Desire Quotes
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Every person who wins in any undertaking must be willing to cut all sources of retreat. Only by doing so can one be sure of maintaining that state of mind known as a burning desire to win - essential to success.
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In every living thing there is the desire for love.
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Desire is the starting point of all achievement, not a hope, not a wish, but a keen pulsating desire which transcends everything.
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I'm proud of my hard work. Working hard won't always lead to the exact things we desire. There are many things I've wanted that I haven't always gotten. But, I have a great satisfaction in the blessings from my mother and father, who instilled a great work ethic in me both personally and professionally.
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The starting point of all achievement is desire.
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Human beings are very complex creatures. This desire, this greed, this love is very complex.
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Romantic lovers require from each other at least the facade of reason: We desire to be what romantic love makes us appear in the other's eyes. We want to imagine we are deserving of the love we inspire.
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Humankind's desire for peace can be realized only by the creation of a world government.
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My desire to live is as intense as ever, and though my heart is broken, hearts are made to be broken: that is why God sends sorrow into the world.
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All that I desire to point out is the general principle that life imitates art far more than art imitates life.
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In antiquity, a woman might be an object of worship or desire, but never of love.
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If you're bored with life - you don't get up every morning with a burning desire to do things - you don't have enough goals.
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A woman in love will do almost anything for a man, except give up the desire to improve him.
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Man has an intense desire for assured knowledge.
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Wonder implies the desire to learn.
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If God should desire to raise us to the position of one who is an intimate and shares his secrets, we ought to accept this gladly.
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The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it. Resist it, and your soul grows sick with longing for the things it has forbidden to itself, with desire for what its monstrous laws have made monstrous and unlawful.
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To stimulate creativity one must develop childlike inclination for play and the childlike desire for recognition.
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If you aren't humble, whatever empathy you claim is false and probably results from some arrogance or the desire to control. But true empathy is rooted in humility and the understanding that there are many people with as much to contribute in life as you.
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Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire, you will what you imagine and at last you create what you will.
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.. for desire is like a wild beast, and anger perverts rulers and the very best of men. Hence law is intelligence without appetition.
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Where perception is, there also are pain and pleasure, and where these are, there, of necessity, is desire.
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O tenderly the haughty day Fills his blue urn with fire; One morn is in the mighty heaven, And one in our desire.
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Art never harms itself by keeping aloof from the social problems of the day: rather, by so doing, it more completely realises for us that which we desire.
