Desires Quotes

There are people who possess not so much genius as a certain talent for perceiving the desires of the century, or even of the decade, before it has done so itself.

Men are so simple and yield so readily to the desires of the moment that he who will trick will always find another who will suffer to be tricked.

I'm also a great believer in the dream life; that while we're asleep, a deep subconscious connection is made about our profoundest fears, hopes, loves, losses, dreads and desires.

Uncontrolled, the hunger and thirst after God may become an obstacle, cutting off the soul from what it desires. If a man would travel far along the mystic road, he must learn to desire God intensely but in stillness, passively and yet with all his heart and mind and strength.

Indignation is a submission of our thoughts, but not of our desires.

In today's world, marketers reach inside the home and attempt to figure out not what's good for your daughter, because that is not their business, but what deep desires they can manipulate, stimulate and ostensibly satisfy in order to produce cold, hard cash.

That is the best government which desires to make the people happy, and knows how to make them happy.

A short cut to riches is to subtract from our desires.

One that desires to excel should endeavor in those things that are in themselves most excellent.

Desire nothing, give up all desires and be happy.

Man is insatiable for power; he is infantile in his desires and, always discontented with what he has, loves only what he has not. People complain of the despotism of princes; they ought to complain of the despotism of man.

A man desires praise that he may be reassured, that he may be quit of his doubting of himself; he is indifferent to applause when he is confident of success.

Do not follow vain desires; for verily he who prospers is preserved from lust, greed and anger.

The child who desires education will be bettered by it; the child who dislikes it disgraced.

Energy is an eternal delight, and he who desires, but acts not, breeds pestilence.

The stoical scheme of supplying our wants by lopping off our desires, is like cutting off our feet when we want shoes.

Whosoever desires constant success must change his conduct with the times.

Listen to the desires of your children. Encourage them and then give them the autonomy to make their own decision.

On the other hand in London you can get an audience that desires dance to go as far as it can go: they've seen the bricks of ideas built over a period so therefore there is an acceptance of what otherwise might seem out on a limb.

Let him who desires peace prepare for war.

There is no man who desires as passionately as a Russian. If we could imprison a Russian desire beneath a fortress, that fortress would explode.

Humanity could only have survived and flourished if it held social and personal values that transcended the urges of the individual, embodying selfish desires - and these stem from the sense of a transcendent good.

But what is striking about this, in a town that often talks about tax cuts, we could quite easily, Republicans and Democrats working together, do something that everybody in America desires, and that is a simplification of our Tax Code.

To manifest your hearts desires you must BE what your heart desires.

We are angry about paying the highest income taxes and property taxes in the nation and getting less and less for it. We are angry about our incompetent, dysfunctional government that pays no attention to the desires of the people. We are angry about the cesspool of corruption and conflicts of interests and self-dealing that is Albany.

I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than in attempting to satisfy them.

Whatever it is your heart desires, please go for it, it's yours to have.

If what the heart approves conforms to proper patterns, then even if one's desires are many, what harm would they be to good order?

God grant you all your desires and accept my own hearty thanks for all your attention to me. Although indeed, those attentions have tried me more than death can now terrify me.

Religion is an illusion and it derives its strength from the fact that it falls in with our instinctual desires.