Desire Quotes

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  In order to succeed, your desire for success should be greater than your fear of failure.

  Bill Cosby

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  Twitter post from Nov 18, 2009

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  The size of your success is measured by the strength of your desire; the size of your dream; and how you handle disappointment along the way.

  Robert Kiyosaki

  Strength, Inspiring, Dream

  FaceBook post by Robert Kiyosaki from May 10, 2012

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• True peacefulness comes from abandoning the illustion that satisfying desires brings pleasure.

  Joan Z. Borysenko

  Happiness, Pleasure, Peacefulness

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• The starting point of all achievement is desire.

  Napoleon Hill

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

  Napoleon Hill (2007). “The Prosperity Bible: The Greatest Writings of All Time on the Secrets to Wealth and Prosperity”, p.142, Penguin

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  Human behavior flows from three main sources: desire, emotion, and knowledge.

  Plato

  Plato, Three, Flow

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• Desire is the starting point of all achievement, not a hope, not a wish, but a keen pulsating desire which transcends everything.

  Napoleon Hill

  Inspirational, Success, Dream

  "The Law of Success". Book by Napoleon Hill, 1928.

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• Desire makes everything blossom

  Marcel Proust

  Anticipation

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• A burning desire is the greatest motivator of every human action.

  Paul J. Meyer

  Burning, Action, Humans

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• The only real limitation on your abilities is the level of your desires. If you want it badly enough, there are no limits on what you can achieve.

  Brian Tracy

  Life, Motivational, Real

  FaceBook post by Brian Tracy from Jul 08, 2011

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• All that spirits desire, spirits attain.

  Khalil Gibran

  Inspirational, Life, Spiritual

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• If you care enough for a result, you will most certainly attain it.

  William James

  Leadership, Motivation, Philosophical

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• You are made in the image of what you desire.

  Thomas Merton

  Spiritual Awakening, Made, Two Masters

  Thomas Merton (2011). “Thoughts In Solitude”, p.64, Macmillan

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• We are always striving for things forbidden, and coveting those denied us.

  Ovid

  Coveting, Strive, Forbidden Things

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  The will to win, the desire to succeed, the urge to reach your full potential... these are the keys that will unlock the door to personal excellence.

  Confucius

  Inspirational, Positive, Success

  As quoted in"Be Free!: Keys to Success and Happiness in Every Aspect of Your Life" by Slavica Bogdanov, (p. 45), October 12, 2012.

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• A life is either all spiritual or not spiritual at all. No man can serve two masters. Your life is shaped by the end you live for. You are made in the image of what you desire.

  Thomas Merton

  Life, God, Spiritual

  Thomas Merton (2011). “Thoughts In Solitude”, p.64, Macmillan

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• Out of need springs desire, and out of desire springs the energy and the will to win.

  Denis Waitley

  Spring, Winning, Energy

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• How helpless we are, like netted birds, when we are caught by desire!

  Belva Plain

  Bird, Caught, Helpless

  Belva Plain (2009). “Evergreen”, p.296, Dell

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• Passing into higher forms of desire, that which slumbered in the plant, and fitfully stirred in the beast, awakes in the man.

  Henry George

  Men, Beast, He Man

  Henry George (2005). “Progress and Poverty”, p.99, Cosimo, Inc.

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• It is very common for us to desire most what we are least qualified to obtain.

  Samuel Johnson

  Common, Qualified

  Samuel Johnson (1761). “The Rambler: In Four Volumes”, p.38

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• Not only do you want to leave the audience wanting more, you want to leave yourself wanting more.

  Carole King

  Want, Wanting More, Audience

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• Don't allow your animal nature to rule your reason.

  Rumi

  Nature, Animal, Reason

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• One must desire something to be alive.

  Margaret Deland

  Dream, Alive

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• I am, first of all, a Christian and, secondly, a person with very very serious personal opinion, so I'm motivated by many many things and, certainly, not by the need or desire to satisfy other people's ideas of who I am.

  Ken Hensley

  Christian, Who I Am, Personal Opinions

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• Can one desire too much of a good thing?

  William Shakespeare

  Love, Too Much, You Like It

  William Shakespeare (1860). “As You Like it”, p.79

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• We always long for the forbidden things, and desire what is denied us.

  Francois Rabelais

  Long, Forbidden Love, Forbidden Fruit

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