Desire Quotes
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The desire to know is natural to good men. (Quote by - Leonardo da Vinci)
We believe easily what we fear of what we desire (Quote by - Jean De La Fontaine)
I don't have a burning desire to become a dancer but the idea of doing something I've never done before in front of a huge live audience is such an adrenalin rush. And it'll give the friends and family something to have a giggle about (Quote by - Matt Dawson)
One must desire something to be alive. (Quote by - Margaret Deland)
Had doting Priam checked his son's desire, Troy had been bright with fame, and not with fire. (Quote by - William Shakespeare)
Do you want to be with your love by the sea hearing the gullsong smelling the salt air feeling the sand beneath your toes and the seaweed the sea's legacy? watching the rise oer the bay of the moon and then ascent of the Sun.. oer neptune? (Quote by - Saiom Shriver)
Desire is the very essence of man. (Quote by - Benedict de Spinoza)
As our society progresses and genuine experience becomes a riskier and riskier enterprise, so the desire for it will increase. (Quote by - Kathryn Bigelow)
Almost every desire a poor man has is a punishable offence. (Quote by - Louis-Ferdinand Celine)
A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others. (Quote by - Ayn Rand)
Plant the seed of desire in your mind and it forms a nucleus with power to attract to itself everything needed for its fulfillment. (Quote by - Robert Collier)
I had no desire to be an film actress, to always play somebody else, to be always beautiful with somebody constantly straightening out your every eyelash. It was always a big bother to me. (Quote by - Marlene Dietrich)
Possibly, more people kill themselves and others out of hurt vanity than out of envy, jealousy, malice or desire for revenge (Quote by - Iris Murdoch)
Each man has his own desires; all do not possess the same inclinations. (Quote by - Persius)
Desire is a powerful force that can be used to make things happen. (Quote by - Marcia Wieder)
You study, you learn, but you guard the original naivety. It has to be within you, as desire for drink is within the drunkard or love is within the lover. (Quote by - Henri Matisse)
How helpless we are, like netted birds, when we are caught by desire! (Quote by - Belva Plain)
Yes, love indeed is light from heaven; A spark of that immortal fire with angels shared, by Allah given to lift from earth our low desire. (Quote by - Lord Byron)
Desire and hope will push us on toward the future. (Quote by - Michel de Montaigne)
I don't have a driving desire to be all encompassing and world powerful or anything. (Quote by - Santiago Durango)
All men by nature desire knowledge. (Quote by - Aristotle)
The desire not to be anything is the desire not to be. (Quote by - Ayn Rand)
Be always displeased at what thou art, if thou desire to attain to what thou art not; for where thou hast pleased thyself, there thou abidest. (Quote by - Francis Quarles)
Her desire for fame is like her hair. It keeps getting bigger. [on Diana Ross] (Quote by - Johnny Mathis)
Simply untrue and are clearly motivated by a desire to maximise financial gain [on claims by Tracy Temple, who he had an affair with] (Quote by - John Prescott)
April is the cruellest month, breeding lilacs out of the dead land, mixing memory and desire, stirring dull roots with spring rain. (Quote by - T S Eliot)
By annihilating the desires, you annihilate the mind. Every man without passions has within him no principle of action, nor motive to act. (Quote by - Claude Adrien Helvétius)
The teacher who is attempting to teach without inspiring the pupil with a desire to learn is hammering on cold iron. (Quote by - Horace Mann)
It's so much better to desire than to have. . . . The moment of desire, when you know something is going to happen -- that's the most exalting. (Quote by - Anouk Aimee)
A desire presupposes the possibility of action to achieve it; action presupposes a goal which is worth achieving. (Quote by - Ayn Rand)
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. (Quote by - Robert Kiyosaki)
There was a desire to see me being nasty and horrible, and of course that's not really me (Quote by - Alan Sugar)
The creative person, the person who moves from an irrational source of power, has to face the fact that this power antagonizes. Under all the superficial praise of the 'creative' is the desire to kill. It is the old war between the mystic and the nonmystic, a war to the death. (Quote by - Mary Sarton)
As the hart panteth after the water brooks, so panteth my soul after thee, O God. (Quote by - Bible)
Never let go of that fiery sadness called desire. (Quote by - Patti Smith)
Life ought to be a struggle of desire toward adventures whose nobility will fertilize the soul. (Quote by - Rebecca West)
It is the nature of desire not to be satisfied, and most men live only for the gratification of it. (Quote by - Aristotle)
Just as a fire is covered by smoke and a mirror is obscured by dust, just as the embryo rests deep within the womb, wisdom is hidden by selfish desire. (Quote by - Bhagavad Gita)
We trifle when we assign limits to our desires, since nature hath set none. (Quote by - Christian Nestell Bovee)
Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired. (Quote by - Robert Frost)
