Browsing Topic Best Desire Quotes

If you really want to do something, you’ll find a way. If you don’t, you’ll find an excuse.

I am not poor. Poor are those who desire many things.

Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for.

What do you want a meaning for? Life is a desire, not a meaning.

It is not fair to ask of others what you are not willing to do yourself.

Weak desires bring weak results, just as a small amount of fire brings a small amount of heat.

Life ought to be a struggle of desire toward adventures whose nobility will fertilize the soul.

The will to win, the desire to succeed, the urge to reach your full potential… these are the keys that will unlock the door to personal excellence.

Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get.

I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self.

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

Your nafs (soul/desires) is your first battlefield. If you are victorious over it, then you will find the other battlefields easier.

Politics is the art of making your selfish desires seem like the national interest.

That is love, to give away everything, to sacrifice everything, without the slightest desire to get anything in return.

Give recognition where it is due. Compliments stimulate more effort and desire to improve. Be generous with honest praising.

Ultimately, it is the desire, not the desired, that we love.

Certain is it that there is no kind of affection so purely angelic as of a father to a daughter. In love to our wives there is desire; to our sons, ambition, but to our daughters there is something which there are no words to express.

The remedy against want is to moderate your desires.

The size of your success is measured by the strength of your desire; the size of your dream; and how you handle disappointment along the way.

The shadows of our own desires stand between us and our better angels, and thus their brightness is eclipsed.

Prayer is an earnest and familiar talking with God, to whom we declare all our miseries, whose support and help we implore and desire in our adversities, and whom we laud and praise for our benefits received. So that prayer contains the exposition of our sorrows, the desire of God’s defence, and the praising of His magnificent name, as the Psalms of David clearly do teach.

One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar.

We experience ourselves, our thoughts and feelings as something separate from the rest. A kind of optical delusion of consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us.

A Stoic is someone who transforms fear into prudence, pain into transformation, mistakes into initiation, and desire into undertaking.

Do not let your fire go out, spark by irreplaceable spark in the hopeless swamps of the not-quite, the not-yet, and the not-at-all. Do not let the hero in your soul perish in lonely frustration for the life you deserved and have never been able to reach. The world you desire can be won. It exists.. it is real.. it is possible.. it’s yours.

On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart’s desire at last, and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron.

There cannot be self-restraint in the absence of desire: when there is no adversary, what avails thy courage? Hark, do not castrate thyself, do not become a monk: chastity depends on the existence of lust.

Migrants and refugees are not pawns on the chessboard of humanity. They are children, women and men who leave or who are forced to leave their homes for various reasons, who share a legitimate desire for knowing and having, but above all for being more.

Human memory awakens and extinguishes at will. It dulls and sharpens actions, enlarges and shrinks those who perform them. It humbles and exalts as it desires. When summoned, it slips away, and when it returns, it will do so at the time and place that suits it. It recognizes no chief, no overseer, no classifier, no ruler. Stories mix and mingle, facts sprout new shoots. The situations and words and scents-oh, the scents!-encrusted there are stored in the most disorganized and wonderful manner, not chronologically, not according to size or importance or even the alphabet.

The petty man is eager to make boasts, yet desires that others should believe in him. He enthusiastically engages in deception, yet wants others to have affection for him. He conducts himself like an animal, yet wants others to think well of him.

After you hear and listen. First must come desire. Second must come willingness. Third should come understanding. Fourth should come progression and with progression will come more understanding.

Desires make slaves out of kings and patience makes kings out of slaves.

I have found that great ideas come when you have a great desire to have them.

When you make contact with your Higher Self, you’ll have the support of Nature, which will allow for the manifestation of all you desire.

The things we do without the fear of failure and the desire for success are the purest acts we’ll ever do.