Quote: If you don't get everything you want, think of the things you don't get that you don't want. Author: Source Unknown
Quote: No person can arise above his real desire. Desires are of value only when they drive us to action. Will and work must accompany desire. Then high resolve is born. Desire is the design that will spurs us into achievement. Author: Source Unknown
Quote: The distance between success and failure can only be measured by one's desire. Author: Source Unknown
Quote: The man who really wants to do something finds a way, the other finds an excuse. Author: Source Unknown
Quote: The more clear you are on what you want, the more power you will have. Author: Source Unknown
Quote: We accomplish things by directing our desires, not by ignoring them. Author: Source Unknown
Quote: Desire! That's the one secret of every man's career. Not education. Not being born with hidden talents. Desire. Author: Bobby Unser 1934-, American Race Car Driver
Quote: As an eagle, weary after soaring in the sky, folds its wings and flies down to rest in its nest, so does the shining Self enter the state of dreamless sleep, where one is freed from all desires. Author: Brihadaranyaka Upanishad Ancient Hindu Scripture Expounding the Identity of the Real Self
Quote: You are what your deep driving desire is. Author: Brihadaranyaka Upanishad Ancient Hindu Scripture Expounding the Identity of the Real Self
Quote: The want of a thing is perplexing enough, but the possession of it, is intolerable. Author: Sir John Vanbrugh 1664-1726, British Playwright and Baroque architect
Quote: Out of need springs desire, and out of desire springs the energy and the will to win. Author: Denis Waitley 1933-, American Author, Speaker, Trainer, Peak Performance Expert
Quote: Where there is no power... there is never any desire to do a thing; and where there is strong desire to do a thing... the power to do it is strong. Author: Wallace D. Wattles
Quote: Desire is a powerful force that can be used to make things happen. Author: Marcia Wieder American Speaker, Trainer, Author
Quote: It's not who jumps the highest -- it's who wants it the most Author: Buck Williams 1960-, American Basketball Player
Quote: You learnt that, whatever you are doing in life, obstacles don't matter very much. Pain or other circumstances can be there, but if you want to do a job bad enough, you'll find a way to get it done. Author: Jack Youngblood
Quote: Understand clearly that when a great need appears a great use appears also; when there is small need there is small use; it is obvious, then, that full use is made of all things at all times according to the necessity thereof. Author: Dogen Zenji
Quote: A desire to be observed, considered, esteemed, praised, beloved, and admired by his fellows is one of the earliest as well as the keenest dispositions discovered in the heart of man. Author: John Adams 1735-1826, Second President of the USA
Quote: I desire not to desire, for my will is without value, since I am ignorant in any case. Therefore choose Thou for me what thou knowest to be best and do not put my perdition in what my autonomy and free choice prefer. Author: Bayazid Al-Bistami
Quote: To desire is to obtain; to aspire is to achieve. Author: James Allen 1864-1912, British-born American Essayist, Author of ''As a Man Thinketh''
Quote: Desire is the key to motivation, but it's the determination and commitment to an unrelenting pursuit of your goal -- a commitment to excellence -- that will enable you to attain the success you seek. Author: Mario Andretti 1940-, Italian-born American Auto Racer
Quote: The desire is thy prayers; and if thy desire is without ceasing, thy prayer will also be without ceasing. The continuance of your longing is the continuance of your prayer. Author: St. Augustine 354-430, Numidian-born Bishop of Hippo, Theologian
Quote: Listen to what you know instead of what you fear. Author: Richard Bach 1936-, American Author
Quote: Man is a creation of desire, not a creation of need. Author: Gaston Bachelard 1884-1962, French Scientist, Philosopher, Literary Theorist
Quote: The desire of excessive power caused the angels to fall; the desire of knowledge caused men to fall. Author: Francis Bacon 1561-1626, British Philosopher, Essayist, Statesman
