Desire Quotes

Some desire is necessary to keep life in motion.
Samuel Johnson

Everything is perfect in the universe – even your desire to improve it.
Wayne Dyer

Without a sense of urgency, desire loses its value.
Jim Rohn

The desire not to be anything is the desire not to be.
Ayn Rand

War grows out of the desire of the individual to gain advantage at the expense of his fellow man.
Napoleon Hill

Desire of having is the sin of covetousness.
William Shakespeare

The starting point of all achievement is desire.
Napoleon Hill

Do not ever say that the desire to “do good” by force is a good motive. Neither power-lust nor stupidity are good motives.
Ayn Rand

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

Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.
Robert Frost

Human behavior flows from three main sources: desire, emotion, and knowledge.
Plato

Men freely believe that which they desire.
Julius Caesar

The key to success is to focus our conscious mind on things we desire not things we fear.
Brian Tracy

Freedom is not procured by a full enjoyment of what is desired, but by controlling the desire.
Epictetus

Boredom: the desire for desires.
Leo Tolstoy

Better murder an infant in its cradle than nurse an unacted desire.
William Blake

The desire to take medicine is perhaps the greatest feature which distinguishes man from animals.
William Osler

The discipline of desire is the background of character.
John Locke

What do you want a meaning for? Life is a desire, not a meaning.
Charlie Chaplin

If you start by promising what you don’t even have yet, you’ll lose your desire to work towards getting it.
Paulo Coelho

The first principle of success is desire – knowing what you want. Desire is the planting of your seed.
Robert Collier

The first principle of success is desire – knowing what you want. Desire is the planting of your seed.
Robert Collier

Take from the philosopher the pleasure of being heard and his desire for knowledge ceases.
Jean Jacques Rousseau

Let us train our minds to desire what the situation demands.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

If you desire faith, then you have faith enough.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning

To desire is to obtain; to aspire is to achieve.
James Allen

It is hard to contend against one’s heart’s desire; for whatever it wishes to have it buys at the cost of soul.
Heraclitus

Of all the gods only death does not desire gifts.
Aeschylus

There is no desire more natural than the desire for knowledge.
Michel de Montaigne

Knowledge is the eye of desire and can become the pilot of the soul.
Will Durant

Love is simply the name for the desire and the pursuit of the whole.
Aristophanes

When desire dies, fear is born.
Baltasar Gracian

Every man makes a god of his own desire.
Virgil

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

It is a waste of money to help those who show no desire to help themselves.
Taylor Caldwell

I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve the world and a desire to enjoy the world. This makes it hard to plan the day.
E. B. White

Forbid us something, and that thing we desire.
Geoffrey Chaucer

I used to desire many, many things, but now I have just one desire, and that’s to get rid of all my other desires.
John Cleese

A great many men’s gratitude is nothing but a secret desire to hook in more valuable kindnesses hereafter.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

I never desire to converse with a man who has written more than he has read.
Samuel Johnson

The desire to seem clever often keeps us from being so.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

A refusal of praise is a desire to be praised twice.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

The desire to write grows with writing.
Desiderius Erasmus

If you desire ease, forsake learning.
Nagarjuna

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

If you care enough for a result, you will most certainly attain it.
William James

Almost every desire a poor man has is a punishable offence.
Louis-Ferdinand Celine

Desire creates the power.
Raymond Hollingwell

Almost every desire a poor man has is a punishable offence.
Louis-Ferdinand Celine

The beginning of wisdom is to desire it.
Solomon Ibn Gabirol

A shot glass of desire is greater than a pitcher of talent.
Andy Munthe

Desire creates the power.
Raymond Hollingwell

If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.
Henry David Thoreau

There will always be a battle between the sexes because men and women want different things. Men want women and women want men.
George Burns

Image creates desire. You will want what you imagine.
J. G. Gallimore

There is no use whatever trying to help people who do not help themselves. You cannot push anyone up a ladder unless he be willing to climb himself.
Andrew Carnegie

We trifle when we assign limits to our desires, since nature hath set none.
Christian Nevell Bovee

Out of need springs desire, and out of desire springs the energy and the will to win.
Denis Waitley

When you can’t have what you want, it’s time to start wanting what you have.
Kathleen A. Sutton

No one does anything from a single motive.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge

You don’t have to do anything you don’t want to do.
David Harold Fink

The poorest man is not without a cent, but without a dream.
Unknown

You’ve got to be before you can do, and do before you can have.
Zig Ziglar

The first principle of success is desire – knowing what you want. Desire is the planting of your seed.
Robert Collier