Desire Quotes

You will become as small as your controlling desire; as great as your dominant aspiration.

Plant the seed of desire in your mind and it forms a nucleus with power to attract to itself everything needed for its fulfillment.

Desire is the starting point of all achievement, not a hope, not a wish, but a keen pulsating desire which transcends everything.

When your desires are strong enough, you will appear to possess superhuman powers to achieve

Man is a creation of desire,not a creation of need.

One must not lose desires. They are mighty stimulants to creativeness, to love, and to long life.
Alexander A. Bogomoletz

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.

The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring. And that is not happiness.
F. H. Bradley

Again, men in general desire the good, and not merely what their fathers had.

It is the nature of desire not to be satisfied, and most men live only for the gratification of it.

If you greatly desire something, have the guts to stake everything on obtaining it.

A human being has a natural desire to have more of a good thing than he needs.

Some desire is necessary to keep life in motion, and he whose real wants are supplied must admit those of fancy.

All human activity is prompted by desire.

The first principle of success is desire -- knowing what you want. Desire is the planting of your seed.

There are two tragedies in life. One is not to get your heart's desire. The other is to get it.

I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who overcomes his enemies.

Dwell not upon thy weariness, thy strength shall be according to the measure of thy desire.

Desire, like the atom, is explosive with creative force.
Paul Vernon Buser

In my experience, there is only one motivation, and that is desire. No reasons or principle contain it or stand against it.
Jane Smiley

Desire is the key to motivation, but it's determination and commitment to an unrelenting pursuit of your goal - a commitment to excellence - that will enable you to attain the success you seek.
Mario Andretti

The desire to know is natural to good men.







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