Desire Quotes

All men by nature desire to know. (Aristotle)
There is no desire more natural than the desire for knowledge. View quote
Michel de Montaigne
Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired. View quote
Robert Frost
I desire to go to Hell and not to Heaven. In the former I shall enjoy the company of popes, kings and princes, while in the latter are only beggars, monks and apostles. View quote
Niccolò Machiavelli
Dancing Is a Perpendicular Expression of a Horizontal Desire. View quote
George Bernard Shaw
Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire, you will what you imagine and at last you create what you will. View quote
George Bernard Shaw
It is easier to suppress the first desire than to satisfy all that follow it. View quote
Benjamin Franklin
There are two tragedies in life. One is to lose your heart's desire. The other is to gain it. View quote
George Bernard Shaw
The starting point of all achievement is desire. View quote
Napoleon Hill
The desire to take medicine is perhaps the greatest feature which distinguishes man from animals. View quote
William Osler
The desire of knowledge, like the thirst of riches, increases ever with the acquisition of it. (Laurence Sterne)
Nothing prevents us from being natural so much as the desire to appear so. View quote
François de La Rochefoucauld
No tendency is quite so strong in human nature as the desire to lay down rules of conduct for other people. View quote
William Howard Taft
It is the desire of the good people of the whole country that sectionalism as a factor in our politics should disappear. View quote
Rutherford B. Hayes
Desire is the very essence of man. View quote
Baruch Spinoza
This life is a hospital in which every patient is possessed with a desire to change his bed. View quote
Charles Baudelaire
Lord, grant that I may always desire more than I accomplish. View quote
Michelangelo
All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. View quote
Aristotle
A teacher who is attempting to teach without inspiring the pupil with a desire to learn is hammering on cold iron. View quote
Horace Mann
I desire no future that will break the ties of the past. View quote
George Eliot
No evil dooms us hopelessly except the evil we love, and desire to continue in, and make no effort to escape from. (George Eliot)
A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others. View quote
Ayn Rand
I never desire to converse with a man who has written more than he has read. View quote
Samuel Johnson
The desire to die was my one and only concern; to it I have sacrificed everything, even death. View quote
Emil Cioran
If history and science have taught us anything, it is that passion and desire are not the same as truth. View quote
E. O. Wilson