Desire Quotes

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.

Further, Take heed that you faithfully perform the business you have to do in the world, from a regard to the commands of God; and not from an ambitious desire of being esteemed better than others.

My desire is to set up a situation to which I take you and let you see. It becomes your experience.

It takes a long while for a director to cease thinking in terms of the result he desires and instead concentrate on discovering the source of energy in the actor from which true impulses arise.

Nothing retains less of desire in art, in science, than this will to industry, booty, possession.

Doing little things with a strong desire to please God makes them really great.

Every age has the Stonehenge it deserves -- or desires.

I have a deeply hidden and inarticulate desire for something beyond the daily life.

Where they love they do not desire and where they desire they do not love.

Our heart's desire should be to worship God; we have been designed by God for this purpose. If we don't worship God, we'll worship something or someone else.

The purest form of listening is to listen without memory or desire.

All this talk and turmoil and noise and movement and desire is outside of the veil; within the veil is silence and calm and rest.

The desire for symmetry, for balance, for rhythm in form as well as in sound, is one of the most inveterate of human instincts.

We are captives, even if our wheat grows over the fences/ and swallows rise from our broken chains./ We are captives of what we love, what we desire, and what we are.

All those who are unhappy in the world are so as a result of their desire for their own happiness. All those who are happy in the world are so as a result of their desire for the happiness of others.

My only desire is an intimate infusion with nature, and the only fate I wish is to have worked and lived in harmony with her laws.

When I die, I desire no better winding sheet than the Stars and Stripes, and no softer pillow than the Constitution of my country.

The desire to discover, the desire to move, to capture the flavor, three concepts that describe the art of photography.

Life is the will to power; our natural desire to dominate and reshape the world to fit our own preferences and assert our personal strength to the fullest degree.

Do not desire to fit in. Desire to oblige yourselves to lead.

Our ambitions are bold and so must be our desire to change and evolve our culture.

When the mind is full of worldly desires, it is their very nature to confuse the mind. Withdraw the mind from outer things and turn it inwards.

When nothing upsets you, you are at the beginning of the path. When you desire nothing, you are halfway on the path; when nothing becomes everything, you are perfected.

It is not enough to demand insight and informative images of reality from the theater. Our theater must stimulate a desire for understanding, a delight in changing reality.

Moses desired to see God; I do not desire to see God;He desires to see me

All true artists, bear within themselves a deeply rooted and often unconscious desire for transformation.

Educational success should be measured by how strong your desire is to keep learning.

Only one who liberates himself from his psychological desires and fears indeed in truth qualify as liberation hero.

I desire the things that will destroy me in the end.

Life's a university that'll teach you lessons, regardless of your desire to pass the “class” or not, there is always something else to learn

Jazz is the favorite music [of America]. It is a type of music invented by [American] Blacks to please their primitive tendencies and desire for noise.

It is a safe thing to trust Him to fulfill the desires which He creates

Boxing is a contest of character and ingenuity. The boxer with more will, determination, desire, and intelligence is always the one who comes out the victor.

For me fashion is an expression of art that is very closely related both to me and to my body. I see it as an expression of identity combined with desire, moods and a cultural setting.

Your desire is your prayer. Picture the fulfillment of your desire now and feel its reality and you will experience the joy of the answered. Dr. Joseph Murphy

Gie me ae spark o' Nature's fire, That's a' the learning I desire.

Agape love is...profound concern for the well-being of another, without any desire to control that other, to be thanked by that other, or to enjoy the process.

Neckties satisfy modern man's desire to dress in art.

Never doubt God's desire or ability to help you.

Of course you want to be rich and famous. It's natural. Wealth and fame are what every man desires. The question is: What are you willing to trade for it?

All action is prayer. All trees are desire-fulfilli ng. All water is the Ganga. All land is Varanasi. Love everything.

Winning is what happens when commitment, desire, talent, preparation, hard work, and leadership all come together.

The line of life is a ragged diagonal between duty and desire.

If we make God our heart's delight, we shall have our heart's desire.

A crowd is not merely impulsive and mobile. Like a savage, it is not prepared to admit that anything can come between its desire and the realisation of its desire.

Poverty doesn't come because of the decrease of wealth but because of the increase of desires.

God cannot hear the prayers on our lips often because the desires of our heart after the world cry out to Him much more strongly and loudly than the our desires for Him.

Leaders make decisions that create the future they desire.

Desire will in due time externalize itself as concrete fact.

All change begins with a DECISION. Once the decision is made, DISCIPLINE becomes the bridge between desire and accomplishment.