Quote: Be careful what you set your heart upon -- for it will surely be yours. Author: James Baldwin 1924-1987, American Author
Quote: Those who really desire to attain an independence, have only set their minds upon it, and adopt the proper means, as they do in regard to any other object which they wish to accomplish, and the thing is easily done. Author: P.T. Barnum 1810-1891, American Showman, Entertainer, Circus Builder
Quote: Dreams do come true, if we only wish hard enough, You can have anything in life if you will sacrifice everything else for it. Author: Sir James M. Barrie 1860-1937, British Playwright
Quote: Want is one only of five giants on the road of reconstruction; the others are Disease, Ignorance, Squalor, and Idleness. Author: Baron William Henry Beveridge 1879-1963, Indian Economist
Quote: And desire shall fail: because man goeth to his long home, and the mourners go about the streets. [Ecclesiastes 12:5] Author: Bible Sacred Scriptures of Christians and Judaism
Quote: The desire accomplished is sweet to the soul. [Proverbs 13:19] Author: Bible Sacred Scriptures of Christians and Judaism
Quote: The desire of our soul is to they name, and to the remembrance of thee. [Isaiah] Author: Bible Sacred Scriptures of Christians and Judaism
Quote: The desire of the lazy kill him; for his hands refuse to labor. [Proverbs 21:25] Author: Bible Sacred Scriptures of Christians and Judaism
Quote: He who desires but does not act, breeds pestilence. Author: William Blake 1757-1827, British Poet, Painter
Quote: A man must earnestly want. Author: William Frederick Book
Quote: We trifle when we assign limits to our desires, since nature hath set none. Author: Christian Nevell Bovee 1820-1904, American Author, Lawyer
Quote: One essential to success is that your desire be an all-obsessing one, your thoughts and aim be coordinated, and your energy be concentrated and applied without letup. Author: Claude M. Bristol 1891-1951, American Author of ''The Magic of Believing''
Quote: If you do not develop the hunger and courage to pursue your goal, you will lose your nerve and you will give up on your dream. Author: Les Brown 1945-, American Speaker, Author, Trainer, Motivator Lecturer
Quote: You gotta be hungry! Author: Les Brown 1945-, American Speaker, Author, Trainer, Motivator Lecturer
Quote: O lyric Love, half angel and half bird. And all a wonder and a wild desire. Author: Robert Browning 1812-1889, British Poet
Quote: Desire, like the atom, is explosive with creative force. Author: Paul Vernon Buser
Quote: Nothing stops the man who desires to achieve. Every obstacle is simply a course to develop his achievement muscle. It's a strengthening of his powers of accomplishment. Author: Eric Butterworth
Quote: Desire is the thing you want in incipiency. Author: Emilie Cady
Quote: I honestly believed I would make it. I had the desire. A lot of people have the ability, but they don't put forth the effort. Author: Joe Carter 1960-, American Baseball Player
Quote: No matter how old you get, if you can keep the desire to be creative, you're keeping the man-child alive. Author: John Cassavetes
Quote: Almost every desire a poor man has is a punishable offence. Author: Louis-Ferdinand Celine 1894-1961, French Author
Quote: If you really want something you can figure out how to make it happen. Author: Cher 1946-, American Actress, Director, Singer
Quote: It is not the greatness of a man's means that makes him independent, so much as the smallness of his wants. Author: William Cobbett 1762-1835, British Journalist, Reformer
Quote: All through nature, you will find the same law. First the need, then the means. Author: Robert Collier American Writer, Publisher
Quote: Desire is proof of the availability... Author: Robert Collier American Writer, Publisher
Quote: First the stalk -- then the roots. First the need -- then the means to satisfy that need. First the nucleus -- then the elements needed for its growth. Author: Robert Collier American Writer, Publisher
Quote: It sometimes seems that we have only to love a thing greatly to get it. Author: Robert Collier American Writer, Publisher
Quote: Plant the seed of desire in your mind and it forms a nucleus with power to attract to itself everything needed for its fulfillment. Author: Robert Collier American Writer, Publisher