Dedicate yourself to the good you deserve and desire for yourself. Give yourself peace of mind. You deserve to be happy. You deserve delight. (Quote by - Hannah Arendt)
In my experience, there is only one motivation, and that is desire. No reasons or principle contain it or stand against it. (Quote by - Jane Smiley)
Give me my robe, put on my crown, I have Immortal longings in me. (Quote by - William Shakespeare)
Desire is the essence of a man. (Quote by - Benedict Spinoza)
Though the desire of fame be the last weakness Wise men put off. (Quote by - Philip Massinger)
The desire of the moth for the star, Of the night for the morrow, The devotion to something afar From the sphere of our sorrow. (Quote by - Percy Bysshe Shelley)
If thou desire to profit, read with humility, simplicity, and faithfulness; nor even desire the repute of learning (Quote by - Thomas A Kempis)
A desire to resist oppression is implanted in the nature of man. (Quote by - Tacitus)
Desire of having is the sin of covetousness. (Quote by - William Shakespeare)
One must not lose desires. They are mighty stimulants to creativeness, to love, and to long life. (Quote by - Alexander A. Bogomoletz)
All women's dresses are merely variations on the eternal struggle between admitted desire to dress and the unadmitted desire to undress. (Quote by - Lin Yutang)
Nothing great 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. (Quote by - Epictetus)
We grow like flowers, and bear desire, The odor of the human flowers. (Quote by - Richard Henry Stoddard)
When you want something, the whole Universe conspires to help you realise your desire. (Quote by - Paulo Coelho)
Freedom is not procured by a full enjoyment of what is desired, but by controlling the desire. (Quote by - Epictetus)
Man is an animal which, alone among the animals, refuses to be satisfied by the fulfilment of animal desires. (Quote by - Alexander Graham Bell)
I have known more men destroyed by the desire to have wife and child and to keep them in comfort than I have seen destroyed by drink and harlots. (Quote by - W B Yeats)
Your chances of success are directly proportional to the degree of pleasure you desire from what you do. If you are in a job you hate, face the fact squarely and get out. (Quote by - Michael Korda)
What man knows is everywhere at war with what he wants. (Quote by - Joseph Wood Krutch)
We are all motivated by a keen desire for praise, and the better a man is, the more he is inspired by glory (Quote by - Marcus Tullius Cicero)
Without a sense of urgency, desire loses its value. (Quote by - Jim Rohn)
Yet it is in this loneliness that the deepest activities begin. It is here that you discover act without motion, labor that is profound repose, vision in obscurity, and, beyond all desire, a fulfillment whose limits extend to infinity. (Quote by - Thomas Merton)
Every intense desire is perhaps a desire to be different from what we are. (Quote by - Eric Hoffer)
Better murder an infant in its cradle than nurse an unacted desire. (Quote by - William Blake)
Where desire doth bear the sway - the heart must rule, the head obey. (Quote by - Francis Davidson)
Man wants to live, but it is useless to hope that this desire will dictate all his actions. (Quote by - Albert Camus)
I've seen firsthand coming here with empty pockets but full of dreams, full of desire, full of will to succeed, but with the opportunities that I had, I could make it. This is why we have to get back and bring California back to where it once was. (Quote by - Arnold Schwarzenegger)
Decide that you want it more than you are afraid of it. (Quote by - Bill Cosby)
Age, that lessens the enjoyment of life, increases our desire of living (Quote by - Oliver Goldsmith)
The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring. And that is not happiness. (Quote by - F. H. Bradley)
You can have anything you want if you want it desperately enough. You must want it with an inner exuberance that erupts through the skin and joins the energy that created the world. (Quote by - Sheila Graham)
Some people wanted champagne and caviar when they should have had beer and hot dogs. (Quote by - Dwight D. Eisenhower)
Dreams do come true, if we only wish hard enough, You can have anything in life if you will sacrifice everything else for it. (Quote by - Sir James M. Barrie)
A shot glass of desire is greater than a pitcher of talent. (Quote by - Andy Munthe)
Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of readiness to die. (Quote by - Gilbert Keith Chesterton)
Many people would be more truthful were it not for their uncontrollable desire to talk. (Quote by - Edgar Watson Howe)
He demonstrates great hunger and desire all the time. Without doubt, he is the best 21-year-old I have ever had. [on Rooney] (Quote by - Sir Alex Ferguson)
The fundamental desire of life is the desire to exist. (Quote by - Rabindranath Tagore)
They have got to decide how much they want it. Obviously I exclude Andy Murray from any collective criticism as I think he has a fantastic future. [on the desire of the current generation of British tennis hopefuls] (Quote by - Tim Henman)
The desire for success lubricates secret prostitution's in the soul. (Quote by - Norman Mailer)
I'm not a collector, however, and I have no desire to own 50 or 60 guitars. (Quote by - Mark Knopfler)
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 (Quote by - G H Lewes)
