Desire Quotes

7210 Desire quotes by 3487 unique authors

The urge to create, the urge to photograph, comes in part from the deep desire to live with more integrity, to live more in peace… — Wynn Bullock
The same is true of Love, and the instinctive desire to please those whom we love. The teacher who succeeds in getting herself loved by… — William James
To believe that if we could have but this or that we would be happy is to suppress the realization that the cause of our… — Eric Hoffer
When you see someone like him coming on, with his great pace and desire to take someone on, it is a boost. — Cristiano Ronaldo
Nature is beautiful, and you are in her bosom. That voice of comfort which speaks in the breezes of morning, may visit your mind, that… — Humphry Davy
There is growing awareness of the beauty of country ... a sincere desire to keep some of it for all time. People are beginning to… — Olaus Murie
Only the brave should teach....Teaching is a vocation. It is as sacred as priesthood; as innate a desire, as inescapable as the genius which compels… — Pearl S. Buck
To have done no man a wrong...to walk and live, unseduced, within arm's length of what is not your own, with nothing between your desire… — Orison Swett Marden
My secret? A desire to work, years of dedication and loving what you do; I can't live without music. — Compay Segundo
I have no interest or desire to be head of Fine Gael.... I am ambitious for my country and I always said I would love… — Lucinda Creighton
This gentleman has taken on the very fashionable theme of fighting corruption and I say again: In order to fight corruption you have to be… — Vladimir Putin
If you sincerely desire a truly well-rounded education, you must study the extremists, the obscure and "nutty." You need the balance! Your poor brain is… — Ivan Stang
Education is the instruction of the intellect in the laws of Nature, under which name I include not merely things and their forces, but people… — Thomas Huxley
As far as the education of children is concerned I think they should be taught not the little virtues but the great ones. Not thrift… — Natalia Ginzburg
Christ is the desire of nations, the joy of angels, the delight of the Father. What solace then must that soul be filled with, that… — John Bunyan
The nature of Christ's salvation is woefully misrepresented by the present-day evangelist. He announces a Saviour from Hell rather than a Saviour from sin. And… — Arthur W. Pink
Better that only a few Catholics should be left, staunch and sincere in their religion, than that they should, remaining many, desire as it were,… — Peter Canisius
Tamed as it may be, sexuality remains one of the demonic forces in human consciousness - pushing us at intervals close to taboo and dangerous… — Susan Sontag
The combination of some data and an aching desire for an answer does not ensure that a reasonable answer can be extracted from a given… — John Tukey
With faith in the merciful Redeemer and His power, potential despair turns to hope. One's very heart and desires change, and the once-appealing sin becomes… — D. Todd Christofferson
Freedom from desire leads to inner peace. — Laozi
Live so that thou mayest desire to live again - that is thy duty - for in any case thou wilt live again! — Friedrich Nietzsche
They... threw themselves into the interests of the rest, but each plowed his or her own furrow. Their thoughts, their little passions and hopes and… — Rose Macaulay
What I want is to get done what the people desire to have done, and the question for me is how to find that out… — Abraham Lincoln
My desire for knowledge is intermittent; but my desire to commune with the spirit of the universe, to be intoxicated with the fumes, call it,… — Henry David Thoreau

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