Quotes about Desire
Can I hit it in the morning with out giving you have of my dough?
— Jay-Z
The desire to rule is the mother of heresies.
— St. John Chrysostom
If you would abolish covetousness, you must abolish its mother, profusion.
— Cicero
Wanting something is not enough. You must hunger for it. Your motivation must be absolutely compelling in order to overcome the obstacles that will invariably come your way.
— Les Brown
When you know what you want and you want it badly enough, you will find the ways to get it.
— Jim Rohn
If you possess something but you can't give it away, then you don't possess it... it possesses you.
— Frank Sinatra
Virtually every writer I know would rather be a musician.
— Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
An old pop music producer once said that there are really only four kinds of song a person can write: "I love you/I hate you/go away/come back!" That's a funny observation.
— Matt Redman
No tendency is quite so strong in human nature as the desire to lay down rules of conduct for other people.
— William Howard Taft
The very nature of Joy makes nonsense of our common distinction between having and wanting.
— CS Lewis
And certainly, the mistakes that we male and female mortals make when we have our own way might fairly raise some wonder that we are so fond of it.
— George Eliot
The wealth required by nature is limited and is easy to procure; but the wealth required by vain ideals extends to infinity.
— Epicurus