Explore a collection of the most beloved and motivational quotes and sayings about Desire. Share these powerful messages with your loved ones on social media platforms such as Facebook, Twitter, or on your personal blog, and inspire the world with their wisdom. We've compiled the Top 100 Desire Quotes and Sayings from 87 influential authors, including Ellen J. Barrier,Johann Kaspar Lavater,Jiddu Krishnamurti,Walter Wangerin Jr.,Zig Ziglar, for you to enjoy and share.

Desire is inspired by motivation, which gives us hope to believe in ourselves that we can set goals and pursue them successfully. By Ellen J. Barrier Desire Motivation Successfully Inspired Hope

Desire is the uneasiness a man finds in himself upon the absence of anything whose present enjoyment carries the idea of delight with it. By Johann Kaspar Lavater Desire Uneasiness Man Finds Absence

Desire is the outcome of sensation - the outcome with all the images that thought has built. And this desire not only breeds discontent but a sense of hopelessness. Never suppress it, never discipline it but probe into the nature of it - what is the origin, the purpose, the intricacies of it? To delve deep into it is not another desire, for it has no motive; it is like understanding the beauty of a flower, to sit down beside it and look at it. By Jiddu Krishnamurti Outcome Desire Sensation Built Images

When a desire is born in us , we have a choice. When it exists still in its infancy, we have a choice. We can carefully refuse its existence altogether, since it needs our complicity to exist. Or else we can attend to it, think about it, fantasize about it - feed it! The desire itself overpowers us, commanding action, demanding satisfaction. By Walter Wangerin Jr. Choice Born Desire Infancy Exists

Desire is the ingredient that changes the hot water of mediocrity to the steam of outstanding success. By Zig Ziglar Desire Success Ingredient Hot Water

Desire is the engine of creation. By Danielle Laporte Desire Creation Engine

From desire I plunge to its fulfilment, where I long once more for desire. By Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Fulfilment Desire Plunge Long

Desire is the outcome of sensation - the outcome with all the images that thought has built. And this desire not only breeds discontent but a sense of hopelessness. br />Never suppress it, never discipline it but probe into the nature of it - what is the origin, the purpose, the intricacies of it? To delve deep into it is not another desire, for it has no motive; it is like understanding the beauty of a flower, to sit down beside it and look at it. By Jiddu Krishnamurti Outcome Desire Sensation Built Images

Desire Is Born With Vision By Zig Ziglar Vision Born Desire

Desire is a beast that must be fed! By Eric Jerome Dickey Desire Fed Beast

Desire is craving enough to sacrifice for By Myles Munroe Desire Craving Sacrifice

Desire inspires us to be our very best. By Lynn Cullen Desire Inspires

Desire is a tricky thing, the boiling of the body's wants, By Ada Limon Desire Thing Tricky Boiling Body

Desire is the catalyst that enables a person with average ability to compete and win against others with more natural talent. By Zig Ziglar Desire Talent Catalyst Enables Person

The desire that I may have no desirebis itself a desire. By R.n. Prasher Desire Desirebis

Desire awakens only to things that are thought possible. By Rene Descartes Desire Awakens Things Thought

Reason is no match for desire: when desire is purely and powerfully felt, it becomes a kind of reason of its own. By Eleanor Catton Felt Reason Desire Match Purely

The desire that I may have no desire is itself a desire. By R.n. Prasher Desire

Desire, both the whispers and the shouts, is the map we have been given to find the only life worth living. By John Eldredge Desire Shouts Living Whispers Map

Desire is a powerful boat herding anchors and chains in the middle of the night. By Rosabetty Munoz Desire Night Powerful Boat Herding

Desire activates the potential that was coined within you. You cannot unleash your potential without stepping up your desire to succeed... By Assegid Habtewold Desire Potential Activates Coined Succeed

Desire is proof of the availability ... By Robert Collier Desire Availability Proof

Desire should be allowed to roam freely. The range is endless . By Sameh Elsayed Desire Freely Allowed Roam Endless

