Best desire & strive Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“We are always striving for things forbidden, and coveting those denied us.”

Desire Strive Denied Forbidden Coveting Forbidden Things

Author:Ovid

“Artists have wild desires and a terrible hunger to achieve... Without it they haven't the juice for striving or loving. But desire also can make them greedy and turn dreams into unrealizable obsessions.”

Dream Desire Artist Turns Achieve Havens Terrible Strive Hunger Obsession Greedy Juice

Book:Affirmations for Artists

Source: Affirmations for Artists

“Generally there is in man a divinity which strives to push him onward and upward. We believe that this power within him is the spirit that comes from God. Man lived before he came to this earth, and he is here now to strive to perfect the spirit within. At sometime in his life, every man is conscious of a desire to come in touch with the Infinite. His spirit reaches out for God. This sense of feeling is universal, and all men ought to be, in deepest truth, engaged in the same great work—the search for and the development of spiritual peace and freedom.”

“Ultimate peace begins within; when we find peace within there will be no more conflict, no more occasion for war. If this is the peace you seek, purify your body by sensible living habits, purify your mind by expelling all negative thoughts, purify your motives by casting out any ideas of greed or self-striving and by seeking to serve you fellow human beings, purify your desires by eliminating all wishes for material possessions or self-glorification and by desiring to know and do God's will for you. Inspire others to do likewise.”

“Ambition is the desire to go forward and improve one's condition. It is a burning flame that lights up the life of the individual and makes him see himself in another state. To be ambitious is to be great in mind and soul. To want that which is worth while and strive for it. To go on without looking back, reaching to that which gives satisfaction.”

Want Giving Mind Soul States Light Desire Individual Conditions Goes On Ambition Strive Satisfaction Burning Flames Reaching Ambitious Looking Back Light Up

Book:Philosophy and Opinions of Marcus Garvey

Source: Philosophy and Opinions of Marcus Garvey

“Anything you strive to hold captive will hold you captive, and if you desire freedom you must give freedom.”

Ifs Giving Desire Freedom Strive Captives

Book:Steps Toward Inner Peace

Source: Steps Toward Inner Peace

“My father was a naturalist and a very spiritual person, who had a great desire to pass on his knowledge to others, so that they could receive the benefits of Jiu Jitsu as well. Growing up in this environment, I learned the art of Jiu Jitsu is actually a method through which one strives for self-perfection.”

Wells Persons Art Self Spiritual Desire Father Growing Up Environment Growing Benefits Perfection Method Strive Strife Naturalist Jiu Jitsu Self Perfection

Author:Carlos Gracie, Jr.

“The saddest thing in the world was that human beings, for all their ardent striving and desire, could never achieve physical, emotional, or intellectual perfection. The species was doomed to imperfection; it thrashed forever in despair or denial of that fact.”

World Humans Facts Desire Human Beings Forever Achieve Emotional Despair Intellectual Perfection Species Strive Denial Imperfection Doomed Saddest Ardent

Book:Dark Rivers of the Heart: A Novel

Source: Dark Rivers of the Heart: A Novel

“All desire springs from a lack, which it strives continually to fill.”

Desire Spring Strive Strife

Book:Literary Theory: An Introduction

Source: Literary Theory: An Introduction

“Glory is largely a theatrical concept. There is no striving for glory without a vivid awareness of an audience... The desire to escape or camouflage their unsatisfactory selves develops in the frustrated a facility for pretending -- for making a show -- and also a readiness to identify themselves wholly with an imposing spectacle.”

Self Shows Desire Audience Awareness Glory Concepts Strive Pretending Frustrated Vivid Facility Theatrical Readiness Imposing Camouflage

Book:THE TRUE BELIEVER

Source: THE TRUE BELIEVER

“Do not despair! Work steadily. Sincerity and love will conquer hate. How many seemingly impossible events are coming to pass in these days! Set your faces steadily towards the Light of the World. Show love to all... Take courage! God never forsakes His children who strive and work and pray! Let your hearts be filled with the strenuous desire that tranquillity and harmony may encircle all this warring world. So will success crown your efforts, and with the universal brotherhood will come the Kingdom of God in peace and goodwill.”

“To be reverent is not just to be quiet. It involves an awareness of what is taking place. It involves a divine desire to learn and to be receptive to the promptings of the Spirit. It involves a striving to seek added light and knowledge.”

Light Spirit Desire Awareness Divine Quiet Strive Receptive Desire To Learn Light And Knowledge

Author:L. Lionel Kendrick

“The desire of excellence is the necessary attribute of those who excel. We work little for a thing unless we wish for it. But we cannot of ourselves estimate the degree of our success in what we strive for; that task is left to others. With the desire for excellence comes, therefore, the desire for approbation. And this distinguishes intellectual excellence from moral excellence; for the latter has no necessity of human tribunal; it is more inclined to shrink from the public than to invite the public to be its judge.”

Humans Littles Desire Left Wish Moral Judging Degrees Intellectual Tasks Excellence Strive Latter Attributes Invites Shrinks Tribunals Moral Excellence

Author:Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

“Using the word ‘political’ in the widest possible sense. Desire to push the world in a certain direction, to alter other peoples’ idea of the kind of society that they should strive after. Once again, no book is genuinely free from political bias. The opinion that art should have nothing to do with politics is itself a political attitude.”

World Should Kind Art Book Ideas Political Desire Certain Attitude Opinion Should Have Strive Bias

Book:The Collected Essays, Journalism and Letters of George Orwell: An age like this, 1920-1940

Source: The Collected Essays, Journalism and Letters of George Orwell: An age like this, 1920-1940

“The day effort ceased, I also ceased. Because you cannot exist without effort, and you cannot exist without desire, and you cannot exist without striving.”

Desire Effort Enlightenment Strive

Author:Rajneesh

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