Quotes About Desire

Power is a disease one has no desire to be cured of.

If your desire is a 10 but your self-esteem is a 5, you'll never perform at the level of a 10. You'll perform as a 5 or lower. People are ever able to outperform their self-image.

To achieve our eternal destiny, we will desire and work for the qualities required to become an eternal being.

Forbidden pleasures alone are loved immoderately; when lawful, they do not excite desire.

Without desire there is stillness, and the world settles by itself.

The desire for fame tempts even noble minds.

Every desire bears its death in its very gratification. Curiosity languishes under repeated stimulants, and novelties cease to excite and surprise, until at length we cannot wonder even at a miracle.

Everybody thinks himself so well supplied with common sense that even those most difficult to please. . . never desire more of it than they already have.

If you believe it and desire it, you can acquire it.

To desire with one's very soul every second of every day to accomplish one's aim.

A problem only exists if there is a difference between what is actually happening and what you desire to be happening.

On the brink of being satiated, desire still appears infinite.

Desire is possibility seeking expression.

The two things that matter are the desire, and being healthy enough to do it. Everything else to me is a non-issue.

Nothing is impossible that one desires with an indomitable will.

There's nothing like desire to prevent the things one says from having any resemblance to the things in one's mind.

How do you resign yourself to something that will never be? You stop wanting just that thing. You go numb. Or you kill the agent of desire.

Those things that I must do I shall desire to do.

Desire of praise disposeth to laudable actions.

Happiness can be defined, in part at least, as the fruit of the desire and ability to sacrifice what we want now for what we want eventually.

When one is overcome by this wretched, clinging desire in the world, one's sorrows increase like grass growing up after a lot of rain.

One must desire something to be alive.

You can do amazing things if you have strong faith, deep desire, and just hang in there.

The stronger and more intense my desire becomes to capture and record that which is unsayable, the more tightly my mouth stays shut.