Desire Quotes

The greatness of our love of God must be tested by the desire we have of suffering for His love.

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

We all have different desires and needs, but if we don't discover what we want from ourselves and what we stand for, we will live passively and unfulfilled.

As you commit your life to follow the Lord, He begins to plant His desires in your heart, then guides you according to His plan

There is no easy walk to freedom anywhere.

I have no desire to prove anything by dancing ... I just dance.

Prayer does not mean asking God for all kinds of things we want, it is rather the desire for God Himself, the only Giver of Life.

Find your vision, and let it guide you in all that you do. If you lack vision, look inside yourself. Draw on your natural gifts and desires.

What it comes down to is intense desire. To get this winning edge, you need to build an indomitable will. This means you must be relentless; you must never give up.

I have desired to do good, but I have not desired to make noise, because I have felt that noise did no good and that good made no noise.

Only as one is willing to give up his present limitations and identity can he become that which he desires to be.

I have no desires, save the desire to express myself in defiance of all the world’s muteness.

The one who has no control over his desires has no control over his mind.

No matter how old you get, if you can keep the desire to be creative, you're keeping the man-child alive.

Of course we do not live in order to eat, but it is not really true to say that we eat in order to live; we eat because we are hungry. Desire has no further intentions behind it... it is a good will.

There are desires that we all want to achieve, but remember respect is most greatest to receive.

He pours light into our minds, arouses our desire and gives us strength... As the soul is the life of the body, so the Holy Spirit is the life of our souls.

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

If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectable.

Flying is more than a sport and more than a job; flying is pure passion and desire, which fill a lifetime.

I once believed that I possessed creative talent, but I have given up this idea; a woman must not desire to compose — there has never yet been one able to do it. Should I expect to be the one?

In the sea there are countless treasures, But if you desire safety, it is on the shore.

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.

What indicates a person’s weak religion and fear of God, is that he seeks for an opinion that suits his desire.

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

In my films I always wanted to make people see deeply. I don't want to show things, but to give people the desire to see.

Poor is the man who desires a lot

To desire grace without recourse to the Virgin Mother is to desire to fly without wings.

Either we conform our desires to the truth or we conform the truth to our desires.

The desire to see Okinawa returned to Japan developed into a broad national consensus among our people.

All human suffering springs from unbridled desire. Unless one extricates oneself from the clutch of greed, one will not free himself from the fetters of sorrow.

I desire to leave to the men that come after me a remembrance of me in good works.

Let us therefore give ourselves to God with a great desire to begin to live thus, and beg Him to destroy in us the life of the world of sin, and to establish His life within us.

At the moment I sin, I desire the sin more than I desire to please God.

As much money and life as you could want! The two things most human beings would choose above all - the trouble is, humans do have a knack of choosing precisely those things that are worst for them.

Men go to far greater lengths to avoid what they fear than to obtain what they desire.

All happiness comes from the desire for others to be happy.

It would seem that something which means poverty, disorder and violence every single day should be avoided entirely, but the desire to beget children is a natural urge.

Nothing is impossible to the person who backs DESIRE with enduring FAITH.

My stiffest earthly assignment is ended and my major life's work is done. My country is now free and I have been honoured to be its first indigenous head of state. What more could one desire in life?

Three things are necessary for the salvation of man: to know what he ought to believe; to know what he ought to desire; and to know what he ought to do.

One must do violence to the object of one's desire; when it surrenders, the pleasure is greater.

You are made in the image of what you desire.

A Stoic is someone who transforms fear into prudence, pain into transformation, mistakes into initiation, and desire into undertaking.

Most fears of rejection rest on the desire for approval from other people. Don't base your self-esteem on their opinions.

The root of all desires is the one desire: to come home, to be at peace.

Someday I'll wish upon a star.

The deepest urge in human nature is the desire to feel important.

Is this not the true romantic feeling; not to desire to escape life, but to prevent life from escaping you.

No tricks, gimmicks, special pills, special potions, special equipment. All it takes is desire and will.