The silent power of books is a great power in the world; and there is a joy in reading them which those alone can know who read them with desire and enthusiasm. Silent, passive, and noiseless though they be, they may yet set in action countless multitudes, and change the order of nations (Quote by - Henry Giles)
He that desire to acquire any art or science seeks first those means by which that art or science is obtained. (Quote by - Robert Barclay)
Passing into higher forms of desire, that which slumbered in the plant, and fitfully stirred in the beast, awakes in the man. (Quote by - Henry George)
When your desires are strong enough, you will appear to possess superhuman powers to achieve (Quote by - Napoleon Hill)
Mystery creates wonder & wonder is the basis of man's desire to understand (Quote by - Neil Armstrong)
You will become as small as your controlling desire; as great as your dominant aspiration. (Quote by - James Allen)
Man is a creation of desire, not a creation of need. (Quote by - Gaston Bachelard)
It is said that desire is a product of the will, but the converse is in fact true: will is a product of desire. (Quote by - Denis Diderot)
Desire, like the atom, is explosive with creative force. (Quote by - Paul Vernon Buser)
Wealth and rank are what people desire, but unless they are obtained in the right way they may not be possessed. (Quote by - Confucius)
There is no desire from the new British players. They say their coach doesn't travel with them so it's hard, but I played hundreds of players from Eastern Europe and Russia who had no facilities at all. (Quote by - Tim Henman)
Desire is the starting point of all achievement, not a hope, not a wish, but a keen pulsating desire which transcends everything. (Quote by - Napoleon Hill)
A desire to be in charge of our own lives, a need for control, is born in each of us. It is essential to our mental health, and our success, that we take control. (Quote by - Robert Bennett)
Oh! could I throw aside these earthly bands That tie me down where wretched mortals sigh-- To join blest spirits in celestial lands! (Quote by - Francesco Petrarch)
We pursue that which retreats from us. (Quote by - Martin Hiedegger)
Naked I seek the camp of those who desire nothing. (Quote by - Horace)
Desire creates the power. (Quote by - Raymond Hollingwell)
Young people are threatened... by the evil use of advertising techniques that stimulate the natural inclination to avoid hard work by promising the immediate satisfaction of every desire. (Quote by - Pope John Paul II)
In men of the highest character and noblest genius there is to be found an insatiable desire for honour, command, power, and glory. (Quote by - Cicero)
When you relinquish the desire to control your future, you can have more happiness. (Quote by - Nicole Kidman)
When you discover your mission, you will feel its demand. It will fill you with enthusiasm and a burning desire to get to work on it. (Quote by - W Clement Stone)
He's young, with a lot of desire and skills who obviously loves to play [on Theo Walcott] (Quote by - Thierry Henry)
If you greatly desire something, have the guts to stake everything on obtaining it. (Quote by - Brendan Francis Behan)
Time and memory are true artists; they remould reality nearer to the heart's desire. (Quote by - John Dewey)
In economics, hope and faith coexist with great scientific pretension and also a deep desire for respectability. (Quote by - Galbraith)
Every person is a God in embryo. Its' only desire is to be born. (Quote by - Deepak Chopra)
Why then, can one desire too much of a good thing? (Quote by - William Shakespeare)
Candidate Thomas is a sad, sad man, with only one desire: to reunite with his deceased ex-girlfriend. (Quote by - Craig Armstrong)
All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsion, habit, reason, passion, and desire. (Quote by - Aristotle)
The more you seek security, the less of it you have. But the more you seek opportunity, the more likely it is that you will achieve the security that you desire. (Quote by - Brian Tracy)
Everything a writer learns about the art or craft of fiction takes just a little away from his need or desire to write at all. In the end he knows all the tricks and has nothing to say (Quote by - Raymond Chandler)
And I hereby distinctly and emphatically declare that I consider myself, and earnestly desire to be considered by others, as utterly divested, now and during the rest of my life, of any such rights, the barbarous relics of a feudal, despotic system. (Quote by - Robert Dale Owen)
Desire is the key to motivation, but it's determination and commitment to an unrelenting pursuit of your goal - a commitment to excellence - that will enable you to attain the success you seek. (Quote by - Mario Andretti)
I do desire we may be better strangers. (Quote by - William Shakespeare)
Dwell not upon thy weariness, thy strength shall be according to the measure of thy desire. (Quote by - Arab Proverb)
Consciously or unconsciously, everyone of us does render some service or another. If we cultivate the habit of doing this service deliberately, our desire for service will steadily grow stronger, and it will make not only for our own happiness, but that of the world at large. (Quote by - Mahatma Gandhi)
