Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jimmie Johnson

For a guy who wants to slow down, Mark Martin hasn't lost his desire or his edge. He's winning and competing. He's really respected in our sport.

Peter Reid

There was no desire to play football, to win a tackle. It's very disappointing because the team is my responsibility,

There really is a desire to move it (peace process) forward. There is a seriousness of purpose that validates that fact and that gives us a reason to keep pushing it,

There's a lack of desire to do anything. It's not going to be until March that we get a really good idea about what kind of time table were looking at with Iraq.

There's a higher level of frustration, and there's a greater desire for solutions.

Debbie Ford

Your desires will source you with the inspiration to release your outdated beliefs and let go of whatever behavior is keeping you stuck in the past.

Sathya Baba

You must give up the luggage of your desires and wishes and thus make life less burdensome.

This is a true saying, If a man desire the office of a bishop, he desireth a good work.

Russell M. Nelson

In the pursuit of education, individual desire is more influential than institution, and personal faith more forceful than faculty.

Saadi

Be not in the desire of thine own ease.

Saadi

The remedy against want is to moderate your desires.

Stonewall Jackson

If officers desire to have control over their commands, they must remain habitually with them, industriously attend to their instruction and comfort, and in battle lead them well.

Storm Jameson

You can't argue with a raging want. You can, but it is useless.

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

Few things are sadder than encountering a person who knows exactly what he should do, yet cannot muster enough energy to do it. "He who desires but acts not," wrote Blake with his accustomed vigor, "Breeds pestilence.

Pema Chodron

Never underestimate the desire to bolt.

Phyllis Bottome

A desire that has never been fulfilled is considerably less acute than one that has been fulfilled and then checked at the source.

Phyllis Bottome

There is no thermometer for wants!

Rabindranath Tagore

The fundamental desire of life is the desire to exist.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

What we love that we have, but by desire we bereave ourselves of the love.

Seth

If you'd rather be a chooser, enter a market or a transaction where you have something to trade, something of value, something to offer that's difficult to get everywhere else. If all you have is the desire to get picked, that's not sufficient.

Lawrence Durrell

Perhaps our only sickness is to desire a truth which we cannot bear rather than to rest content with the fictions we manufacture out of each other.

Lawrence Durrell

Prohibitions create the desire they were intended to cure.

Sophocles

Always desire to learn something useful

Soren Kierkegaard

Genius never desires what does not exist.

Swami Vivekananda

To the person who desires nothing and does not get entangled in desires, the manifold changes of nature are one panorama of beauty and sublimity.

Tony Robbins

Life is the dance between what you desire most, and what you fear most

Thomas Troward

Desire will in due time externalize itself as concrete fact.

Toni Morrison

I had only one desire: to dismember it. To see of what it was made, to discover the dearness, to find the beauty, the desirability that had escaped me, but apparently only me.

Tim Ferriss

Which 20% of sources are causing 80% of my problems and unhappiness? Which 20% of sources are resulting in 80% of my desired outcomes and happiness?

Tanith Lee

Robespierre, crippled and blind, has yet to be healed to the knowledge that service - his desire - is a deed of savage-speaking gentleness, not soft-spoken savagery.

Sylvia Plath

I desire the things that will destroy me in the end.

Swami Vivekananda

Each atom is trying to fly off from its centre. In the internal world, each thought is trying to go beyond control. Again each particle in the external world is checked by another force, the centripetal, and drawn towards the centre. Similarly in the thought - world the controlling power is checking all these outgoing desires.

Swami Vivekananda

Superstitions are all materialism, because they are all based on the consciousness of body, body, body. No spirit there. Spirit has no superstitions - it is beyond the vain desires of the body.