Desires Quotes

Almost all our desires, when examined, contain something too shameful to reveal.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Our desires always disappoint us; for though we meet with something that gives us satisfaction, yet it never thoroughly answers our expectation.

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.

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?

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

Conjugal love, or the friendship of spouses, can persist even after sexual desires have weakened, withered, and disappeared.

I consider no man honest who does not observe towards other nations the principles which he desires to be observed towards his own: and therefore I will not interfere in your domestic questions.

Literature for me isn't a workaday job, but something which involves desires, dreams and fantasy.

Intellects whose desires have outstripped their understanding.

The inner thought coming from the heart represents the real motives and desires. These are the cause of action.

A lot of people just go to movies that feed into their preexisting and not so noble needs and desires: They just go to action pictures, and things like that.

The moguls are driven by their respective desires for profit - period.

A desire arises in the mind. It is satisfied immediately another comes. In the interval which separates two desires a perfect calm reigns in the mind. It is at this moment freed from all thought, love or hate. Complete peace equally reigns between two mental waves.

Despite Japan's desires and efforts, unfortunate differences in the ways that Japan, England, the United States, and China understood circumstances, together with misunderstandings of attitudes, made it impossible for the parties to agree.

I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self.

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.