Desire Quotes

7210 Desire quotes by 3487 unique authors

If you start by promising what you don't even have yet, you'll lose your desire to work towards getting it. — Paulo Coelho
Our duty is to be useful, not according to our desires but according to our powers. — Henri Frederic Amiel
Desire is the key to motivation, but it's determination and commitment to an unrelenting pursuit of your goal - a commitment to excellence - that… — Mario Andretti
As far as I knew white women were never lonely, except in books. White men adored them, Black men desired them and Black women worked… — Maya Angelou
I've never been married and I've no more desire to be married now than I ever have. I hate bureaucracy and I am not religious. — Francesca Annis
You can love more than one person in your life, but things will be different. There'll be a different dynamic. Needs and desires change. — Francesca Annis
I distrust those people who know so well what God wants them to do, because I notice it always coincides with their own desires. — Susan B. Anthony
Three things are necessary for the salvation of man: to know what he ought to believe; to know what he ought to desire; and to… — Thomas Aquinas
When I die, I shall be content to vanish into nothingness.... No show, however good, could conceivably be good forever I do not believe in… — H. L. Mencken
There are some desires that are not desirable. — Gilbert K. Chesterton
One of the things that distinguishes man from the other animals is that he wants to know things, wants to find out what reality is… — C.S. Lewis
There is neither encouragement nor room in Bible religion for feeble desires, listless efforts, lazy attitudes; all must be strenuous, urgent, ardent. Flamed desires, impassioned,… — Edward McKendree Bounds
Without this heart attitude it is exceedingly difficult for us to accept the circumcision of the flesh. Every affection, desire, thought, knowledge, intent, worship, and… — Watchman Nee
In the matter of fellowship God looks not at how much we apprehend of His will but rather at what our attitude towards His will… — Watchman Nee
Every man's path is for himself; let him accomplish his own desires that he may thus be able to rise above them to the eternal… — Hazrat Inayat Khan
Hardships can deprive mortals of the power to ACT. But at the same time, hardships can be the means of eternal growth in ATTITUDE and… — Dallin H. Oaks
We do not succeed in changing things according to our desire, but gradually our desire changes. The situation that we hoped to change because it… — Marcel Proust
All personal achievement starts in the mind of the individual. Your personal achievement starts in your mind. the first step is to know exactly what… — W. Clement Stone
It would seem that something which means poverty, disorder and violence every single day should be avoided entirely, but the desire to beget children is… — Phyllis Diller
Therefore, if a great kingdom humbles itself before a small kingdom, it shall make that small kingdom its prize. And if a small kingdom humbles… — Laozi
Motherhood is neither a duty nor a privilege, but simply the way that humanity can satisfy the desire for physical immortality and triumph over the… — Rebecca West
All that remains is the mad desire for present identity through a woman. — Max Frisch
I never had any other desire so strong, and so like covetousness, as that ... I might be master at last of a small house… — Abraham Cowley
Science is not the enemy of humanity but one of the deepest expressions of the human desire to realize that vision of infinite knowledge. Science… — Heinz Pagels
Two things only the people actually desire: bread and circuses. — Juvenal

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