Very few persons, comparatively, know how to Desire with sufficient intensity. They do not know what it is to feel and manifest that intense, eager, longing, craving, insistent, demanding, ravenous Desire which is akin to the persistent, insistent, ardent, overwhelming desire of the drowning man for a breath of air; of the shipwrecked or desert-lost man for a drink of water; of the famished man for bread and meat. By Robert Collier Desire Comparatively Insistent Man Persons

All desire springs from a lack, which it strives continually to fill. By Terry Eagleton Lack Fill Desire Springs Strives

Desire leaves us heartbroken; it wears us out. By Ellen Pompeo Desire Heartbroken Leaves Wears

Desire makes life happen. Makes it matter. Makes everything worth it. Desire is life. Hunger to see the next sunrise or sunset, to touch the one you love, to try again. "Hell would be waking up and wanting nothing," he agrees. By Karen Marie Moning Happen Makes Desire Life Hell

One must desire something to be alive By Margaret Deland Alive Desire

Power seeking to manifest causes desire within you. By Wallace D. Wattles Power Seeking Manifest Desire

When desire dies,fear is born By Baltasar Gracian Born Desire Diesfear

You need to find your OWN purpose. I cannot BUILD desire. By Jillian Michaels Purpose Find Build Desire

Desire creates havoc when it is the only thing between two people, or when it is what's missing. By Mignon Mclaughlin Desire People Missing Creates Havoc

For many, 'desire' is a bad word, something we're supposed to 'give up for God.' That kind of thinking can be really destructive because it teaches people to deny their hearts, their true selves. By Rob Bell Desire God Word Give Bad

In youth we are plagued by desire; in later years, by the desire to feel desire. By Mignon Mclaughlin Desire Years Youth Plagued Feel

Desire is the strongest human emotion - desire for a hat, desire for a dress; that's what drives people to buy and want things. By Isabella Blow Desire Emotion Hat Dress Things

From whence cometh the pounding of desire if not from the depths of loneliness? By Martin Cosgrove Loneliness Cometh Pounding Desire Depths

The purpose of desire. It is for creation and destruction. It is the beginning and the end of a journey. Without desire, there is nothing. By Amish Tripathi Desire Purpose Destruction Journey Creation

Desire is the seed of potential. By Alaina Odessa Desire Potential Seed

Desire is a bonfire that burns with greater fury, asking for more fuel ... By Sathya Sai Baba Desire Fury Fuel Bonfire Burns

If I had a desire, it would be to be free from desire. By Charles Manson Desire Free

It is easy for desire to be caught like a bird in a net, its wings fouled and twisted, no longer free to cross back and forth between silence and word. Desire may also find itself so amputated by tradition and community that it wanders in a void with nothing to orient it, to shape or discipline it. Desire must find ways to navigate its bitter and sweet paradox: it moves toward but also always through and beyond every object. By Wendy Farley Desire Net Twisted Word Easy

Desire is the absurdity that holds open the infinity of possibility. By Wendy Farley Desire Possibility Absurdity Holds Open

Desire, Desire, Desire!!!Desire to love.Desire to seek.Desire to ask. By Lailah Gifty Akita Desire Lovedesire Seekdesire

42. The word "desire" means "of the sire" or "of the father." In other words, that strong impulse to achieve something is actually the "something" already in you, seeking to come out! By Derek Rydall Desire Word Words Sire Father

DESIRE for money, and actually By Napoleon Hill Desire Money

Desire means the way to go out; desire is the path that leads you out. If your mind is still desiring, you cannot move within. By Rajneesh Desire Path Leads Desiring Mind

Desire is poverty. Desire is the greatest impurity of the mind. Desire is the motive force for action. Desire in the mind is the real impurity. Even a spark of desire is a very great evil. By Swami Sivananda Desire Poverty Mind Impurity Greatest

Wanting creates the space in which our highest aspirations come into being. By David Schnarch Wanting Creates Space Highest Aspirations

Desire is so much sweeter when you cant have it. By Ilsa J. Bick Desire Sweeter

The remedy against want is to moderate your desires. By Saadi Desires Remedy Moderate

Desire is both imitative (we like what others like) and competitive (we want to take away from others what they have). As children, we wanted to monopolize the attention of a parent, to draw it away from other siblings. This sense of rivalry ... makes people compete for the attention. By Robert Greene Desire Imitative Competitive Attention Children

