Quotes About Desire

To wish is of little account; to succeed you must earnestly desire; and this desire must shorten thy sleep.

We are the mediocre, we are the half givers, we are the half lovers, we are the savourless salt. Break the hard crust of complacency. Quicken in us the sharp grace of desire.

Our problem is not that we desire too much but too little.

Ambition is the immoderate desire for honor.

We must have a warrant for our prayers. If we have some great desire, we must search the scriptures to find if it be right to ask it.

Lord, grant that I may always desire more than I can accomplish.

Verily, there is nothing, right or wrong, which belief, plus burning desire, cannot make real.

Inaction, letting be, neither creating nor destroying--that is my evil. And also the knower as one without desire.

There have been times when I think we do not desire heaven but more often I find myself wondering whether, in our heart of hearts, we have ever desired anything else.

Where desire ends up causing suffering is when it fixates.

Be quiet now and wait. It may be that the ocean one, the one we desire so to move into and become, desires us out here on land a little longer, going our sundry roads to the shore.

There is no fire like passion. There are no chains like hate. Illusion is a net, Desire is a rushing river.

I think that the insane desire one has sometimes to bang and kick grumblers and peevish persons is a Divine instinct.

I don't want to discount talent and ability, but I still maintain that a lot of it is just sheer desire.

Jesus cares more about desire than about competence

The Lord filled me with desire, and made me feel that I must be as much with Him alone as with souls in public.

The true seeker hunts naught but the object of his quest, and the lover has no desire save union with his Beloved.

The important thing is the attitude of the athlete, the desire to get to the top.

So let your deepest desires direct your aim. Set your sights far above the 'reasonable' target. The power of purpose is profound only if you have a desire that stirs the heart.

You perhaps now know that desire reduces us to pulp.

It's so important to consider this question: What do I desire?

To assert that we desire to bring about revolution in other countries, by interfering with their lives, is to speak of something which does not exist and which we never preach.

Imagine that human existence is defined by an Ache: the Ache of our not being, each of us, the center of the universe; of our desires forever outnumbering our means of satisfying them.

At Christmas I no more desire a rose Than wish a snow in May's new-fangled mirth; But like of each thing that in season grows.