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coveted

«Allah is its goal, the prophet is its model, the Koran is its constitution, jihad is its path and death for the sake of Allah is its most coveted desire»
«I love to hear my Lord spoken of, and wherever I have seen the print of His shoe in the earth, there have I coveted to put mine also.»
«And Achan answered Joshua, and said, Indeed I have sinned against the LORD God of Israel, and thus and thus have I done: / When I saw among the spoils a goodly Babylonish garment, and two hundred shekels of silver, and a wedge of gold of fifty shekels weight, then I coveted them, and took them; and, behold, they are hid in the earth in the midst of my tent, and the silver under it.»
«I have coveted no man's silver, or gold, or apparel.»
Author: Bible | Keywords: coveted
«For the love of money is the root of all evil: which while some coveted after, they have erred from the faith, and pierced themselves through with many sorrows.»
«If you are seeking health, wealth, usefulness, skill in any direction, there is nothing and no one who can hinder your attainment of the coveted boon, if you are willing to work and wait.»
Author: Ella Wheeler Wilcox | Keywords: boon, coveted, hinder
«And with Epicurus, I conceive that pleasures are to be avoided if greater pains be the consequence, and pains to be coveted that will terminate in greater pleasures»
«Old age though despised, is coveted by all.»
Author: Proverb | Keywords: coveted
«When a person does great work he assumes a coveted place in the hearts of all and he becomes great. He becomes successful in slaying all the enemies on basis of the efforts and the support of his fellow-beings. »
Author: Rig Veda | Keywords: coveted