Desire is the starting point of all achievement, not a hope, not a wish, but a keen pulsating desire which transcends everything.
—Napoleon Hill (1883–1970) American Author, Journalist, Attorney, Lecturer
When your desires are strong enough you will appear to possess superhuman powers to achieve.
—Napoleon Hill (1883–1970) American Author, Journalist, Attorney, Lecturer
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.
—Stirling Moss (1929–2020) English Motor-Racing Driver, Broadcaster
When desire dies, fear is born.
—Baltasar Gracian (1601–58) Spanish Scholar, Prose Writer
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…
—Charles E. Popplestone
There are three wants which can never be satisfied: that of the rich, who want something more; that of the sick, who want something different; and that of the traveler, who says, “Anywhere but here”.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–82) American Philosopher
The significance of a man is not in what he attains, but rather in what he longs to attain.
—Kahlil Gibran (1883–1931) Lebanese-born American Philosopher, Poet, Painter, Theologian, Sculptor
Try to eliminate the word SHOULD from your vocabulary. And try doing so without replacing it with OUGHT or YOU BETTER.
—Unknown
Dreams do come true, if we only wish hard enough, You can have anything in life if you will sacrifice everything else for it.
—J. M. Barrie (1860–1937) Scottish Novelist, Dramatist
All through nature, you will find the same law. First the need, then the means.
—Robert Collier (1885–1950) American Self-Help Author
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.
—Sivananda Saraswati (1887–1963) Indian Hindu Spiritual Teacher
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.
—Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811–96) American Abolitionist, Author
Supply always comes on the heels of demand.
—Robert Collier (1885–1950) American Self-Help Author
You are what your deep driving desire is.
—The Upanishads Sacred Books of Hinduism
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.
—Indian Proverb
Plant the seed of desire in your mind and it forms a nucleus with power to attract to itself everything needed for its fulfillment.
—Robert Collier (1885–1950) American Self-Help Author
First deserve then desire.
—Common Proverb
We don’t know what we want, but we are ready to bite somebody to get it.
—Will Rogers (1879–1935) American Actor, Rancher, Humorist
There’s nothing like desire to prevent the things one says from having any resemblance to the things in one’s mind.
—Marcel Proust (1871–1922) French Novelist
A strong passion for any object will ensure success, for the desire of the end will point out the means.
—William Hazlitt (1778–1830) English Essayist
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.
—The Upanishads Sacred Books of Hinduism
Your desires and true beliefs have a way of playing blind man’s bluff. You must corner the inner facts…
—David Seabury (1885–1960) American Psychologist
Bounded in his nature, infinite in his desires, man is a fallen god who has a recollection of heaven.
—Alphonse de Lamartine (1790–1869) French Poet, Politician, Historian
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 (1835–1910) American Humorist
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.
—P. T. Barnum (1810–91) American Businessperson, Entertainer
Lust’s passion will be served; it demands, it militates, it tyrannizes.
—Marquis de Sade (1740–1814) French Political leader, Revolutionary, Novelist, Poet, Critic
The desire of our soul is to thy name, and to the remembrance of thee.
—The Holy Bible Scripture in the Christian Faith
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 Wattles (1860–1911) American New Thought Author
Better return and make a net, than to go down to the stream and merely wish for fish.
—Chinese Proverb
Desire is the essence of a man.
—Baruch Spinoza (1632–77) Dutch Philosopher, Theologian