Quotes about Desire

The human soul needs actual beauty even more than bread.

All get what they want; they do not always like it.

Repentance is another name for aspiration.

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

The ambitious climb high and perilous stairs, and never care how to come down; the desire of rising hath swallowed up their fear of a fall.

"Walter," she said, looking full upon him with her affectionate eyes, "like you, I hope for better things. I will pray for them, and believe that they will arrive."

What the mind can conceive and believe, and the heart desire, you can achieve.

If you start out by promising what you don't even have yet, you'll lose your desire to work toward getting it.

The characteristic common to God and man is apparently that: the desire and the ability to make things.

The easiest, most straightforward way to create a great product or service is to make something you want to use.

Once ego and pride are on the line, you can't change your mind without looking bad. The desire to save face trumps the desire to make the right call.

To speak to Him thus is easier by nature for woman than for man because a natural desire lives in her to give herself completely to someone. When she has once realized that no one other than God is capable of receiving her completely for Himself and that it is sinful theft toward God to give oneself completely to one other than Him, then the surrender is no longer difficult and she becomes free of herself.