Desire Quotes · Page 146

We are all of us imaginative in some form or other, for images are the brood of desire.

— George Eliot

Champions aren't made in the gyms. Champions are made from something they have deep inside them-a desire, a dream, a vision.

— Muhammad Ali

I believe that the desire to please you does in fact please you.

— Thomas Merton

Art is a part of the rebellion against the realities of its unfulfilled desire.

— Emma Goldman

In my own case I have frequently faced the pitcher when I had no desire whatever to hit. I wanted to get…

— Johnny Evers

All the arts serving human desires and needs are derived from the breath that Godsent into the human body.

— Hildegard of Bingen

Relationships that begin in passion's raging fire often end in the coldest ashes.

— Deepak Chopra

Life is made for the strong. There is no mercy in it for the weak– none...Such is the tragedy of desire.

— Theodore Dreiser

Mind led body to the edge of the precipice. They stared in desire at the naked abyss. If you love me, said…

— Anne Stevenson

“The desire to love someone always exceeds the desire to be loved by someone & that's exactly why we end up loving…

— Anirban Bose

Accept the children the way we accept trees—with gratitude, because they are a blessing—but do not have expectations or desires. You don’t…

— Isabel Allende

I'd finally come to understand what it had been: a yearning for a way out, when actually what I had wanted to…

— Cheryl Strayed

Don't take your health for granted. Don't take your body for granted. Do something today that communicates to your body that you…

— Jada Pinkett Smith

“My heart feels strong for you, my desire isn’t just to marry you and let this be our moment, Kiersten. I want…

— Rachel Van Dyken

Inordinate desire for material possessions can become an obsession that consumes our thoughts, drains our resources, and leads to unhappiness.

— Joseph B. Wirthlin

The sickness of indulging desires can be treated, but the sickness of clinging to abstract principles is hard to treat. Obstacles presented…

— Zicheng Hong

There are doubtless all kinds of ways of explaining why people want security, but I do not think we can start with…

— Judith Butler

Was it Aristotle who said the human soul is composed of reason, will, and desire?” “No, that was Plato. Aristotle and Plato…

— Haruki Murakami

The desire of our hearts, of course, is not only to acquire salvation and immortality but also to attain eternal life with…

— Quentin L. Cook

Yet I saw crypts when I looked at him, and I heard the beat of kettledrums. I saw torchlit fields where I…

— Anne Rice

“the world has become man's right and everything in it has become a right: the desire for love the right to love,…

— milan kundera

The desire for total happiness and for ultimate freedom lies dormant in everyone. It is in the form of a seed. It…

— Rajneesh

I never had a desire to be famous... I was fat. I didn't know any fat famous actresses... You know, once a…

— Kate Winslet

...I want first of all - in fact, as an end to these other desires - to be at peace with myself.…

— Anne Morrow Lindbergh

It's not about having the skill to do something. It's about having the will, desire & commitment to be your best.

— Mark Laurence Torcuator

Most dancers have a young body. This is part discipline and part desire, because just sitting around makes one feel sluggish.

— Cyd Charisse

“Any man can be led by desire, Soph. But desire isn't love. Don't make the mistake of thinking it is.”

— Megan Chance

It is psychological law that whatever we desire to accomplish we must impress upon the subjective or subconscious mind.

— Orison Swett Marden

Delight your self in the Lord and he will give you the desires of your heart.

— Michele Recket

I don't know what happened, but I lost the desire to acquire more things. It's very peaceful to have lost that desire.

— Lee Radziwill

The only way to get what you want in this world is through hard work.

— Anonymous

Hope is a memory that desires, the memory is a memory that has enjoyed.

— Honore de Balzac

Don't fear failure. Failure is interruption, not the end point. Your desire for success should be greater than fear of failure.

— Anil Sinha

I dream of picnics n kissess under a summer sky... And I dream of never saying goodbyee...!!!!!

— Pooja

When you desire to be most alive to God, you will generally find sin most alive to repel you.

— Charles Spurgeon

Success focuses on the six D's: Desire, Determination, Discipline, Devotion, Dedication, and Destiny.

— Anonymous

I desire you in friendship, and I will one way or other make you amends.

— William Shakespeare

Creation is the manifestation of a thought. It does not instigate but rather fulfills a desire.

— Anonymous

Sweet babe, in thy face Soft desires I can trace, Secret joys and secret smiles, Little pretty infant wiles.

— William Blake

The desire to be thought clever often prevents a man from becoming so.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld