Quotes about Desire

If you are influenced by "opinions" when you reach decisions, you will not succeed in any undertaking, much less in that of transmuting your own desire into money. If you are influenced by the opinions of others, you will have no desire of your own.

The man who cannot be stimulated to great heights of achievement by love, is hopeless-he is dead, though he may seem to live.

Only those who become "money conscious" ever accumulate great riches. "Money consciousness" means that the mind has become so thoroughly saturated with the DESIRE for money, that one can see one's self already in possession of it.

Envy has empty hands and wants them full. Jealousy has full hands and never wants them empty. Envy languishes in self-pity because it doesn't have what others have. Jealousy rants in paranoia because it fears losing what it feels unworthy to own.

The desire of Joseph's heart was to see his father and to get all of his family to move to Egypt and to live near him so he could provide for them without reservation and without limitation.

As Os Guinness writes, To be sure, calling is not what it is commonly thought to be. It has to be dug out from under the rubble of ignorance and confusion. And, uncomfortably, it often flies in the face of our human inclinations. But nothing short of God's call can ground and fulfill the truest human desire for purpose.

There's nothing wrong with dreaming about accomplishing great things, as long as that desire isn't focused on one's own glory.

But there are some things you can't do even if you desire them. There are some choices you can't take back. Words said that can't be unsaid

True it is that covetousness is rich, modesty starves.

Understanding motivation is one of the most important things we can do in our lives, because it has such a bearing on why we do the things we do and whether we enjoy them or not.

I wrote my first novel because I wanted to read it.

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.