Quotes About Desire

The tempt for greatness is the biggest drug in the world.

Find something you love, and go after it, with all of your heart.

You've got to have dreams to keep you going.

Talent is the gift plus the passion - a desire to succeed so intense that no force on earth can stop it.

People throw away what they could have by insisting on perfection, which they cannot have, and looking for it where they will never find it

Cupid makes it his sport to pull the warrior's plum.

If you want to touch the other shore badly enough, barring an impossible situation, you will. If your desire is diluted for any reason, you'll never make it.

I have always wanted to be liked and respected.

She wanted an Italian sports car - with the sport still in it.

I would rather beat the Yankees regularly than pitch a no hit game.

Everyone should want to excel in life. You should never take the desire to excel away from the human race.

I love this game, I love this sport, I love this league. Why don't I get my own team? (English Premiership football club)

I'm like an expensive menu... you can look but you can't afford!

You're still going to win with preparation and dedication and plain old desire. If you don't have genuine desire, you won't be dedicated enough to prepare properly.

Find out what your hero or heroine wants, and when he or she wakes up in the morning, just follow him or her all day.

I'm enjoying the money, the big house, the cars; what ghetto kid wouldn't?

The riskiest thing you can do is get greedy.

Why did I want to win? because I didn't want to lose!

If people don't want to come out to the ball park, nobody's gonna stop 'em.

You think the greatest thing in the whole world would be to become a baseball player - if best things already happened, what's next?

You think you are about to possess what men have hopelessly yearned for throughout the ages: the soul of an innocent, trusting, dependent child inside the opulent body of a radiantly lovely woman.

He contained two equal sorts of knowledge: the warm lazy knowledge that above on the mountain a blond girl in a white dress waited for him, shy and eager; and the cooler knowledge that this was unlikely and the good of climbing was the exercise and view from the top. There was no conflict between these knowledges, his mind passed easily from one to the other, but when he stood up to begin the last of the climb the thought of the girl was stronger.

The devil has put a penalty on all things we enjoy in life. Either we suffer in health or we suffer in soul or we get fat.

Schopenhauer's saying, that "a man can do as he will, but not will as he will," has been an inspiration to me since my