Quote: Something must be done when you find an opposing set of desires of this kind well to the fore in your category of strong desires. You must set in operation a process of competition, from which one must emerge a victor and the other set be defeated. Author: Robert Collier American Writer, Publisher
Quote: Supply always comes on the heels of demand. Author: Robert Collier American Writer, Publisher
Quote: The first principle of success is desire -- knowing what you want. Desire is the planting of your seed. Author: Robert Collier American Writer, Publisher
Quote: Very few persons, comparatively, know how to Desire with sufficient intensity. They do not know what it is to feel and manifest that intense, eager, longing, craving, insistent, demanding, ravenous Desire which is akin to the persistent, insistent, ardent, overwhelming desire of the drowning man for a breath of air; of the shipwrecked or desert-lost man for a drink of water; of the famished man for bread and meat… Author: Robert Collier American Writer, Publisher
Quote: You can have anything you want -- if you want it badly enough. You can be anything you want to be, have anything you desire, accomplish anything you set out to accomplish -- if you will hold to that desire with singleness of purpose. Author: Robert Collier American Writer, Publisher
Quote: Whenever we confront an unbridled desire we are surely in the presence of a tragedy-in-the-making. Author: Quentin Crisp 1908-, British Author
Quote: It is said that desire is a product of the will, but the converse is in fact true: will is a product of desire. Author: Denis Diderot 1713-1784, French Philosopher
Quote: Anything you really want, you can attain, if you really go after it. Author: Wayne Dyer 1940-, American Psychotherapist, Author, Lecturer
Quote: Some people wanted champagne and caviar when they should have had beer and hot dogs. Author: Dwight D. Eisenhower 1890-1969, Thirty-fourth President of the USA
Quote: Can anything be so elegant as to have few wants, and to serve them one's self? Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson 1803-1882, American Poet, Essayist
Quote: There is nothing capricious in nature and the implanting of a desire indicates that its gratification is in the constitution of the creature that feel it. Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson 1803-1882, American Poet, Essayist
Quote: I never desired to please the rabble. What pleased them, I did not learn; and what I knew was far removed from their understanding. Author: Epicurus c.341-270 BC, Greek Philosopher
Quote: It is not from nature, but from education and habits, that our wants are chiefly derived. Author: Henry Fielding 1707-1754, British Novelist, Dramatist
Quote: Know what you want. Become your real self. Author: David Harold Fink
Quote: If you desire many things, many things will seem few. Author: Benjamin Franklin 1706-1790, American Scientist, Publisher, Diplomat
Quote: It is much easier to suppress a first desire than to satisfy those that follow. Author: Benjamin Franklin 1706-1790, American Scientist, Publisher, Diplomat
Quote: The significance of a man is not in what he attains, but rather what he longs to attain. Author: Kahlil Gibran 1883-1931, Lebanese Poet, Novelist
Quote: While man's desires and aspirations stir he cannot choose but err. Author: Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe 1749-1832, German Poet, Dramatist, Novelist
Quote: People seek within a short span of life to satisfy a thousand desires, each of which is insatiable. Author: Oliver Goldsmith 1728-1774, Anglo-Irish Author, Poet, Playwright
Quote: When desire dies, fear is born. Author: Baltasar Gracian 1601-1658, Spanish Philosopher, Writer
Quote: You can have anything you want if you want it desperately enough. You must want it with an inner exuberance that erupts through the skin and joins the energy that created the world. Author: Sheila Graham
Quote: It (racing) is a matter of spirit, not strength. It is a matter of doing your best each little moment. There's never a break. You must have desire, a very intense desire to keep going. Author: Janet Guthrie American Race Car Driver
Quote: Just what you want to be, you will be in the end. Author: Justin Hayward 1946-, British songwriter, musician
