Quotes about Desire
It isn't expectations that carry us forward, it's our desire to go on.
- Paulo Coelho
Hatred grows into insolence when we desire to excel the rest of mankind and imagine we do not belong to the common lot; we even severely and haughtily despise others as our inferiors.
- John Calvin
Intend to live in continual mortification, and never to expect or desire any worldly ease or pleasure.
- Jonathan Edwards
Temperance is a disposition that restrains our desires for things which it is base to desire.
- St. Augustine
A BURNING DESIRE TO BE, AND TO DO is the starting point from which the dreamer must take off. Dreams are not born of indifference, laziness, or lack of ambition.
- Napoleon Hill
When the will is enslaved to a desire, it will in turn enslave the mind.
- Dallas Willard
If you are influenced by the opinions of others, you will have no DESIRE of your own.
- Napoleon Hill
I must keep alive in myself the desire for my true country, which I shall not find till after death.
- CS Lewis
I desire only Him and to be wholly His.
- Brother Lawrence
Desire is what takes the hot water of mediocrity and turns it into the steam of outstanding success.
- Zig Ziglar
Wonder is the desire of knowledge.
- St. Thomas Aquinas
Our problem is not that we desire too much but too little.
- CS Lewis