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Quotes About Desire

Now success was like lust, she's good to the touch, She's good for the moment, but she's never enough
~ Jay-Z
If you don't first handle fear and desire, and you get rich, you'll only be a highpay slave.
~ Robert Kiyosaki
Success follows doing what you want to do. There is no other way to be successful.
~ Malcolm Forbes
The goose that lays the golden eggs likes to lay where there are eggs already.
~ Charles Spurgeon
When you're a plebeian you want success, and when you're successful you want to be a plebeian again
~ Paula Cole
Winning isn't everything. Wanting to is.
~ Catfish Hunter
Success is getting and achieving what you want. Happiness is wanting and being content with what you get.
~ Bernard Meltzer
There is often less danger in the things we fear than in the things we desire.
~ John Churton Collins
Success, in my view, is the willingness to strive for something you really want
~ Fran Tarkenton
There is a third dimension to traveling, the longing for what is beyond.
~ Jan Myrdal
We hurt ourselves not by what we ask for, but what we settle for.
~ Alan Cohen
The best thing that can come with success is the knowledge that it is nothing to long for.
~ Liv Ullmann
What you are must always displease you, if you would attain to that which you are not.
~ Saint Augustine
The desire for success lubricates secret prostitution in the soul.
~ Norman Mailer
Failure, to me, is not having the desire to try. Having the desire to try is in it own way success.
~ Bobby Knight
No man can succeed in a line of endeavor which he does not like.
~ Napoleon Hill
A burning desire is the greatest motivator of every human action. The desire for success implants 'success consciousness' which, in turn, creates a vigorous and ever-increasing 'habit of success'.
~ Paul J. Meyer
Carry your most important goal in your wallet".
~ Jack Canfield
I'd had my time in the charts and made loads of money. I was no longer hungry for success.
~ Rick Astley
We would often be sorry if our wishes were gratified.
~ Aesop
The foundation of success is intense desire.
~ Bill Phillips
Research indicates that the desire to achieve the skills associated with success is more highly correlated with achievement than the desire for success itself.
~ Marshall Goldsmith
The love of money grows as the money itself grows.
~ Juvenal
The three great American vices seem to be efficiency, punctuality, and the desire for achievement and success. They are the things that make the Americans so unhappy and so nervous.
~ Lin Yutang