Desire Quotes

True charity is the desire to be useful to others with no thought of recompense.

The courage we desire and prize is not the courage to die decently, but to live manfully.

What is the single most important quality in a tennis champion? I would have to say desire, staying in there and winning matches when you are not playing that well.

And I hereby distinctly and emphatically declare that I consider myself, and earnestly desire to be considered by others, as utterly divested, now and during the rest of my life, of any such rights, the barbarous relics of a feudal, despotic system.

My desire to participate in the business is not to make more crap.

What I took back, because of my exposure to the Jewish music of the 30s and the 40s in my upbringing with my father, was that kind of theatrical songwriting. It was always a part of my character. This desire to make people laugh.

I didn't have any desire I might have had 10 years ago to shoot every single word that I wrote.

Some people have a desire to be with the same sex. But that's them.

The government's desire to expand global trade may be understandable, but we mustn't give away too much. We must tell our elected representatives to at least delay the Canada-China FIPA until it has been examined more thoroughly, and to reconsider the inclusion of investor-state arbitration mechanisms in all trade deals.

Jim Carrey, a comic genius, has a harder time overcoming the public's desire for him to be funny simply because he's so good at it.

I became an actor, and because I had success as an actor, I became famous. I was acting for quite a while before I got famous; television made me famous. I guess that it's television that is responsible for everybody's desire to be famous.

We are told that talent creates its own opportunities. But it sometimes seems that intense desire creates not only its own opportunities, but its own talents.

When we disclaim praise, it is only showing our desire to be praised a second time.

God's desire is that we excel.

I desire an special interest in your prayers that my faith fail not in the day of adversity.

There are two tragedies in life. One is to lose your heart's desire. The other is to gain it.

The line of life is a ragged diagonal between duty and desire.

It goes without saying that the desire to accomplish the task with more confidence, to avoid wasting time and labour, and to spare our experimental animals as much as possible, made us strictly observe all the precautions taken by surgeons in respect to their patients.

A fine world in which man reproaches woman with fulfilling his heart's desire!

Longing and desire goes further than instant satisfaction. That's human nature.

What's powerful about a love scene is not seeing the act. It's seeing the passion, the need, the desire, the caring, the fear.

The desire is thy prayers; and if thy desire is without ceasing, thy prayer will also be without ceasing. The continuance of your longing is the continuance of your prayer.

I had no desire to crash a man's world.

The desire for self-expression afflicts people when they feel there is something of themselves which is not getting through to the outside world.

If you desire faith, then you have faith enough.

I think Dwight loves being number two. I don't think he has any desire to be number one. He wants to be number two no matter where he goes. It's like Avis. 'We try harder.' That's Dwight.

Our people have proven their desire for continuing with reforms. We complete the march today with those who have an honest patriotic desire for more progress and reform.

The starting point of all achievement is desire.

Forbid us something, and that thing we desire.

I have no desire to go in for tyranny or to play the part of King Charles. I hate tyranny in any field of human activity.