Heart�s-ease is a flower which blooms from the grave of desire.
William R. Alger

Desire is a powerful force that can be used to make things happen.
Marcia Wieder

Never let go of that fiery sadness called desire.
Patti Smith

I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who overcomes his enemies.
Aristotle

We are all motivated by a keen desire for praise, and the better a man is, the more he is inspired by glory.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

I used to desire many, many things, but now I have just one desire, and that�s to get rid of all my other desires.
John Cleese

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

More than we use is more than we want.
Gaelic Proverb

The waves of desire in the world-ocean are intoxicating wine.
Sri Guru Granth Sahib

It�s so much better to desire than to have. . . . The moment of desire, when you know something is going to happen � that�s the most exalting.
Anouk Aimee

No gown worse becomes a woman than the desire to be wise.
Martin Luther

What do we lose by another�s good fortune? Let us celebrate with them, or strive to emulate them,That should be our desire and determination.
Sri Sathya Sai Baba

Success is focusing the full power of all you are on what you have a burning desire to achieve.
Wilfred Peterson

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

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

A human being has a natural desire to have more of a good thing than he needs.
Mark Twain

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

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

It is much easier to suppress a first desire than to satisfy those that follow.
Francois De la Rochefoucauld

He who, before he leaves his body, learns to surmount the promptings of desire and anger is a saint and is happy.
Bhagavad Gita

As the hart panteth after the water brooks, so panteth my soul after thee, O God.
Bible

A strong passion for any object will ensure success, for the desire of the end will point out the means.
Henry Hazlitt

It�s not who jumps the highest � it�s who wants it the most
Buck Williams

There are two tragedies in life. One is to lose your heart�s desire. The other is to gain it.
George Bernard Shaw

All human activity is prompted by desire.
Bertrand Russell

Desire is proof of the availability�
Robert Collier

All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion and desire.
Aristotle

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

Desire is the very essence of man.
Benedict Spinoza

Those who restrain Desire, do so because theirs is weak enough to be restrained.
William Blake

Desire and hope will push us on toward the future.
Michel de Montaigne

If you greatly desire something, have the guts to stake everything on obtaining it.
Brendan Francis

Desire is the key to motivation, but it�s determination and commitment to an unrelenting pursuit of your goal – a commitment to excellence – that will enable you to attain the success you seek.
Mario Andretti

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

The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring.
Carl Sandburg

When your desires are strong enough, you will appear to possess superhuman powers to achieve.
Napoleon Hill

A desire presupposes the possibility of action to achieve it; action presupposes a goal which is worth achieving.
Ayn Rand

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

Love is the irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.
Robert Frost

The wise man will love; all others will desire.
Afranius

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

In my experience, there is only one motivation, and that is desire. No reasons or principle contain it or stand against it.
Jane Smiley

Man�s Desires are limited by his Perceptions; none can desire what he has not perceived.
William Blake

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

One must desire something to be alive.
Margaret Deland

Thought gives rise to desire.
Rig Veda

Every man has business and desire,
Such as it is.
William Shakespeare

Man is a creation of desire, not a creation of need.
Gaston Bachelard

A shot glass of desire is greater than a pitcher of talent.
Andy Munthe

The desire of the man is for the woman, but the desire of the woman is for the desire of the man.
Madame de Stael

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

Desire creates the power.
Raymond Hollingwell

Wealth and rank are what people desire, but unless they are obtained in the right way they may not be possessed.
Confucius

Desire, like the atom, is explosive with creative force.
Paul Vernon Buser

Each man has his own desires; all do not possess the same inclinations.
Persius