Quotes on Desire

Our necessities are few, but our wants are endless.

Man is a creation of desire, not a creation of need.

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

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

O lyric Love, half angel and half bird. And all a wonder and a wild desire.

Events are influenced by our very great desires.

People seek within a short span of life to satisfy a thousand desires, each of which is insatiable.

May it be my privilege to have the happiness of establishing the commonwealth on a firm and secure basis and thus enjoy the reward which I desire, but only if I may be called the author of the best possible government; and bear with me the hope when I die that the foundations which I have laid for its future government, will stand firm and stable.

A strong passion for any object will ensure success, for the desire of the end will point out the means.

There is another more subtle way in which the innocence of childhood is lost: when the child is infected with the desire to become somebody. Contemplate the crowds of people who are striving might and main to become, not what Nature intended them to be- musicians, cooks, mechanics, carpenters, gardeners, inventors- but "somebody": to become successful, famous, powerful; to become something that will bring not quiet and self-fulfillment, but self-glorification and self-expansion

The desire to know is natural to good men.

I deplore the horrible crime as child murder....no matter what the motive, love of ease, or desire to save from suffering the unborn innocent,the woman is awfully guilty who commits the deed...but oh, thrice guilty is he who drove her to the desperation which compelled her to the crime.

God does not delay to hear our prayers because He has no mind to give; but that, by enlarging our desires, He may give us the more largely.

There is a stream, a succession of states, or waves, or fields (or whatever you please to call them), of knowledge, of feeling, of desire, of deliberation, etc., that constantly pass and repass, and that constitute our inner life.

A life directed chiefly toward the fulfillment of personal desires will sooner or later always lead to bitter disappointment.

Your chances of success are directly proportional to the degree of pleasure you desire from what you do. If you are in a job you hate, face the fact squarely and get out.

What? do I love her, that I desire to hear her speak again, and feast upon her eyes

Every one desires to live long, but no one would be old.

Do not have as your motive the desire to be known as a praying man. Get an inner chamber in which to pray where no one knows you are praying, shut the door, and talk to God in secret.

It is not the mouth that is the main thing to be looked at in prayer, but whether the heart is so full of affection and earnestness in prayer with God, that it is impossible to express their sense and desire; for then a man desires indeed, when his desires are so strong, many, and mighty, that all the words, tears, and groans that can come from the heart, cannot utter them.

Longing desire prayeth always, though the tongue be silent. If thou art ever longing, thou art ever praying.