DESIRE

The desire of the man is for the woman, but the desire of the woman is for the desire of the man.
Germaine De Stael

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.
Bayazid Al-Bistami

There are confessable agonies, sufferings of which one can positively be proud. Of bereavement, of parting, of the sense of sin and the fear of death the poets have eloquently spoken. They command the world's sympathy. But there are also discreditable anguishes, no less excruciating than the others, but of which the sufferer dare not, cannot speak. The anguish of thwarted desire, for example.
Aldous Huxley

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

Manifest plainness, embrace simplicity, reduce selfishness, have few desires.
Lao-Tzu

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

One essential to success is that your desire be an all-obsessing one, your thoughts and aim be coordinated, and your energy be concentrated and applied without letup.
Claude M. Bristol

Ignore what a man desires and you ignore the very source of his power
Walter Lippmann

In all ranks of life the human heart yearns for the beautiful; and the beautiful things that God makes are his gift to all alike.
Harriet Beecher Stowe

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.
Wizard of Oz - Dorothy Movie

The key that unlocks energy is ''Desire.'' It's also the key to a long and interesting life. If we expect to create any drive, any real force within ourselves, we have to get excited.
Earl Nightingale

There are no better masters than poverty and wants.
Dutch Proverbs

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.
William M. Peck

The want of a thing is perplexing enough, but the possession of it, is intolerable.
Sir John Vanbrugh

First deserve then desire.
Proverbs

You can have anything you want -- if you want it badly enough. You can be anything you want to be, have anything you desire, accomplish anything you set out to accomplish -- if you will hold to that desire with singleness of purpose.
Robert Collier

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

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

All human activity is prompted by desire.
Bertrand Russell

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

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

Where there is no power... there is never any desire to do a thing; and where there is strong desire to do a thing... the power to do it is strong.
Wallace D. Wattles

Desire is proof of the availability...
Robert Collier

Those who really desire to attain an independence, have only set their minds upon it, and adopt the proper means, as they do in regard to any other object which they wish to accomplish, and the thing is easily done.
P.T. Barnum

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

Limited in his nature, infinite in his desire, man is a fallen god who remembers heaven.
Alphonse De Lamartine

Whenever we confront an unbridled desire we are surely in the presence of a tragedy-in-the-making.
Quentin Crisp

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.
Brihadaranyaka Upanishad

Life is a progress from want to want, not from enjoyment to enjoyment.
Samuel Johnson

Desire is the thing you want in incipiency.
Emilie Cady

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

A burning desire is the greatest motivator of every human action. The desire for success implants ''success consciousness'' which, in turn, creates a vigorous and ever-increasing ''habit of success.''
Paul J. Meyer

Events are influenced by our very great desires.
William James

Desire will in due time externalize itself as concrete fact.
Thomas Troward

You are what your deep driving desire is.
Brihadaranyaka Upanishad

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.
H. Stanley Judd

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.
Joe Carter

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

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

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

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

The desire for success lubricates secret prostitution's in the soul.
Norman Mailer

Know what you want. Become your real self.
David Harold Fink

Something must be done when you find an opposing set of desires of this kind well to the fore in your category of strong desires. You must set in operation a process of competition, from which one must emerge a victor and the other set be defeated.
Robert Collier

Through some strange and powerful principle of ''mental chemistry'' which she has never divulged, nature wraps up in the impulse of strong desire, ''that something'' which recognizes no such word as ''impossible,'' and accepts no such reality as failure.
Napoleon Hill

If you do not develop the hunger and courage to pursue your goal, you will lose your nerve and you will give up on your dream.
Les Brown

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

All through nature, you will find the same law. First the need, then the means.
Robert Collier

By annihilating the desires, you annihilate the mind. Every man without passions has within him no principle of action, nor motive to act.
Claude A. HelvTtius

First the stalk -- then the roots. First the need -- then the means to satisfy that need. First the nucleus -- then the elements needed for its growth.
Robert Collier