Quotes about Desire
I want to be a jerk like the rest of my friends, and have fun, and not care about the consequences, but I just can't now.
- Leonardo DiCaprio
You must desire the fire, and claim your flame!
- Reinhard Bonnke
Lust is a poor, weak, whimpering, whispering thing compared with that richness and energy of desire which will arise when lust has been killed.
- CS Lewis
If I find in myself a desire which no experience in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world.
- CS Lewis
Desire is the starting point of all achievement, not a hope, not a wish, but a keen pulsating desire which transcends everything.
- Napoleon Hill
As we come unto Christ and journey to higher ground, we will desire to spend more time in His temples, because the temples represent higher ground, sacred ground.
- Joseph Wirthlin
The fundamental factor of self-deception is this constant desire to be something in this world and in the world hereafter.
- Jiddu Krishnamurti
Love is the effort and desire to make someone else everything they were created to be.
- Timothy Keller
I am, as ever, a poor sinner, a captive of eternal love, running by the side of His triumphal chariot, and I have no desire to be anything else as long as I live.
- Nicolaus Zinzendorf
...Everything that is, desires to be. As we act, we unfold our being. Enjoyment naturally follows, for a thing desired always brings delight.
- Dante Alighieri
Weak desires bring weak results, just as a small amount of fire brings a small amount of heat.
- Napoleon Hill
Singing is as much the language of holy joy as praying is of holy desire.
- John Wesley