Desires Quotes

Manifest plainness, embrace simplicity, reduce selfishness, have few desires.

LaoTzu

The desire is thy prayers; and if thy desire is without ceasing, thy prayer will also be without ceasing. The continuance of your longing is the continuance of your prayer.

Saint Augustine of Hippo

If you live in rock and roll, as I do, you see the reality of sex, of male lust and women being aroused by male lust. It attracts women. It doesn't repel them.

Camille Anna Paglia

Desires are the pulses of the soul; as physicians judge by the appetite, so may you by desires.

Manton

To know what you prefer instead of humbly saying Amen to what the world tells you ought to prefer is to have kept your soul alive.

Robert Louis Stevenson

I shall desire and I shall findThe best of my desires;The autumn road, the mellow windThat soothes the darkening shires.And laughter, and inn-fires.

Rupert Brooke, The Chilterns

We are ever striving after what is forbidden, and coveting what is denied us.

Ovid

Ignore what a man desires and you ignore the very source of his power

Walter Lippmann

Life contains but two tragedies. One is not to get your heart's desire; the other is to get it.

Socrates

The fewer our wants the more we resemble the Gods.

Socrates

It (racing) is a matter of spirit, not strength. It is a matter of doing your best each little moment. There's never a break. You must have desire, a very intense desire to keep going.

Janet Guthrie

Some people wanted champagne and caviar when they should have had beer and hot dogs.

Dwight D Eisenhower

The keener the want the lustier the growth.

Wendell Phillips

He who desires but does not act, breeds pestilence.

William Blake

If you really want something you can figure out how to make it happen.

Cher

There are confessable agonies, sufferings of which one can positively be proud. Of bereavement, of parting, of the sense of sin and the fear of death the poets have eloquently spoken. They command the world's sympathy. But there are also discreditable anguishes, no less excruciating than the others, but of which the sufferer dare not, cannot speak. The anguish of thwarted desire, for example.

Aldous Huxley

It is said that desire is a product of the will, but the converse is in fact true: will is a product of desire.

Denis Diderot

I have found that most of the things I want from living I must get from people.

Robert Conklin

I've looked on a lot of women with lust. I've committed adultery in my heart many times.

Jimmy Carter

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

Denis Waitley