Desire Quotes

It is my desire, in the office of a Christian minister, to do nothing which I cannot do with my whole heart. Having said this, I have said all.

The desire of gold is not for gold. It is for the means of freedom and benefit.

True ambition is not what we thought it was. True ambition is the profound desire to live usefully and walk humbly under the grace of God.

A man's desire is for the woman, but the woman's desire is rarely other than for the desire of the man.

Hard times arouse an instinctive desire for authenticity.

If you desire to be good, begin by believing that you are wicked.

A memory is a beautiful thing, it's almost a desire that you miss.

It's a great mistake, I think, to put children off with falsehoods and nonsense, when their growing powers of observation and discrimination excite in them a desire to know about things.

Desire increases when fulfillment is postponed.

I believe that God has planted in every heart the desire to live in freedom.

If you desire many things, many things will seem few.

If I discover within myself a desire which no experience in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world.

Success is focusing the full power of all you are on what you have a burning desire to achieve.

The world is burning in the fire of desire, in greed, arrogance and excessive ego.

Kindness is an inner desire that makes us want to do good things even if we do not get anything in return. It is the joy of our life to do them. When we do good things from this inner desire, there is kindness in everything we think, say, want and do.

Do not impose on others what you yourself do not desire.

We desire an expansion of relations with regional states and the establishment of extensive public contacts.

I have no desire to take all black people back to Africa; there are blacks who are no good here and will likewise be no good there.

What everyone in the astronaut corps shares in common is not gender or ethnic background, but motivation, perseverance, and desire - the desire to participate in a voyage of discovery.

All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion and desire.

Love is something far more than desire for sexual intercourse; it is the principal means of escape from the loneliness which afflicts most men and women throughout the greater part of their lives.

Yet it is in this loneliness that the deepest activities begin. It is here that you discover act without motion, labor that is profound repose, vision in obscurity, and, beyond all desire, a fulfillment whose limits extend to infinity.

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.

I desire to know wherefore I am banished?

The way to gain a good reputation is to endeavor to be what you desire to appear.