Desire Quotes
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Nothing constructive and worthy of man's efforts ever has or ever will be achieved except by that which comes from a positive mental attitude, based on a definiteness of purpose and activated by a burning desire, and acted upon until the burning desire is elevated to the level of applied faith.
Napoleon Hill
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I invite all those who share my anxiety about, and hopes for, the future, and who burn with the desire for a political rebirth, to enlist with us. And addressing myself especially to the young, I invite them to become the vanguard in this sortie of national reconstruction. For a proud and happy Greece!
Konstantinos Karamanlis
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Champions are not generated from the championship. Champion is generated from something they have in them, desires, dreams, and visions.
Muhammad Ali
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Nothing is impossible to the person who backs DESIRE with enduring FAITH.
Napoleon Hill
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Drive and desire was something I was raised with. It became a very important part of how I've become.
Peggy Whitson
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The desire to learn from people was always bound up with the desire to seem special to them.
Brian Morton
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Nothing remains but desire, and desire comes howling down Elysian Fields like a mistral.
Walker Percy
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And trust, yes, which is important, but that is what I aim towards. Now that is difficult for some people, and with that desire to get things as good as possible, I would say that I'm probably regarded as quite prickly to work with.
Jeremy Irons
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Should I worship Him from fear of hell, may I be cast into it. Should I serve Him from desire of gaining heaven, may He keep me out. But should I worship Him from love alone, He reveals Himself to me, that my whole heart may be filled with His love and presence.
Sadhu Sundar Singh
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I put for the general inclination of all mankind, a perpetual and restless desire of power after power, that ceaseth only in death.
Thomas Hobbes
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When we experience our own desire for transformation, we are feeling the universe evolving through us.
Barbara Marx Hubbard
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Flying is more than a sport and more than a job; flying is pure passion and desire, which fill a lifetime.
Adolf Galland
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...Competitive Skaters must be prepared for a lot of work, challenges, self-discipline, and motivation. The desire must be there, but more importantly, your love for the sport.
Oksana Baiul
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You need mentors, people with that desire to support women and the vision to have more. We have that in Anglo American in a big way.
Cynthia Carroll
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To be an actor is to be ambiguous in every form, which is a very hard way to live. You represent desire: the desire of the director and the desire of the audience, even if it's a subconscious desire. If a director is to work with you for two months, he must be in love with you in some way or another.
Lou Doillon
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I am imperfect in many things, nevertheless I want my brethren and kinsfolk to know my nature so that they may be able to perceive my soul's desire.
Saint Patrick
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We can do nothing ourselves; God must do it. To speak to Him thus is easier by nature for woman than for man because a natural desire lives in her to give herself completely to someone.
Edith Stein
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May it be my privilege to have the happiness of establishing the commonwealth on a firm and secure basis and thus enjoy the reward which I desire, but only if I may be called the author of the best possible government; and bear with me the hope when I die that the foundations which I have laid for its future government, will stand firm and stable.
Augustus
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We need a system where all of our teams have the opportunity to compete and to make a few dollars. That's not a bad desire for collective bargaining for a sports league, and it's great for our fans.
David Stern
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Medicare, getting through that in the '60s, after Kennedy's assassination, where there was such an emotional desire to do something to carry on his agenda.
Chris Matthews
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Come, Desire of nations, come, Fix in us thy humble home; Rise, the woman's conquering Seed, Bruise in us the serpent's head. . . . Adam's likeness, Lord, efface; Stamp thine image in its place. Second Adam from above, Reinstate us in thy love.
Charles Wesley
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Love in the young requires as little of hope as of desire to feed upon.
William Faulkner
