Desire Quotes

Show me a man of average ability but extraordinary desire and I will show you a winner everytime.

My desire to experiment comes from my attention-deficit approach to cosmetics. I just get really bored, really easily.

It is often better to be restricted to necessity than unconfined in the measure of our desires: prosperity destroys more individuals than adversity ruins.

I never desired to please the rabble. What pleased them, I did not learn; and what I knew was far removed from their understanding.

I do desire we may be better strangers.

Boredom: the desire for desires.

I was blinded by the desire to be wanted that I forgot how to love myself.

She knew full well the enormity of her offense, but because her desires were stronger than the code she was breaking, she persisted in breaking it.

Being wealthy isn’t just a question of having lots of money. It’s a question of what we want. Wealth isn’t an absolute, it’s relative to desire. Every time we seek something that we can’t afford, we can be counted as poor, how much money we may actually have.

Doing little things with a strong desire to please God makes them really great.