Personal Desire Quotes

Holding onto anger is like drinking poison and expecting the other person to die.

Knowledge is not to be taken from four types of people: a foolish person who openly acts foolish, even if he reports the most narrations; an adherent of bid'ah who calls to his desires; a person who lies, even if I don't accuse him of lying in hadith; and a righteous pious worshiper who does not accurately retain what he narrates.

Life is the will to power; our natural desire to dominate and reshape the world to fit our own preferences and assert our personal strength to the fullest degree.

For what it's worth: it's never too late to be whoever you want to be. I hope you live a life you're proud of, and, if you find that you're not, I hope you have the strength to start over.

When a person really desires something, all the universe conspires to help that person to realize his dream.

No person among us desires any other reward for performing a brave and worthy action, but the consciousness of having served his nation.

A person is truly a human if he or she learns, and teaches, and inspires others.

It is difficult to regard as truly human someone who is ignorant and has no desire to learn.

One day, you will wake up and there won't be any more time to do the thing you've always wanted. Do it now.

To fall in love is easy, even to remain in it is not difficult;

our human loneliness is cause enough. But it is a hard quest worth making to find a comrade through whose steady presence one becomes steadily the person one desires to be.

To fall in love is easy, even to remain in it is not difficult;

our human loneliness is cause enough. But it is a hard quest worth making to find a comrade through whose steady presence one becomes steadily the person one desires to be.

Every person who is really an artist desires to create inside of himself another, deeper, more interesting life than the one that actually surrounds him.

Everything that you are going through is preparing you for what you asked for.

What destroys a man more quickly than to work, think and feel without inner necessity, without any deep personal desire, without pleasure - as a mere automaton of duty?

We experience ourselves our thoughts and feelings as something separate from the rest. A kind of optical delusion of consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us.

Every person who wins in any undertaking must be willing to cut all sources of retreat. Only by doing so can one be sure of maintaining that state of mind known as a burning desire to win - essential to success.

Intelligent people tend to have less friends than the average person. The smarter you are, the more selevtive you become.

Nothing is impossible to the person who backs DESIRE with enduring FAITH.

By choosing to embrace and practice good values every day, you choose the higher course in life. And your life goes in a direction that you will always feel good about. You may not always get what you desire, but you will always be the person you desire to be.

We always long for the forbidden things, and desire what is denied us.

Life has a way of testing a person's will, either by having nothing happen at all or by having everything happen at once.

Picture the prince, such as most of them are today: a man ignorant of the law, well-nigh an enemy to his people's advantage, while intent on his personal convenience, a dedicated voluptuary, a hater of learning, freedom and truth, without a thought for the interests of his country, and measuring everything in terms of his own profit and desires.

Personal desire, age, and my health do not allow me to personally have a role in running the country [i.e. Iran] after the fall of the current system [of the Shah].

Yet a personal God can become a grave liability.

He can be a mere idol carved in our own image, a projection of our limited needs, fears and desires. We can assume that he loves what we love and hates what we hate, endorsing our prejudices instead of compelling us to transcend them.

To love a person is to see all of their magic, and to remind them of it when they have forgotten.

Art is the desire of a man to express himself, to record the reactions of his personality to the world he lives in.

The person who can most easily take up natural agriculture is the one who doesn't have any of the common adult obstructing blocks of desire, philosophy, or religion . . . the person who has the mind and heart of a child. One must simply know nature . . . real nature, not the one we think we know!

Every relationship for a Christian is an opportunity to love another person like God has loved us. To lay down our desires and do what's in his or her best interest. To care for him or her even when there's nothing in it for us. To want that person's purity and holiness because it pleases God and protects him or her.

Don't confuse my personality with my attitude... My personality is who I am, my attitude depends on who you are...

The true leader serves. Serves people. Serves their best interests, and in doing so will not always be popular, may not always impress. But because true leaders are motivated by loving concern than a desire for personal glory, they are willing to pay the price.

My desire is to be a forgiving, non-judgmental person.

The consuming desire of most human beings is deliberately to plant their whole life in the hands of some other person. I would describe this method of searching for happiness as immature. Development of character consists solely in moving toward self-sufficiency.

Never let the thing you want make you forget the things you have.

Whereas the average individuals "often have not the slightest idea of what they are, of what they want, of what their own opinions are," self-actualizing individuals have "superior awareness of their own impulses, desires, opinions, and subjective reactions in general."

Men passionately desire to live after death, but they often pass away without noticing the fact that the memory of a really good person always lives. It is impressed upon the next generation, and is transmitted again to the children. Is that not an immortality worth striving for?

Women of the world today dress alike.

They are like so many loaves of bread. To be beautiful one must be unhurried. Personality is needed. There is too much sameness. The world seems only to have a desire for more of this sameness. To be different is to be alone.

A strong person loves, forgives, walks away, lets go, tries again, perseveres... No matter what life throws at them.

Every person is a God in embryo. Its only desire is to be born.

Motivation comes from within each individual.

It's a personal thing. It's pride, guts, desire, whatever you want to call it; some people have it in their bellies, and some don't.

If we are to develop an intimate relationship, we need to know each other's desires. If we wish to love each other, we need to know what the other person wants.

A person who feels appreciated will always do more than is expected.

That man is truly humble who neither claims any personal merit in the sight of God, nor proudly despises brethren, or aims at being thought superior to them, but reckons it enough that he is one of the members of Christ, and desires nothing more than that the Head alone should be exalted.

It is with our entire past ... that we desire, will and act ... from this survival of the past it follows that consciousness cannot go through the same state twice. The circumstances may still be the same, but they will act no longer on the same person ... that is why our duration is irreversible.

Reason shows me that if my happiness is desirable and good, the equal happiness of any other person must be equally desirable.

It is with pleasure I receive reproof, when reproof is due, because no person can be readier to accuse me, than I am to acknowledge an error, when I am guilty of one; nor more desirous of atoning for a crime, when I am sensible of having committed it.

Persons who have no desire to live have a very slight chance of recovery.

We can continue to extend to them our love, sympathy, and prayers; but ultimately we must respect a person's decision to die.