Need is the destiny of want. By Matshona Dhliwayo Destiny

Desire has no particular object. It is a vector. Its object is before it, always to come. Desire vectorizes being toward the emergence of the new. Desire is one with the auto-conducting movement of becoming. By Richard Grusin Desire Object Vector Vectorizes Emergence

Desire, when it stems from the heart and spirit, when it is pure and intense, possesses awesome electromagnetic energy. This energy is released into the ether each night, as the mind falls into the sleep state. Each morning it returns to the conscious state reinforced with the cosmic currents. That which has been imaged will surely and certainly be manifested. You can rely, young man, upon this ageless promise as surely as you can rely upon the eternally unbroken promise of sunrise ... and of Spring. By Abdul Kalam Desire Energy Spirit Intense Possesses

Pursuit of passion, By Lailah Gifty Akita Pursuit Passion

Desire abides. It is all people have that stands proof against time. Everything else rots. By Charles Frazier Desire Abides Time Rots People

A true desire is not to have but to be. We are whole creatures in potential, and the true purpose of desire is to unfold that wholeness, to become what we can be. By Eric Butterworth Desire True Potential Wholeness Creatures

Fictionally speaking, desire is the sugar in human food. By David Foster Wallace Fictionally Speaking Desire Food Sugar

The desire accomplished is sweet to the soul ... By Solomon Soul Desire Accomplished Sweet

To understand desire, one needs language and flesh. By Sherry Turkle Desire Flesh Understand Language

To have a desire means to have dependency. By Dada Bhagwan Dependency Desire

Desire is creation, is the magical element in that process. If there were an instrument by which to measure desire, one could foretell achievement. By Willa Cather Creation Process Desire Magical Element

The curious fact is that biology tells us nothing about desire. And, when you think about it, culture -- novels, movies, opera, and quite a lot of painting -- is about desire, how we manage desire, how we suffer from it, and how it brings us joy when we get things right. A story without desire -- and that means without the insistence of desire -- will be empty, dry, and more or less aimless. That is one reason we read novels, to see how people fall into awkward moral situations and then try to extricate themselves. This is why there is so much anguish in the world: frustrated desire is every bit as miserable as poverty, because desire is no respecter of one's position in life: everyone goes through it. By Peter Watson Desire Curious Fact Biology Culture

When the desire is too much to bear, we often bury it beneath frenzied thoughts and activities or escape it by dulling our immediate consciousness of living. It is possible to run away from the desire for years, even decades, at a time, but we cannot eradicate it entirely. It keeps touching us in little glimpses and hints in our dreams, our hopes, our unguarded moments. By Gerald May Desire Bear Living Bury Beneath

Fear is the Fatal killer of Desire. By Zig Ziglar Desire Fatal Fear Killer

Desires must be simple and definite. They defeat their own purpose should they be too many, too confusing, or beyond a man's training to accomplish. By George S. Clason Desires Definite Simple Confusing Accomplish

My desire turns to something heady and more sinister. Fear. By Marata Eros Fear Sinister Desire Turns Heady

The power of desire is a divine.Desire to live by faith. By Lailah Gifty Akita Faith Power Desire Divinedesire Live

There is something I have noticed about desire, that it opens the eyes and strikes them blind at the same time. By Jane Smiley Desire Time Noticed Opens Eyes

Desire then is the invasion of the whole self by the wish, which, as it invades, sets going more and more of the psychical processes; but at the same time, so long as it remains desire, does not succeed in getting possession of the self. By Samuel Alexander Desire Invades Sets Processes Time

We've all had that fear, that despair of losing someone, or this fierce desire because it's not reciprocated. The less reciprocation there is, the more desire we have. By Emmanuelle Beart Fear Reciprocated Desire Despair Losing

Desire is a mighty force, one of your most divine attributes! Whatsoever things ye desire when ye pray, believe that ye have received them and ye shall have them! See the Godlike quality of desire. For it is part of the Atomic energy of the soul. The Kingdom of Heaven within you is operated through desire. Do not quench it or crushit or suppress it. Rather offer it to Me. Offer Me your most elementary desires, your craving for happiness, for love, for self-expression, for well-being, for success, for joy, on any level of your being-offer these freely and without shame to Me and I will transmute them so that you shall achieve release and fulfillment and complete freedom from frustration.2 By Leanne Payne Desire Force Attributes Mighty Divine

