Desire Quotes · Page 139

We don't have a desperate need to grow. We have a desperate desire to grow.

— Milton Friedman

“Mere flight in a dream you say. In dream many desires are revealed; and desire may be the last flicker of Estel.”

— J.R.R. Tolkien

Greatness comes to those who develop a burning desire to achieve high goals.

— W. Clement Stone

Men praise poverty, as the African worships Mumbo Jumbo--from terror of the malign power, and a desire to propitiate at.

— Alexander Smith

Anger represents a certain power, when a great mind, prevented from executing its own generous desires, is moved by it.

— Pietro Aretino

I’m scared I’m going to spend the rest of my life in a state of yearning, regardless of where I am.

— Melina Marchetta

No matter how old you get, if you can keep the desire to be creative, you're keeping the man-child alive.

— John Cassavetes

All the filmmakers I've worked with have taken my desire to educate myself very seriously.

— Jeremy Davies

Passion now begins to wake and whom we desire, we will take then we'll cut them down to the quick love itself…

— Nancy Holder

Good works are often spoiled by moving too quickly. . . . The good which God desires is accomplished almost by itself,…

— Vincent de Paul

Christian, thou knowest thou carriest Gunpowder about thee, desire those that carry Fire to keep at a Distance from thee; 'tis a…

— John Flavel

“Once you are defiled, you can't get back your purity by any means, instead, you will only look for ways to be…

— Michael Bassey Johnson

I believe that you cannot go any further than you can think. I certainly believe if you don't desire a thing, you…

— Charleszetta Waddles

Self-confidenc e, poise, consciousness of possessing the power to accomplish our desires, with renewed lively interest in life are the natural results…

— Joseph Pilates

“Back of all this demand for new and better things, there is one quality which one must possess to win, and that…

— Napoleon Hill

Either you write songs or you don't. And if you do write songs like I do, I think there's a natural desire…

— Roger Waters

They [investment bankers] don't even want the stuff that they've got, you know the fancy cars and houses. Their consumption is basically…

— Larkin Grimm

“This happiness rendered absurd men's desire to dominate, to kill, to possess, thought Volsky. For neither Mila nor he possessed anything. Their…

— Andreï Makine

My painting technique has not changed that much over time, although perhaps I am painting tighter and with more detail, in spite…

— Mark Ryden

PATRIOTISM, n. 1) The inability to distinguish between the government and one's 'country'; 2) A highly praiseworthy virtue characterized by the desire…

— Chaz Bufe

While criticism or fear of punishment may restrain us from doing wrong, it does not make us wish to do right. Disregarding…

— Bruno Bettelheim

The contempt of riches in philosophers was only a hidden desire to avenge their merit upon the injustice of fortune, by despising…

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Did you know you can take your bus anywhere you want to go? Say yes three times with me. Yes, yes, yes.…

— Jon Gordon

Finding beauty in a broken world is acknowledging that beauty leads us to our deepest and highest selves. It inspires us. We…

— Terry Tempest Williams

You want to eliminate your evil desires in order to reveal your Buddha nature, but where will you throw them away?

— Shunryu Suzuki

The acme of freedom from wealth is to desire to be possessionless even as others desire to possess.

— Vladimir Aleksandrovich Antonov

It isn't the meaning of love where you somehow desire that one or you want them or want them to love you.

— Robert Thurman

It isn't normal to know what we want. It is a rare and difficult psychological achievement.

— Anonymous

'A reality shaped around your own desires' - there is something sociopathic in that ambition.

— Zadie Smith

The volume of credit depends upon three factors: the desire to borrow, the ability to lend and the desire to lend.

— Benjamin Graham

“She was perfect, pure maddening sex, and she knew it, and she played on it, dripped it, and allowed you to suffer…

— Charles Bukowski

“Five people with passion can do better than fifty people with mere desire or interest.”

— Israelmore Ayivor

I always had and I still have that special desire in me to be the best.

— Eddy Merckx

“The desire of the people should be the major instrument used to draw them closer to God”

— Sunday Adelaja

“Any type of desire is beggary. One who is without any desire is called ‘Gnani’ [the enlightened one].”

— Dada Bhagwan

The fact is, for years, I had been trapped in a certain narcissism and a desire to have a certain body and…

— David Harbour

With a desire that's strong it doesn't matter how many times we failed or how long it takes, the change would be…

— Senora Roy

“…but something is speaking and it’s neither Miller nor I. It’s desire.”

— Jodi Ellen Malpas

The world is always greater than your desires; plenty is never enough.

— Aleksandar Hemon

I let go of all desire for the common good, and the good becomes as common as the grass.

— Laozi