Personal Desire Quotes:

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.

- Albert Einstein

source: Albert Einstein (2015). “Bite-Size Einstein: Quotations on Just About Everything from the Greatest Mind of the Twentieth Century”, p.15, St. Martin's Press

topic: Inspirational, Spiritual, Nature, Quiet Person, Experiencing Things

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

- Francois Rabelais

topic: Long, Desire, Forbidden Things, Forbidden Love, Personal Desire

Definiteness of purpose is the starting point of all achievement.

- W. Clement Stone

topic: Inspirational, Positive, Inspiring, Starting All Over, Starting All Over Again

A human being is a part of the whole called by us universe, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feeling as something separated from the rest, a kind of optical delusion of his 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. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.

- Albert Einstein

topic: Inspirational, Beauty, Spiritual, Quiet Person, Experiencing Things

Desire is the key to motivation, but it's determination and commitment to an unrelenting pursuit of your goal - a commitment to excellence - that will enable you to attain the success you seek.

- Mario Andretti

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Success, Inspirational Commitment, Inspirational Determination

Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other.

- Abraham Lincoln

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Positive, Make Up Your Mind, Inspirational Addiction Recovery

The size of your success is measured by the strength of your desire; the size of your dream; and how you handle disappointment along the way.

- Robert Kiyosaki

source: FaceBook post by Robert Kiyosaki from May 10, 2012

topic: Strength, Inspiring, Dream, Life Disappointment, Success Is Measured

Desire is the starting point of all achievement, not a hope, not a wish, but a keen pulsating desire which transcends everything.

- Napoleon Hill

topic: Inspirational, Dream, Encouragement, Transcending, Starting All Over

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.

- Confucius

source: As quoted in"Be Free!: Keys to Success and Happiness in Every Aspect of Your Life" by Slavica Bogdanov, (p. 45), October 12, 2012.

topic: Positive, Monday, Motivation, Inspirational Attitude, Keep A Positive Attitude

One of the strongest motives that lead men to art and science is escape from everyday life with its painful crudity and hopeless dreariness, from the fetters of one's own ever-shifting desires. A finely tempered nature longs to escape from the personal life into the world of objective perception and thought.

- Albert Einstein

topic: Inspirational, Life, Motivational, Perception Of Life, Personal Desire

The desire of the man is for the woman, but the desire of the woman is for the desire of the man.

- Madame de Stael

topic: Men, Desire, He Man, Personal Desire

A life directed chiefly toward the fulfillment of personal desires will sooner or later always lead to bitter disappointment.

- Albert Einstein

topic: Inspirational, Disappointment, Desire, Self Centered, Personal Desire

We have to have a purpose greater than the endless struggle to satisfy personal desires.

- Eknath Easwaran

source: Eknath Easwaran (2010). “Conquest of Mind: Take Charge of Your Thoughts & Reshape Your Life Through Meditation”, p.183, Nilgiri Press

topic: Struggle, Desire, Purpose, Personal Desire

To act well in this world, one must sacrifice all personal desires. The people who become missionaries of religious thought have no other Fatherland than this thought. Man is not on Earth merely to be happy, nor even simply to be honest. He is here to realize great things for humanity, to attain nobility, and to surmount the vulgarity of nearly every individual.

- Ernest Renan

topic: Religious, Sacrifice, Men, Personal Desire

Fetish is the exploration of sex as art, and the refinement of one’s personal desires. Anything can be fetishised...There’ll be new fetishes forever. I feel that the 21st century is all about fetish.

- Rick Castro

topic: Art, Sex, Forever, Personal Desire, Fetish

Everything that is in agreement with our personal desires seems true. Everything that is not puts us in a rage.

- Andre Maurois

topic: Anger, Agreement, Desire, Personal Desire

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].

- Ruhollah Khomeini

topic: Running, Country, Fall, Personal Desire

After the demands of the ego and its greed surrendered, the struggle for fulfillment of personal desires lessens; life takes on a new zest like a breath of fresh air.

- Sivananda Radha Saraswati

topic: Struggle, Yoga, Zest, Personal Desire

God in His answers to prayer often says "Yes." Sometimes He says "Wait." Often He says "No." In any case, His will is done, and true faith is to believe that what happened has happened for the best. If one does not take that attitude, he is setting his personal desire against the wisdom of God. Oftentimes we confuse with faith merely that which we desire.

- Norman Vincent Peale

source: Dr. Norman Vincent Peale (2007). “A Guide to Confident Living”, p.228, Simon and Schuster

topic: Wisdom, Prayer, Attitude, Personal Desire

Man is, at one and the same time, a solitary being and a social being. As a solitary being, he attempts to protect his own existence and that of those who are closest to him, to satisfy his personal desires, and to develop his innate abilities. As a social being, he seeks to gain the recognition and affection of his fellow human beings, to share in their pleasures, to comfort them in their sorrows, and to improve their conditions of life.

- Albert Einstein

source: Albert Einstein (2011). “Out of My Later Years: The Scientist, Philosopher, and Man Portrayed Through His Own Words”, p.32, Open Road Media

topic: Men, Sorrow, Desire, Personal Desire, Social Being

I don't care for the applause one gets by saying what others are thinking; I want actually to change people's thoughts. Power over people's minds is the main personal desire of my life; and this sort of power is not acquired by saying popular things.

- Bertrand Russell

topic: Thinking, People, Mind, Personal Desire

It is a mere illusion that, above a certain income, the personal desires will be satisfied and leave a wider margin for the generous impulse.

