63 Top Desire Quotes & Sayings
Desire is a strong feeling of wanting to have something or wishing for something to happen.
1. A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others.
Ayn Rand
2. Always desire to learn something useful.
Sophocles
3. Attract what you expect, reflect what you desire, become what you respect, mirror what you admire.
Anonymous
4. Be Fearless And Watch The World Unfold To Your Every Desire.
Kevin Abdulrahman
5. Burning desire to be or do something gives us staying power – a reason to get up every morning or to pick ourselves up and start in again after a disappointment.
Marsha Sinetar
6. But we gamble with desire
Anonymous
7. Desire Are like Wildhorses Itrequires Intellingence Adn Character To Conquer Them
Anonymous
8. Desire creates havoc when it is the only thing between two people, or when it is what's missing.
Mignon McLaughlin
9. Desire creates the power.
Raymond Holliwell
10. Desire is created when something happens in your life that suddenly changes the way you see yourself in relationship to your future.
Zig Ziglar
11. Desire the starting point of all achievement.
Anonymous
12. Destiny grants us our wishes, but in its own way, in order to give us something beyond our wishes.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
13. Everyone has been made for some particular work, and the desire for that work has been put in every heart.
Rumi
14. Everyone has the desire to win, but only champions have the desire to prepare.
Anonymous
15. Fantasy mirrors desire. Imagination reshapes it.
Mason Cooley
16. First deserve then desire.
Anonymous
17. Have the courage of your desire.
George Gissing
18. 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
19. I desire the things which will destroy me in the end.
Sylvia Plath
20. I do not desire mediocre love. I want to drown in someone
Anonymous
21. I had a very strong desire to be successful at something.
Nelson DeMille
22. I have a desire, for every inch of you. The smell of your breath, on my needing lips. The taste of you, under the covers. And your voice rummaging, through every vein in my body.
Anonymous
23. I Once Had Thousand Desire But In My One Desire To Know You All Else Melted away.
Rumi
24. If thou desire the love of God and man, be humble, for the proud heart, as it loves none but itself, is beloved of none but itself. Humility enforces where neither virtue, nor strength, nor reason can prevail.
Francis Quarles
25. If You Don't Sacrifice For What You Want What You Want Becomes The Sacrifice.
Anonymous
26. If you're bored with life – you don't get up every morning with a burning desire to do things – you don't have enough goals.
Lou Holtz
27. In order to succeed, your desire for success should be greater than your fear of failure.
Anonymous
28. In the depth of your hopes and desires lies your silent knowledge of the beyond; And like seeds dreaming beneath the snow your heart dreams of spring.
Kahlil Gibran
29. Life without desire is worth nothing.
Anonymous
30. Love and desire are the spirit's wings to great deeds.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
31. Love is an irresistible desire to be desired irresistibly.
Louis Ginsberg
32. Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.
Robert Frost
33. Love is the life of our heart. According to it, we desire, rejoice, hope and despair, fear, take heart, hate, avoid things, feel sad, grow angry, and exult.
Anonymous
34. Mystery creates wonder and wonder is the basis of man's desire to understand.
Neil Armstrong
35. Nothing is far and nothing is near, if one desires. The world is little, people are little, human life is little. There is only one big thing—desire. And before it, when it is big, all is little.
Willa Cather
36. Obama has demonstrated no desire to make tough choices. Americans demand a more efficient, effective government, but his budget calls for more taxes and more spending. It employs deceptive accounting gimmicks but does nothing to tackle long-term entitlement problems, nothing to save Medicare or fix Social Security.
Reince Priebus
37. Our desires always disappoint us; for though we meet with something that gives us satisfaction, yet it never thoroughly answers our expectation.
Elbert Hubbard
38. Our visions begin with our desires.
Audre Lorde
39. Passion will always be stalked by the envious, but desire will be plague with the deep madness that blurs the line of love and hate.
Mitzi Vixx
40. The ability and desire to transform the mundane materials at hand that we both bring into the collaboration well beyond the sum total of the parts – to birth a new baby neither of us could claim single parentage of.
Gary Lucas
41. The desire of the man is for the woman, but the desire of the woman is for the desire of the man.
Madame de Stael
42. The desire to create is one of the deepest yearnings of the human soul.
Elder Uchtdorf
43. The Desire To Reach For The Stars Is Ambitious The Desire To Reach Hearts Is Wise.
Maya Angelou
44. The starting point of all achievement is desire.
Napoleon Hill
45. The starting point of all achievement is DESIRE. Keep this constantly in mind. Weak desire brings weak results, just as a small fire makes a small amount of heat.
Napoleon Hill
46. There are those who have a desire to love, but do not have the capacity to love.
Giovanni Papini
47. These illustrations suggest four general maxims[…].The first is: remember that your motives are not always as altruistic as they seem to yourself. The second is: don’t over-estimate your own merits.The third is don’t expect others to take as much interest in you as you do yourself. And the fourth is: don’t imagine that most people give enough thought to you to have any special desire to persecute you.
Bertrand Russell
48. Those who restrain desire do so because theirs is weak enough to be restrained.
William Blake
49. Thoughts mixed with definiteness of purpose, persistence, and a burning desire are powerful things.
Napoleon Hill
50. To desire and expect nothing for oneself and to have profound sympathy for others is genuine holiness.
Ivan Turgenev
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52. Walk with the dreamers, the believers, the courageous, the cheerful, the planners, the doers, the successful people with their heads in the clouds and their feet on the ground. Let their spirit ignite a fire within you to leave this world better than when you found it.
Anonymous
53. What in her do I require1 The face of gratified desire.
Anonymous
54. Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve. Thoughts are things! And powerful things at that, when mixed with definiteness of purpose, and burning desire, can be translated into riches.
Napoleon Hill
55. Whatever You Vividly Imagine Ardently Desire Sincerely Believe And Enthusiastically Act Upon Must Inevitably Come To Pass.
Paul J. Neyer
56. When The Heart Stops For One Beat It Is Desire When It Stops For One Life Time It Is For One Life Time It Is Love.
Anonymous
57. When your desires are strong enough you will appear to possess superhuman powers to achieve.
Napoleon Hill
58. Winners must have two things, definite goals and a burning desire to achieve them.
Brad Burden
59. You Are Everything I Desire And Nothing I May Possess
Anonymous
60. Your desire to change must be greater than your desire to stay the same.
Anonymous
61. Your desire to succeed must surpass my desire for you to succeed.
Lakeisha M Williams
62. Your Potential Is Defined By Your Desire.
Dan Goldberg
63. You’ve turned to wood, he observed, “you’ve not only renounced life, your own interests and society’s, your duty as a citizen and a human being, your friends (all the same you did have them), you’ve not only renounced any goal whatsoever apart from winning, but you’ve even renounced your memories. I remember you in an ardent and strong moment of your life; but I’m sure you’ve forgotten all your best impressions then; your dreams, your most essential desires at present don’t go beyond pair and impair, rouge, noir, the twelve middle numbers, and so on, and so forth–I’m sure of it
Fyodor Dostoyevsky