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Quotes About Desire

What does it take to be a champion? Desire, dedication, determination, concentration and the will to win.
~ Patty Berg
When you imagine the reality of the fulfilled desire and feel the thrill of accomplishment, your subconscious brings about the realisation of desire.
~ Joseph Murphy
It is hard to contend against one's heart's desire; for whatever it wishes to have it buys at the cost of soul.
~ Heraclitus
Everyone wants to change, but change demands desire and discipline before it becomes delightful. There is always the agony of choice before the promise of change.
~ Larry Lea
Memory is not what the heart desires.
~ J. R. R. Tolkien
The true way to gain much is never to desire to gain too much.
~ Francis Beaumont
Praying, is recognizing yourself to be that which you desire to be, rather than begging God for that which you desire.
~ Neville Goddard
All you can possibly need or desire is already yours.Call your desires into being by imagining and feeling your wish fulfilled.
~ Neville Goddard
So long as your desire to explore is greater than your desire to not screw up, you're on the right track.
~ Ed Helms
It takes a dream to get started, desire to keep going, and determination to finish.
~ Eddie Harris
As we come unto Christ and journey to higher ground, we will desire to spend more time in His temples, because the temples represent higher ground, sacred ground.
~ Joseph B. Wirthlin
The beginning of wisdom is to desire it.
~ Solomon Ibn Gabirol
It isn't normal to know what we want. It is a rare and difficult psychological achievement.
~ Abraham H. Maslow
To grow in craft is to increase the bredth of what I can do, but art is the depth, the passion, the desire, the courage to be myself and myself alone.
~ Pat Schneider
Art was born as a desire, not as a demand.
~ Eliel Saarinen
We are told that talent creates opportunity, yet it is desire that creates talent.
~ Bruce Lee
How helpless we are, like netted birds, when we are caught by desire!
~ Belva Plain
Desire and longing are the whips of God.
~ Anna Wickham
Civility does not ...mean the mere outward gentleness of speech cultivated for the occasion, but an inborn gentleness and desire to do the opponent good.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
For love is no part of the dreamworld. Love belongs to Desire, and Desire is always cruel.
~ Unknown
I may have the genetic coding that Im inclined to be an alcoholic, but I have the desire not to do that, and I look at the homosexual issue the same way.
~ Rick Perry
The fundamental factor of self-deception is this constant desire to be something in this world and in the world hereafter.
~ Jiddu Krishnamurti
Most human beings, though in varying degrees, desire to control, not only their own lives but also the lives of others
~ Bertrand Russell
It is my greatest desire, I want the people in Russia to be happy and I want our partners around the world to seek to develop relations with Russia.
~ Vladimir Putin