Desire Quotes

People have to have a desire within themselves to know who they are and the reason why they are in this body.

If you start by promising what you don’t even have yet, you’ll lose your desire to work towards getting it.

Character is a wish for a perfect education.

Though we may not desire to detect fraud, we must not, on that account, endeavor to be insensible of it, for, as cunning is a crime, so is duplicity a fault, and if men dread knaves, they also despise fools.

To fight against one’s desires is the greatest of all fights.

He who desires, but acts not, breeds pestilence.

I have no desire to suffer twice, in reality and then in retrospect.

Even as a child I had a strong relationship with yearning and desire. And loss. Those things spoke to me.

It is hard to contend against one’s heart’s desire; for whatever it wishes to have it buys at the cost of soul.

Few things are brought to a successful issue by impetuous desire, but most by calm and prudent forethought.