Quotes about Desire

To desire is to obtain; to aspire is to achieve. Shall man's basest desires receive the fullest measure of gratification, and his purest aspirations starve for lack of sustenance? Such is not the law: such a condition of things can never obtain: "ask and receive.

You will rise as high as your greatest aspiration, or fall as low as your

Not what he wishes and prays for does a man get, but what he justly earns. His

On the wings of aspiration man rises from earth to heaven, from ignorance to knowledge, from the under darkness to the upper light. Without it he remains a grovelling animal, earthly, sensual, unenlightened, and uninspired. Aspiration is the longing for heavenly things.

Romance says, ' I want it now!'. Wisdom urges patience

Love costs us much, but we still need it.Wisdom costs us much, but we still seek it.Faith costs us much, but we still practice it.Life costs us much, but we still desire it.

Bait, no matter how big, is useless if fish do not desire it.

Sinatra's idea of paradise is a place where there are plenty of women and no newspapermen. He doesn't know it, but he'd be better off if it were the other way around.

As the hart desires the spring of living water, so my soul desires to leave the prison of this dark body and see You in truth.

Love is the ultimate and the highest goal to which man can aspire.

A man seldom thinks with more earnestness of anything than he does of his dinner.

Nothing is enough for the man to whom enough is too little.