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90+ Desire Quotes To Boost Your Motivation

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November 16, 2022

Desire means that someone has a strong feeling to achieve anything in their life whether it is worthy or unworthy. Love and people are not only things that human desire, sometimes someone desire to be a certain person.

Read these desire quotes to boost your motivation and you can also learn about how desire plays a part in keeping you motivated & happy.

Without a sense of urgency, desire loses its value. — Jim Rohn

I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self. — Aristotle

It is very common for us to desire most what we are least qualified to obtain. — Samuel Johnson

The starting point of all achievement is desire. — Napoleon Hill

Can one desire too much of a good thing? — William Shakespeare

One must desire something to be alive. — Margaret Deland

I have a deeply hidden and inarticulate desire for something beyond daily life. — Virginia Woolf
Desire, burning desire, is basic to achieving anything beyond the ordinary. — Joseph B. Wirthlin
Every human mind is a great slumbering power until awakened by a keen desire and by definite resolution to do. — Edgar F. Roberts
Don’t allow your animal nature to rule your reason. — Rumi
What you lack in talent can be made up with desire, hustle, and giving percent all the time. — Don Zimmer
Be careful what you set your heart upon – for it will surely be yours. — James A. Baldwin

What do you want a meaning for? Life is a desire, not a meaning. — Charlie Chaplin
Human behavior flows from three main sources: desire, emotion, and knowledge. — Plato
I have a tremendous desire to learn, grow, and develop whatever I have that will make for any kind of improvement in me. — Lawrence Welk
The world is little, people are little, and human life is little. There is only one big thing, desire. — Willa Cather
What makes the engine go? Desire, desire, desire. — Stanley Kunitz
All that spirits desire, spirits attain. — Khalil Gibran
True peacefulness comes from abandoning the illusion that satisfying desires brings pleasure. — Joan Z. Borysenko
I am, first of all, a Christian and, secondly, a person with very very serious personal opinion, so I’m motivated by many many things and, certainly, not by the need or desire to satisfy other people’s ideas of who I am. — Ken Hensley

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Desire quotes about chasing your dreams, imagination, and knowledge

The beginning of reform is not so much to equalize property as to train the noble sort of natures not to desire more, and to prevent the lower from getting more. — Aristotle
We grow like flowers, and bear desire, the odor of the human flowers. — Richard Henry Stoddard
Habit is the intersection of knowledge (what to do), skill (how to do), and desire (want to do). — Stephen R. Covey
When your desires are strong enough you will appear to possess superhuman powers to achieve. — Napoleon Hill
I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve (or save) the world and a desire to enjoy (or savor) the world. — E.B. White
A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others. — Ayn Rand
Ignore what a man desires, and you ignore the very source of his power. — Walter Lippman
Men go to far greater lengths to avoid what they fear than to obtain what they desire. — Dan Brown
If you care enough for a result, you will most certainly attain it. — William James
I want to be around people that do things. I don’t want to be around people anymore that judge or talk about what people do. I want to be around people who dream and support and do things. — Amy Poehler
You can have anything you want if you want it badly enough. You can be anything you want to be, do anything you set out to accomplish if you hold to that desire with singleness of purpose. — Abraham Lincoln
I learned that if you want to make it bad enough, no matter how bad it is, you can make it. — Gale Sayers
Everything you want is just outside your comfort zone. — Robert G. Allen
Three things are necessary for the salvation of man: to know what he ought to believe; to know what he ought to desire; and to know what he ought to do. — Thomas Aquinas
Necessity is the emotional drive that makes great performance a must instead of a preference. Unlike weaker desires that make you want to do something, necessity demands that you take action. — Brendon Burchard
You call with your longing, and the universe responds. You must relearn how to listen and receive. — Anne Davin
What we insistently desire, over time, is what we become. — Neal A. Maxwell
The key to success is to focus our conscious mind on things we desire not things we fear. — Brian Tracy
Always desire to learn something useful. — Sophocles
It is the soul’s duty to be loyal to its own desires. It must abandon itself to its master passion. — Rebecca West

