Desires Quotes

1790 Desires quotes by 1069 unique authors

Wars and revolutions and battles are due simply and solely to the body and its desires. — Socrates
When all your desires are distilled; You will cast just two votes: To love more, And be happy. — Hafez
Developing a character with genuine depth requires a focus on not just desire but how the character deals with frustration of her desires, as well… — David Corbett
Greed takes a person to the watering place but gets him back without letting him drink. It undertakes responsibility but does not fulfill it. Often… — Ali ibn Abi Talib
Whoever desires Paradise, proceeds towards goodness; whoever fears Hell, refrains from the impulses of passions; whoever believes firmly in death, detests wordly life; and whoever… — Ali ibn Abi Talib
Be a good man to Allah and a bad man to yourself (desires); and be one of the commoners among the people — Ali ibn Abi Talib
I do not always ask, in my prayers and discussions, for only those things I would like to see happen, because no man can claim… — Frank Fools Crow
Perhaps there is a pattern set up in the heavens for one who desires to see it, and having seen it, to find one in… — Plato
When desire, having rejected reason and overpowered judgment which leads to right, is set in the direction of the pleasure which beauty can inspire, and… — Socrates
Relationships become rocky when men and women fail to acknowledge they are biologically different and when each expects the other to live up to their… — Barbara Pease
Wars and revolutions and battles are due simply and solely to the body and its desires. All wars are undertaken for the acquisition of wealth;… — Socrates
Sometimes we do that to ourselves -- we pit our desires against one another. We insist unnecessarily on seeing one aspect of our personality as… — Julia Serano
If desires are not uprooted, sorrows grow again in you. — Gautama Buddha
The blind pursuit of learning leads to excessive desires—the more you see, the more you want. Excessive desires, in turn, lead to anxiety and misery. — Unknown Author
Plot is merely the mechanism by which your character is forced up against her deepest fears and desires. — Unknown Author
I wonder what it feels like to have no desires left because you have satisfied them all, smothered them with money even before they are… — Vikas Swarup
If one's life is simple, contentment has to come. Simplicity is extremely important for happiness. Having few desires, feeling satisfied with what you have, is… — Dalai Lama
The framers of our Constitution understood the dangers of unbridled government surveillance. They knew that democracy could flourish only in spaces free from government snooping… — Unknown Author
I think we should know about candidates desires and views, but I think it would be a mistake to assume that they will become reality. — Sung Won Sohn
Did it ever occur to you, that there is no conflict of interests among men, neither in business nor in trade nor in their most… — Ayn Rand
If there is no element of asceticism in our lives, if we give free rein to the desires of the flesh (taking care of course… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer
The price of love is only love, ... one must love if one desires to be loved. — Unknown Author
The only real limitation on your abilities is the level of your desires. If you want it badly enough, there are no limits on what… — Brian Tracy
It is hard enough for anyone to map out a course of action and stick to it, particularly in the face of the desires of… — Glenn Curtiss
Harmony comes gradually to a pilot and his plane. The wing does not want so much to fly true as to tug at the hands… — Beryl Markham

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