Desiring Quotes

117 Desiring quotes by 93 unique authors

Desiring to excel is not a sin. It is motivation that determines ambition's character. Our Lord never taught against the urge to high achievement, but… — J. Oswald Sanders
Ever desireless, one can see the mystery. Ever desiring, one can see the manifestations. These two spring from the same source but differ in name;… — Laozi
One must realize that all who have accumulated great fortunes first did a certain amount of dreaming, hoping, wishing, desiring, and planning before they acquired… — Napoleon Hill
Is not falling down. Failure Is desiring to live Where I have fallen. — Sri Chinmoy
What does not satisfy when we find it, was not the thing we were desiring. — C.S. Lewis
Christianity is not a matter of persuading people of particular ideas, but of inviting them to share in the greatness of Christ. So pray that… — Ignatius of Antioch
This is what sexism does best: it makes you feel crazy for desiring parity and hopeless about ever achieving it. — Deborah Copaken
Be not cheap or mediocre in desiring. — Ezra Pound
You can't love by desiring an extremely vague desire of a very vague moon. — Leonard Woolf
Relying on the atonement which Christ has made, and desiring to be saved in no other way, I commit myself into Thy hands, O God,… — Samuel I. Prime
Do not turn the power of your mind upon others, but turn it upon yourself in such a way that it will make you stronger,… — Christian D. Larson
With fear, possessiveness enters the picture, then jealousy rears its ugly head. Jealousy is the opposite of desiring life and freedom of choice for one's… — Peter Shepherd
Good character consists of knowing the good, desiring the good, and doing the good habits of the mind, habits of the heart, and habits of… — Thomas Lickona
Refraining from all evil, not clinging to birth and death, working in deep compassion for all sentient beings, respecting those over you and pitying those… — Dogen
Bliss becomes blissful with practice. In our own bliss the desire, desirer and process of desiring are united - they are one. Desire is fulfilled… — Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
The man who does not wish to belong to the mass needs only to cease taking himself easily; let him follow his conscience, which calls… — Friedrich Nietzsche
Why dost thou not pray... to give thee the faculty of not fearing any of the things which thou fearest, or of not desiring any… — Marcus Aurelius
By desiring little, a poor man makes himself rich. — Democritus
Common sense is the most fairly distributed thing in the world, for each one thinks he is so well-endowed with it that even those who… — Rene Descartes
Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; remember that what you now have was once among the things you only… — Epicurus
Consumers desiring a better world have already achieved some successes in this regard, helping to transform several industries from the ground up. — Simon Mainwaring
I would hate to think I'm promoting sadness as an aesthetic. But I grew up in not just a family but a town and a… — Mike Mills
There is no better proof of a man's being truly good than his desiring to be constantly under the observation of good men. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring. — Carl Sandburg
Virtue consists, not in abstaining from vice, but in not desiring it. — George Bernard Shaw

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