After I left the podium in Atlanta, I felt so fulfilled in my career that I lost my desire to compete at… — Carl Lewis Copy Share Image
Your desire for perfection is the cause of anger. Leave room for imperfection. Perfection in action is almost impossible. — Sri Sri Ravi Shankar Copy Share Image
“Somewhere between pointless dreams and hopeless dread was a desire to know the world. And, if possible, make it better.” — Hugh Howey Copy Share Image
I believe the universe conspires to give you everything you desire. — Phylicia Rashad Copy Share Image
Some desire is necessary to keep life in motion, and he whose real wants are suppliedmust admit those of fancy. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Stopping at nothing and doing what's in your heart that you know is right, means determination. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I think the desire to be funny was a mixture of wanting to be liked but also wanting to throw your elbows… — Paul Rust Copy Share Image
“Desire, Ask, Believe, Receive,” the mystic Stella Terrill Mann advises.” — Sarah Ban Breathnach Copy Share Image
I desire to press forward for direction to my Master in all things; but as to trusting to my own obedience and… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
If people only knew what lies at the heart of my novels! What a tumult of desires these carefully written pages conceal!… — Julien Green Copy Share Image
When Prince Charles speaks, everybody pretends to be fascinated, even though he has never said anything interesting except in that intercepted telephone… — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
“Desire is easy to fight. Especially when the only weapon desire possesses is attraction. It’s not so easy when you’re trying to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Any object of desire is bound to bring frustration. Any expectation is bound to turn into frustration. Expectation is the beginning of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If you desire anything less for yourself than absolute obedience to God, a life of total devotion to the Lord, a life… — Sinclair B. Ferguson Copy Share Image
What I realized is that the desire for making 'Places' came from the fact that I've got this strange situation with having… — Lou Doillon Copy Share Image
I often think I can see it in myself and in other young writers, this desperate desire to please coupled with a… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
You little know what you have done, when you have first broke the bounds of modesty; you have set open the door… — Richard Baxter Copy Share Image
The hardest and most illusive thing to fight and believe for in this world is love. It exist but it's not for… — Geraldine Vermaak Copy Share Image
And I too wanted to be. That is all I wanted; and this is the last word. At the bottom of all… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
I fight against the gluttony of time with so many very amusing weapons with gestures and with three attitudes and with charming… — James Branch Cabell Copy Share Image
“Music makes me forget my real situation. It transports me into a state which is not my own. Under the influence of… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Creativity is something which proceeds from within, out of immeasurable and inexplicable depths, not from without, not from the world's necessity. The… — Nikolai Berdyaev Copy Share Image
“All I want is to cultivate curiosity. Yes, my old friend remains undiminished even now: the simple yearning to know. If these… — Stephen Kiernan Copy Share Image
I'm over the Oscar thing. I feel that if you really want an Oscar, you're in trouble. It's like wanting to be… — Bill Murray Copy Share Image
Innovative organizations provide the freedom to act which arouses the desire to act. — Rosabeth Moss Kanter Copy Share Image
There's an inner desire, something inside of me, that's always wanted to be great and leave a mark. — Mitchell Trubisky Copy Share Image
“He had dulled his craving for verbal truth and cared chiefly for truth of mood.” — E.M. Forster Copy Share Image
You don't need fancy highbrow traditions or money to really learn. You just need people with the desire to better themselves. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I was not pleased that Hamas has refused to announce its desire to destroy Israel. — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
“When a woman is romantically subdued, all she does at that moment is under the influence of her desires.” — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
When people can't control their desires... we have to pass laws to stop their desires. — Rick Santorum Copy Share Image
I'm sorry for Italian football; there's no desire to improve Italian football. — Massimiliano Allegri Copy Share Image
Men desire to have some share in the management of public affairs chiefly on account of the importance which it gives them. — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
We should desire very few things passionately if we did but perfectly know the nature of the things we desire. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Crave for a thing, you will get it. Renounce the craving, the object will follow you by itself. — Swami Sivananda Copy Share Image
Study without desire spoils the memory, and it retains nothing that it takes in. — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
“I want to feel the victory of being desired by someone I once found desirable.” — Rae Carson Copy Share Image
There is nothing we can desire or want that we do not find in God. — St. Catherine of Siena Copy Share Image
“I tried to take a shortcut to your heart instead I got lost in the wilderness of my own desire.” — Pamela August Russell Copy Share Image
