Desire Quotes

To attempt the destruction of our passions is the height of folly. What a noble aim is that of the zealot who tortures himself like a madman in order to desire nothing, love nothing, feel nothing, and who, if he succeeded, would end up a complete monster!
Denis Diderot

Love, End, Nothing

What I had to prove was that I had a dedication and a desire and a passion to do the work and everything else would fall in place because I have a vision that I want to portray and it did and I do it. I don't sell anything.
Kim Weston

Work, Passion, Everything

To desire is to obtain; to aspire is to achieve.
James Allen

Achieve, Aspire, Obtain

Do not be desirous of having things done quickly. Do not look at small advantages. Desire to have things done quickly prevents their being done thoroughly. Looking at small advantages prevents great affairs from being accomplished.
Wilson Mizner

Great, Done, Small

Success - keeping your mind awake and your desire asleep.
Walter Scott

Success, Mind, Awake

One of the most difficult things everyone has to learn is that for your entire life you must keep fighting and adjusting if you hope to survive. No matter who you are or what your position is you must keep fighting for whatever it is you desire to achieve.
George Allen, Sr.

Life, Hope, Fighting

Calm self-confidence is as far from conceit as the desire to earn a decent living is remote from greed.
Channing Pollock

Greed, Living, Far

Time and memory are true artists; they remould reality nearer to the heart's desire.
John Dewey

Time, Heart, True

Take from the philosopher the pleasure of being heard and his desire for knowledge ceases.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Knowledge, Pleasure, Heard

Fame is ultimately about the cycles of desire and how to do away with them or manage them well.
Lady Gaga

Away, Fame, Cycles

We always long for the forbidden things, and desire what is denied us.
Francois Rabelais

Long, Forbidden, Denied

I don't know what keeps me going. Sometimes I wonder... I think it's just pure perseverance and wanting to succeed and having that burning desire to always have success.
Tanya Tucker

Success, Sometimes, Succeed

Desire is poverty. Desire is the greatest impurity of the mind. Desire is the motive force for action. Desire in the mind is the real impurity. Even a spark of desire is a very great evil.
Swami Sivananda

Great, Mind, Greatest

While a large segment of the art world has obsessed over a tiny number of stars and their prices, an aesthetic shift has been occurring. It's not a movement - movements are more sure of themselves. It's a change of mood or expectation, a desire for art to be more than showy effects, big numbers, and gamesmanship.
Jerry Saltz

Change, Art, Big

I believe we have become paralyzed, paralyzed by our desire to be loved. Now our founding fathers had the wisdom to know that social acceptance and popularity were fleeing, and that this country's principles needed to be rooted in strengths greater than the passions and the emotions of the times.
Chris Christie

Wisdom, Acceptance, Country

I think the acting satisfies the need and desire for approval.
William Shatner

Acting, Approval, Satisfies

All, all is theft, all is unceasing and rigorous competition in nature; the desire to make off with the substance of others is the foremost - the most legitimate - passion nature has bred into us and, without doubt, the most agreeable one.
Marquis de Sade

Nature, Passion, Doubt

I had no desire to be a stand-up comic until I decided to do it.
Rita Rudner

Until, Decided, Comic

Desire increases when fulfillment is postponed.
Pierre Corneille

Postponed, Increases

True charity is the desire to be useful to others with no thought of recompense.
Emanuel Swedenborg

True, Thought, Others

I believe very strongly that when it comes to desire, when it comes to attraction, that things are never black and white, things are very much shades of grey.
Brian Molko

Black, White, Attraction

Let not a man do what his sense of right bids him not to do, nor desire what it forbids him to desire. This is sufficient. The skillful artist will not alter his measures for the sake of a stupid workman.
Mencius

Stupid, Him, Sense

Everyone believes very easily whatever they fear or desire.
Jean de La Fontaine

Fear, Everyone, Whatever

A man's desire for a son is usually nothing but the wish to duplicate himself in order that such a remarkable pattern may not be lost to the world.
Helen Rowland

Nothing, Lost, May

You cannot escape the results of your thoughts. Whatever your present environment may be, you will fall, remain or rise with your thoughts, your vision, your ideal. You will become as small as your controlling desire; as great as your dominant aspiration.
James Lane Allen

Great, May, Thoughts

Good means not merely not to do wrong, but rather not to desire to do wrong.
Democritus

Good, Wrong, Rather

But those who believe that what our people desire is big government are living in a state of delusion.
Marco Rubio

Government, Living, Big

There is no such thing as perpetual tranquillity of mind while we live here; because life itself is but motion, and can never be without desire, nor without fear, no more than without sense.
Thomas Hobbes

Life, Fear, Live

Limited in his nature, infinite in his desire, man is a fallen god who remembers heaven.
Alphonse de Lamartine

Nature, God, Heaven

A person who has sympathy for mankind in the lump, faith in its future progress, and desire to serve the great cause of this progress, should be called not a humanist, but a humanitarian, and his creed may be designated as humanitarianism.
Irving Babbitt

Faith, Great, Future

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