Quotes About Desire

The desire to win is born in most of us. The will to win is a matter of training. The manner of winning is a matter of honour.

Dreams seem to be spurred on not by reason but by desire, not by the head but by the heart, and yet what complicated tricks my reason has played sometimes in dreams.

Time is just memory Mixed in with Desire.

In the same way that rain breaks into a house with a bad roof, desire breaks into the mind that has not been practising meditation.

I desire only Him and to be wholly His.

Good defensive play is as much a matter of hustle, desire and pride as it is anything else.

The desire to sacrifice an entire lifetime to the noblest of ideals serves no purpose if one works alone.

Desire is what takes the hot water of mediocrity and turns it into the steam of outstanding success.

Desire is the most important factor in the success of any athlete.

Whatsoever misfortunes there are Here in this world or in the next, They all have their root in Ignorance And in the accumulation of Longing and Desire.

An inner knowing, along with a burning desire, is the prerequisite for becoming a person capable of manifesting his or her heart's desires.

To manifest your hearts desires you must BE what your heart desires.

There is a cowardly propensity in the human heart that delights in oppressing somebody else, and in the gratification of this base desire we always select a victim that can be outraged with safety.

Our credulity is a part of the imperfection of our natures. It is inherent in us to desire to generalize, when we ought, on the contrary, to guard ourselves very carefully from this tendency.

When I was young I felt really overwhelmed and confused by the desire not to end up in an office, doing something I didn't believe in.

Bring me my bow of burning gold: Bring me my arrows of desire: Bring me my spear: O clouds, unfold! Bring me my chariot of fire.

From my early youth I have had the strongest desire to understand or explain whatever I observed. ... To group all facts under some general laws.

Free from desire, you realize the mystery.

Longing, we say, because desire is full of endless distances.

Forbid us something, and that thing we desire.

My tendency to idealize Western civilization arises from my nationalistic desire to use the West in order to reform China. But this has led me to overlook the flaws of Western culture.

A philosopher may deplore the eternal discords of the human race, but he will confess, that the desire of spoil is a more rational provocation than the vanity of conquest.

It is better to be wrong than correct with no desire to be.

Man is a creation of desire, not a creation of need.