A desire to be observed, considered, esteemed, praised, beloved, and admired by his fellows is one of the earliest as well as the keenest dispositions discovered in the heart of man.

I desire not to desire, for my will is without value, since I am ignorant in any case. Therefore choose Thou for me what thou knowest to be best and do not put my perdition in what my autonomy and free choice prefer.

Dreams do come true, if we only wish hard enough, You can have anything in life if you will sacrifice everything else for it.

Want is one only of five giants on the road of reconstruction; the others are Disease, Ignorance, Squalor, and Idleness.

The desire accomplished is sweet to the soul. [Proverbs 13:19]

We trifle when we assign limits to our desires, since nature hath set none.

You gotta be hungry!

O lyric Love, half angel and half bird. And all a wonder and a wild desire.

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

I honestly believed I would make it. I had the desire. A lot of people have the ability, but they don't put forth the effort.

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

If you really want something you can figure out how to make it happen.

Plant the seed of desire in your mind and it forms a nucleus with power to attract to itself everything needed for its fulfillment.

The first principle of success is desire -- knowing what you want. Desire is the planting of your seed.

Very few persons, comparatively, know how to Desire with sufficient intensity. They do not know what it is to feel and manifest that intense, eager, longing, craving, insistent, demanding, ravenous Desire which is akin to the persistent, insistent, ardent, overwhelming desire of the drowning man for a breath of air; of the shipwrecked or desert-lost man for a drink of water; of the famished man for bread and meat…

Some people wanted champagne and caviar when they should have had beer and hot dogs.

Know what you want. Become your real self.

While man's desires and aspirations stir he cannot choose but err.

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.

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

The battle is all over except the "shouting" when one knows what is wanted and has made up his mind to get it, whatever the price may be.

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.

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

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

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

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.

Manifest plainness, embrace simplicity, reduce selfishness, have few desires.

To educate the intelligence is to expand the horizon of its wants and desires.

Desires are the pulses of the soul; as physicians judge by the appetite, so may you by desires.

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.

I know that if I ever go looking for my heart's desire, I'll never go any further than my own back yard. For if it isn't there, I never really lost it.

We are ever striving after what is forbidden, and coveting what is denied us.

The more wild and incredible your desire, the more willing and prompt God is in fulfilling it, if you will have it so."

There is a vast difference in some instances between what we really need and that which we think we must have, and the realization of this truth will greatly lessen the seeming discomfort in doing without.

First deserve then desire.

More than we use is more than we want.

This gift is from God and not of man's deserving. But certainly no one ever receives such a great grace without tremendous labor and burning desire.

Every human mind is a great slumbering power until awakened by a keen desire and by definite resolution to do.

Why not spend some time determining what is worthwhile for us, and then go after that?

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

An intense anticipation itself transforms possibility into reality; our desires being often but precursors of the things which we are capable of performing.

The fewer our wants the more we resemble the Gods.

To know what you prefer instead of humbly saying Amen to what the world tells you ought to prefer is to have kept your soul alive.

If a man constantly aspires is he not elevated?

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.

A woman never knows what she really wants until she fins out what her husband cannot afford.

The more clear you are on what you want, the more power you will have.

Desire! That's the one secret of every man's career. Not education. Not being born with hidden talents. Desire.

As an eagle, weary after soaring in the sky, folds its wings and flies down to rest in its nest, so does the shining Self enter the state of dreamless sleep, where one is freed from all desires.

It's not who jumps the highest -- it's who wants it the most

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.

Understand clearly that when a great need appears a great use appears also; when there is small need there is small use; it is obvious, then, that full use is made of all things at all times according to the necessity thereof.