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Quotes About Desire

Whenever I can afford to do something, I do it.
~ Thurston Moore
We all have a hungry heart, and one of the things we hunger for is happiness. So as much as I possibly could, I stayed where I was happy.
~ Mary Oliver
Where id was, there ego shall be.
~ Sigmund Freud
Where a man's heart is, there is his treasure also.
~ Saint Ambrose
Where there's a will - there's a relative!
~ Ricky Gervais
Moderation is the feebleness and sloth of the soul, whereas ambition is the warmth and activity of it.
~ Francois de La Rochefoucauld
If you desire something, you don't have it. It is more interesting than enjoyment, because enjoyment erases the mysteries and the vision of desire. Desire opens up possibilities but never achieves anything, whereas enjoyment is just the brutal achievement of something - and after that, it's done.
~ Luca Guadagnino
I always wanted to win. Everyone has a bit of that in them, but I have even more of a will to win. Sometimes I might go overboard, whereas there are others who, yes, they want to win, but if they don't, it's no big deal for them.
~ Diego Costa
Hopefully, sometime I get a superpower. I would like to be able to transport myself wherever I wanted.
~ Chloe Bennet
To be bothered wherever you go - it's not a rational thing to want at all.
~ Colin Firth
Lean just follows his heart wherever it wants to go.
~ Yung Lean
I just wanted to sing, in church or wherever.
~ George Jones
I go, wherever there is my interest, where my heart and feeling take me.
~ Juergen Teller
We always want more. Whether it is better clothes, a bigger house, faster cars, or the latest gadgets, satisfaction in these days of consumerism is difficult to find.
~ Tulsi Tanti
I am more and more convinced that man is a dangerous creature and that power, whether vested in many or a few, is ever grasping, and like the grave, cries, 'Give, give.'
~ Abigail Adams
Everybody is ambitious. The question is whether he is ambitious to be or ambitious to do.
~ Jean Monnet
People are where they are because that is exactly where they really want to be - whether they will admit that or not.
~ Earl Nightingale
I think we all have the urge to be a clown, whether we know it or not.
~ Ernest Borgnine
I will always want to do whatever it is that my heart is in, and whether I get paid for it or not means nothing. It doesn't matter. I'll do it if it means something to me and I want to be a part of it.
~ Cameron Diaz
Apart from the talent God has given Mbappe, he is a very professional boy, he always plays with the desire to score whether in training or in a match. He listens a lot. He already has, I think, everything needed in football. He knows how to stay focused, how to get into the game.
~ Marco Verratti
The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
~ Blaise Pascal
That which we obtain too easily, we esteem too lightly.
~ Thomas Paine
To be happy at home is the ultimate result of all ambition, the end to which every enterprise and labor tends, and of which every desire prompts the prosecution.
~ Samuel Johnson
We must exercise ourselves in the things which bring happiness, since, if that be present, we have everything, and, if that be absent, all our actions are directed toward attaining it.
~ Epicurus