Desires Quotes

We spend a lot of time trying to get more and more things, not realizing that those things can never fulfill us. Learn from those who have gone before you - stuff can never satisfy your desires, so focus on THE ONE who can.

Osayi Osar-Emokpae

Our desire to say more grows bigger and what to say about it, except that saying is not always about saying, growing is not always about growing.

Dejan Stojanovic

Never give up. It's like breathing - once you quit, your flame dies letting total darkness extinguish every last gasp of hope. You can't do that. You must continue taking in even the shallowest of breaths, continue putting forth even the smallest of efforts to sustain your dreams. Don't ever, ever, ever give up.

Richelle E. Goodrich

Each of us has immense potential to achieve what we desire, unless we enliven and enlighten our life with inspiration, bring our dreams or desires into reality we will never shine as bright as our potential.

Steven Redhead

What the mind can conceive and believe, and the heart desire, you can achieve.

Norman Vincent Peale

Our desires are guided by what we believe to be good or bad; our beliefs are directed by our knowledge; our knowledge, in turn, is again a manipulation of our desires. Our Will, during this inexorable revolution, serves as the force, increasing, decreasing, or at worst, maintaining the pace.

Raheel Farooq

Inside of all of us there is the need and the desire to be heard, to have our innermost thoughts, feelings and desires expressed for others to hear, to see and to understand. We all want to matter to someone, to leave a mark. Writers just take those thoughts, feelings and desires and express them in such a way that the reader not only reads them but feels them as well.

Vicktor Alexander

I don't want whatever I want. Nobody does. Not really. What kind of fun would it be if I just got everything I ever wanted just like that, and it didn't mean anything? What then?

Neil Gaiman

Miki-san... do you truly want that person's dream to come true? Or is it that you want to be that person's savior for making that dream come true? If you're going to fulfill someone else's dream, that's the time when it's most important to be sure you know your own wish. The two might seem the same, but they're entirely different.

Magica Quartet

Life is a game, you live so you play. Follow your dreams and win what your happy heart desires.

Roel van Sleeuwen

I honestly believed I would make it. I had the desire. A lot of people have the ability, but they don't put forth the effort.

Joe Carter

There are ways which lead to everything, and if we have sufficient will we should always have sufficient means.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

We never desire strongly, what we desire rationally.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Every man's road in life is marked by the grave of his personal likings.

Alexander Smith

Lust's passion will be served; it demands, it militates, it tyrannizes.

Marquis de Sade

Desire is the essence of a man.

Baruch (_Benedict de) Spinoza

A man must earnestly want.

William Frederick Book

Those who restrain their desires, do so because theirs is weak enough to be restrained.

William Blake

Those that much covet are with gain so fond,For what they have not, that which they possessThey scatter and unloose it from their bond,And so, by hoping more, they have but less;Or, gaining more, the profit of excessIs but to surfeit, and such griefs sustain,That they prove bankrupt in this poor-rich gain.

William Shakespeare

Whenever we confront an unbridled desire we are surely in the presence of a tragedy-in-the-making.

Quentin Crisp