Quotes about desire

The desire of gold is not for gold. It is for the means of freedom and benefit.

Primarily motivated by a desire to keep abortion 'safe, legal and rare,' female liberals in the media have carte blanche to do and say anything.

One has to attain an ego-less state (nir-ahankari) attaining a nir-maani state (a desire-free state that wants importance from others) is not enough. The egoism one has of being nir-mani is very subtle. The external ‘horns’ are worn down but the internal ones still remain. The inner ‘horns’ will cause an internal biting.

Desire is half of life indifference is half of death.

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 hoped for.

Dying peacefully means to avoid any immediate cause for anger, fear, or strong desire.

Men freely believe that which they desire.

Success - keeping your mind awake and your desire asleep.

Desire is the most important factor in the success of any athlete.

The starting point of all achievement is desire.

Suddenly I've got an overwhelming desire to surround myself with the aura of classical and Romantic art.

The real issue is not talent as an independent element, but talent in relationship to will, desire, and persistence. Talent without these things vanishes and even modest talent with those characteristics grows.

Photography, alone of the arts, seems perfected to serve the desire humans have for a moment - this very moment - to stay.

By far the greatest part of those goods which are the objects of desire, are procured by labour; and they may be multiplied, not in one country alone, but in many, almost without any assignable limit, if we are disposed to bestow the labour necessary to obtain them.

A desire presupposes the possibility of action to achieve it action presupposes a goal that is worth achieving.

The world is always greater than your desires plenty is never enough.

Our restlessness in this world seems to indicate that we are intended for a better. We have all of us a longing after happiness and surely the Creator will gratify all the natural desires he has implanted in us.

I had shelved expectations of another kiss the intensity of not kissing now worked almost as well—the proximity and denial.

It is shallow desires which make a young man bold strong desires confound him.

Every man shall find his own desire there is no one thing which pleases all: one man gathers thorns and another roses.

Our deepest (and fastest) yearnings can be tempered by reason and experience our more prudent judgments softened by desire and need.

Her half-closed eyes were moist and tremulous and languid with desire. I began to drink love from them with thirsty kisses which revived her spirits a litle.

Desire lies dormant in our hearts slowly it keeps getting stronger and ignites the will to succeed.

Freedom looks beautiful and inspiring to those who desire & seek it but Freedom looks like rebellion to those who have become complacent in hiding.

It is the desire for explanations that are at once systematic and controllable by factual evidence that generates science and it is the organization and classification of knowledge on the basis of explanatory principles that is the distinctive goal of the sciences.

Desire is always followed by boredom. And only love can defeat boredom. Love with a capital L we all dream of it.

Love is a feeling that is imposed on you. You cannot be lazy it is up to you to make things work and make the best of it.

We all have a sea inside us can you hear it? Can you hear the ocean roaring?

The intelligent desire self-control children want candy.

We don't just want what we want because we want it we want what we want because that's what we've learned to want.

You shouldn't blame others for the conditions you endure we each have the freedom to follow which path we desire in life.

Open your mind to the infinite possibilities that exist for you then create within your reality the things that you desire.

God is not interested in the seeds he put in you He is interested in the fruits that must come out of you!

The richest people in the world build networks and invest in people everyone else looks for work and invests in survival.

Don't just get what you need achieve what you want.

There comes a time that every obstacle may stand against you it takes your love to keep you on track with what you are passionate about pursuing.

Don’t be unwilling to take those little steps in them are residing great journeys. Move on.

I love you like a semicolon a half-pause in a torrent of thought during which life stutters into being. I want to take you in the breathless spaces between ellipses where passion builds and shudders into a trailing afterthought.

Desire is one of the main drivers in creating your reality utilise desire by focusing it upon the things you want to achieve in life.

One excuse, could destroy a multitude of chances.

Nothing gives us courage more readily than the desire to avoid looking like a damn fool.

The courage we desire and prize is not the courage to die decently, but to live manfully.

I don't really desire things. I prefer to spend my money on experiences, on meals or travel.

To desire and expect nothing for oneself and to have profound sympathy for others is genuine holiness.

You will become as small as your controlling desire as great as you dominant aspiration.

If you desire faith, then you have faith enough.

Part of my driving desire as a pastor is to remove every obstacle except the cross that would keep people from coming to faith in Christ.

