Desire Quotes

Love is an irresistible desire
to be irresistibly desired.
- Robert Frost

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.
- Rod Stryker

I hear many people talk about their longing for a balanced life.
What I think they are really expressing
is a desire for a life with less pressure.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

The size of your success is measured by
the strength of your desire;
the size of your dream;
and how you handle disappointment along the way.
- Robert Kiyosaki

I desire to love myself as I truly am -
and to live courageously.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

The starting point of all achievement is desire.
- Napoleon Hill

The way to gain a good reputation is to endeavor
to be what you desire to appear.
- Socrates

Freedom from desire leads to inner peace.
- Lao-Tzu

Winners must have two things:
definite goals and a burning desire to achieve them.
- Anonymous

In order to succeed, your desire for success should
be greater than your fear of failure.
- Bill Cosby

Mystery creates wonder, and wonder is the basis
of man's desire to understand.
- Neil Armstrong

All your anxiety is because of your desire for harmony.
Seek disharmony, then you will gain peace.
- Rumi

You will become as small as your controlling desire;
as great as your dominant aspiration.
- James Allen

It is my desire, in the office of a Christian minister,
to do nothing which I cannot do with my whole heart.
Having said this, I have said all.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

No greater thing is created suddenly,
any more than a bunch of grapes or a fig.
If you tell me that you desire a fig,
I answer you that there must be time.
Let it first blossom, then bear fruit, then ripen.
- Epictetus

Always desire to learn something useful.
- Sophocles

The will to win, the desire to succeed,
the urge to reach your full potential...
these are the keys that will unlock the door to personal excellence.
- Confucius

The scientist is motivated primarily by curiosity and a desire for truth.
- Irving Langmuir

A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve,
not by the desire to beat others.
- Ayn Rand

Those who desire to rise as high as our human condition allows,
must renounce intellectual pride, the omnipotence of clear thinking,
belief in the absolute power of logic.
- Alexis Carrel

You can have anything you want -
if you want it badly enough.
You can be anything you want to be,
do anything you set out to accomplish
if you hold to that desire with singleness of purpose.
- Abraham Lincoln

My desire is to be a forgiving, non-judgmental person.
- Janine Turner

There is one thing even more vital to science than intelligent methods;
and that is,
the sincere desire to find out the truth,
whatever it may be.
- Charles Pierce

War grows out of the desire of the individual to gain
advantage at the expense of his fellow man.
- Napoleon Hill

If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectable.
- Louis D. Brandeis

Love is simply the name for the desire and the pursuit of the whole.
- Aristophanes

All teenagers have this desire to somehow run away.
- Joan Chen

Let today be a day to trust your own inner guidance,
a day to have faith that your steps are carrying you
in the direction you desire,
a day to keep your eyes on the heavens
and believe that your feet will carry you well.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Above all, do not lose your desire to walk.
Every day I walk myself into a state of well-being
and walk away from every illness.
I have walked myself into my best thoughts,
and I know of no thought so burdensome
that one cannot walk away from it.
- Soren Kierkegaard

I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve
the world and a desire to enjoy the world.
This makes it hard to plan the day.
- E. B. White

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

Ambition is the immoderate desire for power.
- Baruch Spinoza

Most people think that anger is an instinctive response,
and that some people were just born with the temperament
to get angrier faster than others.
That statement is only half right.
Anger is an instinctive response.
We respond to an affront with anger essentially instantaneously -
much too quickly for conscious thought to be called upon.
But the instinct of the anger response
can be trained through conscious repetition,
visualization, and coaching.
Visualization is seeing the event
we desire to master in our mind's eye.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

It is a waste of money to help those who show no desire to help themselves.
- Taylor Caldwell

Of all the gods only death does not desire gifts.
- Aeschylus

Art is the desire of a man to express himself,
to record the reactions of his personality to the world he lives in.
- Amy Lowell

Perseverance is an active principle,
and cannot continue to operate but under the influence of desire.
- William Godwin

There is no desire more natural than the desire for knowledge.
- Michel de Montaigne

Whatever you vividly imagine, ardently desire,
sincerely believe, and enthusiastically act upon...
must inevitably come to pass!
- Paul J. Meyer

A child's appetite for new toys appeal to the desire
for ownership and appropriation:
the appeal of toys comes to lie not in their use but
in their status as possessions.
- Christopher Lasch

From the outset of the war, the Canadian people have
clearly shown that it is their desire to help in every
way to make Canada's war effort as effective as possible.
- William Lyon Mackenzie King

Have the courage of your desire.
- George Gissing

I put for the general inclination of all mankind,
a perpetual and restless desire of power after power,
that ceaseth only in death.
- Thomas Hobbes

A woman in love will do almost anything for a man,
except give up the desire to improve him.
- Nathaniel Branden

I want to swim in both directions at once.
Desire success, court failure.
- Alan Rickman

Stranger, if you passing meet me and desire to speak to me,
why should you not speak to me? And why should I not speak to you?
- Walt Whitman

We always long for the forbidden things,
and desire what is denied us.
- Francois Rabelais

Photography, alone of the arts, seems perfected to
serve the desire humans have for a moment -
this very moment -
to stay.
- Sam Abell

But Pete had the desire to play at the highest level for so many years.
That is very difficult, mentally.
- Richard Krajicek

No evil dooms us hopelessly except the evil we love,
and desire to continue in, and make no effort to escape from.
- George Eliot

Desire is the most important factor in the success of any athlete.
- Bill Shoemaker

I have long been convinced that my artistic ideal stands or falls with Germany.
Only the Germany that we love and desire can help us achieve that ideal.
- Richard Wagner

If you desire to be good, begin by believing that you are wicked.
- Epictetus

Seize the moment of excited curiosity on any subject to solve your doubts;
for if you let it pass,
the desire may never return, and you may remain in ignorance.
- William Wirt

Success is focusing the full power of all you are on
what you have a burning desire to achieve.
- Wilferd A. Peterson

True charity is the desire to be useful to others with
no thought of recompense.
- Emanuel Swedenborg

I desire no future that will break the ties with the past.
- George Eliot

The Jew is upset because the nations of the world -
the United Nations -
lash him,
brand him as racist and evil, hate him and openly demonstrate
their desire to destroy him.
- Meir Kahane

Man never thinks himself happy, but when he enjoys
those things which others want or desire.
- Alexander Pope

Forbid us something, and that thing we desire.
- Geoffrey Chaucer

There are two futures, the future of desire and the future of fate,
and man's reason has never learned to separate them.
- John Desmond Bernal

I am surprised that I cannot recall whether my desire
to become a minister transformed itself into a wish
to lead the more militant life of missionary,
by a slow process or suddenly.
- Pierre Loti

As writers become more numerous, it is natural for
readers to become more indolent;
whence must necessarily arise a desire of attaining
knowledge with the greatest possible ease.
- Oliver Goldsmith

I want the municipality to be a helping hand to the
man with a desire of sympathy,
to help the fallen when it is not in their power to help themselves.
- John Burns

It is true not all has been accomplished that the earnest advocates would desire,
but a start has been made.
- Frank B. Kellogg

I see Canada as a country torn between a very northern,
rather extraordinary, mystical spirit which it fears
and its desire to present itself to the world as a Scotch banker.
- Robertson Davies

Never let go of that fiery sadness called desire.
- Patti Smith

I have no desire to carry a movie.
- Amy Sedaris

It's so much better to desire than to have.
- Anouk Aimee

Let others laugh when you sacrifice desire to duty,
if they will.
You have time and eternity to rejoice in.
- Theodore Parker

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

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