desires quotes

I know that I always wanted things. I was always proud of my people, proud of my home, but I always wanted more. I think most people do.

Indignation is a submission of our thoughts, but not of our desires.

It seems like a lot of people seek their peace in things. And most of us are not even satisfied with the things we have… we always want more.

Temptation is an irresistible force at work on a movable body.

Maids want nothing but husbands, and when they have them, they want everything.

When we enter into a personal relationship with Jesus Christ, something wonderful happens: God begins to change our desires, and we want to be more like Him.

If thou wilt make a man happy, add not unto his riches but take away from his desires.

Science never makes things that do not have to do with what we feel, by which I mean what we want and what we fear.

We are never further from what we wish than when we believe that we have what we wished for.

Our desires always disappoint us; for though we meet with something that gives us satisfaction, yet it never thoroughly answers our expectation.

I fear that too many have sadly surrendered their agency to the adversary and are saying by their conduct, ‚I care more about satisfying my own desires than I do about bearing the Savior’s power to bless others.‘

I want more of my favorite artists or more of the guy that makes the anthems. I want more.

Freedom in general may be defined as the absence of obstacles to the realization of desires.

Much of everyday life is filled with opportunities to be distracted. Our possessions… entertainment… cares and anxieties… and even the passionate desire and pursuit of things, some good and not so good, can keep our minds and hearts caught up in a flurry of activity.

The most pitiful among men is he who turns his dreams into silver and gold.

Every man is rich or poor according to the proportion between his desires and his enjoyments.

Those who forget good and evil and seek only to know the facts are more likely to achieve good than those who view the world through the distorting medium of their own desires.

You can never get enough of what you don’t want.

I prefer to be a dreamer among the humblest, with visions to be realized, than lord among those without dreams and desires.

When your desires are strong enough you will appear to possess superhuman powers to achieve.

Most people want security in this world, not liberty.

Money, it turned out, was exactly like sex, you thought of nothing else if you didn’t have it and thought of other things if you did.

What I call my ‚self‘ now is hardly a person at all. It’s mainly a meeting place for various natural forces, desires, and fears, etcetera, some of which come from my ancestors, and some from my education, some perhaps from devils. The self you were really intended to be is something that lives not from nature but from God.

If you listen through the screen of your desires, then you obviously listen to your own voice; you are listening to your own desires.

Positional leaders ignore the fact that every person has hopes, dreams, desires, and goals of his own. And leaders must bring their vision and the aspirations of the people they lead together in a way that benefits everyone.

We often want one thing and pray for another, not telling the truth even to the gods.

One of the powerful temptations is that of the cinema palace. The cinema has undoubtedly an enormous attraction for boys, and people are constantly cudgelling their brains how to stop it. But it is one of those things which would be very difficult to stop even if it were altogether desirable.

There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.

I am no longer sure of anything. If I satiate my desires, I sin but I deliver myself from them; if I refuse to satisfy them, they infect the whole soul.

Men are so simple and yield so readily to the desires of the moment that he who will trick will always find another who will suffer to be tricked.

Listening has importance only when one is not projecting one’s own desires through which one listens.

Every act you have ever performed since the day you were born was performed because you wanted something.

Death is a release from the impressions of the senses, and from desires that make us their puppets, and from the vagaries of the mind, and from the hard service of the flesh.

Our necessities never equal our wants.