The first principle of success is desire - knowing what you want. Desire is the planting of your seed. (Quote by - Robert Collier )
The work of the political activist inevitably involves a certain tension between the requirement that position be taken on current issues as they arise and the desire that one's contributions will somehow survive the ravages of time. (Quote by - Angela Davis)
It's not who jumps the highest -- it's who wants it the most (Quote by - Buck Williams)
Forbidden pleasures alone are loved immoderately; when lawful, they do not excite desire. (Quote by - Quintilian)
Energy is equal to desire and purpose. (Quote by - Sheryl Adams)
A human being has a natural desire to have more of a good thing than he needs. (Quote by - Mark Twain)
Where there is much desire to learn, there of necessity will be much arguing, much writing, many opinions; for opinions in good men is but knowledge in the making. (Quote by - John Milton)
Some desire is necessary to keep life in motion, and he whose real wants are supplied must admit those of fancy. (Quote by - Samuel Johnson)
Dancing is a perpendicular expression of a horizontal desire. (Quote by - George Bernard Shaw)
Cast aside those who liken godliness to whimsy and who try to combine their greed for wealth with their desire for a happy afterlife. (Quote by - Kahlil Gibran)
More than we use is more than we want. (Quote by - Gaelic Proverb)
Compassion is the desire that moves the individual self to widen the scope of its self-concern to embrace the whole of the universal self. (Quote by - Arnold Toynbee)
I admit it is better fun to punt than be punted, and that a desire to have all the fun is nine-tenths of the law of chivalry. (Quote by - Dorothy L Sayers)
The desire of gold is not for gold. It is for the means of freedom and benefit. (Quote by - Ralph Waldo Emerson)
He that flatters you more than you desire either has deceived you or wishes to deceive. (Quote by - Italian Proverb)
We ardently desire their return to the house of the common Father they will not enter a strange house but their own. (Quote by - Pope John XXIII)
Complete adaptation to environment means death. The essential point in all response is the desire to control environment. (Quote by - John Dewey)
A desire to be observed, considered, esteemed, praised, beloved, and admired by his fellows is one of the earliest as well as the keenest dispositions discovered in the heart of man. (Quote by - John Adams)
I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who overcomes his enemies. (Quote by - Aristotle)
Few men desire liberty: The majority are satisfied with a just master. (Quote by - Sallust)
My desire to curtail undue freedom of speech extends only to such public areas as restaurants, airports, streets, hotel lobbies, parks, and department stores. Verbal exchanges between consenting adults in private are as of little interest to me as they probably are to them. (Quote by - Fran Lebowitz)
Success is focusing the full power of all you are on what you have a burning desire to achieve. (Quote by - Wilfred A Peterson)
We are always striving for things forbidden, and coveting those denied us. (Quote by - Ovid)
All human activity is prompted by desire. (Quote by - Bertrand Russell)
The thing we long for, that we are For one transcendent moment. (Quote by - James Russell Lowell)
A life is either all spiritual or not spiritual at all. No man can serve two masters. Your life is shaped by the end you live for. You are made in the image of what you desire. (Quote by - Thomas Merton)
We desire nothing so much as what we ought not to have. (Quote by - Publilius Syrus)
Every human mind is a great slumbering power until awakened by a keen desire and by definite resolution to do. (Quote by - Edgar F. Roberts)
Art is the desire of a man to express himself, to record the reactions of his personality to the world he lives in. (Quote by - Amy Lowell)
Civility is a desire to receive civility, and to be accounted well-bred (Quote by - Duc De La Rochefoucauld)
Methinks I have a great desire to a bottle of hay. Good hay, sweet hay, hath no fellow. (Quote by - William Shakespeare)
It is very certain that the desire of life prolongs it. (Quote by - Lord Byron)
The starting point of all achievement is desire (Quote by - Napoleon Hill)
Mad desire, when it has the most, longs for more (Quote by - Ovid)
There are two tragedies in life. One is not get your heart's desire. The other is to get it. (Quote by - George Bernard Shaw)
Liars share with those they deceive the desire not to be deceived. (Quote by - Sissela Bok)
The urgent consideration of the public safety may undoubtedly authorize the violation of every positive law. How far that or any other consideration may operate to dissolve the natural obligations of humanity and justice, is a doctrine of which I still desire to remain ignorant. (Quote by - Edward Gibbon)
If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectable. (Quote by - Louis D Brandeis)
A vice is a failure of desire (Quote by - Gerald Stanley Lee)
Again, men in general desire the good, and not merely what their fathers had. (Quote by - Aristotle)
The desire of the man is for the woman, but the desire of the woman is for the desire of the man. (Quote by - Anne Louise Germaine de Stael)
We do not succeed in changing things according to our desire, but gradually our desire changes. (Quote by - Marcel Proust)
