Quotes about desire

First deserve then desire.

— Proverb

Unbridled gratification produces unbridled desire.

— Proverb

There are no better masters than poverty and want.

— Dutch Proverb

More than we use is more than we want.

— Gaelic Proverb

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.

— Richard of Saint Victor

Every human mind is a great slumbering power until awakened by a keen desire and by definite resolution to do.

— Edgar F. Roberts

Without a sense of urgency, desire loses its value.

— Jim Rohn

When you know what you want, and want it bad enough, you will find a way to get it.

— Jim Rohn

Why not spend some time determining what is worthwhile for us, and then go after that?

— William Ross

Tell me what you like and I'll tell you what you are.

— John Ruskin

All human activity is prompted by desire.

— Bertrand Russell

I learned that if you want to make it bad enough, no matter how bad it is, you can make it.

— Gayle Sayers

The man never feels the want of what it never occurs to him to ask for.

— Arthur Schopenhauer

Your desires and true beliefs have a way of playing blind man's bluff. You must corner the inner facts...

— David Seabury

Our necessities are few, but our wants are endless.

— George Bernard Shaw

There is a supply for every demand.

— Florence Scovel Shinn

Desire is the most important factor in the success of any athlete.

— Willie Shoemaker

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.

— Willie Shoemaker

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.

— Sri Swami Sivananda

An intense anticipation itself transforms possibility into reality; our desires being often but precursors of the things which we are capable of performing.

— Samuel Smiles

Every man's road in life is marked by the grave of his personal likings.

— Alexander Smith

Life contains but two tragedies. One is not to get your heart's desire; the other is to get it.

— Socrates

The fewer our wants the more we resemble the Gods.

— Socrates

Desire is the essence of a man.

— Baruch (Benedict de) Spinoza

The desire of the man is for the woman, but the desire of the woman is for the desire of the man.

— Germaine De Stael

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

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

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.

— Bayard Taylor

If a man constantly aspires is he not elevated?

— Henry David Thoreau

Desire will in due time externalize itself as concrete fact.

— Thomas Troward

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

Convince a man of what he wants, and he'll move heaven and earth to get it.

— Source Unknown

A woman never knows what she really wants until she fins out what her husband cannot afford.

— Source Unknown

Desire for security keeps littleness little and threatens the great with smallness.

— Source Unknown

If you don't get everything you want, think of the things you don't get that you don't want.

— Source Unknown

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.

— Source Unknown

The distance between success and failure can only be measured by one's desire.

— Source Unknown

The man who really wants to do something finds a way, the other finds an excuse.

— Source Unknown

The more clear you are on what you want, the more power you will have.

— Source Unknown

We accomplish things by directing our desires, not by ignoring them.

— Source Unknown

Desire! That's the one secret of every man's career. Not education. Not being born with hidden talents. Desire.

— Bobby Unser

You are what your deep driving desire is.

— Brihadaranyaka Upanishad

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.

— Brihadaranyaka Upanishad

The want of a thing is perplexing enough, but the possession of it, is intolerable.

— Sir John Vanbrugh

Out of need springs desire, and out of desire springs the energy and the will to win.

— Denis Waitley

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

Desire is a powerful force that can be used to make things happen.

— Marcia Wieder

It's not who jumps the highest -- it's who wants it the most

— Buck Williams

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

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.

— Dogen Zenji

When once you have tasted flight, you will forever walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward, for there you have been and there you will always long to return.

— Leonardo Da Vinci

An infinity of forests lies dormant within the dreams of one Acorn.

— Wayne Dyer

The difference between DREAM and DESIRE is that the dream is what we build for the team and the desire is what we aspire to build for ourselves."~Anuj Somany

— Source Unknown

I do want to get rich but I never want to do what there is to do to get rich.

— Gertrude Stein