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.

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

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

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.

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

The remedy against want is to moderate your desires.

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

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

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

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

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 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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

Desire to me is a contract that you make with yourself to be unhappy until you get what you want.

Life is short. But desire, desire is long.

It is very common for us to desire most what we are least qualified to obtain.

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

Traveling is one expression of the desire to cross boundaries.

To fight against one’s desires is the greatest of all fights.

A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others.

Whatever you desire for yourself, affirm it for others, and it will help you both. We reap what we sow. If we send out thoughts of love and health, they return to us like bread cast upon the waters; but if we send out thoughts of fear, worry, jealousy, anger, hate, etc., we will reap the results in our own lives.

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.

Pick your one overwhelming desire – it’s okay to suffer over that one. But on all the other desires, let them go so you can be calm and peaceful and relaxed.