Quotations About Desire

The intensity of your desire determines the speed of your success.

Nothing is impossible to a willing heart. JOHN HEYWOOD

If you only care enough for a result, you will almost certainly attain it. WILLIAM JAMES

For the resolute and determined there is time and opportunity. RALPH WALDO EMERSON

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

All our dreams can come true--if we have the courage to pursue them. WALT DISNEY

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.
NAPOLEON HILL

The greatest trouble with most of us is that our demands upon ourselves are so feeble, the call upon the great within of us so weak and intermittent that it makes no impression upon the creative energies; it lacks the force that transmutes desires into realities. ORISON SWETT MARDEN

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

It sometimes seems that intense desire creates not only its own opportunities, but its own talents. ERIC HOFFER

The intensity of your desire governs the power with which the force is directed.
JOHN MCDONALD

Nothing stops the man who desires to achieve. Every obstacle is simply a course to develop his achievement muscle. It's a strengthening of his powers of accomplishment.
ERIC BUTTERWORTH

You can have anything in this life you want, if you will help enough other people get what they want. ZIG ZIGLAR

Always remember that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any thing else. ABRAHAM LINCOLN

Ignore what a man desires and you ignore the very source of his power. WALTER LIPPMANN

You learn 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. JACK YOUNGBLOOD

Desire creates the power. RAYMOND HOLLIWELL

Desire a one is not enough. But to lack desire, means to lack a key ingredient to success. Many a talented individual failed because they lacked desire. Many victories have been snatched by the underdog because they wanted it more. So if you desire -- intensely -- and you act upon it, then everything stands within your reach.