Desire Quotes - Page 43

You learnt that, whatever you are doing in life, obstacles don't matter very much. Pain or other circumstances can be there, but if you want to do a job bad enough, you'll find a way to get it done.

Our behavior is driven by a fundamental core belief: the desire, and the ability, of an organization to continuously learn from any source, anywhere; and to rapidly convert this learning into action is its ultimate competitive advantage.

Words are coin. Words alienate. Language is no medium for desire. Desire is rapture, not exchange.

The history of society is the history of the inventive labors that man alter man, alter his desires, habits, outlook, relationships both to other men and to physical nature, with which man is in perpetual physical and technological metabolism.

Vice is perhaps a desire to learn everything.

To write much, and to write rapidly, are empty boasts. The world desires to know what you have done, and not how you did it.

Live joyfully, without desire.

Good karma leads to rebirth also. The desire for higher states of mind is a desire. When you are fixated on higher states of mind, you don't become enlightened.

Politeness is a desire to be treated politely, and to be esteemed polite oneself.

For as long as I am alive, I will not rest in my desire to lead my people out of an abyss of corruption and poverty.

I am slow-thinking and full of interior rules that act as brakes on my desires.

I love rains which carry desires to oceans.

I crave the indulgence of my senses but this is countered by an interior desire that is even keener than my senses to know the meaning of things

Intolerance of oppression, the desire to be free and develop one personality to its full limits, is not enough to make one an anarchist. That aspiration towards unlimited freedom, if not tempered by a love for mankind and by the desire that all should enjoy equal freedom, may well create rebels who soon become exploiters and tyrants.

How badly I want that nameless thing! First there must be an idea, a feeling... Maybe it was an abstract idea that you've got to find a symbol for, or maybe it was a concrete form that you have to simplify or distort to meet your ends, but that starting point must pervade the whole.

From what may anyone be saved? Only from themselves! That is, their individual hell. They dig it with their own desires.

We must have a warrant for our prayers. If we have some great desire, we must search the scriptures to find if it be right to ask it.

The first thing a man must do if he desires to be used in the Lord's work, is to make an unconditional surrender of himself to God.

I don't want to discount talent and ability, but I still maintain that a lot of it is just sheer desire.

Perfectionism is not as much the desire for excellence, as it is the fear of failure couched in procrastination .

When we have a vision of what we can become, our desire and our power to act increase enormously.

My desire to devolve authority has nothing to do with a wish to shirk responsibility.

The superior man does what is proper to the station in which he is; he does not desire to go beyond this. In a position of wealth and honor, he does what is proper to a position of wealth and honor. In a poor and low position, he does what is proper to a poor and low position.

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.

We just need to relax and rejoice in our divine differences. We need to realize that we all desire to serve in the kingdom, using our unique talents and gifts in our own ways.