Desire Quotes - Page 114

Christ desires nothing more of us than that we speak of him.

Fear of failure is at least as common as the desire for success. In fact, if harnessed properly, it can be the energy that drives the wheel.

A man can reach into anything and turn it to his cause. It's not want, or desire, just certainty. Only be assured that whatever you reach into will reach into you in turn.

For a French person, lack of desire in someone is really seen as a defect.

Nothing makes us more cowardly and unconscionable than the desire to be loved by everyone.

... I never will allow myself to form an ideal of any person I desire to see, for disappointment never fails to ensue.

I entered politics out of a desire to serve, but I have always really wanted to achieve things in the private sector as well. As a father and a husband, that is my primary obligation, and that will always continue, whether I am in the Senate or out of the Senate.

For, just as in the beginning it is formed by desire, so afterwards love is kept in existence only by painful anxiety.

We prefer people who are trying to imitate us more than those who are trying to equal us. This is because imitation is a sign of esteem, but the desire to equal others is a sign of envy.

Give up all hope, all illusion, all desire..I've tried. I've tried and still I desire, I still desire not to desire and hope to be without hope and have the illusion I can be without illusions..Give up, I say. Give up everything, including the desire to be saved.

I have no interest or desire to be head of Fine Gael.... I am ambitious for my country and I always said I would love to sit at Cabinet.

Dreaming, dreaming, dreaming -- weren't our dreams what gave us strength, hope, and desire?

No growth without resistance. No action without reaction. No desire without restraint.

Man desires, woman is desired.

The natural desire of good men is knowledge.

He soon felt that the fulfillment of his desires gave him only one grain of the mountain of happiness he had expected. This fulfillment showed him the eternal error men make in imagining that their happiness depends on the realization of their desires.

A true artist is driven by the never-ending desire to create.

There is no greater offence than harbouring desires. There is no greater disaster than discontent. There is no greater misfortune than wanting more.

It's a little bit more like I want to give this to the people that are really into it first - I don't have a lot of desire to be like Bon Jovi or something like that, I really want to concentrate on the music.

When you would grab that last hole you could literally feel all of the hope, desire and stress drop off of you.

My desire is to be anonymous, isolated, quiet, peaceful, and concentrated.

Really, what I try to instill in my fans is to be healthy and happy. I have no desire to be super-skinny.

I started out with nothing in the world but a kind of passion, a driving desire. I don't know where it came from, and I don't know why - or why I have been so stubborn about it that nothing could deflect me. But this thing between me and my writing is the strongest bond I have ever had - stronger than any bond or any engagement with any human being or with any other work I've ever done.

Everyone seems possessed with the desire of writing articles upon me and sends me long lists of all I am to say.

A passion for his art, and an eager desire to excel, will more than supply an artist with the place of method.