My New Year's Resolution List usually starts with the desire to lose between ten and three thousand pounds.

In human history, the desire for revenge and the desire for loot have often been closely associated.

Ambition is the immoderate desire for power.

Films are big hits when they touch a lot of people. Things are not funny in a vacuum, they're funny because we respond to some personal dislocation, some embarrassment, some humiliation, some pain we've suffered, or some desire we have.

It was Chicago with its World's Fair which vivified the national desire for civic beauty.

Fantasy mirrors desire. Imagination reshapes it.

I like to have a thing suggested rather than told in full. When every detail is given, the mind rests satisfied, and the imagination loses the desire to use its own wings.

My desire is to be a forgiving, non-judgmental person.

When a marriage culture fails, sexual desire no longer unites; instead it fragments.

My art springs from my desire to have things in the world which would otherwise never be there.

Every sale has five basic obstacles: no need, no money, no hurry, no desire, no trust.

Despite the myth that men are less committed, they are predisposed to desire marriage.

I don't know what 15-year-old doesn't have a desire to separate themselves from their parents and prove their independence.

Your intelligence doesn't override your desire to destroy yourself.

If you desire ease, forsake learning.

Desire is individual. Happiness is common.

Desire nothing, give up all desires and be happy.

Years of happiness can be lost in the foolish gratification of a momentary desire for pleasure.

I put for the general inclination of all mankind, a perpetual and restless desire of power after power, that ceaseth only in death.

Of all the gods only death does not desire gifts.

God, who preferred the correction rather than the death of a sinner, did not desire that a homicide be punished by the exaction of another act of homicide.

A teacher who is attempting to teach without inspiring the pupil with a desire to learn is hammering on cold iron.

The teacher who is attempting to teach without inspiring the pupil with a desire to learn is hammering on cold iron.

The teacher must derive not only the capacity, but the desire, to observe natural phenomena. The teacher must understand and feel her position of observer: the activity must lie in the phenomenon.

Nothing retains less of desire in art, in science, than this will to industry, booty, possession.

The scientist is motivated primarily by curiosity and a desire for truth.

'Tis very certain the desire of life prolongs it.

All teenagers have this desire to somehow run away.

The Israeli public's willingness to enlist, the warm embrace for the soldiers and the residents of the south, and the desire to contribute and to give at any given moment really warm the heart, and it gives all of us strength.

There is an invisible strength within us; when it recognizes two opposing objects of desire, it grows stronger.

Often motivated by a desire to maintain the existing status quo, sloth almost cost the U.S. its auto industry, as it refused for decades to build fuel-efficient cars to compete with Japanese, Korean and European imports.

I'm very fond of Tennessee Williams' plays, and when my husband and I went to New Orleans in the late 1970s, we saw 'A Street Car Named Desire.'

The beginning of wisdom is to desire it.

It's not tyranny we desire; it's a just, limited, federal government.

A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others.

Always desire to learn something useful.

It is a waste of money to help those who show no desire to help themselves.

Sometimes the very presence of God is barred by our presuppositions and our intense and constant desire for triumph.

The natural desire of good men is knowledge.

Wonder is the desire for knowledge.

Knowledge is the eye of desire and can become the pilot of the soul.

The mentor-mentee relationship is ideally like that of the guru and disciple: motivated by the desire of the guru to impart knowledge to the disciple.

The desire of knowledge, like the thirst of riches, increases ever with the acquisition of it.

We have a hunger of the mind which asks for knowledge of all around us, and the more we gain, the more is our desire; the more we see, the more we are capable of seeing.

Take from the philosopher the pleasure of being heard and his desire for knowledge ceases.

There is no desire more natural than the desire for knowledge.

We are the United States of Amnesia, which is encouraged by a media that has no desire to tell us the truth about anything, serving their corporate masters who have other plans to dominate us.

Vertigo is the conflict between the fear of falling and the desire to fall.

I always had a desire to know asylum life more thoroughly - a desire to be convinced that the most helpless of God's creatures, the insane, were cared for kindly and properly.

We should never desire to be over others. Instead, we ought to be servants who are submissive to every human being for God's sake.

If I find in myself a desire which no experience in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world.

Desire to always be on the right way no matter how tough it gets. A very slow movement on the right way is better than overwhelming speed on the wrong path!