A man's not doing much until the cause he works for possesses all there is of him. Desire, when harnessed, is power. — John Wanamaker Copy Share Image
Most times, women are seen through the male gaze, so they are often shown as housewives, girlfriends, or objects of desire. — Yorgos Lanthimos Copy Share Image
If you can concentrate on what you're doing and have the desire to do the things you have to do to win,… — Arnold Palmer Copy Share Image
Human nature, we do have a desire for gossip and scandal. It's just within us. It's innate. — Nicola Coughlan Copy Share Image
“They were without shame and without desire, like the angels. But it is not human to be without shame and without desire.” — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
There is a powerful driving force inside every human being that once unleashed can make any vision, dream, or desire a reality. — Tony Robbins Copy Share Image
I still have a desire to do some sketch comedy. My dream is to be on 'SNL,' to host 'SNL.' — Selenis Leyva Copy Share Image
What I want is to get done what the people desire to have done, and the question for me is how to… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
“In solitary at the towering fortress of desire, visioning for what the heart craved to restore, though waiting endlessly for the impossible.” — Catherine McGee Copy Share Image
One must consider that it is never too late, and as long as you have breath in you to live, you have… — Anurag Prakash Ray Copy Share Image
New year is here it's time to stop saying I wish. Now start saying I will. Believe in yourself you can achieve… — Anurag Prakash Ray Copy Share Image
What you have when everyone wears the same playclothes for all occasions, is addressed by nickname, expected to participate in Show And… — Judith Martin Copy Share Image
An individual's yearning to reach outside his life is a seed of greatness waiting for a stream of inspiration. Carving that stream… — Mac Anderson Copy Share Image
Do not mistake desire for love. Desire leaves home in a frantic search for one gratification after another. Love is at home… — Vernon Howard Copy Share Image
I always had a desire to know asylum life more thoroughly - a desire to be convinced that the most helpless of… — Nellie Bly Copy Share Image
“Discipline is the thing that makes you do what you might not want to, but you do it anyway because it's what… — Kyle Vidrine Copy Share Image
In my view, it was no accident that Nelson Mandela was chosen by God to lead the people of South Africa. There… — Bernice King Copy Share Image
It is my fundamental belief that all human beings share the same basic aspirations: that we all want hapiness and that we… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
Because when you have millions of people with this kind of need for gratification, and the culture is saying that it's possible… — Taylor Hackford Copy Share Image
“As the virtual world of electronic communication becomes the world many of us inhabit all the time, in turning to imaginative literature… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
I felt despair. The word’s overused and banalified now, despair, but it’s a serious word, and I’m using it seriously. For me… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
Healing... is an active and internal process that includes investigating one's attitudes, memories and beliefs with the desire to release all negative… — Caroline Myss Copy Share Image
It is my goal to love everyone. I hate no one. Regardless of their race, religion, their proclivities, the desire of their… — Kirk Cameron Copy Share Image
There exists among the intolerable degraded, the perverse and powerful desire to force into the arena of the actual those fantastic crimes… — James A. Baldwin Copy Share Image
Gradually as you become curator of your own contentment, you will learn to embrace the gentle yearnings of your heart. — Sarah Ban Breathnach Copy Share Image
The tiny, initial clue ... by allowing us to imagine what we do not know, stimulates a desire for knowledge. — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
Many people would be more truthful were it not for their uncontrollable desire to talk. — E. W. Howe Copy Share Image
I hope the wonder of what happens to my characters never goes away. That yearning keeps me writing. — Kimberly Willis Holt Copy Share Image
It's not cruelty, maybe, but a desire to understand that motivates them. — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
If we make God our heart's delight, we shall have our heart's desire. — T. B. Joshua Copy Share Image
“The difference between greed and ambition is a greedy person desires things he isn't prepared to work for.” — Habeeb Akande Copy Share Image
Luckily, I'm in the position now of being able to play purely because I have the desire to do so. — Chico Hamilton Copy Share Image
Regularity, order, desire for perfection destroy art. Irregularity is the basis of all art. — Pierre-Auguste Renoir Copy Share Image
“Your success depends on how much fire of desire you have AND how much fuel of passion you feed it.” — Vinita Kinra Copy Share Image
“Why do we desire, above all other things, that which has the greatest power to destroy us?” — Margaret Rogerson Copy Share Image
“Everything that is in agreement with our personal desires seems true. Everything that is not puts us into a rage.” — André Maurois Copy Share Image
I've no desire to be ill-dressed; but I hate the feeling that I daren't be ill-dressed if I want to. — John Braine Copy Share Image
It takes a dream to get started, desire to keep going, and determination to finish. — Eddie Harris Copy Share Image
I believe the desire for instant gratification is the most destructive force in the world today. It's time to grow up! — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“All I ever wanted from you was to know that I was wanted by you. That would have changed everything.” — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
