Top 100 Desires To Quotes
#1. The best book in the
world to put into the hands of one who desires to know about Jesus and
to be saved is the gospel of John.
R.A. Torrey
#2. God desires to use you is to use you in the best possible fashion.
Sunday Adelaja
#3. A flower blooms because she dreams and desires to do so. Nothing happens without a dream.
Debasish Mridha
#4. When a man undertakes to create something, he establishes a new heaven, as it were, and from it the work that he desires to create flows into him ... For such is the immensity of man that he is greater than heaven and earth.
Paracelsus
#5. Photography is thus brought within reach of every human being who desires to preserve a record of what he sees ... and enables the fortunate possessor to go back by the light of his own fireside to scenes which would otherwise fade from memory and be lost.
George Eastman
#6. Love is the dance of the spirit on a stage called heart with the songs of mind to satisfy our eternal desires to belong.
Debasish Mridha
#7. People will help you do almost anything if you want to do it badly enough. The desire has to be intense, but I would encourage people to search their desires, to pick out one, and then get out and do it!
Nola Ochs
#8. A revolutionist is one who desires to discard the existing social order and try another.
George Bernard Shaw
#9. Every time I tried to express my most heartfelt desires to be morally good I met with contempt and ridicule; and as soon as I would give in to vile passions I was praised and encouraged. Ambition, love of power, self-interest, lechery, pride, anger, vengeance-all of it was highly esteemed.
Leo Tolstoy
#10. A boy is a man when he proves himself to be one, but a girl is a woman when she desires to be one.
Robin Hobb
#11. Future never desires to become a past
Munia Khan
#12. If our dreams are sincere desires to achieve, not mere pipe-dreams, there is something deep within ourselves which comes out to meet them and helps to make them realities.
Orison Swett Marden
#13. Want ever so gently. Invite your desires to you like you call a cat. Any aggressive move toward your goals will chase them away.
Bryant H. McGill
#14. Desires to which we cling closely can easily prevent us from being what we ought to be and can be; and on the other hand, desires repeatedly mastered for the sake of present duty make us richer.Lack of desire is poverty.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
#15. [L]anguage is not the sign of the idea actually existing in the mind of the speaker - but of that which (s)he desires to convey to the hearer.
Philip Beauchamp
#16. Nothing stops the man who desires to achieve. Every obstacle is simply a course to develop his achievement muscle. It's a strengthening of his powers of accomplishment.
Eric Butterworth
#17. Perhaps there is a pattern set up in the heavens for one who desires to see it, and having seen it, to find one in himself.
Plato
#18. Merely external emancipation has made of the modern woman an artificial being. Now, woman is confronted with the necessity of emancipating herself from emancipation, if she really desires to be free.
Emma Goldman
#19. The truly patient man neither complains of his hard lot nor desires to be pitied by others. He speaks of his sufferings in a natural, true, and sincere way, without murmuring, complaining, or exaggerating them.
Francis De Sales
#20. St. Francis Borgia says that he who desires to consecrate himself to God must, in the first place, trample under his feet all regard for what others will say of him. O my God, why do we not ask what Jesus Christ or his holy mother will think of our conduct?
Alphonsus Liguori
#21. Guilt can interfere with our desires to move forward, to heal properly and to become a person who has the mental health and means of proper recompense.
Bryant McGill
#22. Every man desires to live long, but no man wishes to be old.
Jonathan Swift
#24. Allow me, whom Fortune always desires to bury, lay down my life in these final trivialities. Many have freely died in longlasting loves, among whose number may the earth cover me as well.
Propertius
#25. Only as one is willing to give up his present limitations and identity can he become that which he desires to be.
Neville Goddard
#26. I have always believed that somehow the less we reveal the more the other desires to see.
Annette Messager
#27. Desires to use this handbook in your personal life. I'm certain of two things: prayerless lives are powerless lives, and prayerful lives are powerful lives.
Beth Moore
#28. We must learn a new modesty. We have stormed the heavens, but succeeded only in building fog upon fog, a mist which will not support anybody who earnestly desires to stand upon it. What is valid seems so insignificant that it may be seriously doubted whether anlaysis is at all possible.
Hermann Weyl
#29. In a word a contented Christian, being sweetly captivated under the authority of the Word, desires to be wholly at God's disposal and is willing to live in that sphere and climate where God has set him.
Thomas Watson
#30. As in many other industries, the luxury fashion consumer increasingly desires to put a personal stamp on important purchases.
Aslaug Magnusdottir
#31. It's in that place that we're reminded that true life comes when we're willing to admit that we've reached the end of ourselves, we've given up, we've let go, we're willing to die to all of our desires to figure it out and be in control. We lose our life, only to find it.
Rob Bell
#32. The faith state ... is the psychic correlate of a biological growth reducing contending-desires to one direction ... [p.272]
William James
#33. Prayer involves transformed passions. In prayer, real prayer, we begin to think God's thoughts after Him: to desire the things He desires, to love the things He loves, to will the things He wills.