- Robert Louis Stevenson

source: Robert Louis Stevenson (2016). “Familiar Studies of Men and Books: Stevenson's Vol. 16”, p.62, VM eBooks

topic: Desire, Income, Wealth, Personal Desire

Once you're a mom, all of your personal desires come secondary as the survival of the child becomes your life's priority, which leads you to worry each day and every night the little one turn out right.

- Kimberly Guilfoyle

source: Source: www.foxnews.com

topic: Mom, Children, Night, Every Night, Personal Desire

His desire to bless you goes infinitely beyond your own personal desire to secure His blessing. There is always peace in His presence. Do not disturb this by anxiety to know what is in store for tomorrow. Out of the very tranquility of worship will be born the guidance you need.

- Frances J Roberts

source: Frances J. Roberts (2013). “Total Love”, p.53, Barbour Publishing

topic: Blessing, Anxiety, Desire, Personal Desire

There is an urgent need to-day for the citizens of a democracy to think well. It is not enough to have freedom of the Press and parliamentary institutions. Our difficulties are due partly to our own stupidity, partly to the exploitation of that stupidity, and partly to our own prejudices and personal desires.

- Susan Stebbing

topic: Thinking, Stupidity, Desire, Parliamentary, Personal Desire

Did it ever occur to you, that there is no conflict of interests among men, neither in business nor in trade nor in their most personal desires - if they omit the irrational from their view of the possible and destruction from their view of the practical?

- Ayn Rand

source: Ayn Rand (2011). “Ayn Rand Novel Collection”, p.1928, Penguin

topic: Business, Men, Views, Personal Desire, Conflict Of Interest

For an entire populace, change, growth, and spontaneity were dangerous. Acting upon a personal desire, whispering a hidden longing, revealing your true feelings - all the human actions we think of as essential to a character - had be censored by the self lest they be punished by the state.

- Adam Johnson

topic: True Feelings, Censored, Change Growth, Personal Desire

It really does no good to ask questions that reflect opposition to the will of God. Rather ask, What am I to do?

- Richard G. Scott

source: "Trust in the Lord". Richard G. Scott's address at the General Conference of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, www.lds.org. October 1995.

topic: Doe, Gods Will, Many Blessings, Personal Desire, Thy Will Be Done

The call of God is not a reflection of my nature; my personal desires and temperament are of no consideration. As long as I dwell on my own qualities and traits and think about what I am suited for, I will never hear the call of God.

- Oswald Chambers

topic: Reflection, Thinking, Long, Personal Desire

The artist's life cannot be otherwise than full of conflicts, for two forces are at war within him [or her]-on the one hand, the common human longing for happiness, satisfaction and security in life, and on the other a ruthless passion for creation which may go so far as to override every personal desire ... There are hardly any exceptions to the rule that a person must pay dearly for the divine gift of creative fire.

- Carl Jung

topic: War, Passion, Artist, Personal Desire, Exception To The Rule

When mystics use the word love, they use it very carefully - in the deeply spiritual sense, where to love is to know; to love is to act. If you really love, from the depths of your Consciousness, that love gives you a native wisdom. You perceive the needs of others intuitively and clearly, with detachment from any personal desires; and you know how to act creatively to meet those needs, dexterously surmounting any obstacle that comes in the way. Such is the immense, driving power of love.

- Eknath Easwaran

topic: Spiritual, Love Is, Giving, Words Love, Personal Desire

Christmas has been a season of mixed interests and meanings, but the very foundation, of course, is its religious significance. No matter what other personal desires or crises we have faced, I've never forgotten that this is the time to celebrate the birth of the Baby Jesus, and the impact of this event on the history of the world.

- Jimmy Carter

source: Jimmy Carter, Amy Carter (2004). “Christmas in Plains: Memories”, p.11, Simon and Schuster

topic: Baby, Religious, Jesus, Personal Desire, Baby Jesus

Numerous Christians do not know how to glorify God in their eating and drinking. They do not eat and drink simply to keep their body fit for the Lord's use but indulge to satisfy their personal desires. We should understand that the body is for the Lord and not for ourselves; hence we should refrain from using it for our pleasure. Food ought not hinder our fellowship with God since it is to be taken purely to preserve the body in health.

- Watchman Nee

topic: Christian, Drinking, Taken, Fellowship With God, Personal Desire

It is obvious enough for the reader to conclude, "She loves young Emerson." A reader in Lucy's place would not find it obvious. Life is easy to chronicle, but bewildering to practice, and we welcome "nerves" or any other shibboleth that will cloak our personal desire. She loved Cecil; George made her nervous; will the reader explain to her that the phrases should have been reversed?

- E. M. Forster

topic: Practice, Desire, Nerves, Life Is Easy, Lucy

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?

- Friedrich Nietzsche

topic: Men, Thinking, Desire, Personal Desire

I have no personal desire to get married whatsoever and I certainly have no desire to be a soldier. I'm old school, I'm from gay liberation, we wanted to end war forever and smash the patriarchy and these are values I still hold dear but, I believe that any person who wants to get married should have that right and I know that Gay, Lesbian and Bisexual people serve with distinction in the armed forces, and that when they are killed, supposedly serving our country in these wars, that I personally do not support, their partners back home do not receive death benefits.

- Cleve Jones

source: Source: www.bilerico.com

topic: Country, War, Believe, Personal Desire, Gay Liberation