Desire Quotes and Sayings

What men desire is a virgin who is a whore.
Edward Dahlbert

Let your desires be ruled by reason.
Cicero

Methinks I have a great desire to a bottle of hay. Good hay, sweet hay, hath no fellow.
William Shakespeare

I want to have fun. I want to shine like the sun. I want to be the one that you want to see. I want to knit you a sweater. I want to write you a love letter. I want to make you feel better. I want to make you feel free.
Joni Mitchell

Nothing is more desirable than to be released from an affliction, but nothing is more frightening than to be divested of a crutch.
James Arthur Baldwin

The key to success is to focus our conscious mind on things we desire not things we fear.
Brian Tracy

Anybody with a little guts and the desire to apply himself can make it, he can make anything he wants to make of himself.
Willie Shoemaker

What makes the engine go? Desire, desire, desire.
Stanley Kunitz

Someday I’ll wish upon a star.
E. Y. Harburg

Create a definite plan for carrying out your desire and begin at once, whether you ready or not, to put this plan into action.
Napoleon Hill

You will become as small as your controlling desire; as great as your dominant aspiration.
James Allen

A person shows what he is by what he does with what he has.
Anonymous

Give me my robe, put on my crown, I have Immortal longings in me.
William Shakespeare

Reduce your plan to writing. The moment you complete this, you will have definitely given concrete form to the intangible desire.
Napoleon Hill

It sometimes seems that we have only to love a thing greatly to get it.
Robert Collier

The desire of the moth for the star, Of the night for the morrow, The devotion to something afar From the sphere of our sorrow.
Percy Bysshe Shelley

Sordid desires are the children of indulgence.
James Lendall Basford

If you care enough for a result, you will most certainly attain it.
William James

Be as you wish to seem.
Socrates

We grow like flowers, and bear desire, The odor of the human flowers.
Richard Henry Stoddard

The thing we long for, that we are For one transcendent moment.
James Russell Lowell

That she belov’d knows nought that knows not this:
Men prize the thing ungain’d more than it is.
William Shakespeare

He who desires is always poor.
Claudianus

We always long for the forbidden things, and desire what is denied us.
Francois Rabelais

Don’t go into something to test the waters, go into things to make waves.
Anonymous

Desire links non-being to being.
Rig Veda

Oh! could I throw aside these earthly bands That tie me down where wretched mortals sigh– To join blest spirits in celestial lands!
Francesco Petrarch

Every human mind is a great slumbering power until awakened by a keen desire and by definite resolution to do.
Edgar F. Roberts

Manifest plainness,
Embrace simplicity,
Reduce selfishness,
Have few desires.
Lao tzu

Perish the lore that deadens young desire!
James Beattie