Desire Quotes - page 15

The volume of credit depends upon three factors: the desire to borrow, the ability to lend and the desire to lend. (Benjamin Graham)
I did not love you out or boredom or loneliness or caprice. I loved you because the desire for you was stronger than any happiness. View quote
Alessandro Baricco
I began to feel the desire for something more; I wanted to do something to make things better. View quote
Mikhail Gorbachev
Women, as some witty Frenchman once put it, inspire us with the desire to do masterpieces and always prevent us from carrying them out. View quote
Oscar Wilde
If you suffer and make your loved ones suffer, there is nothing that can justify your desire. View quote
Nhat Hanh
You see, true learning takes energy, passion, a burning desire. View quote
Robert Kiyosaki
Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve. Thoughts are things! And powerful things at that, when mixed with definiteness of purpose, and burning desire, can be translated into riches. Use auto-suggestion, have faith, imagination and overcome fear and time is your opposite player as in checkerboard. View quote
Napoleon Hill
Create a definite plan for carrying out your desire and begin at once, whether you ready or not, to put this plan into action. View quote
Napoleon Hill
I don't really know what "intellectual" means, but if it means you've got a desire to learn, you've got a desire to look for things that haven't been presented to you, then, maybe. I think that "intellectual" is quite an exclusive word. I think it's just for anyone that has a thirst or a hunger to improve themselves, or a yearning to escape from somewhere to get to a better place. View quote
Pete Doherty
Be afraid of nothing. Hating none, giving love to all, feeling the love of God, seeing His presence in everyone, and having but one desire - for His constant presence in the temple of your consciousness - that is the way to live in this world. View quote
Paramahansa Yogananda
Intend to live in continual mortification, and never to expect or desire any worldly ease or pleasure. (Jonathan Edwards (theologian))
For myself I make no secret, I look forward with eager desire to seeing the matchless beauty of Christ's body in the heavenly light. View quote
Gerard Manley Hopkins
The human desire for food and sex is relatively equal. If there are armed rapes, why should there not be armed hot dog thefts? View quote
John Kennedy Toole
You might say that a creative person is a person who simply has a desire to have something, to add something to the world that's not there yet, and goes about arranging fort that to happen.. ..when you desire a work of art and make it, you've added to the stock of art in the world. Artists are one of the people who can do that: add to the stock of things. View quote
Carl Andre
All desire springs from a lack, which it strives continually to fill. View quote
Terry Eagleton
O'er her warm cheek and rising bosom move The bloom of young Desire and purple light of Love. View quote
Thomas Gray
Our Being is Becoming, not stasis. Our Science is Utopia, our Reality is Eros, our Desire is Revolution. View quote
Murray Bookchin
Because monks come from the midst of purity, they consider as good and pure what does not arouse desire among other people. View quote
Dōgen
Your man with a thin skin, a vehement ambition, a scrupulous conscience, and a sanguine desire for rapid improvement is never a happy, and seldom a fortunate politician. View quote
Anthony Trollope
[Beauty is] "Perfection of rhythm, balanced perfection of rhythm. Everything in Nature is expressed by rhythmic waves of light. Every thought and action is a light-wave of thought and action. If one interprets the God within one, one's thoughts and actions must be balanced rhythmic waves. Ugliness, fears, failures and diseases arise from unbalanced thoughts and actions. Therefore think beauty always if one desire vitality of body and happiness." View quote
Walter Russell
If we desire to do what will please God, and what will help men, we presently find ourselves taken out of our narrow habits of thought and action; we f1nd new elements of our nature called into activity; we are no longer running along a narrow track of selfish habit. (James Freeman Clarke)
The whole idea of revenge and punishment is a childish day-dream. Properly speaking, there is no such thing as revenge. Revenge is an act which you want to commit when you are powerless and because you are powerless: as soon as the sense of impotence is removed, the desire evaporates also. View quote
George Orwell
Patriotism is of its nature defensive, both militarily and culturally. Nationalism, on the other hand, is inseparable from the desire for power. View quote
George Orwell
My idea of the modern Stoic sage is someone who transforms fear into prudence, pain into information, mistakes into initiation, and desire into undertaking. View quote
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
The three great American vices seem to be efficiency, punctuality, and the desire for achievement and success. They are the things that make the Americans so unhappy and so nervous. View quote
Lin Yutang