Desire Quotes

88 quotations about Desire
The desire of the lazy kill him; for his hands refuse to labor. [Proverbs 21:25]
Bible · Desire
The desire of our soul is to they name, and to the remembrance of thee. [Isaiah 26:8]
Bible · Desire
The desire accomplished is sweet to the soul. [Proverbs 13:19]
Bible · Desire
He who desires but does not act, breeds pestilence.
William Blake · Desire
A man must earnestly want.
William Frederick Book · Desire
We trifle when we assign limits to our desires, since nature hath set none.
Christian Nevell Bovee · Desire
You gotta be hungry!
Les Brown · Desire
O lyric Love, half angel and half bird. And all a wonder and a wild desire.
Robert Browning · Desire
Desire, like the atom, is explosive with creative force.
Paul Vernon Buser · Desire
Desire is the thing you want in incipiency.
Emilie Cady · Desire
Almost every desire a poor man has is a punishable offence.
Louis-Ferdinand Celine · Desire
If you really want something you can figure out how to make it happen.
Cher · Desire
All through nature, you will find the same law. First the need, then the means.
Robert Collier · Desire
To desire is to obtain; to aspire is to achieve.
James Allen · Desire
Listen to what you know instead of what you fear.
Richard Bach · Desire
Man is a creation of desire, not a creation of need.
Gaston Bachelard · Desire
The desire of excessive power caused the angels to fall; the desire of knowledge caused men to fall.
Francis Bacon · Desire
Be careful what you set your heart upon -- for it will surely be yours.
James Baldwin · Desire
Supply always comes on the heels of demand.
Robert Collier · Desire
It sometimes seems that we have only to love a thing greatly to get it.
Robert Collier · Desire
Whenever we confront an unbridled desire we are surely in the presence of a tragedy-in-the-making.
Quentin Crisp · Desire
Anything you really want, you can attain, if you really go after it.
Wayne Dyer · Desire
Some people wanted champagne and caviar when they should have had beer and hot dogs.
Dwight D. Eisenhower · Desire
Can anything be so elegant as to have few wants, and to serve them one's self?
Ralph Waldo Emerson · Desire
It is not from nature, but from education and habits, that our wants are chiefly derived.
Henry Fielding · Desire

Authors on Desire

James Allen Richard Bach Gaston Bachelard Francis Bacon James Baldwin Bible William Blake William Frederick Book Christian Nevell Bovee Les Brown Robert Browning Paul Vernon Buser Emilie Cady Louis-Ferdinand Celine Cher Robert Collier Quentin Crisp Dutch Proverb Wayne Dyer Dwight D. Eisenhower