Desires Quotes

The Beijing Olympics and the Shanghai World Expo show just how much effort China is willing to spend to enter the global stage. But while China desires to understand the world, it fails to accept its universal values.

Freedom in general may be defined as the absence of obstacles to the realization of desires.

The British system denied any role for human creativity, and instead argued, that if man merely followed his hedonistic desires, pursuing pleasure and avoiding pain, objective laws would naturally guide society to achieve the best allocation of wealth.

We all have different desires and needs, but if we don't discover what we want from ourselves and what we stand for, we will live passively and unfulfilled.

I distrust those people who know so well what God wants them to do, because I notice it always coincides with their own desires.

Man is the only animal whose desires increase as they are fed; the only animal that is never satisfied.

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.

Every one desires to live long, but no one would be old.

Death is the mother of Beauty; hence from her, alone, shall come fulfillment to our dreams and our desires.

Our duty is to be useful, not according to our desires but according to our powers.

Though we may have desires or bold goals, for whatever reason, most of us don't think we can achieve something beyond what we're qualified to achieve. Why, I ask, do we let reality interfere with our dreams?

I am no longer sure of anything. If I satiate my desires, I sin but I deliver myself from them; if I refuse to satisfy them, they infect the whole soul.

I believe that all of us are born heterosexual, physically created with a plumbing that's heterosexual, and created with the instincts and desires that are basically, fundamentally, heterosexual.

My most profound confidence is however based upon the fact that at the head of Germany there stands a man by his entire development, his desires, and striving can only have been destined by fate to lead our people into a brighter future.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.