Desire Quotes and Sayings - Page 2
A goal is not the same as a desire, and this is an important distinction to make. You can have a desire you don’t intend to act on. But you can’t have a goal you don’t intend to act on.
Tom Morris
Never let go of that fiery sadness called desire.
Patti Smith
I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who overcomes his enemies.
Aristotle
Our destiny changes with our thought; we shall become what we wish to become, do what we wish to do, when our habitual thought corresponds with our desire.
Orison Swett Marden
We are all motivated by a keen desire for praise, and the better a man is, the more he is inspired by glory.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
I used to desire many, many things, but now I have just one desire, and that’s to get rid of all my other desires.
John Cleese
In order to succeed, your desire for success should be greater than your fear of failure.
Bill Cosby
You can have anything you want – if you want it badly enough. You can be anything you want to be, do anything you set out to accomplish if you hold to that desire with singleness of purpose.
Abraham Lincoln
A desire arises in the mind. It is satisfied immediately another comes. In the interval which separates two desires a perfect calm reigns in the mind. It is at this moment freed from all thought, love or hate. Complete peace equally reigns between two mental waves.
Swami Sivananda
More than we use is more than we want.
Gaelic Proverb
It’s so much better to desire than to have. . . . The moment of desire, when you know something is going to happen — that’s the most exalting.
Anouk Aimee
No gown worse becomes a woman than the desire to be wise.
Martin Luther
What do we lose by another’s good fortune? Let us celebrate with them, or strive to emulate them,That should be our desire and determination.
Sri Sathya Sai Baba
Success is focusing the full power of all you are on what you have a burning desire to achieve.
Wilfred Peterson
Desire! That’s the one secret of every man’s career. Not education. Not being born with hidden talents. Desire.
Bobby Unser
We trifle when we assign limits to our desires, since nature hath set none.
Christian Nestell Bovee
A human being has a natural desire to have more of a good thing than he needs.
Mark Twain
To desire is to obtain; to aspire is to achieve.
James Allen
Passion, it lies in all of us, sleeping… waiting… and though unwanted… unbidden… it will stir… open its jaws and howl. It speaks to us… guides us… passion rules us all, and we obey. What other choice do we have? Passion is the source of our finest moments. The joy of love… the clarity of hatred… and the ecstasy of grief. It hurts sometimes more than we can bear. If we could live without passion maybe we’d know some kind of peace… but we would be hollow… Empty rooms shuttered and dank. Without passion we’d be truly dead.
Joss Whedon
Passing into higher forms of desire, that which slumbered in the plant, and fitfully stirred in the beast, awakes in the man.
Henry George
It is much easier to suppress a first desire than to satisfy those that follow.
Francois De la Rochefoucauld
He who, before he leaves his body, learns to surmount the promptings of desire and anger is a saint and is happy.
Bhagavad Gita
As the hart panteth after the water brooks, so panteth my soul after thee, O God.
Bible
A strong passion for any object will ensure success, for the desire of the end will point out the means.
Henry Hazlitt
It’s not who jumps the highest — it’s who wants it the most
Buck Williams
There are two tragedies in life. One is to lose your heart’s desire. The other is to gain it.
George Bernard Shaw
All human activity is prompted by desire.
Bertrand Russell
Desire is proof of the availability…
Robert Collier
All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion and desire.
Aristotle
Heart’s-ease is a flower which blooms from the grave of desire.
William R. Alger
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