Desire

28 quotes.

• There are two tragedies in life. One is to lose your heart's desire. The other is to gain it.

  George Bernard Shaw

• He who is not contented with what he has, would not be contented with what he would like to have.

  Socrates

• Desire is the starting point of all achievement.

  Napoleon Hill

• Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp -- or what's a heaven for?

  Robert Browning

• As long as a man stands in his own way, everything seems to be in his way.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

• Because we want peace with half a heart and half a life and will, the war of course continues because the waging of war is total. But the waging of peace, by our own cowardice, is partial.

  Daniel Berrigan

• Better murder an infant in its cradle than nurse an unacted desire.

  William Blake

• Help me to resist temptation, Lord, especially when I know no one is looking.

  Anonymous

• Hope is a desire with an expectation of accomplishment.

  Anonymous

• I feel an earnest and humble desire, and shall till I die, to increase the stock of harmless cheerfulness.

  Charles Dickens

• I generally avoid temptation unless I can't resist it.

  Mae West

• I never resist temptation, because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me.

  George Bernard Shaw

• I'm a simple man. All I want is enough sleep for two normal men, enough whiskey for three, and enough women for four.

  Joel Rosenberg, "The Warrior Lives"

• If you haven't all the things you want, be grateful for the things you don't have that you wouldn't want.

  Anonymous

• It is good to be without vices, but it is not good to be without temptations.

  Walter Bagehot, "Biographical Studies

• It's not peace I want, not mere contentment. It's boundless joy and ecstasy for me.

  Kugell

• Lord, grant that I may always desire more than I accomplish.

  Michelangelo

• Love is an irresistable desire to be irresistably desired.

  Robert Frost

• Most people are so busy knocking themselves out trying to do everything they think they should do, they never get around to what they want to do.

  Kathleen Winsor

• Our destiny changes with our thought; we shall become what we wish to become, do what we wish to do, when our habitual thought corresponds with our desire.

  Orison S. Marden

• The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it.

  Oscar Wilde

• Those who flee temptation generally leave a forwarding address.

  Lane Olinghouse

• What is my loftiest ambition? I've always wanted to throw an egg at an electric fan.

  Anonymous

• Whatever you want too much you can't have, so when you really want something, try to want it a little less.

  Joel Rosenberg

• When one door closes another door opens; but we so often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door, that we do not see the ones which open for us.

  Alexander Graham Bell

• You know, sometimes a man just can't satisfy all of a woman's desires. Which is why God invented dental floss.

  Susanne Kollrack

• You will never 'find' time for anything. If you want the time, you must make it.

  Charles Buxton

• By believing passionately in something that still does not exist, we create it. The nonexistent is whatever we have not sufficiently desired.

  Nikos Kazantzakis

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