Quote: A strong passion for any object will ensure success, for the desire of the end will point out the means. Author: William Hazlitt 1778-1830, British Essayist
Quote: By annihilating the desires, you annihilate the mind. Every man without passions has within him no principle of action, nor motive to act. Author: Claude A. HelvTtius 1715-1771, French Philosopher
Quote: Desire is the starting point of all achievement, not a hope, not a wish, but a keen pulsating desire which transcends everything. Author: Napoleon Hill 1883-1970, American Speaker, Motivational Writer, ''Think and Grow Rich''
Quote: The battle is all over except the ''shouting'' when one knows what is wanted and has made up his mind to get it, whatever the price may be. Author: Napoleon Hill 1883-1970, American Speaker, Motivational Writer, ''Think and Grow Rich''
Quote: The starting point of all achievement is desire. Keep this constantly in mind. Weak desires bring weak results, just as a small amount of fire makes a small amount of heat. Author: Napoleon Hill 1883-1970, American Speaker, Motivational Writer, ''Think and Grow Rich''
Quote: Through some strange and powerful principle of ''mental chemistry'' which she has never divulged, nature wraps up in the impulse of strong desire, ''that something'' which recognizes no such word as ''impossible,'' and accepts no such reality as failure. Author: Napoleon Hill 1883-1970, American Speaker, Motivational Writer, ''Think and Grow Rich''
Quote: When your desires are strong enough you will appear to possess superhuman powers to achieve. Author: Napoleon Hill 1883-1970, American Speaker, Motivational Writer, ''Think and Grow Rich''
Quote: Desire creates the power. Author: Raymond Holliwell
Quote: There are confessable agonies, sufferings of which one can positively be proud. Of bereavement, of parting, of the sense of sin and the fear of death the poets have eloquently spoken. They command the world's sympathy. But there are also discreditable anguishes, no less excruciating than the others, but of which the sufferer dare not, cannot speak. The anguish of thwarted desire, for example. Author: Aldous Huxley 1894-1963, British Author
Quote: Events are influenced by our very great desires. Author: William James 1842-1910, American Psychologist, Professor, Author
Quote: If you care enough for a result, you will most certainly attain it. Author: William James 1842-1910, American Psychologist, Professor, Author
Quote: I can do whatever I want -- I'm rich, I'm famous, and I'm bigger than you. Author: Don Johnson 1949-, American Actor, Director, Producer, Singer
Quote: Life is a progress from want to want, not from enjoyment to enjoyment. Author: Samuel Johnson 1709-1784, British Author
Quote: Some desire is necessary to keep life in motion, and he whose real wants are supplied must admit those of fancy. Author: Samuel Johnson 1709-1784, British Author
Quote: You will live your life secure in that you are no longer manipulated by what other people want you to do and be, but are directed by your own inner desires. Author: H. Stanley Judd American Author
Quote: One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar. Author: Helen Keller 1880-1968, American Blind/Deaf Author, Lecturer, Amorist
Quote: It belongs to the imperfection of everything human that man can only attain his desire by passing through its opposite. Author: Soren Kierkegaard 1813-1855, Danish Philosopher, Writer
Quote: There are ways which lead to everything, and if we have sufficient will we should always have sufficient means. Author: Francois De La Rochefoucauld 1613-1680, French Classical Writer
Quote: We never desire strongly, what we desire rationally. Author: Francois De La Rochefoucauld 1613-1680, French Classical Writer
Quote: Limited in his nature, infinite in his desire, man is a fallen god who remembers heaven. Author: Alphonse De Lamartine 1790-1869, French Poet, Statesman, Historian
Quote: Manifest plainness, embrace simplicity, reduce selfishness, have few desires. Author: Lao-Tzu BC 600-?, Chinese Philosopher, Founder of Taoism, Author of the ''Tao Te Ching''
Quote: Ignore what a man desires and you ignore the very source of his power Author: Walter Lippmann 1889-1974, American Journalist
Quote: The discipline of desire is the background of character. Author: John Locke 1632-1704, British Philosopher
