#desire

If you fear God, always put Him first, and seek His will, He will give you the desires of your heart ↗

— Deborah N. Kabwang

#faith #fear #trust #faith

To be a film-maker, you have to lead. You have to be psychotic in your desire to do something. People always like the easy route. You have to push very hard to get something unusual, something different. ↗

— Danny Boyle

#desire #different #easy #film-maker #get

After Sleater-Kinney broke up in 2006 I had very little desire to play music. It took well over three years before picking up a guitar meant anything to me other than an exercise. ↗

— Carrie Brownstein

#anything #before #broke #desire #exercise

If the Great Spirit had desired me to be a white man, he would have made me so in the first place. ↗

— Sitting Bull

#first #great #great spirit #had #made

What you lack in talent can be made up with desire, hustle and giving 110 percent all the time. ↗

— Don Zimmer

#giving #hustle #lack #made #percent

Every man hath a general desire of his own happiness; and likewise a variety of particular affections, passions, and appetites to particular external objects. ↗

— Joseph Butler

#appetites #desire #every #every man #external

Things and actions are what they are, and the consequences of them will be what they will be: why then should we desire to be deceived? ↗

— Joseph Butler

#consequences #deceived #desire #should #them

It is a waste of money to help those who show no desire to help themselves. ↗

— Taylor Caldwell

#desire #help #show #themselves #those

The courage we desire and prize is not the courage to die decently, but to live manfully. ↗

— Thomas Carlyle

#decently #desire #die #live #manfully

The great increase in longevity has produced a surge in the desire to accumulate assets for retirement. It has outpaced the ability of the private sector to produce assets, so we need a larger government debt. ↗

— William Vickrey

#accumulate #assets #debt #desire #government