You can mark in desire the rising of the tide, as the appetite more and more invades the personality, appealing, as it does, not merely to the sensory side of the self, but to its ideal components as well. By Samuel Alexander Appealing Tide Personality Mark Desire

Without a sense of urgency, desire loses its value. By Jim Rohn Urgency Desire Sense Loses

Desire creates the power. By Raymond Holliwell Desire Power Creates

Desire turns us into ghosts By Octavio Paz Desire Ghosts Turns

Desire wills its perpetuation ad infinitum. By Susan Sontag Desire Infinitum Perpetuation

Desire, said the Buddha, is the cause of suffering. But without desire, what delight? By Edward Abbey Buddha Desire Suffering Delight

Desire doesn't want exposure, the light or the sun. Lust seeks darkness, a deep, secret heat, something buried, a treasure to find. By Selena Kitt Desire Exposure Sun Light Lust

For once desire is articulated in words it does not sit still, but displaces, drifting metonymically from one thing to the next. Desire is a product of language and cannot be satisfied with an object. By Bruce Fink Displaces Drifting Desire Articulated Words

Desire can't be sated, because if it is, the longing disappears and then we've failed, because desire is the state we seek. By Seth Godin Sated Failed Seek Desire Longing

Boredom: the desire for desires. By Leo Tolstoy Boredom Desire Desires

Desire. You can't fight that; you can only fight yourself after it hits you ... By Vee Hoffman Desire Fight Hits

I have only the desire. Yet ultimately a desire is nothing but a crazy need. As By Jhumpa Lahiri Desire Ultimately Crazy

Mad desire, when it has the most, longs for more By Ovid Mad Desire Longs

Desire is always followed by boredom. And only love can defeat boredom. Love with a capital L; we all dream of it. By Gregoire Delacourt Boredom Desire Love Defeat Capital

Yearning wants mostly to perpetuate itself. By Mason Cooley Yearning Perpetuate

Restriction generates yearning. You want what you cannot have. By Portia De Rossi Restriction Yearning Generates

Feeling and longing are the motive forces behind all human endeavor and human creations. By Albert Einstein Feeling Creations Human Longing Motive

Our desires teach us who we are and who we want to become. Our desires shape our stories. By Christina Baldwin Desires Teach Stories Shape

desires are not killed by fulfilling them By Hermann Hesse Desires Killed Fulfilling

Desire as a motivator for achievement and even for survival isn't a bad thing. It's when desire drives us to grab more than our share or harm others that issues arise. By Taite Adams Thing Desire Motivator Achievement Survival

Desires are only the lack of something: and those who have the greatest desires are in a worse condition than those who have none, or very slight ones. By Plato Desires Lack Greatest Worse Condition

Hunger not to have, but to be By John Dewey Hunger

Desire The Starting Point of All Achievement: the First Step Toward Riches By Napoleon Hill Achievement Riches Starting Point Step

Reason has not tamed desire: it is as strong as ever. By Arthur Keith Reason Desire Tamed Strong

All human activity is prompted by desire. By Bertrand Russell Desire Human Activity Prompted

Never a possession, always the possessor, with skin as pale as smoke, and eyes tawny and sharp as yellow wine: Desire is everything you've ever wanted. Whoever you are. Whatever you are. Everything. By Neil Gaiman Desire Possession Possessor Smoke Wine

Desire- grasping, clinging, greed, attachment - is a state of mind that defines what we think we need in order to be happy. We project all of our hopes and dreams of fulfillment onto some object of our attention. This may be a certain activity or outcome, a particular thing or person. Deluded by our temporary enchantment, we view the world with tunnel vision. That object, and that alone, will make us happy. By Sharon Salzberg Desire Grasping Clinging Greed Attachment

Desire is in men a hunger, in women only an appetite. By Mignon Mclaughlin Desire Hunger Appetite Men Women