Quotes about Desire
Everybody wants something.
— Eleanor Roosevelt
How I feel is that if I wanted anything I'd take it. That's what I've always thought all my life. But it happens that I want you, and so I just haven't room for any other desires.
— F Scott Fitzgerald
You will not find what you want in the world, only in the Father.
— Kevin DeYoung
If you don't know what you want, don't say you never had a chance.
— Napoleon Hill
You can't want to be happy, because that's too easy and too boring.
— Paulo Coelho
If God doesn't want something for me, then I shouldn't want it either.
— Philip Yancey
Do not be 'against' anything. Being 'against' weakens you. Be 'for' what you want. Being 'for' empowers you.
— Wayne Dyer
We have our ambition for the future and God. And thus we put God as a plus sign after something else we want.
— AW Tozer
It's the hardest thing in the world - to do what we want. And it takes the greatest kinds of courage.
— Ayn Rand
Now Eros makes a man really want, not a woman, but one particular woman. In some mysterious but quite indisputable fashion the lover desires the Beloved herself, not the pleasure she can give.
— CS Lewis
Most people spend most of their lives doing neither what they want to be doing nor what they ought to be doing.
— CS Lewis
But length of days with an evil heart is only length of misery and already she begins to know it. All get what they want; they do not always like it.
— CS Lewis