One must not lose desires. They are mighty stimulants to creativeness, to love, and to long life.
Alexander A. Bogomoletz
We never desire strongly, what we desire rationally.
Francois de la Rochefoucauld
If you desire many things, many things will seem but a few.
Benjamin Franklin
Naked I seek the camp of those who desire nothing.
Horace
We do not succeed in changing things according to our desire, but gradually our desire changes.
Marcel Proust
He that flatters you more than you desire either has deceived you or wishes to deceive.
Italian Proverb
Without a sense of urgency, desire loses its value.
Jim Rohn
The desire not to be anything is the desire not to be.
Ayn Rand
In moderating, not in satisfying desires, lies peace.
Reginald Heber
How helpless we are, like netted birds, when we are caught by desire!
Belva Plain
The desire to know is natural to good men.
Leonardo da Vinci
By believing passionately in something that still does not exist, we create it. The nonexistent is whatever we have not sufficiently desired.
Anonymous
It is the nature of desire not to be satisfied, and most men live only for the gratification of it.
Aristotle
Man is an animal which, alone among the animals, refuses to be satisfied by the fulfilment of animal desires.
Alexander Graham Bell
Why then, can one desire too much of a good thing?
William Shakespeare
The desire to write grows with writing.
Desiderius Erasmus
Your feet will bring you to where your heart is.
Irish Proverb
Dwell not upon thy weariness, thy strength shall be according to the measure of thy desire.
Arab Proverb
Serendipity. Look for something, find something else, and realize that what you’ve found is more suited to your needs than what you thought you were looking for.
Lawrence Block
We desire nothing so much as what we ought not to have.
Publilius Syrus
A desire to be observed, considered, esteemed, praised, beloved, and admired by his fellows is one of the earliest as well as the keenest dispositions discovered in the heart of man.
John Adams
Be careful what you set your heart upon – for it will surely be yours.
James Baldwin
Desire is half of life; indifference is half of death.
Kahlil Gibran
Everyone believes very easily whatever they fear or desire.
Jean de La Fontaine
Most people can do extraordinary things if they have the confidence or take the risks. Yet most people don’t. They sit in front of the telly and treat life as if it goes on forever.
Philip Andrew Adams
I do desire we may be better strangers.
William Shakespeare
Again, men in general desire the good, and not merely what their fathers had.
Aristotle
Love is something far more than desire for sexual intercourse; it is the principal means of escape from the loneliness which afflicts most men and women throughout the greater part of their lives.
Bertrand Russell
Burning desire to be or do something gives us staying power – a reason to get up every morning or to pick ourselves up and start in again after a disappointment.
Marsha Sinetar
Life ought to be a struggle of desire toward adventures whose nobility will fertilize the soul.
Rebecca West
Pearls lie not on the seashore. If thou desirest one thou must dive for it.
Chinese Proverb
In men of the highest character and noblest genius there is to be found an insatiable desire for honour, command, power, and glory.
Cicero
There is no use whatever trying to help people who do not help themselves. You cannot push anyone up a ladder unless he be willing to climb himself.
Andrew Carnegie
There is no calamity greater than lavish desires. There is no greater guilt than discontentment. And there is no greater disaster than greed.
Lao tzu
Life is not holding a good hand; life is playing a poor hand well.
Danish proverb
One essential to success is that your desire be an all obsessing one, your thoughts and aims be co-ordinated, and your energy be concentrated and applied without letup.
Claude M. Bristol
Whatever you vividly imagine, ardently desire, sincerely believe, and enthusiastically act upon must inevitably come to pass.
Paul J. Meyer
Dreams do come true, if we only wish hard enough, You can have anything in life if you will sacrifice everything else for it.
Sir James M. Barrie
There is nothing like desire for preventing the thing one says from bearing any resemblance to what one has in mind.
Marcel Proust
There is one quality which one must possess to win, and that is definiteness of purpose, the knowledge of what one wants, and a burning desire to possess it.
Napoleon Hill
Sooner murder an infant in its cradle than nurse unacted desires.
William Blake
You can have anything you want if you want it desperately enough. You must want it with an inner exuberance that erupts through the skin and joins the energy that created the world.
Sheila Graham
Some prices are just too high, no matter how much you may want the prize. The one thing you can’t trade for your heart’s desire is your heart.
Lois McMaster Bujold
Wonder implies the desire to learn.
Aristotle
Out of need springs desire, and out of desire springs the energy and the will to win.
Denis Waitley
O, she is the antidote to desire.
William Congreve
Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of readiness to die.
G. K. Chesterton
Do not impose on others what you yourself do not desire.
Confucius
By annihilating the desires, you annihilate the mind. Every man without passions has within him no principle of action, nor motive to act.
Claude Adrien Helvétius
If I discover within myself a desire which no experience in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world.
C.S. Lewis
A woman’s appetite is twice that of a man’s; her sexual desire, four times; her intelligence, eight times.
Anonymous
A sight to dream of, not to tell!
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
I would rather be poor in a cottage full of books than a king without the desire to read.
Thomas Babington Macaulay
I have certainly known more men destroyed by the desire to have a wife and child and to keep them in comfort than I have seen destroyed by drink and harlots.
William Butler Yeats
As soon as you stop wanting something you get it. I’ve found that to be absolutely axiomatic.
Andy Warhol
There is wishful thinking in Hell as well as on earth.
C. S. Lewis
And pluck till time and times are done The silver apples of the moon The golden apples of the sun.
W. B. Yeats
Appetite comes with eating.
Francois Rabelais
But he did not understand the price. Mortals never do. They only see the prize. Their hearts desire, their dream….But the price of getting what you want is getting what you once wanted.
Neil Gaiman
When you relinquish the desire to control your future, you can have more happiness.
Nicole Kidman