Quote: Winning isn't everything, but wanting to win is. Author: Vince Lombardi 1913-1970, American Football Coach
Quote: To educate the intelligence is to expand the horizon of its wants and desires. Author: James Russell Lowell 1819-1891, American Poet, Critic, Editor
Quote: The desire for success lubricates secret prostitution's in the soul. Author: Norman Mailer 1923-, American Author
Quote: Desires are the pulses of the soul; as physicians judge by the appetite, so may you by desires. Author: Manton
Quote: If men could regard the events of their own lives with more open minds, they would frequently discover that they did not really desire the things they failed to obtain. Author: Andre Maurois 1885-1967, French Writer
Quote: The intensity of your desire governs the power with which the force is directed. Author: John Mcdonald
Quote: A burning desire is the greatest motivator of every human action. The desire for success implants ''success consciousness'' which, in turn, creates a vigorous and ever-increasing ''habit of success.'' Author: Paul J. Meyer American Businessman, Author, Motivator
Quote: Lord, grant that I may always desire more than I can accomplish. Author: Michelangelo 1474-1564, Italian Renaissance Painter, Sculptor
Quote: I was taught that everything is attainable if you are prepared to give up, to sacrifice, to get it. Whatever you want to do, you can do it, if you want it badly enough, and I do believe that. I believe that if I wanted to run a mile is four minutes I could do it. I would have to give up everything else in my life, but I could run a mile in four minutes. I believe that if a man wanted to walk on water and was prepared to give up everything else in life, he could do that. Author: Stirling Moss 1929-, British Motor Racing Driver
Quote: I know that if I ever go looking for my heart's desire, I'll never go any further than my own back yard. For if it isn't there, I never really lost it. Author: Wizard of Oz - Dorothy Movie
Quote: The key that unlocks energy is ''Desire.'' It's also the key to a long and interesting life. If we expect to create any drive, any real force within ourselves, we have to get excited. Author: Earl Nightingale 1921-1989, American Radio Announcer, Author, Motivator, Speaker
Quote: We are ever striving after what is forbidden, and coveting what is denied us. Author: Ovid BC 43-18 AD, Roman Poet
Quote: Desire and force between them are responsible for all our actions; desire causes our voluntary acts, force our involuntary. Author: Blaise Pascal 1623-1662, French Scientist, Religious Philosopher
Quote: The more wild and incredible your desire, the more willing and prompt God is in fulfilling it, if you will have it so.'' Author: Coventry Patmore 1823-1896, British Poet
Quote: There is a vast difference in some instances between what we really need and that which we think we must have, and the realization of this truth will greatly lessen the seeming discomfort in doing without. Author: William M. Peck
Quote: You can really have everything you want, if you go after it, but you will have to want it. The desire for success must be so strong within you that it is the very breath of your life -- your first though when you awaken in the morning, your last thought when you go to bed at night... Author: Charles E. Popplestone
Quote: There's nothing like desire to prevent the things one says from having any resemblance to the things in one's mind. Author: Marcel Proust 1871-1922, French Novelist
Quote: We do not succeed in changing things according to our desire, but gradually our desire changes. Author: Marcel Proust 1871-1922, French Novelist
Quote: First deserve then desire. Author: Proverb
Quote: Unbridled gratification produces unbridled desire. Author: Proverb
Quote: There are no better masters than poverty and wants. Author: Dutch Proverb Sayings of Dutch Origin
Quote: More than we use is more than we want. Author: Gaelic Proverb Sayings of Gaelic Origin
Quote: This gift is from God and not of man's deserving. But certainly no one ever receives such a great grace without tremendous labor and burning desire. Author: Richard of Saint Victor
Quote: Every human mind is a great slumbering power until awakened by a keen desire and by definite resolution to do. Author: Edgar F. Roberts
