Desire Quotes

We ought not to desire the impossible.[Non si debbe desiderare lo impossibile.]

My paramount desire today, which guides me in everything I do, is an ambition to harness the forces of nature for the service of mankind.

In order to succeed, your desire for success should be greater than your fear of failure.

You call it hope – that fire of fire! It is but agony of desire.

The will to win, the desire to succeed, the urge to reach your full potential… these are the keys that will unlock the door to personal excellence.

The imperfection in everything human is that its aspirations are achieved only by way of their opposites.

Rose, oh pure contradiction, desire, To be no one’s sleep under so many Lids.[Rose, oh reiner Widerspruch, Lust, Niemandes Schlaf zu sein unter soviel Lidern.]

Out of infinite desires rise finite deeds like weak fountains that fall back in early trembling arcs. But those, which otherwise in us keep hidden, our happy strengths – they come forth in these dancing tears.[Aus unendlichen Sehnsüchten steigen endliche Taten wie schwache Fontänen, die sich zeitig und zitternd neigen. Aber, die sich uns sonst verschweigen, unsere frölichen Kräfte – zeigen sich in diesen tanzenden Tränen.]

No desire of the body, but for what lies in there, what lies in the flesh, the world, the thought, the creation, the illumination.

My desire is too universal, too permanent, too intense, for me to have desires.[Mon désir est trop universel, trop permanent et trop intense pour que j’aie des désirs.]

If you’re bored with life – you don’t get up every morning with a burning desire to do things – you don’t have enough goals.

If you desire many things, many things will seem but a few.