desire quotes

God’s desire is that we excel.

To be clever enough to get all that money, one must be stupid enough to want it.

No matter how happily a woman may be married, it always pleases her to discover that there is a nice man who wishes that she were not.

Is it not strange that desire should so many years outlive performance?

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

The simplest and most psychologically satisfying explanation of any observed phenomenon is that it happened that way because someone wanted it to happen that way.

I had nothing growing up, but I always wanted to be ‚sexy,‘ even before I knew what the word was.

The stroke of death is as a lover’s pinch, which hurts and is desired.

There are two tragedies in life. One is to lose your heart’s desire. The other is to gain it.

The vulgar man is always the most distinguished, for the very desire to be distinguished is vulgar.

The charm of fame is so great that we like every object to which it is attached, even death.

Dancing is a perpendicular expression of a horizontal desire.

Love and desire are the spirit’s wings to great deeds.

Even those who write against fame wish for the fame of having written well, and those who read their works desire the fame of having read them.

I always wanted to be loved.

If there were in the world today any large number of people who desired their own happiness more than they desired the unhappiness of others, we could have a paradise in a few years.

Desire of having is the sin of covetousness.

I believe that God has planted in every heart the desire to live in freedom.

We only consult the ear because the heart is wanting.

Virtue consists, not in abstaining from vice, but in not desiring it.

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

Ambition is the immoderate desire for power.

Not necessity, not desire – no, the love of power is the demon of men. Let them have everything – health, food, a place to live, entertainment – they are and remain unhappy and low-spirited: for the demon waits and waits and will be satisfied.

Take from the philosopher the pleasure of being heard and his desire for knowledge ceases.

Desire and force between them are responsible for all our actions; desire causes our voluntary acts, force our involuntary.

Desire is the very essence of man.

It’s certainly not wrong to want to be a better person. God gave us that desire.

It is the most sensual men who need to flee women and torment their bodies.

Would that I were a dry well, and that the people tossed stones into me, for that would be easier than to be a spring of flowing water that the thirsty pass by, and from which they avoid drinking.

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.

When you are discontent, you always want more, more, more. Your desire can never be satisfied. But when you practice contentment, you can say to yourself, ‚Oh yes – I already have everything that I really need.‘

Experience, as a desire for experience, does not come off. We must not study ourselves while having an experience.

I’ve always believed that success for anyone is all about drive, dedication, and desire, but for me, it’s also been about confidence and faith.

Thoughts are mental energy; they’re the currency that you have to attract what you desire. Learn to stop spending that currency on thoughts you don’t want.

Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.

Everything is perfect in the universe – even your desire to improve it.

I have zero desire, just so you know, to be in the limelight. I don’t think it’s good for the country to have a former president criticize his successor. You’re not going to see me giving my opinions in the public arena, until I start selling my book. I’m going to emerge then submerge.

Desire is the essence of a man.

The lust for comfort, that stealthy thing that enters the house a guest, and then becomes a host, and then a master.

Men freely believe that which they desire.

There are four Powers: memory and intellect, desire and covetousness. The two first are mental and the others sensual. The three senses: sight, hearing and smell cannot well be prevented; touch and taste not at all.

It seems to me we can never give up longing and wishing while we are thoroughly alive. There are certain things we feel to be beautiful and good, and we must hunger after them.

Some desire is necessary to keep life in motion, and he whose real wants are supplied must admit those of fancy.

Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire, you will what you imagine and at last you create what you will.

Temptation is just the feeling that you’re the most independent person on planet Earth. That you know everything. That’s something that we all go through as a kid. Now, this lifestyle that I’m in, the same thing exists! But it’s 10 times worse, because everything is at my disposal. When you’re in the limelight, you can get anything you want.

The desire of gold is not for gold. It is for the means of freedom and benefit.

All that spirits desire, spirits attain.

To be happy at home is the ultimate result of all ambition, the end to which every enterprise and labor tends, and of which every desire prompts the prosecution.

You will always be fond of me. I represent to you all the sins you have never had the courage to commit.

Your ability to use the principle of autosuggestion will depend, very largely, upon your capacity to concentrate upon a given desire until that desire becomes a burning obsession.

Nothing is more desirable than to be released from an affliction, but nothing is more frightening than to be divested of a crutch.

I had wanted a tape recorder since I was tiny. I thought it was a magic thing. I never got one until just before I went to art school.

If I find in myself a desire which no experience in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world.

It’s not tyranny we desire; it’s a just, limited, federal government.

The true man wants two things: danger and play. For that reason he wants woman, as the most dangerous plaything.

The key to success is to focus our conscious mind on things we desire not things we fear.

The desire of excessive power caused the angels to fall; the desire of knowledge caused men to fall.

A man can do what he wants, but not want what he wants.

Freedom from the desire for an answer is essential to the understanding of a problem.

However happy people say they are, nobody is satisfied: we always have to be with the prettiest woman, buy a bigger house, change cars, desire what we do not have.