Richard J. Foster
#34. No one can desire to be blessed, to act well and to live well, unless at the same time he desires to be, to act, and to live, that is, to actually exist.
Aleksandar Hemon
#35. Any individual can be, in time, what he earnestly desires to be, if he but sets his face steadfastly in the direction of that one thing, and bring all his powers to bear upon its attainment.
John Herman Randall
#36. God desires to have such a close and intimate relationship with Him, and He wants to be the first place you go to and be your place of peace and rest.
Chloe M. Gooden
#37. The cocktail filled him with a whirling exhilaration behind which he was aware of devastating desires - to rush places in fast motors, to kiss girls, to sing, to be witty ... He perceived that he had gifts of profligacy which had been neglected.
- chapter 8
Sinclair Lewis
#38. Everything that is, desires to be. As we act, we unfold our being. Enjoyment naturally follows, for a thing desired always brings delight.
Dante Alighieri
#39. He who desires to become a spiritual man must not be ever taking note of others, and above all of their sins, lest he fall into wrath and bitterness, and a judging spirit towards his neighbors.
Johannes Tauler
#40. Every veil secretly desires to be lifted, except the veil of Hypocrisy.
Richard B. Garnett
#41. To me that's what art is about - when you don't really have any control over your desires to do it.
Noah Taylor
#42. An accurate knowledge of the past of a country is necessary for everyone who would understand its present, and who desires to judge of its future.
Annie Besant
#43. Man desires to be free and he desires to feel important. This places him in a dilemma, for the more he emancipates himself from necessity the less important he feels.
W. H. Auden
#44. After all, what was the whole wide world but a place for people to yearn for their heart's impossible desires, for those desires to become entrenched in defiance of logic, plausibility, and even the passage of time, as eternal as polished marble.
Richard Russo
#45. To allow lust (or strong desires) to govern our life is to exalt our will over God's.
Dallas Willard
#46. When God desires to destroy a thing, he entrusts its destruction to the thing itself. Every bad institution of this world ends by suicide.
Victor Hugo
#47. For everything that God desires to do in the earth, He enters into partnership with those to whom He has already given dominion.
Myles Munroe
#48. When you're following your dreams, you quickly learn who wants you to succeed and who desires to see you fail. Pay attention and stay focused on what's important.
Delano Johnson
#49. Thus, thus, truly thus: a mind so blind and sick, so base and ill-mannered, desires to lie hidden, but does not wish that anything should be hidden from it.
Jeff Wheeler
#50. Meditation does not mean just sitting quietly for five or ten minutes. It requires conscious effort. The mind has to be made calm and quiet; at the same time, it has to be vigilant so as not to allow any distracting thoughts or desires to enter.
Sri Chinmoy
#51. Like a rose bud, my heart always desires to bloom and spread the fragrance of love, beauty, and kindness of mankind.
Debasish Mridha
#52. Deep down, we remain human, very human and have all the desires to love and be loved by one person.
Basil Hume
#53. For my part, the thing I would wish to obtain from money would be leisure with security. But what the typical modern man desires to get with it is more money, with a view to ostentation, splendour, and the outshining of those who have hitherto been his equals.
Bertrand Russell
#54. But I want first of all- in fact, as an end to these other desires- to be at peace with myself.
Anne Morrow Lindbergh
#55. Flesh will not stand in front of God, so all the decisions you make from your flesh will be paid for with your soul. Your flesh rejects the truth because it desires to do what it wants to do.
Monica Johnson
#56. Men are more ready to offend one who desires to be beloved than one who wishes to be feared.
Niccolo Machiavelli
#57. And whereas this House desires to obtain a full knowledge of all the facts which go to establish whether the particular spot of soil which the blood of our citizens was so shed was, or was not, our own soil.
Abraham Lincoln
#58. It is the will of our heavenly Father that we should come to Him freely and confidently and make known our desires to Him, just as we would have our children come freely and of their own accord and speak to us about the things they would like to have.
Ole Hallesby
#59. I know there has long been a great frustration among the African Americans in Nevada over their belief that we have not adequately responded to their desires to become more educated and more productive citizens.
James E. Rogers
#60. The truth of the matter is that our goals are generally very small and unsatisfying compared to the awesome, eternal plans the Father desires to accomplish through us.
Charles F. Stanley
#62. The wind shrieks, the wind grieves; It dashes the leaves on walls, it whirls then again; And the enormous sleeper vaguely and stupidly dreams And desires to stir, to resist a ghost of pain.
Conrad Aiken
#63. Let him that desires to see others happy, make haste to give while his gift can be enjoyed, and remember that every moment of delay takes away something from the value of his benefaction.
Samuel Johnson
#64. It's total submission to the cross. That's the bottom line of discipleship - to die unto ourselves; to nail our desires to the cross, and carry it for Christ.
Ryan D. Wilkins
#65. It is a fact that God wants to destroy every work of our flesh, but He never desires to destroy our personality. He takes no pleasure in transforming us into automata; rather He delights in having us cooperate with Him.
Watchman Nee
#66. 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.
