Quotes about Desire
Sometimes the things you really want sneak in the back door. Notice.
— Mary Anne Radmacher
Once people who have been deprived of basic freedom taste a little of it, they want all of it.
— Ronald Reagan
How high a price we pay for the burden of habit! I am fitted for life here where I do not want to be, I want to live there but am unfit for it, and on both counts I am miserable.
— St. Augustine
How bad you want something determines what you will do to get it.
— Craig Groeschel
Whatever a man wants badly and persistently enough will determine the man's character.
— AW Tozer
The avarice of mankind is insatiable; at one time two obols was pay enough; but now, when this sum has become customary, men always want more and more without end.
— Aristotle
Our problem with desire is that we want too little.
— CS Lewis
Please, sir, I want some more.
— Charles Dickens
"Where should I apply Perfume?" a young lady asked. "Where you want to be kissed."
— Coco Chanel
Christ wants to lift us to where He is. Do we desire to do the same for others?
— Ezra Taft Benson
If What you re doing now was enough to get what you want, you'd already have it.
— Jack Canfield
The most venerable, clearly understood, enlightened, and reliable constant in the world is not only that we want to be happy, but that we want only to be so. Our very nature requires it of us.
— St. Augustine