Desires Quotes

To desire is to obtain; to aspire is to achieve.

James Allen

You learnt that, whatever you are doing in life, obstacles don't matter very much. Pain or other circumstances can be there, but if you want to do a job bad enough, you'll find a way to get it done.

Jack Youngblood

I discovered a long time ago that if I helped people get what they wanted, I would always get what I wanted and I would never have to worry.

Anthony Robbins

Desire will in due time externalize itself as concrete fact.

Thomas Troward

I was taught that everything is attainable if you are prepared to give up, to sacrifice, to get it. Whatever you want to do, you can do it, if you want it badly enough, and I do believe that. I believe that if I wanted to run a mile is four minutes I could do it. I would have to give up everything else in my life, but I could run a mile in four minutes. I believe that if a man wanted to walk on water and was prepared to give up everything else in life, he could do that.

Stirling Moss

No matter how old you get, if you can keep the desire to be creative, you're keeping the man-child alive.

John Cassavetes

If men could regard the events of their own lives with more open minds, they would frequently discover that they did not really desire the things they failed to obtain.

Andre Maurois

Nobody knows what you want except you. And nobody will be as sorry as you if you don't get it. Wanting some other way to live is proof enough of deserving it. Having it is hard work, but not having it is sheer hell.

Lillian Hellman

The man never feels the want of what it never occurs to him to ask for.

Arthur Schopenhauer

All joy emphasises our pilgrim status; always reminds, beckons, awakens desire. Our best havings are wantings.

C.S. Lewis, Letters

Be careful what you set your heart upon -- for it will surely be yours.

James Baldwin

Your desires and true beliefs have a way of playing blind man's bluff. You must corner the inner facts...

David Seabury

People will insist on treating the mons Veneris as though it were Mount Everest. Too silly!

Aldous Huxley

Desire, like the atom, is explosive with creative force.

Paul Vernon Buser

I can do whatever I want -- I'm rich, I'm famous, and I'm bigger than you.

Don Johnson

Tell me what you like and I'll tell you what you are.

John Ruskin

It is not from nature, but from education and habits, that our wants are chiefly derived.

Henry Fielding

I do want to get rich but I never want to do what there is to do to get rich.

Gertrude Stein

From the desert I come to thee, On a stallion shod with fire; And the winds are left behind In the speed of my desire.

Bayard Taylor

The significance of a man is not in what he attains, but rather what he longs to attain.

Kahlil Gibran