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There are no better masters than poverty and wants.
-Danish proverb
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More than we use is more than we want.
-Scottish Proverb
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First deserve then desire.
-Proverb
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Unbridled gratification produces unbridled desire.
-Proverb
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A desire to be observed, considered, esteemed, praised, beloved, and admired by his fellows is one of the earliest as well as the keenest dispositions discovered in the heart of man.
-John Adams
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I desire not to desire, for my will is without value, since I am ignorant in any case. Therefore choose Thou for me what thou knowest to be best and do not put my perdition in what my autonomy and free choice prefer.
-Bayazid Al-Bistami
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How badly do you want it?
-George E. Allen
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To desire is to obtain; to aspire is to achieve.
-James Allen
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Desire is the key to motivation, but it's the determination and commitment to an unrelenting pursuit of your goal -- a commitment to excellence -- that will enable you to attain the success you seek.
-Mario Andretti
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I distrust those people who know so well what God wants them to do, because I notice it always coincides with their own desires.
-Susan B. Anthony
in Life and Work of Susan B. Anthony, vol. 4, ch. 16. by A. H. Shaw and I. H. Harper, 1902., Convention speech, Jan. 1896, January, 1896
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Listen to what you know instead of what you fear.
-Richard Bach
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Man is a creation of desire, not a creation of need.
-Gaston Bachelard
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Be careful what you set your heart upon -- for it will surely be yours.
-James Baldwin
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Those who really desire to attain an independence, have only set their minds upon it, and adopt the proper means, as they do in regard to any other object which they wish to accomplish, and the thing is easily done.
-P. T. (Phineas Taylor) Barnum
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Dreams do come true, if we only wish hard enough, You can have anything in life if you will sacrifice everything else for it.
-James Barrie
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Want is one only of five giants on the road of reconstruction; the others are Disease, Ignorance, Squalor, and Idleness.
-Baron William Henry Beveridge
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The desire of the lazy kill him; for his hands refuse to labor. Proverbs 21:25
-Bible
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The desire of our soul is to thy name, and to the remembrance of thee. Isaiah 26:8
-Bible
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And desire shall fail: because man goeth to his long home, and the mourners go about the streets. Ecclesiastes 12:5
-Bible
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The desire accomplished is sweet to the soul. Proverbs 13:19
-Bible
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But I say to you, that every one who looks on a woman to lust for her has committed adultery with her already in his heart. Matthew 5:28
-Bible
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He who desires but does not act, breeds pestilence.
-William Blake
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Those who restrain their desires, do so because theirs is weak enough to be restrained.
-William Blake
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A man must earnestly want.
-William Frederick Book
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We trifle when we assign limits to our desires, since nature hath set none.
-Christian Nevell Bovee
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Books about Desires
