Quotes about Desire
The truth is, even those who think Dreams only happen to someone else carry a Dream hidden deep in their heart, just hoping it can come true.
— Bruce Wilkinson
The Christian's whole desire, at its best and highest, is that Jesus Christ be praised. It is always a wretched bastardization of our goals when we want to win glory for ourselves instead of for him.
— DA Carson
Adam did not want the apple for the apple's sake; he wanted it because it was forbidden.
— Mark Twain
Two of the most frustrated trades are dentists and photographers - dentists because they want to be doctors, and photographers because they want to be painters.
— Pablo Picasso
Nothing is ever enough when what you are looking for isn't what you really want.
— Arianna Huffington
I feel that God wants me to coach; otherwise, he wouldn't have put the desire in me.
— Lou Holtz
That is true plenty, not to have, but not to want riches.
— St. John Chrysostom
There will be no people in heaven who want to be around their things more than Jesus.
— John Piper
Sometimes, we don't get what we want. . . But this is a benevolent universe. And once in a while, we do.
— Melody Beattie
Willpower is trying very hard not to do something you want to do very much.
— John Ortberg
Our natural virtues can never come anywhere near what Jesus Christ wants.
— Oswald Chambers
You have within you all the power you need with which to get whatever you want or need in this world.
— Napoleon Hill