Desire Quotes and Sayings - Page 5



Pearls lie not on the seashore. If thou desirest one thou must dive for it.
Chinese Proverb

In men of the highest character and noblest genius there is to be found an insatiable desire for honour, command, power, and glory.
Cicero

There is no use whatever trying to help people who do not help themselves. You cannot push anyone up a ladder unless he be willing to climb himself.
Andrew Carnegie

There is no calamity greater than lavish desires.
There is no greater guilt than discontentment.
And there is no greater disaster than greed.
Lao tzu

Life is not holding a good hand; life is playing a poor hand well.
Danish proverb

One essential to success is that your desire be an all obsessing one, your thoughts and aims be co-ordinated, and your energy be concentrated and applied without letup.
Claude M. Bristol

Whatever you vividly imagine, ardently desire, sincerely believe, and enthusiastically act upon must inevitably come to pass.
Paul J. Meyer

Dreams do come true, if we only wish hard enough, You can have anything in life if you will sacrifice everything else for it.
Sir James M. Barrie

There is nothing like desire for preventing the thing one says from bearing any resemblance to what one has in mind.
Marcel Proust

There is one quality which one must possess to win, and that is definiteness of purpose, the knowledge of what one wants, and a burning desire to possess it.
Napoleon Hill

Sooner murder an infant in its cradle than nurse unacted desires.
William Blake

You can have anything you want if you want it desperately enough. You must want it with an inner exuberance that erupts through the skin and joins the energy that created the world.
Sheila Graham

Some prices are just too high, no matter how much you may want the prize. The one thing you can’t trade for your heart’s desire is your heart.
Lois McMaster Bujold

Wonder implies the desire to learn.
Aristotle

Out of need springs desire, and out of desire springs the energy and the will to win.
Denis Waitley

O, she is the antidote to desire.
William Congreve

Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of readiness to die.
G. K. Chesterton

Do not impose on others what you yourself do not desire.
Confucius

By annihilating the desires, you annihilate the mind. Every man without passions has within him no principle of action, nor motive to act.
Claude Adrien Helvétius

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

A woman’s appetite is twice that of a man’s; her sexual desire, four times; her intelligence, eight times.
Anonymous

A sight to dream of, not to tell!
Samuel Taylor Coleridge

I would rather be poor in a cottage full of books than a king without the desire to read.
Thomas Babington Macaulay

I have certainly known more men destroyed by the desire to have a wife and child and to keep them in comfort than I have seen destroyed by drink and harlots.
William Butler Yeats

As soon as you stop wanting something you get it. I’ve found that to be absolutely axiomatic.
Andy Warhol

There is wishful thinking in Hell as well as on earth.
C. S. Lewis

And pluck till time and times are done
The silver apples of the moon
The golden apples of the sun.
W. B. Yeats

Appetite comes with eating.
Francois Rabelais

But he did not understand the price. Mortals never do. They only see the prize. Their hearts desire, their dream….But the price of getting what you want is getting what you once wanted.
Neil Gaiman

When you relinquish the desire to control your future, you can have more happiness.
Nicole Kidman

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