Desire Quotes (1093 Quotes)

Success is very ephemeral. You depend entirely on the desire of others, which makes it difficult to relax.

Your brain can tell you what to do, but your heart will give you the desire to DO IT. It is this heart power that will make the difference between being just another 'wannabe or becoming a true champion. I firmly believe that all of us have it within us to become a true champion.

The desire of excessive power caused the angels to fall; the desire of knowledge caused men to fall.

I'm glad that we have the ESA, because I think that's been good for the big-horned sheep and the grizzly bear, and just bringing all of us to an understanding and a desire to live with animals around us rather than slaughtering them all,

Desire is the key to motivation, but it's determination and commitment to an unrelenting pursuit of your goal - a commitment to excellence - that will enable you to attain the success you seek.

This is not some desire to make (the funding situation) look different, ... This is the actuarial audit.

When a man dwells on the objects of sense, he creates an attraction for them attraction develops into desire, and desire breeds anger.

He has nothing left to prove. At the same time, he still has the desire and ability. Although you might not believe me, I hope he comes back.

It's important, however, that those engaged in terrorism realize that our determination to defend our values and our way of life is greater than their determination to cause death and destruction to innocent people in a desire to impose extremism on the world.

When you encounter a situation that causes you to doubt your ability to achieve your desire, request the Lords help in maintaining an attitude of faith.

I still have the desire and ability to win races, but a little burnout is beginning to set in. I may drive a few races next year if someone needs a substitute driver, but it's time to freshen up and do some things with my family that I have put off for a lot of years.

The desire to understand the world and the desire to reform it are the two great engines of progress.

We just weren't playing with the effort, the intensity, the desire, the passion that I think we're known for and that we've come to expect from our basketball team.

Consumed by desire, the world is burning and dying, burning and burning, it screams. But if it meets with the cooling and soothing True Guru, it does not burn any longer.

You can't discount the desire of folks to help out in a crisis.

The deep concern is that people who survived the earthquake should not now perish because of something like a tent fire. Our deepest desire is to help earthquake survivors make it through the winter alive.

The sense that this world is an illusion, that desire is the root of suffering, the awareness of cause and effect-I have a great respect for all that.

Mostly, as I said, a desire to do a bit of good, and the quaint notion that this is what we signed up for, this is the business that we have chosen.

We have to move ahead on the crossings issue by balancing the very real security threats with the desire to allow for maximum possible movement of people and goods,

Every man makes a god of his own desire.

In an industrial society which confuses work and productivity, the necessity of producing has always been an enemy of the desire to create.

Desire is the wind in your sails more than it is your destination, so keep your sails wide open, and be amazed.

My desire is to stand up and brush myself off when I make mistakes and ask for forgiveness.

I'm the last person who has any desire to instruct anybody in shame. That's no errand for me.

Never let go of that fiery sadness called desire.

We are what we think as we desire so do we become By our thoughts, desires, and habits, we either ascend to the full divine dignity of our nature, or we descend to suffer and learn.

According to its doctors, my one intransigent desire is to have been a Confederate general, and because I could not or would not become anything else, I set up for poet and beg an to invent fictions about the personal ambitions that my society has no use for.

Wealth and rank are what people desire, but unless they are obtained in the right way they may not be possessed.

Ben has a desire to be the best. You can see that in him. He's going to be a great quarterback for a lot of years.

The will to win, the desire to succeed, the urge to reach your full potential... these are the keys that will unlock the door to personal excellence.

Detestable desire for gold.

You cannot escape the results of your thoughts. Whatever your present environment may be, you will fall, remain or rise with your thoughts, your vision, your ideal. You will become as small as your controlling desire; as great as your dominant aspiration.

What I had to prove was that I had a dedication and a desire and a passion to do the work and everything else would fall in place because I have a vision that I want to portray and it did and I do it. I don't sell anything.

So rests the sky against the earth. The dark still tarn in the lap of the forest. As a husband embraces his wife's body in faithful tenderness, so the bare ground and trees are embraced by the still, high, light of the morning. I feel an ache of longing to share in this embrace, to be united and absorbed. A longing like carnal desire, but directed towards earth, water, sky, and returned by the whispers of the trees, the fragrance of the soil, the caresses of the wind, the embrace of water and light. Content No, no, no but refreshed, rested while waiting.

They'll be starting from a much higher point in terms of experience and background in our system, knowing what it takes to play in the league and all that. I think they came in at a very mature level. To avoid the second year not being as good as the first, I think they have to maintain their work ethic and attitude, desire, aggressiveness, all of those things that gave them a chance to be successful this year.

Caitlin is a girl who has got such a remarkable inner drive that she has the desire to win every time she steps up on the block. She always wants to better her time.

I dy even in desire of death.

I don't want a goalie talking to me about banking. Buying a car is a complex thing. The best way to sell cars is through content and creating desire. Once that's set, you can bring in celebrities.

I understand by this passion the union of desire, friendship, and tenderness, which is inflamed by a single female, which prefers her to the rest of her sex, and which seeks her possession as the supreme or the sole happiness of our being.

Justin was always eager to engage in topical discussions. Among my students, I would rank Justin first in terms of social conscience and a desire to learn about society.

The idea that a war can be won by standing on the defensive and waiting for the enemy to attack is a dangerous fallacy, which owes its inception to the desire to evade the price of victory.

I don't necessarily think that size has anything to do with rebounding. I think (it's) desire, willingness to be consistent with the fundamentals of rebounding.

Unfortunately, many ex-lesbians disagree. In her book, Restoring Sexual Identity ... same-sex attraction is seldom really driven by sexual needs it is driven by an unconscious desire to be loved and to trust another person. It is also frequently driven by a desire to reconnect with the feminine but in the wrong way.

I want to swim in both directions at once. Desire success, court failure.

Of course, we want to win again and bring the Cup back home. . . . A lot of desire has boiled up inside over the last two years.

Let not a man do what his sense of right bids him not to do, nor desire what it forbids him to desire. This is sufficient. The skillful artist will not alter his measures for the sake of a stupid workman.

There will be opposition and it's difficult to predict which side will prevail, particularly because the desire for a closer relationship with India is very widespread and I include myself in that group too.

It is a lot easier to prove that you dont love someone than it is to prove that you do, but one of the best proofs I know is the desire to devote time to the person with no expectation of any sort of compensation, including gratitude, in return.

Monarchies, aristocracies, and religions are all based upon that large defect in your race -- the individual's distrust of his neighbor, and his desire, for safety's or comfort's sake, to stand well in his neighbor's eye.

This is the duty of our generation as we enter the twenty-first century -- solidarity with the weak, the persecuted, the lonely, the sick, and those in despair. It is expressed by the desire to give a noble and humanizing meaning to a community in which all members will define themselves not by their own identity but by that of others.