Quotes About Desire

If you think that material success will bring you happiness, relationships, people, places, things, fame, fortune, you definitely should not practice tantra.

What you are longing for is longing for you.

The trouble with many plans is that they are based on the way things are now. To be successful, your personal plan must focus on what you want, not what you have.

If you want something bad enough and you have that desire, you'll walk to another state or country if you have to.

Success hath made me wanton.

Follow your dream as long as you live, do not lessen the time of following desire, for wasting time is an abomination of the spirit.

Lies are essential to humanity. They are perhaps as important as the pursuit of pleasure and moreover are dictated by that pursuit.

Nobody speaks the truth when there's something they must have.

Success only feeds the appetite of aggression.

You enhance your chances for success when you understand that your yearning power is more important than your earning power

Youth is not enough. And love is not enough. And success is not enough. And, if we could achieve it, enough would not be enough.

This not in mortals to command success, but we'll do more, Sempronius, we'll deserve it.

I did not ask for success; I asked for wonder.

We should scarcely desire things ardently if we were perfectly acquainted with what we desire.

Attain the unattainable.

Great success is a great temptation.

This thing that haunts you, that never seems satisfied, the cravings in your soul that you are unable to satiate through all the success that the world can bring this is your soul screaming for God.

A great many people go after success simply for the shiny prizes it brings...And nowhere is it pursued more ardently than in the city of New York.

What is the use of acquiring one's heart's desire if one cannot handle and gloat over it, show it to one's friends, and gather an anthology of envy and admiration?

Fear of failure is at least as common as the desire for success. In fact, if harnessed properly, it can be the energy that drives the wheel.

People refuse to take chances in business, because they fear the criticism which may follow if they fail. The fear of criticism, in such cases is stronger than the DESIRE for success.

From now on, I'm not doing anything I don't want to do! The world owes me happiness, fulfillment and success... I'm just here to cash in.

People don't need love. What they need is success in one form or another. It can be love but it needn't be.

There are few qualities more vital than a strong yearning. That desire to reach a little farther, to be a little more, yearning...for a piece of something greater, can often make all the difference.