Desire Quote by Paramahansa Yogananda

We find personal success and great, if not enduring, influence on the outer fashioning of the world allotted to the violent, the passionate individual…

— Richard Wagner

“There are two things to be aware of if the fight against evil inclinations is to have any chance of success. First, our efforts…

— Jacques Philippe

“A destructive habit to have is believing that you have to be motivated to act.”

— Stephen Guise

The impulse to perform a worthy action often springs from our best nature, but is afterwards tainted by the spur of selfishness or sinister…

— Emile Souvestre

“There is perhaps no psychological skill more fundamental than resisting impulse. It is the root of all emotional self-control, since all emotions, by their…

— Daniel Goleman

Society expects man to be a passive social animal who believes like the People of the Field in "Jurgen" that "to do what you…

— Abraham Myerson

“Let us not still our anger against indifference and inattention and let us not glitziness, superciliousness and mumbo jumbo slither into our thinking and…

— Erik Pevernagie

“is the root cause of sorrow but desire is also the root cause of action. How do we counter the paralysis of action when…

— Eric Weiner

“transforms fear into prudence, pain into transformation, mistakes into initiation and desire into undertaking.”

— Ryan Holiday

“I have never really been able to separate a good instinct from a self-destructive urge),”

— Emily Barr

“Thus pleasure itself, also becoming a right, lost its aggressive futility.”

— Jean-Paul Sartre

“Nearly everyone in the world has appetites and impulses, trigger emotions, islands of selfishness, lusts just beneath the surface.”

— John Steinbeck