Desire Quotes

I am imperfect in many things, nevertheless I want my brethren and kinsfolk to know my nature so that they may be able to perceive my soul's desire.

For those of us (those that have the desire to explore the world unknown) that grew up going out into the wilds of the world...we got into our souls a sense of beauty.

My children, if you desire perseverance, be devout to our Blessed Lady.

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

Humility is the most difficult of all virtues to achieve; nothing dies harder than the desire to think well of self.

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

If you're not getting the things you want, need or desire, it's because you have not accepted that you can have them.

A community which refuses to welcome - whether through fear, weariness, insecurity, a desire to cling to comfort, or just because it is fed up with visitors - is dying spiritually.

My greatest desire is that I may perceive the God whom I find everywhere in the external world, in like manner also within and inside myself.

Faith looks back and draws courage; hope looks ahead, and keeps desire alive.

After you get what you want you don't want it.

I have sometimes wondered if the greatest desire of man is to be known and loved anyway.

Remember you dont meditate to get anything, but to get rid of things. We do it, not with desire, but with letting go. If you want anything, you wont find it.

When life follows the course of our desires, it is easy to be swept along without thought.

There comes a time in every rightly constructed boy's life when he has a raging desire to go somewhere and dig for hidden treasure.

A day to God is a thousand years, Men walk around with a thousand fears. The true joy of love brings a thousand tears, In the world of desire, there's a thousand snares.

We have a hunger of the mind which asks for knowledge of all around us, and the more we gain, the more is our desire; the more we see, the more we are capable of seeing.

Whosoever desires constant success must change his conduct with the times.

A man's main job is to protect his woman from her desire to 'get bangs' every other month.

Man's pursuit of physical desires and earthly possessions is an indication of his lack of conviction that the purpose of his existence is the attainment of spirituality.

What we desire for ourselves, we wish for all

If you desire to drain to the dregs the fullest cup of scorn and hatred that a fellow human being can pour out for you, let a young mother hear you call dear baby 'it.'

Lust is a poor, weak, whimpering, whispering thing compared with that richness and energy of desire which will arise when lust has been killed.

Craftsmanship names an enduring, basic human impulse, the desire to do a job well for its own sake.

The desire to break the silence with constant human noise is, I believe, precisely an avoidance of the sacred terror of that divine encounter.

If you desire to make a difference in the world, you must be different from the world.

Great leadership usually starts with a willing heart, a positive attitude, and a desire to make a difference.

The only limit to your garden is at the boundaries of your imagination.

The smart guy will outsmart himself. The lucky guy will run out of luck. The money guy will never have the desire. But hard work will take you anywhere you want to go.

I desire not to keep my place in this government an hour longer than I may preserve England in its just rights, and may protect the people of God in such a just liberty of their consciences.

And thus I take my leave of the world and of you all, and I heartily desire you all to pray for me.

There is no fulfillment that is not made sweeter for the prolonging of desire

Lord, may I think what you want me to think. May I desire what you want me to desire. May I speak as you want me to speak. May I work as you want me to work.

Be suspicious of what you want.

It is all your desires that you see, when you think. But when your mind is quiet, without desire, you are complete and as wonderful as you have always been.

The desire to economize time and mental effort in arithmetical computations, and to eliminate human liability to error is probably as old as the science of arithmetic itself.

I feel a frantic desire to free myself. To start all over again and in another way.

Self-confidenc e, poise, consciousness of possessing the power to accomplish our desires, with renewed lively interest in life are the natural results of the practice of Contrology [Pilates].

To be well-educated is to have the desire as well as the means to make sure that learning never ends.

We always long for the forbidden things, and desire what is denied us.

Society must be made to operate in such a way that it eradicates once and for all the desire of a man to become richer, or wiser, or more powerful than others.

I see her as a series of marvellous shapes formed at random in the kaleidoscope of desire.

Women naturally desire the same six things as I; they want their husbands to be brave, wise, rich, generous with money, obedient to the wife, and lively in bed.

In life, have but one desire, one only--to love Jesus Christ with all your soul. Let that be the one fixed idea of your entire existence.

Certain dressmakers desire to pass for an artist. I have one ambition: that is to have good taste.

When you love people and have the desire to make a profound, positive impact upon the world, then will you have accomplished the meaning to live.

Be thankful that you have a life, and forsake your vain and presumptuous desire for a second one.

Personal desire, age, and my health do not allow me to personally have a role in running the country [i.e. Iran] after the fall of the current system [of the Shah].

We are told that talent creates its own opportunities. But it sometimes seems that intense desire creates not only its own opportunities, but its own talents.

Embrace simplicity. Put others first. Desire little.