Desire Quotes

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.

Desires dictate our priorities, priorities shape our choices, and choices determine our actions.

Failure doesn't kill you... it increases your desire to make something happen.

The scientist is motivated primarily by curiosity and a desire for truth.

Desire is individual. Happiness is common.

Change doesn’t happen overnight. It starts with the desire, then one small step in the right direction.

The difficulty we have in accepting responsibility for our behavior lies in the desire to avoid the pain of the consequences of that behavior.

Desire outweighs footwork when it comes to crashing the glass

But he did not understand the price. Mortals never do. They only see the prize, their heart's desire, their dream... But the price of getting what you want, is getting what you once wanted.

Destroying white civilization is the inmost desire of the league of designated victims we call minorities.

The desire to rule is the mother of heresies.

Hamas' battle is against the Zionist occupation in the Palestinian land. Hamas has no desire to change its battlefield.

The nastiness of women [in the 14th century] was generally perceived at the close of life when a man began to worry about hell, and his sexual desire in any case fading.

It is psychological law that whatever we desire to accomplish we must impress upon the subjective or subconscious mind.

In a nutshell, the Bible from Genesis 3 to Revelation 22 tells the story of a God reckless with desire to get his family back.

Don't take your health for granted. Don't take your body for granted. Do something today that communicates to your body that you desire to care for it. Tomorrow is not promised.

Fiction is a branch of neurology: the scenarios of nerve and blood vessels are the written mythologies of memory and desire.

I desire my children to be educated south of the Mason Dixon line and always to retain right of domicile in the Confederate States.

Reality is fabricated out of desire.

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.

To be desired is perhaps the closest anybody in this life can reach to feeling immortal.

Cast aside those who liken godliness to whimsy and who try to combine their greed for wealth with their desire for a happy afterlife.

Desire is when you do what you want, will is when you can do what you do not want.

Even as a child I had a strong relationship with yearning and desire. And loss. Those things spoke to me.

Being creative is not so much the desire to do something as the listening to that which wants to be done: the dictation of the materials.

If I can create the minimum of my plans and desires there shall be no regrets.

Every people should be the originators of their own destiny, the projectors of their own schemes, and creators of the events that lead to their destiny -- the consummation of their own desires.

I never desired to please the rabble. What pleased them, I did not learn; and what I knew was far removed from their understanding.

Brazil has rediscovered itself, and this rediscovery is being expressed in its people's enthusiasm and their desire to mobilize to face the huge problems that lie ahead of us.

I have no desire to prove anything by my work. I have never used it as an outlet or as a means of expressing myself. I just dance.

Desire is the starting point of all achievement, not a hope, not a wish, but a keen pulsating desire which transcends everything.

I have no desire to go in for tyranny or to play the part of King Charles. I hate tyranny in any field of human activity.

There is no neediness in desire ... there is no caretaking in desire. Caretaking is mightily loving, [but] it's a powerful anti-aphrodisiac.

This is something that, as artists, we constantly deal with-throwing away the past, slaying the father, and creating the new. This desire to throw away the old rules.

The deepest desire of our hearts is for union for God. God created us for union with himself. This is the original purpose of our lives.

Those desiring to escape from suffering hasten right toward suffering. With the very desire for happiness, out of delusion they destroy their own happiness as if it were an enemy

When man can "wish away worrying," every desire will be instantly fulfilled.

A life is either all spiritual or not spiritual at all. No man can serve two masters. Your life is shaped by the end you live for. You are made in the image of what you desire.

Riches don't respond to wishes. They respond only to definite plans, backed by definite desires, through constant persistence.

But I don't have such a strong desire to need to get away from filmmaking.

Desire God, and you will have desires from God.

What you lack in talent can be made up with desire, hustle, and giving 110 percent all the time.

A flirt is like a dipper attached to a hydrant; every one is at liberty to drink from it, but no one desires to carry it away.

Fear is gradually replaced by excitement and a simple desire to see what you can do on the day.

Every corner of the public psyche is canvassed by some of the most talented citizens to see if the desire for some merchandisable product can be cultivated.

From the outset of the war, the Canadian people have clearly shown that it is their desire to help in every way to make Canadas war effort as effective as possible.

You can tell the man who rings true from the man who rings false, not by his deeds alone, but also by his desires.

Not less of love, but expanding Of love beyond desire, and so liberation From the Future as well as the past.

Love makes the Real of desire accessible without its tragic dimension

When you attack the roots of sin, fix your thought more on the God you desire than on the sin you abhor.