List of Famous Desire Quotes in English with Images

We desire nothing so much as what we ought not to have.

Desire creates the power.

Life ought to be a struggle of desire toward adventures whose nobility will fertilize the soul.

- Rebecca West Quotes

What makes the engine go? Desire, desire, desire.

Those who restrain desire, do so because theirs is weak enough to be restrained.

Every man has business and desire, Such as it is.

In men of the highest character and noblest genius there is to be found an insatiable desire for honor, command, power and glory.

Some prices are just too high, no matter how much you may want the prize.  The one thing you can't trade for your heart's desire is your heart.

Man is an animal which, along among the animals, refuses to be satisfied by the fulfillment of animal desires.

- Desire Quotes by Alexander Graham Bell Download or Share

The wise man will love; all others will desire.

- Desire Quotes by Afranius Download or Share

Again, men in general desire the good, and not merely what their fathers had.

- Desire Quotes by Aristotle Download or Share

One must not lose desires. They are mighty stimulants to creativeness, to love, and to long life.

- Desire Quotes by Alexander A. Bogomolets Download or Share

I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who overcomes his enemies.

- Desire Quotes by Aristotle Download or Share

It is the nature of desire not to be satisfied, and most men live only for the gratification of it.

- Aristotle Quotes

How helpless we are, like netted birds, when we are caught by desire!

- Quote by Belva Plain

Dwell Not upon thy weariness, thy strength shall be according to the measure of thy desire.

- Arab Proverb

If you greatly desire something, have the guts to stake everything on obtaining it.

- Brendan Francis Quotes

Let your desires be ruled by reason.

- Cicero Quotes

He who desires is always poor.

- Claudianus Quotes

There are two tragedies in life.  One is not to get your heart's desire.  The other is to get it.

Man is the only animal whose desires increase as they are fed; the only animal that is never satisfied.

Manifest Plainness,
Embrace Simplicity,
Reduce Selfishness,
Have few desires.

There is no calamity greater than lavish desires.
There is no greater guilt than discontentment.
And there is no greater disaster than greed.

One must desire something to be alive.

A human being has a natural desire to have more of a good thing than he needs.

When you relinquish the desire to control your future, you can have more happiness.