraordinarily valuable and desire to give it to others for their benefit and blessing.

Desire and longing are the whips of God.

There is a tremendous power in positive thinking. When you expect the best, you literally create a thought field that magnetizes that which you desire. Like attracts like.

Civility does not ...mean the mere outward gentleness of speech cultivated for the occasion, but an inborn gentleness and desire to do the opponent good.

Art was born as a desire, not as a demand.

It's not who jumps the highest - it's who wants it the most

We are told that talent creates opportunity, yet it is desire that creates talent.

If I truly believe in Him, I'll trust Him to desire for me that which is for my highest good, and to have planned for its fulfillment.

Everything will change when your desire to move on exceeds your desire to hold on.

I'm completely against [feminism]. I have no desire to give up my privileges.

How helpless we are, like netted birds, when we are caught by desire!

If you don't get everything you want, think of the things you don't get that you don't want.

For love is no part of the dreamworld. Love belongs to Desire, and Desire is always cruel.

Love is when the desire to be desired takes you so badly, that you feel you could die of it!

Desire is God tapping at the door of your mind, trying to give you greater good.

The fundamental factor of self-deception is this constant desire to be something in this world and in the world hereafter.

Prayer isn't where we change God, but He changes us. Instead of praying for OUR desires, let's pray He burden us with HIS.

My greatest desire is that you would encounter His presence; and everything about your life would be different.

He who died in place of us is the one object of my quest. He who rose for our sakes is my one desire.

I may have the genetic coding that Im inclined to be an alcoholic, but I have the desire not to do that, and I look at the homosexual issue the same way.

A desire to resist oppression is implanted in the nature of man.

Most human beings, though in varying degrees, desire to control, not only their own lives but also the lives of others

No tendency is quite so strong in human nature as the desire to lay down rules of conduct for other people.

Once you know yourself as a genuine seeker, and when your own inner chamber is quite enlightened, then comes the natural unfoldment of pure love and compassion and a genuine desire to serve others.

Those in power need checks and restraints lest they come to identify the common good for their own tastes and desires, and their continuation in office as essential to the preservation of the nation.

It is my greatest desire, I want the people in Russia to be happy and I want our partners around the world to seek to develop relations with Russia.

In the desire of the One to know Himself, We exist.

When God works in us, the will, being changed and sweetly breathed upon by the Spirit of God, desires and acts, not from compulsion, but responsively.

You live by the light of the moon, and I live by desire.

The desire to be a politician should bar you for life from ever being one.

Freedom is not procured by a full enjoyment of what is desired, but by controlling the desire.

Prayer is the soul's sincere desire. Your desire is your prayer. It comes out of your deepest needs and it reveals the things you want in life.

Love is the effort and desire to make someone else everything they were created to be.

True freedom is to be free from the desire to be free from anything.

The cinema substitutes for our gaze a world more in harmony with our desires.

Perseverance, determination, commitment, and courage-those things are real. The desire for redemption drives you.

Art is not only the desire to tell one's secret; it is the desire to tell it and hide it at the same time.

The desire to be self-supporting and financially independent is a divine desire

Good means not [merely] not to do wrong, but rather not to desire to do wrong.

In every living thing there is the desire for love.

A man sometimes devotes his life to a desire which he is not sure will ever be fulfilled. Those who laugh at this folly are, after all, no more than mere spectators of life.

It is hard to fight desire; but to control it is the sign of a reasonable man.

What is the single most important quality in a tennis champion? I would have to say desire, staying in there and winning matches when you are not playing that well.