Desire Quotes
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I feel no need and have no desire to give any attention to other people's opinion of me.
Ricky Williams
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Each one should realize there is nothing in us which denies that which we desire.
Ernest Holmes
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Books may sleep for a while and be neglected; but whenever the desire of information springs up in the human breast, there they are with mild wisdom ready to instruct and please us.
Ann Plato
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I began to feel the desire for something more; I wanted to do something to make things better.
Mikhail Gorbachev
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Those who have a desire to teach while coming to learn should not pose as disciples; they must come as teachers.
Hazrat Inayat Khan
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Live so that thou mayest desire to live again - that is thy duty - for in any case thou wilt live again!
Friedrich Nietzsche
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If you aren't experiencing failure, then you are making a far worse mistake: You are being driven by the desire to avoid it.
Edwin Catmull
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I love being in a brothers band. I have no desire to move away from it at all.
Joe Jonas Jonas Brothers
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What mirrors we are, set to face each other, reflecting desire.
Catherynne M. Valente
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Realise that your dreams of financial independence have already come true on the mental plane, by the time you desire them or become aware of them.
Catherine Ponder
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You should have only one intense desire within yourself: Have I become the spirit? Have I achieved my ultimate? Have I risen above the worldly desires?
Nirmala Srivastava
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I, answering in the end, began: 'Alas, how many yearning thoughts, what great desire, have lead them through such sorrow to their fate?
Dante Alighieri
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I'm felt I was writing about love and desire and community and belonging and grief and a whole host of other issues. But race is never far from the surface.
Danzy Senna
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Everything starts with prayer. Love to pray-feel the need to pray often during the day and take the trouble to pray. If you want to pray better, you must pray more. The more you pray, the easier it becomes. Perfect prayer does not consist of many words but in the fervor of the desire which raises the heart to Jesus.
Mother Teresa
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When natural inclination develops into a passionate desire, one advances towards his goal in seven-league boots.
Nikola Tesla
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Joel Lane documents a life we don’t quite live, in a city we can’t quite find: half glimpsed and half imagined, we know it’s out there somewhere. Waiting, maybe. Mixing fear with desire, reputation with regret. Touching the blood-beat of our secret hunger with the rhythms of a music that never felt alien till now. Wasted lives, with never a wasted word. It’s an extraordinary achievement: vivid as neon, real as rain. Devastating.
Chaz Brenchley
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The desire that we have to do something that’s never been done before means that the people who are around you generally will not encourage you to do it…if they were encouraging you to do it, then other people would be doing it already and it wouldn’t be unique.
Seth Godin
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Only when we can accept God as he is can we give up the desire for spiritual experiences that we can feel.
Thomas Keating
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Not every one of our desires can be immediately gratified. We’ve got to learn to wait patiently for our dreams to come true, especially on the path we’ve chosen.
Sarah Ban Breathnach
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Other people can also help you take care of your needs and desires.
Nicholas Boothman
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Pain s the truth of art. Art is not a hobby or a pastime. It is the result of an internal battle royal, one between the quest for safety and the desire to matter.
Seth Godin
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She could see so clearly now that he was only a childish fancy, no more important really than her spoiled desire for the aquamarine earbobs she had coaxed out of Gerald. For, once she owned the earbobs, they had lost their value, as everything except money lost its value once it was hers.
Margaret Mitchell
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The desire for success is inherent within all of us. It is a part of our nature to want to grow, to improve the quality of our lives. However, nothing improves by accident, it requires conscious attention. When you are being bombarded by negatives, improvement, growth and success are easy to forget.
Bob Proctor
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There is enough light for those who only desire to see, and enough obscurity for those who have a contrary disposition.
Blaise Pascal