Desires Quotes

The desire for success lubricates secret prostitution's in the soul.

Norman Mailer

Human society is based on want. Life is based on want. Wild-eyed visionaries may dream of a world without need. Cloud-cuckoo-land. It can't be done.

H. G. [Herbert George] Wells

He can feel no little wants who is in pursuit of grandeur.

Johann Kaspar Lavater

Unbridled gratification produces unbridled desire.

Proverb

First deserve then desire.

Proverb

I want to be what I was when I wanted to be what I am now.

Ray Prince

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, The Rest of the

By annihilating the desires, you annihilate the mind. Every man without passions has within him no principle of action, nor motive to act.

Claude A. Helvetius

When you know what you want, and want it bad enough, you will find a way to get it.

Jim Rohn

Without a sense of urgency, desire loses its value.

Jim Rohn

Just what you want to be, you will be in the end.

Justin Hayward

The true lover of learning then must his earliest youth, as far as in him lies, desire all truth. . .He whose desires are drawn toward knowledge in every form will be absorbed in the pleasures of the soul, and will hardly feel bodily pleasures I mean, if he be a true philosopher and not a sham one. . .Then how can he who has the magnificence of mind and is the spectator of all times and all existence, think much of human life He cannot. Or can such a one account death fearful No indeed.

Plato

Desire is the most important factor in the success of any athlete.

Willie Shoemaker

I have always believed that anybody with a little guts and the desire to apply himself can make it, can make anything he wants to make of himself.

Willie Shoemaker

There is a supply for every demand.

Florence Scovel Shinn

The starting point of all achievement is desire. Keep this constantly in mind. Weak desires bring weak results, just as a small amount of fire makes a small amount of heat.

Napoleon Hill

What most men desire is a virgin who is a whore.

Edward Dahlberg

Love Sonnet XI

Pablo Neruda

You will live your life secure in that you are no longer manipulated by what other people want you to do and be, but are directed by your own inner desires.

H. Stanley Judd

People seek within a short span of life to satisfy a thousand desires, each of which is insatiable.

Oliver Goldsmith