Desire Quotes

The more you seek security, the less of it you have. But the more you seek opportunity, the more likely it is that you will achieve the security that you desire.

Sad will be the day for any man when he becomes contented with the thoughts he is thinking and the deeds he is doing - where there is not forever beating at the doors of his soul some great desire to do something larger; which he knows he was meant and made to do.

I had no desire from an early age to be on the stage.

My art springs from my desire to have things in the world which would otherwise never be there.

In order to succeed, your desire for success should be greater than your fear of failure.

Through these offices it was my privilege to get to know almost every Jewish person, and those whom I did not come to know through these offices I came to know through love and a desire to know my brethren, the members of my people.

Impatience translates itself into a desire to have something immediate done about it all, and, as is generally the case with impatience, resolves itself in the easiest way that lies ready to hand.

Failure doesn't kill you... it increases your desire to make something happen.

In the first place, when there is a policy of intentional aggression, inspired by a desire to get possession of the territory or the trade of another country, right or wrong, a pretext is always sought.

What does it take to be a champion? Desire, dedication, determination, concentration and the will to win.

Nothing is more consuming, or more illogical, than the desire for remembrance.

I work with the options I have in front of me and my reasons for choosing a job can vary enormously depending on the circumstances. Sometimes I take a job because it's a group of people I'm dying to work with, and sometimes it can be a desire to shake things up a bit and not to take myself too seriously.

It is my desire to be a great writer. I know that I still have a mountain to climb to achieve that.

You have indeed done much since the new century began to give shape and substance to the growing, the insistent desire that war may be banished from the earth.

It was the desire to do the complete thing. I only took taking acting lessons because my whole thing, really, was to direct. But my first jobs were acting jobs.

I've never had a desire to be famous. Lots of actors are actually extremely shy. I have shy areas.

If you desire to be pure, have firm faith, and slowly go on with your devotional practices without wasting your energy in useless scriptural discussions and arguments. Your little brain will otherwise be muddled.

When we disclaim praise, it is only showing our desire to be praised a second time.

Have the courage of your desire.

I think I became more productive through not having children. I never really had the desire to have them. My husband didn't want them either, so it worked out well.

Death is not evil, for it frees man from all ills and takes away his desires along with desire's rewards.

One of the most beautiful passages of Rousseau is that in the sixth book of Confessions, where he describes the awakening in him of the literary sense. Of such wisdom, the poetic passion, the desire of beauty, the love of art for its own sake, has most.

Fame is ultimately about the cycles of desire and how to do away with them or manage them well.

I love being physical, but I don't have any desire to prove myself.

Those who desire to rise as high as our human condition allows, must renounce intellectual pride, the omnipotence of clear thinking, belief in the absolute power of logic.

Do you wish to be great? Then begin by being. Do you desire to construct a vast and lofty fabric? Think first about the foundations of humility. The higher your structure is to be, the deeper must be its foundation.

When someone has the desire to go to school and has the ability but can't get into our schools, that's wrong. Education drives the economy and the quality of life.

Reason has not tamed desire: it is as strong as ever.

Uncontrolled, the hunger and thirst after God may become an obstacle, cutting off the soul from what it desires. If a man would travel far along the mystic road, he must learn to desire God intensely but in stillness, passively and yet with all his heart and mind and strength.

But the deep desire for peace remained with the American people.