Desire Quotes

• Even though Nightwish is my life and I love what I do - I could do this every day - to not do it really makes you desire even more for it again.

  

  Floor Jansen Nightwish
  • Desire
  • My Life
  • I Love

• It is a happy circumstance that when nature gives us true burning desires, she also gives us the means to satisfy them. Those who want to win and lack skill can get someone with skill to help them.

  

  Ed Seykota
  • Mean
  • Winning
  • Helping

• America is capable at single moments of receiving the depth and the breadth of the homiletical vision of black America when a black preacher rises to his or her craft at the height of his or her ambition and the desire to tell America the truth.

  

  Michael Eric Dyson
  • America
  • Moments
  • Capable

• 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
  • Heart
  • Perfect
  • Jesus

• An argument fatal to the communist theory, is suggested by the fact, that a desire for property is one of the elements of our nature.

  

  Herbert Spencer
  • Argument
  • Property
  • Elements

• I have one desire now - to live a life of reckless abandon for the Lord, putting all my energy and strength into it.

  

  Elisabeth Elliot
  • Energy
  • Desire
  • The Lord

• Finally he had decided that he had to free Lila, even if at that moment, perhaps, she had no desire to be freed. But—he had said to himself—it takes time for people to understand what’s good and what’s bad, and helping them means doing for them what in a particular moment of their life they aren’t capable of doing.

  

  Elena Ferrante
  • Free
  • Helping
  • Means

• I have no desire to play music unless I need music.

  

  Carrie Brownstein
  • Desire
  • Play
  • Needs

• It is a glorious fever, desire to know.

  

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
  • Desire
  • Glorious
  • Fever

• The deepest desire of the human spirit is to be acknowledged.

  

  Stephen Covey
  • Desire
  • Spirit

• Trying harder doesn’t work for me. Slowly I’ve learned to pray for God’s help and He has become my greatest love and desire.

  

  Francis Chan
  • Trying
  • Helping
  • Praying

• I began to feel the desire for something more; I wanted to do something to make things better.

  

  Mikhail Gorbachev
  • Desire
  • Wanted

• Remember you dont meditate to get anything, but to get rid of things. We do it, not with desire, but with letting go. If you want anything, you wont find it.

  

  Ajahn Chah
  • Remember
  • Desire

• I want before God that everything, every thought, attitude, action, motive, desire in my heart be pleasing to Him. I ask Him, 'Keep the spotlight of your Spirit on me so there would be nothing impure or unholy in my life.' That's been my prayer for 50 years.

  

  Bill Bright
  • God
  • Prayer
  • Spirit

• Those who have a desire to teach while coming to learn should not pose as disciples; they must come as teachers.

  

  Hazrat Inayat Khan
  • Desire
  • Teachers
  • Disciples

• If you desire praise or esteem, endeavor to merit it.

  

  Norm MacDonald
  • Desire
  • Esteem
  • Merit

• Cut down the forest, not just a tree. Out of the forest of desire springs danger. By cutting down both the forest of desire and the brushwood of longing, be rid of the forest, bhikkhus.

  

  Gautama Buddha
  • Desire
  • Tree
  • Danger

• 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
  • Success
  • Forget
  • Improve

• In the pursuit of education, individual desire is more influential than institution, and personal faith more forceful than faculty.

  

  Russell M. Nelson
  • Desire
  • Individual
  • Influential

• I think Eros should be dirty. In Greek legend, as I'm sure you are aware, he fell in love with the minor deity Psyche. It was the Greek way of saying that, in spite of what it may believe, Love pursues the Soul, not the body; the Erotic desires the Psychic. If Love was clean and wholesome he wouldn't lust after Psyche.

  

  Stephen Fry
  • Believe
  • Thinking
  • Soul

• No one can have all he desires.

  

  Seneca the Younger
  • Desire

• You must be able to see yourself, with your inner eye, already in possession of the good you desire.

  

  Bob Proctor
  • Desire
  • Possession
  • Inner eye

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