Quotes About Desire

A crowd is not merely impulsive and mobile. Like a savage, it is not prepared to admit that anything can come between its desire and the realisation of its desire.

All change begins with a DECISION. Once the decision is made, DISCIPLINE becomes the bridge between desire and accomplishment.

My desire is to live more to God to-day than yesterday, and to be more holy this hour than the last.

Drink, sir, is a great provoker of three things . . . nose-painting, sleep, and urine. Lechery, sir, it provokes, and unprovokes; it provokes the desire, but it takes away the performance.

There is a desire for change. There is a millennial generation that doesn't like what they're seeing, but doesn't quite know what the solution is.

I am not poor. Poor are those who desire many things.

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

It provokes the desire but it takes away the performance. Therefore much drink may be said to be an equivocator with lechery: it makes him and it mars him; it sets him on and it takes him off.

Desire is a bonfire that burns with greater fury, asking for more fuel.

You must want! You have the right to ask! You must desire.

The combination of some data and an aching desire for an answer does not ensure that a reasonable answer can be extracted from a given body of data.

The only thing of which one can be guilty is of having given ground relative to one's desire.

Love enjoys knowing everything about you; desire needs mystery.

Horizontality is a desire to give up, to sleep. Verticality is an attempt to escape. Hanging and floating are states of ambivalence.

Justice is the firm and continuous desire to render to everyone that which is his due.

Dive into your heart center. Sit in the silence. Desire self-realization with all your heart, with all your mind, and all your soul. Everything will take care of itself.

What it comes down to is intense desire. To get this winning edge, you need to build an indomitable will. This means you must be relentless; you must never give up.

Only as one is willing to give up his present limitations and identity can he become that which he desires to be.

I have no desires, save the desire to express myself in defiance of all the world's muteness.

All human suffering springs from unbridled desire. Unless one extricates oneself from the clutch of greed, one will not free himself from the fetters of sorrow.

One must do violence to the object of one's desire; when it surrenders, the pleasure is greater.

Someday I'll wish upon a star.

Abandon desire for this world, and God will love you. Abandon desire for others' goods, and people will love you.

Humility is the most difficult of all virtues to achieve; nothing dies harder than the desire to think well of self.