Quotes about Desire
Genius never desires what does not exist.
- Soren Kierkegaard
People say the good Lord fills the stomach before the eyes. I haven't noticed; my eyes have had enough and I am weary of everything, and yet I hunger.
- Soren Kierkegaard
Zealousness to learn from life is seldom found, but all the more frequently a desire, inclination, and reciprocal haste to be deceived by life.
- Soren Kierkegaard
What is it to be God's elect? It is to be denied in youth the wishes of youth, so as with great pains to get them fulfilled in old age.
- Soren Kierkegaard
Happy my lot in life if my desire coincides with my duty, and conversely; and most people's task in life is exactly to stay under their obligation, and by their enthusiasm to transform it into their wish.
- Soren Kierkegaard
Winning isn't everything--but wanting to win is.
- Vince Lombardi Jr.
If you don't first handle fear and desire, and you get rich, you'll only be a highpay slave.
- Robert Kiyosaki
The goose that lays the golden eggs likes to lay where there are eggs already.
- Charles Spurgeon
What you are must always displease you, if you would attain to that which you are not.
- St. Augustine
I did not ask for success; I asked for wonder.
- Abraham Joshua Heschel
This thing that haunts you, that never seems satisfied, the cravings in your soul that you are unable to satiate through all the success that the world can bring this is your soul screaming for God.
- Erwin McManus
What is the use of acquiring one's heart's desire if one cannot handle and gloat over it, show it to one's friends, and gather an anthology of envy and admiration?
- Dorothy Sayers