Quote: When you know what you want, and want it bad enough, you will find a way to get it. Author: Jim Rohn American Businessman, Author, Speaker, Philosopher
Quote: Without a sense of urgency, desire loses its value. Author: Jim Rohn American Businessman, Author, Speaker, Philosopher
Quote: Why not spend some time determining what is worthwhile for us, and then go after that? Author: William Ross
Quote: Tell me what you like and I'll tell you what you are. Author: John Ruskin 1819-1900, British Critic, Social Theorist
Quote: All human activity is prompted by desire. Author: Bertrand Russell 1872-1970, British Philosopher, Mathematician, Essayist
Quote: I learned that if you want to make it bad enough, no matter how bad it is, you can make it. Author: Gayle Sayers American Football Player
Quote: The man never feels the want of what it never occurs to him to ask for. Author: Arthur Schopenhauer 1788-1860, German Philosopher
Quote: Your desires and true beliefs have a way of playing blind man's bluff. You must corner the inner facts... Author: David Seabury American Doctor, Author
Quote: Our necessities are few, but our wants are endless. Author: George Bernard Shaw 1856-1950, Irish-born British Dramatist
Quote: There is a supply for every demand. Author: Florence Scovel Shinn American Artist, Metaphysics Teacher, Author
Quote: Desire is the most important factor in the success of any athlete. Author: Willie Shoemaker 1931-, American Racing Jockey and Trainer
Quote: I have always believed that anybody with a little guts and the desire to apply himself can make it, can make anything he wants to make of himself. Author: Willie Shoemaker 1931-, American Racing Jockey and Trainer
Quote: A desire arises in the mind. It is satisfied immediately another comes. In the interval which separates two desires a perfect calm reigns in the mind. It is at this moment freed from all thought, love or hate. Complete peace equally reigns between two mental waves. Author: Sri Swami Sivananda 1887-, Indian Physician, Sage
Quote: An intense anticipation itself transforms possibility into reality; our desires being often but precursors of the things which we are capable of performing. Author: Samuel Smiles 1812-1904, Scottish Author
Quote: Every man's road in life is marked by the grave of his personal likings. Author: Alexander Smith 1830-1867, Scottish Poet, Author
Quote: Life contains but two tragedies. One is not to get your heart's desire; the other is to get it. Author: Socrates BC 469-399, Greek Philosopher of Athens
Quote: The fewer our wants the more we resemble the Gods. Author: Socrates BC 469-399, Greek Philosopher of Athens
Quote: Desire is the essence of a man. Author: Baruch (Benedict de) Spinoza 1632-1677, Dutch Philosopher and Theologian
Quote: The desire of the man is for the woman, but the desire of the woman is for the desire of the man. Author: Germaine De Stael 1766-1817, French-Swiss Novelist
Quote: I do want to get rich but I never want to do what there is to do to get rich. Author: Gertrude Stein 1874-1946, American Author
Quote: To know what you prefer instead of humbly saying Amen to what the world tells you ought to prefer is to have kept your soul alive. Author: Robert Louis Stevenson 1850-1895, Scottish Essayist, Poet, Novelist
Quote: In all ranks of life the human heart yearns for the beautiful; and the beautiful things that God makes are his gift to all alike. Author: Harriet Beecher Stowe 1811-1896, American Novelist, Antislavery Campaigner
Quote: From the desert I come to thee, On a stallion shod with fire; And the winds are left behind In the speed of my desire. Author: Bayard Taylor 1825-1878, American Journalist, Traveler, Author
Quote: If a man constantly aspires is he not elevated? Author: Henry David Thoreau 1817-1862, American Essayist, Poet, Naturalist
Quote: Desire will in due time externalize itself as concrete fact. Author: Thomas Troward
Quote: I can teach anybody how to get what they want out of life. The problem is that I can't find anybody who can tell me what they want. Author: Mark Twain 1835-1910, American Humorist, Writer
Quote: A woman never knows what she really wants until she fins out what her husband cannot afford. Author: Source Unknown
Quote: Convince a man of what he wants, and he'll move heaven and earth to get it. Author: Source Unknown