Quotes on Desire! Aspire Higher Motivational Quotes & Sayings
Quotes on Desire
“Desire will in due time externalize itself as concrete fact.” —Thomas Troward
“Anything you really want, you can attain, if you really go after it.” —Wayne Dyer
“When your desires are strong enough you will appear to possess superhuman powers to achieve.” —Napoleon Hill
“It sometimes seems that we have only to love a thing greatly to get it.” —Robert Collier
“Out of need springs desire, and out of desire springs the energy and the will to win.” —Denis Waitley
“Desire! That’s the one secret of every man’s career. Not education. Not being born with hidden talents. Desire.” —Bobby Unser
“Every human mind is a great slumbering power until awakened by a keen desire and by definite resolution to do.” —Edgar F. Roberts
“I learned that if you want to make it bad enough, no matter how bad it is, you can make it.” —Gayle Sayers
“Desire is the starting point of all achievement. Not a hope, not a wish, but a keen pulsating desire which transcends everything.” —Napoleon Hill
“The more wild and incredible your desire, the more willing and prompt God is in fulfilling it, if you will have it so.” —Coventry Patmore
“It is said that desire is a product of the will, but the converse is in fact true: will is a product of desire.” —Denis Diderot
“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.” —Eric Butterworth
“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.” —Robert Louis Stevenson
“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.” —Mark Twain
“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.’” —Paul J. Meyer
“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.” —Andre Maurois
“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.” —Wallace D. Wattles
“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.” —Sheila Graham
“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.” —Jack Youngblood
“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 thought when you awaken in the morning, your last thought when you go to bed at night….” —Charles E. Popplestone
Motivational Quotes on Desire
“Desire creates the power.” —Raymond Holliwell
“Desire is possibility seeking expression.” —Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Nothing is impossible to a willing heart.” —John Heywood
“For the resolute and determined, there is time and opportunity.” —Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Ignore what a man desires, and you ignore the very source of his power.” —Walter Lippman
“The intensity of your desire governs the power with which the force is directed.” —John McDonald
“It sometimes seems that intense desire creates not only its own opportunities, but its own talents.” —Eric Hoffer
“Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other one thing.” —Abraham Lincoln
“A strong passion for any object will ensure success, for the desire of the end will point out the means.” —Henry Hazlitt
“The starting point of all achievement is desire. Keep this constantly in mind. Weak desires bring weak results, just like as a small amount of fire makes a small amount of heat.” —Napoleon Hill
Desire Quotes and Sayings
“Desire creates the power.” —Raymond Holliwell
“Always desire to learn something useful.” —Sophocles
“When desire dies, fear is born.” —Baltasar Gracian
“Desire is proof of the availability…” —Robert Collier
“One must desire something to be alive.” —Margaret Deland
“The desire accomplished is sweet to the soul.” —Proverb
“He who desires but acts not, breeds pestilence.” —William Blake
“The discipline of desire is the background of character.” —John Locke
“Desire, like the atom, is explosive with creative force.” —Paul Vernon Buser
“Desires satisfied are but as seeds sown a second time.” —Edward Counsel
“Desire will in due time externalize itself as concrete fact.” —Thomas Troward
“If you desire many things, many things will seem few.” —Benjamin Franklin
“Desire is the absurdity that holds open the infinity of possibility.” —Wendy Farley
“Almost every desire a poor man has is a punishable offence.” —Louis Ferdinand Celine
“We desire nothing so much as what we ought not to have.” —Publilius Syrus
“Desire, burning desire, is basic to achieving anything beyond the ordinary.” —Joseph B. Wirthlin
“If you desire to be good, begin by believing that you are wicked.” —Epictetus
“Anything you really want, you can attain, if you really go after it.” —Wayne Dyer
Desire is a powerful force that can be used to make things happen.” —Marcia Wieder
“A desire scorned and neglected is an enemy lying in wait with bared dagger.” —Abraham Miller
“If you greatly desire something, have the guts to stake everything on obtaining it.” —Brendan Francis
“The intensity of your desire governs the power with which the force is directed.” —John Mcdonald
“Every intense desire is perhaps a desire to be different from what we are.” —Eric Hoffer
“The most basic human desire is to feel like you belong. Fitting in is important.” —Simon Sinek
“Those who restrain their desire do so because theirs is weak enough to be restrained.” —William Blake
“To get what he wanted, a man had to give other people what they wanted.” —Dashiell Hammett
“When your desires are strong enough, you will appear to possess superhuman powers to achieve.” —Napoleon Hill
“It is much easier to suppress a first desire than to satisfy those that follow.” —Benjamin Franklin
“In order to succeed, your desire for success should be greater than your fear of failure.” —Bill Cosby
“Weak desires bring weak results, just as a small amount of fire makes a small amount of heat.” —Napoleon Hill
“One must not lose desires. They are mighty stimulants to creativeness, to love, and to long life.” —Alexander A. Bogomoletz
“It is the nature of desire not to be satisfied, and most men live only for the gratification of it.” —Aristotle
“You can have everything in life you want if you will just help enough other people get what they want.” —Zig Ziglar
“Some desire is necessary to keep life in motion, and he whose real wants are supplied must admit those of fancy.” —Samuel Johnson
“Desire is the starting point of all achievement, not a hope, not a wish, but a keen pulsating desire which transcends everything.” —Napoleon Hill
“Plant the seed of desire in your mind and it forms a nucleus with power to attract to itself everything needed for its fulfillment.
“So long as there is desire or want, it is a sure sign that there is imperfection. A perfect, free being cannot have any desire.” —Vivekananda
“All cravings are the mind seeking salvation or fulfillment in external things and in the future as a substitute for the joy of Being.” —Eckhard Tolle
“Desire means the way to go out; desire is the path that leads you out. If your mind is still desiring, you cannot move within.” —Osho
“Desires are insatiable. They keep growing as we try to satisfy them just as the fire becomes more inflamed when oil is poured into it.” —Manu Smriti
“Desires are only the lack of something: and those who have the greatest desires are in a worse condition than those who have none, or very slight ones.” —Plato
“Burning desire to be or do something gives us staying power – a reason to get up every morning or to pick ourselves up and start in again after a disappointment.
“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.” —Paul J. Meyer
“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.” —John Adams
“Desire is poverty. Desire is the greatest impurity of the mind. Desire is the motive force for action. Desire in the mind is the real impurity. Even a spark of desire is a very great evil.
“Desire is what leads you through life until the time comes when you desire a higher life. So do not be ashamed that you want so much, yet at the same time do not fool yourself into thinking that what you want today will be enough tomorrow.” —Deepak Chopra