Famous quotes about desire

We must embrace pain and burn it as fuel for our journey.
- Kenji Miyazawa

Don't be pushed by your problems. Be led by your dreams.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

To be desired by those who are themselves highly desirable is in itself an aphrodisiac.
- Tobsha Learner

Heaven will be no heaven to me if I do not meet my wife there.
- Andrew Jackson

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

Let's get away from all the clever humans who put words in our mouth let's only say what our hearts desire.
- Rumi proverb

A moment on the lips, a lifetime on the hips.

A desire is a call between you and that which is greater than you.
- Dr. Anne Davin

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

Every heart desires a mate.
- Marie Stopes

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

A man’s desire is for the woman, but the woman’s desire is rarely other than for the desire of the man. - Samuel
- Taylor Coleridge

It sometimes seems that intense desire creates not only its own opportunities, but its own talents.
- Eric Hoffer

Willpower and desire, when properly combined, make an irresistible pair.
- Napoleon Hill

In the end there is no desire so deep as the simple desire for companionship.
- Graham Greene

When you decide to go after a new dream, you need to give less to your current reality and more to your desired reality… Take your energy out of what you don’t want to be doing anymore so you can put it in what you really want to be doing.
- Danielle LaPorte

The desire to achieve and prove yourself is the root of success. The stronger the desire, the greater the success.
- Dr T. P. Chia

We accomplish things by directing our desires, not by ignoring them.

Some desire is necessary to keep life in motion, and he whose real wants are supplied must admit those of fancy.
- Samuel Johnson

The way to gain a good reputation is to endeavor to be what you desire to appear.
- Socrates

Desire is proof of the availability...
- Robert Collier

What desire can be contrary to nature, since it was given to man by nature itself?
- Michael Foucault

Wake up every day with the desire to succeed.

To wish you were someone else is to waste the person you are.