The size of your success is measured by the strength of your desire; the size of your dream; and how you handle disappointment along the way.
Robert Kiyosaki
The desire of power in excess caused the angels to fall; the desire of knowledge in excess caused man to fall.
Francis Bacon
[Desire] is a perpetual rack, or horsemill, according to Austin, still going round as in a ring.
Robert Burton
Nothing is far and nothing is near, if one desires. The world is little, people are little, human life is little. There is only one big thing desire.
Willa Sibert Cather
Often you must keep the dogs of desire nipping at your heels lest you become the slave of procrastination and the errand boy of complacency
R.K. Francis
Opposition of one\'s desires is the sign of the highest level of wisdom in a human being.
al-Baqir, Muhammad
Three things are necessary for the salvation of man: to know what he ought to believe; to know what he ought to desire; and to know what he ought to do.
Saint Thomas Aquinas
Man is a creation of desire, not a creation of need.
Gaston Bachelard
If you cannot get things as much as you desire than be contented with what you have.
Ali bin Abu-Talib
If it were not my purpose to combine barbarian things with things Hellenic, to traverse and civilize every continent, to search out the uttermost parts of land and sea, to push the bounds of Macedonia to the farthest Ocean, and to disseminate and shower the blessings of the Hellenic justice and peace over every nation, I should not be content to sit quietly in the luxury of idle power, but I should emulate the frugality of Diogenes. But as things are, forgive me Diogenes, that I imitate Herakles, and emulate Perseus, and follow in the footsteps of Dionysos, the divine author and progenitor of my family, and desire that victorious Hellenes should dance again in India and revive the memory of the Bacchic revels among the savage mountain tribes beyond the Kaukasos
Alexander III
It is a strange desire, to seek power and to lose liberty.
Francis Bacon
Some prices are just too high, no matter how much you may want the prize. The one thing you can't trade for your heart's desire is your heart.
Lois McMaster Bujold
Entirety exists within me as exuberance ... in empty longing ... in ... the desire to burn with desire.
Georges Bataille
Desire is creation, is the magical element in that process. If there were an instrument by which to measure desire, one could foretell achievement.
Willa Sibert Cather
When we look back, the only things we cherish are those which in some way met our original want; the desire which formed in us in early youth, undirected, and of its own accord.
Willa Sibert Cather