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Quotes About Desire

We are told that talent creates its own opportunities. But it sometimes seems that intense desire creates not only its own opportunities, but its own talents.
~ Eric Hoffer
Get excited and enthusiastic about your own dream. This excitement is like a forest fire - you can smell it, taste it, and see it from a mile away.
~ Denis Waitley
Do what you gotta do so you can do what you wanna do.
~ Denzel Washington
First you fuel the desire, then the desire will fuel you.
~ Napoleon Hill
Winning is not everything, but wanting to win is.
~ Vince Lombardi
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
~ Sheilah Graham Westbrook
Desire, ignorance, and inequality—this is the trinity of bondage.
~ Swami Vivekananda
There was simply from this quite early age the awareness that the only thing I wanted was to dance.
~ Rudolf Nureyev
Most people would like to be delivered from temptation but would like it to keep in touch.
~ Robert Orben
What everyone in the astronaut corps shares in common is not gender or ethnic background, but motivation, perseverance, and desire - the desire to participate in a voyage of discovery.
~ Ellen Ochoa
Intense, burning desire is the motivational force that enables you to overcome any obstacle and achieve almost any goal
~ Brian Tracy
Deliberately seek the company of people who influence you to think and act on building the life you desire.
~ Napoleon Hill
Not getting what you want either means you don't want it enough, or you have been dealing too long with the price you have to pay.
~ Rudyard Kipling
If you want something as bad as you want to breathe, then you can do it.
~ Tyler Seguin
Nothing satisfies an individual incapable of enjoyment.
~ Alan Watts
These individulas have riches just as we say that we 'have a fever,' when really the fever has us.
~ Seneca the Younger
When you know what you want and you want it badly enough, you will find the ways to get it.
~ Jim Rohn
There isn't anything anybody wants that is for any other reason than that they think they would feel better in having it.
~ Shinzo Abe
People need dreams, there's as much nourishment in them as food.
~ Dorothy Gilman
Whatever you vividly imagine, ardently desire, sincerly believe and enthusiastically act upon ... must inevitably come to pass.
~ Paul Meyer
Life is about chasing after the things you think are truly worth it, even if they don't happen, I'd rather have nothing but know I didn't settle for something I didn't want!
~ Salma Hayek
The key that unlocks energy is desire. It's also the key to a long and interesting life. If we expect to create any drive, any real force within ourselves, we have to get excited.
~ Earl Nightingale
I say if you love something, set it in a small cage and pester and smother it with love until it either loves you back or dies.
~ Mindy Kaling
We fear the things we want the most.
~ Robert Anthony