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