“We are ever striving after what is forbidden, and coveting what is denied us.”
“Can anything be so elegant as to have few wants, and to serve them one's self?”
“To educate the intelligence is to expand the horizon of its wants and desires.”
“All through nature, you will find the same law. First the need, then the means.”
“It is much easier to suppress a first desire than to satisfy those that follow.”
“The intensity of your desire governs the power with which the force is directed.”
“When you know what you want, and want it bad enough, you will find a way to get it.”
“Some people wanted champagne and caviar when they should have had beer and hot dogs.”
“Out of need springs desire, and out of desire springs the energy and the will to win.”
“Why not spend some time determining what is worthwhile for us, and then go after that?”
“The significance of a man is not in what he attains, but rather what he longs to attain.”
“Limited in his nature, infinite in his desire, man is a fallen god who remembers heaven.”
“It is not from nature, but from education and habits, that our wants are chiefly derived.”
“I learned that if you want to make it bad enough, no matter how bad it is, you can make it.”
“When your desires are strong enough you will appear to possess superhuman powers to achieve.”
“Desires are the pulses of the soul; as physicians judge by the appetite, so may you by desires.”
“We do not succeed in changing things according to our desire, but gradually our desire changes.”
“Life contains but two tragedies. One is not to get your heart's desire; the other is to get it.”
“The desire of the man is for the woman, but the desire of the woman is for the desire of the man.”
“Whenever we confront an unbridled desire we are surely in the presence of a tragedy-in-the-making.”
“People seek within a short span of life to satisfy a thousand desires, each of which is insatiable.”
“The desire of excessive power caused the angels to fall; the desire of knowledge caused men to fall.”
“The first principle of success is desire -- knowing what you want. Desire is the planting of your seed.”
“A strong passion for any object will ensure success, for the desire of the end will point out the means.”
“No matter how old you get, if you can keep the desire to be creative, you're keeping the man-child alive.”
“Your desires and true beliefs have a way of playing blind man's bluff. You must corner the inner facts...”
“It is not the greatness of a man's means that makes him independent, so much as the smallness of his wants.”
“Every human mind is a great slumbering power until awakened by a keen desire and by definite resolution to do.”
“Desire! That's the one secret of every man's career. Not education. Not being born with hidden talents. Desire.”
“There are ways which lead to everything, and if we have sufficient will we should always have sufficient means.”