Quotes about Desire
To every man who faces life with real desire to do his part in everything, I appeal for a study of the Bible.
— Theodore Roosevelt
The saved man is not a perfect man, but his heart's desire is to become perfect.
— Charles Spurgeon
There is a desire for progress in the hearts of all men, and it is the sense of frustration and inability to move forward that brings violent revolution.
— Eleanor Roosevelt
The mind's deepest desire, even in its most elaborate operations, parallels man's unconscious feeling in the face of his universe: it is an insistence upon familiarity, an appetite for clarity.
— Albert Camus
Man is the hunter; women are the game; those sleek and shining creatures of the chase. We hunt them for the beauty of their skins; they love us for it, and we ride them down.
— Alfred Lord Tennyson
Though I do not believe that my desire for Paradise proves that I shall enjoy it, I think it a pretty good indication that such a thing exists and that some men will.
— CS Lewis
I always loved that old song Banks of the Ohio - it was always such a man's song, so I've always wanted to record it.
— Dolly Parton
Just as a man does not desire food until he is hungry, so does he not desire the salvation of Christ until he knows why he needs Christ.
— Ezra Taft Benson
Men rush toward complexity; but yearn for simplicity.
— GK Chesterton
A man who wants to control his animal passions easily does so if he controls his palate.
— Mahatma Gandhi
Where the banana grows man is sensual and cruel.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Great sins are great possessions; but levities and vanities possess us too; and men had rather part with Christ than with any possession.
— John Donne