Desire Quotes · Page 136

Sometimes you have to do something you dislike to create something you desire.

— Mike Murdock

Do something others will have the desire to plagiarize but will find difficult to do.

— Robert Genn

It is not because men's desires are strong that they act ill; it is because their consciences are weak.

— John Stuart Mill

There are perhaps only one or two things in the world which are not far more charming in desire than they are…

— Anna Brackett

For a French person, lack of desire in someone is really seen as a defect.

— Marilyn Yalom

Fame has eagle wings, and yet she mounts not so high as man's desires.

— Benjamin Disraeli

Aberystwyth (n.) A nostalgic yearning which is in itself more pleasant than the thing being yearned for.

— Douglas Adams

I feel no need and have no desire to give any attention to other people's opinion of me.

— Ricky Williams

It's unfair of me to tell anyone what to think. I make myself for myself to get out my own desire to…

— Hoodie Allen

When we take the one seat on our meditation cushion we become our own monastery. We create the compassionate space that allows…

— Jack Kornfield

Ah! Vanitas Vanitatum! Which of us is happy in this world? Which of us has his desire? or, having it, is satisfied?-Come,…

— William Makepeace Thackeray

“It is in the gap between your imperfections, honestly faced, and your desire for something beyond perfection that you can achieve genius.”

— Tabish Khair

For the mind does not require filling like a bottle, but rather, like wood, it only requires kindling to create in it…

— Plutarch

I think to write fiction, this is just how I see it, you have to have a powerful need/desire to connect. I…

— Henry Rollins

It is not lust alone that one should be afraid of in the life of the world. There is also anger. Anger…

— Ramakrishna

Most people share a yearning to be something bigger than them. Something they can be excited about and something that will challenge…

— Sudha Murty

“Can’t help it? Nonsense! What we are is up to us. Our bodies are like gardens and our willpower is like the…

— William Shakespeare

“You must believe so strong and without a doubt that you can and will fulfill your dreams and gain your desires. You…

— Alan O'Brien

There are some who wish to learn for no other reason than that they may be looked upon as learned, which is…

— Bernard of Clairvaux

Letters are above all useful as a means of expressing the ideal self; and no other method of communication is quite so…

— Elizabeth Hardwick

It's not our conditions, but our decisions that shape our lives. I truly believe that it's in your moments of decision that…

— Tony Robbins

There’s no desire to be an adult. Adulthood is not a goal. It’s not seen as a gift. Something happened culturally: No…

— Frances McDormand

All personal achievement starts in the mind of the individual. Your personal achievement starts in your mind. the first step is to…

— W. Clement Stone

“It would be hard to imagine someone who expected a greater awareness of and more catering to his peculiar whims, rhythms, prejudices,…

— Michael Wolff

I'm tryna learn somethin new. I'm tryna surround myself with people that inspire me or at least inquire similar desires.

— Kendrick Lamar

I would desire for a friend the son who never resisted the tears of his mother.

— Jacques de Lacretelle

You don't give up the intention, and you don't give up the desire. You give up your attachment to the results.

— Deepak Chopra

“I raised you so high that every other man on earth is now doomed to live in your shadow.”

— Ranata Suzuki

Some people have a desire to be with the same sex. But that's them.

— Stevie Wonder

If you want something bad enough and you have that desire, you'll walk to another state or country if you have to.

— Puff Daddy

I've experienced love and ambition and desire in my life, but never in the same way as in a family.

— Claire Denis

What we desire is not to possess a woman, but to be the only one to possess her.

— Cesare Pavese

Life is lived in the present. any dream put off till tomorrow may never be achievable.

— Ore Abayomi

Be an earnest student of yourself. Study your leading desires and tendencies.

— Grenville Kleiser

I have no desire to write my own biography, as long as I have strength and means to do better work.

— Charles Babbage

The thing for me is I never had this burning desire to do a solo record my whole life.

— Julian Casablancas

The figure a poem makes. It begins in delight and ends in wisdom.

— Robert Frost

“A substitute of temptation is unspecified desire of mankind to the aim of success”

— Mansur Almia

Whatever you vividly imagine, ardently desire, sincerly believe and enthusiastically act upon ... must inevitably come to pass.

— Paul Meyer

“What had our relationship been? A betrayal of those around us, or the desire of another life?”

— Michael Ondaatje