Lajos Kossuth
#67. A man must have limits and cannot give in to the wild desires to be everything and everyone and everything to everyone.
Saul Bellow
#68. Mr. Chamberlain desires to avert the threat to England's peace by making England, in alliance with Germany, stronger than her rivals and so to force them to renounce their hostile intentions against her.
Bernhard Von Bulow
#69. Mapping out your own future in the form of images, phrases, and inspirational words that you are able to see every day will help reinforce your desires to attain what you set out to achieve.
Robert Cheeke
#70. Opposition is anything that opposes (1) us, (2) the work God desires to do in us, and (3) the work God desires to do through us.
Beth Moore
#71. But surrender is only possible if we have total assurance that we are safe. We must be convinced that if we let go we will be caught. This assurance only comes when we trust that our heavenly Father desires to be with us and will not let us fall.
Skye Jethani
#73. It is false to suggest that men must turn away from his desires in the interest of a higher duty. Men only responds to duty if he desires to do so. To understand men, you must understand their desires and the relative strength of those desires.
Bertrand Russell
#74. It is a human propensity to refuse any change. After all, who desires to move out of their cosy caves and battle in this ever-developing world.
Kunal Narayan Uniyal
#75. God desires to reveal the riches of His glory to the world through the abundance of people who have dedicated their lives to Him
Sunday Adelaja
#76. Indeed, if to be in love is not to be able to live without possessing that person one desires, to sacrifice to her one's time, one's pleasures, one's life, then I am really in love.
Pierre-Ambroise Choderlos De Laclos
#77. We were sent to this country by the President, who desires to promote the welfare of Japan, and are quite different from the ambassadors of other countries.
Townsend Harris
#78. His strength was restored and, with it, all his desires to live; he went out, began living again, and died a second time for himself.
Marcel Proust
#79. The older I get the less I see spirituality as an accomplishment. It seems to me to be mostly a matter of letting go and being willing to receive the special gifts God desires to give to us in His timing.
Michael Card
#80. Love tends to union with the object loved. Now Jesus Christ loves a soul that is in a state of grace with immense love; He ardently desires to unite Himself with it. That is what Holy Communion does
Alphonsus Liguori
#81. if one desires to have the body type of, say, a champion swimmer, the best course is to start by having the same parents as that champion swimmer - rather than his or her training methods.
Doug McGuff
#82. A man after God's own heart is ...
a man who yearns to please God,
a man who desires to grow spiritually,
a man who had a heart that obeys.
Jim George
#83. He that desires to print a book, should much more desire, to be a book.
John Donne
#84. My praying friend, continue to make known your desires to God in all things ... Let Him decide whether you are to receive what you ask for or not.
Ole Hallesby
#85. Successful and unsuccessful people do not vary greatly in their abilities. They vary in their desires to reach their potential.
John C. Maxwell
#87. Anyone, then, who desires to live chastely in Christ Jesus, must flee not only the mouse of lust, but even from its very scent.
Anthony Of Padua
#88. Why is it that man desires to be made sad, beholding doleful and tragical things, which yet himself would by no means suffer?
Saint Augustine
#89. There are desires to return, to love, to not disappear,
and there are desires to die, fought by two
opposing waters that have never isthmused.
Cesar Vallejo
#90. Don't complain. It's just a way of explaining your pains for no gains. Wake up to your calling ... Wear a positive move and say your desires to God!
Israelmore Ayivor
#91. Faith may always be acquired. Whoso is devoid of faith, and desires to have it, may acquire it by living for a few days (sometimes for a few hours only) as though he already possessed it. It is by practical, not theoretical, religion, that men transform their lives.
William Batchelder Greene
#92. When it comes time to protecting the homeland, the United States of America must be right 100 percent of the time. And the enemy, which desires to strike us again, only has to be right once.
George W. Bush
#93. Kindness is not something that we put on for certain occasions, like a piece of jewelry; rather, it is an attribute of God's that He desires to reproduce in us.
Charles Stanley
#94. Let him who desires to be harsh in making demands upon his debtors consider that he is God's debtor.
Saint Augustine
#95. Honesty is the key to Happiness.
Be always truthful to yourself, to
your feelings, emotions, needs and
desires & to others, no matter what!
Lily Amis
#96. If deceiving the eye were the only business of the art ... the minute painter would be more apt to succeed. But it is not the eye, it is the mind which the painter of genius desires to address.
Joshua Reynolds
#97. He who recollects a thing by which he was once pleased desires to possess it in the same circumstances as when he first was pleased by it. He who was never pleased is doomed to an eternal hard-on.
Aleksandar Hemon
#98. God desires to use you to the best of your capacity, to the best of your ability.
Sunday Adelaja
#99. Now, according to the strength or weakness of his faith in his Savior, so is his joy and peace, so is his love for holiness, so are his desires to know Him more and to serve Him more single-mindedly in this present world.
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John Bunyan
#100. Purity of speech, of the mind, of the senses, and of a compassionate heart are needed by one who desires to rise to the divine platform.
Chanakya
