Desire Quotes · Page 115

Out of need springs desire, and out of desire springs the energy and the will to win.

— Denis Waitley

Those who have a desire to teach while coming to learn should not pose as disciples; they must come as teachers.

— Hazrat Inayat Khan

So many people who desire poverty get it quickly, but those who desire wealth never have it.

— Vikrant Parsai

“The purpose of suffering is to contain the light of your desire until you see yourself in everything.”

— Eric Micha'el Leventhal

All progress is based upon a universal innate desire on the part of every organism to live beyond its income.

— Samuel Butler

That man is truly free who desires what he is able to perform, and does what he desires.

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

In general, modern art... has been inspired by a natural desire to chart the uncharted.

— Herbert Read

I didn't get into making music for the fame aspect. There are people who do desire that.

— Sheryl Crow

Count not thyself to have found true peace, if thou hast felt no grief; nor that then all is well if thou…

— Thomas a Kempis

It's hard to explain but I have a need to play intensely every day, to fight every match hard. And this desire…

— Zinedine Zidane

The instinct to impersonate produces the actor; the desire to provide pleasure by impersonations produces the playwright; the desire to provide this…

— Anonymous

My most ardent desire is that my country will recapture its historic opportunity for a peaceful evolution and that Poland will prove…

— Lech Walesa

Negro producers, Negro distributors, Negro consumers! The world of Negroes can be self contained. We desire earnestly to deal with the rest…

— Marcus Garvey

I lost part of myself to him then, and a soaring sense of freedom revealed that this must have been my purpose…

— John Knowles

“To become desireless, to not want anything external to ourselves, means we rest in ourselves, whole, joyous and happy. In this state,…

— Lawrence Crane

Your desire for consistency itself will set you on the right path. As long as you keep going up, never mind if…

— Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

“Unlike those in power here on CIEL, reproduction wasn't what we mourned. We mourned the carnal. Societies may be organized around procreation,…

— Lidia Yuknavitch

Although the traditional focus of Valentine's Day is on women and the gifts they desire, this survey found that not only do…

— Christopher Parsons

Toska - noun /ˈtō-skə/ - Russian word roughly translated as sadness, melancholia, lugubriousness. "No single word in English renders all the shades…

— Vladimir Nabokov

Regarding my pay, my salary, that I don't 'earn a lot,' these are things that are a result of two years ago…

— Mauro Icardi

And happiness...Well, after all, desires torment us, don't they? And, clearly, happiness is when there are no more desires, not one...What a…

— Yevgeny Zamyatin

Such expression is impossible in a cramped atmosphere. As I have no desire to offer civil disobedience I cannot write freely. As…

— Mahatma Gandhi

Did it ever occur to you, that there is no conflict of interests among men, neither in business nor in trade nor…

— Ayn Rand

“Here You always belonged here. You were theirs, certain as a rock. I’m the one who worries if I fit in with…

— Jane Kenyon

The desire to impress others is one of the worst forms of mental imprisonment.

— Robert Ringer

Christians need never be sick, any more than they need to be sinful. It is always God's desire to heal you.

— T.L. Osborn

A slave- holder, who has decided to abolish slavery, does not consult his slaves whether they desire freedom or not.

— Mahatma Gandhi

A psychologically healthy person can, in fact, be defined as someone whose desires actually produce happiness.

— Deepak Chopra

We're nature. Our minds are nature. Our desire to make poetry is nature.

— Alison Hawthorne Deming

I wanted to go home and if Hell rose up to stop me, it would make me desire it more.

— Mark Lawrence

I've always had this unresolved desire to prove that I could get a Ph.D., or contribute something else to the world.

— Diane Lane

“Desires intellectual, social etc., but they all be, Soul‟s longing through mind and senses activity. - 40 -”

— Munindra Misra

I have no desire to walk on water," said Siddhartha. "Let the old shramanas satisfy themselves with such skills.

— Hermann Hesse

If you are dominated by fear and doubts, Success will be far from you.

— Ore Abayomi

I write pretty much every day, but I don't have any desire to publish anything.

— Winona Ryder

The strongest of all psychic forces in the world is unsatisfied desire.

— John Cowper Powys

“If you really desire greatness, you should make up your mind to be a hard worker.”

— Sunday Adelaja

“Desire, like the dead or an unpleasant meal, would keep returning--it was ultimately indigestible.”

— Hanif Kureishi

“Desire is the kind of thing that eats you and leaves you starving.”

— Nayyirah Waheed

Every satisfaction he attains lays the seeds of some new desire, so that there is no end to the wishes of each…

— Arthur Schopenhauer