Motivational Desire Quotes

If we discover a desire within us that nothing in this world can satisfy, also we should begin to wonder if perhaps we were created for another world. — C. S. Lewis
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
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. — Sheila Graham
Manifest plainness, embrace simplicity, reduce selfishness, have few desires. — Laozi
If people have a basic understanding of right from wrong, possess a strong desire to better themselves and persist in their cause, they can break the chain of any negative environment. — Dave Pelzer
A burning desire is the greatest motivator of every human action. — Paul J. Meyer
The only difference between a casual interest and a deep desire is the latter inspires a willingness to endure struggle. — Jennifer Williamson
Loosen the bonds of avarice from your hands and neck. — Rumi
Passion is a laser beam. If you can get a handle on that energy, you can use it to light the way forward and burn through obstacles. That’s the power of desire. — Danielle LaPorte
Desire creates the power. — Raymond Holliwell
Anything you really want, you can attain, if you really go after it. — Wayne Dyer
Life contains but two tragedies. One is not to get your heart’s desire; the other is to get it. — George Bernard Shaw
Definiteness of purpose is the starting point of all achievement. — W. Clement Stone
Not everything happens as we want or desire. It doesn’t matter. I’m a fighter, and I’m ready to fight every time. — Valentina Shevchenko
Not only do you want to leave the audience wanting more, you want to leave yourself wanting more. — Carole King
The only real limitation on your abilities is the level of your desires. If you want it badly enough, there are no limits on what you can achieve. — Brian Tracy
The will to win, the desire to succeed, the urge to reach your full potential, are the keys that will unlock the door to personal excellence. — Confucius
It’s not who jumps the highest – it’s who wants it the most. — Buck Williams
Lust is what keeps you wanting to do it even when you have no desire to be with each other. Love is what makes you want to be with each other even when you have no desire to do it. — Judith Viorst
It sometimes seems that intense desire creates not only its own opportunities, but its own talents. — Eric Hoffer

More Thought-Provoking Desire Quotes

The intensity of your desire governs the power with which the force is directed. — John McDonald
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. — Jack Youngblood
I motivate myself by the desire to win more trophies. — Robert Lewandowski
Your desire is your prayer. Picture the fulfillment of your desire now and feel its reality and you will experience the joy of the answered. — Joseph Murphy
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
Never mind whatis. Imagine it the way you want it to be so that your vibration is a match to your desire. When your vibration is a match to your desire, all things in your experience will gravitate to meet that match every time. — Abraham Hicks
If you desire to make a difference in the world, you must be different from the world. — Elaine Dalton
Dreams can become a reality when we possess a vision that is characterized by the willingness to work hard, a desire for excellence, and a belief in our right and our responsibility to be equal members of society. — Janet Jackson
The desire to create is one of the deepest yearnings of the human soul. — Dieter Uchtdorf
I think anything is possible if you have the mindset and the will and desire to do it and put the time in. — Roger Clemens
Failure doesn’t kill you, it increases your desire to make something happen. — Kevin Costner
True desire is full and insatiable. She is appreciative and ceaseless. — Danielle LaPorte
Desire is the starting point of all achievement, not a hope, not a wish, but a keen pulsating desire which transcends everything. — Napoleon Hill
There is one quality which one must possess to win, and that is definiteness of purpose, the knowledge of what one wants, and a burning desire to possess it. — Napoleon Hill
Ask for what you want and be prepared to get it. — Maya Angelou
Desire makes everything blossom. —- Marcel Proust
You are made in the image of what you desire. — Thomas Merton
We always long for the forbidden things, and desire what is denied us. — Francois Rabelais
Desire is the very essence of man. — Baruch Spinoza
Passing into higher forms of desire, that which slumbered in the plant, and fitfully stirred in the beast, awakes in the man. — Henry George

Inspirational Desire Quotes

The desire to reach the stars is ambitious. The desire to reach hearts is wise and most possible. — Dr. Maya Angelou
The simple truth is that in order to become good, you have to be obsessed. You have to put in an awful lot of time and hard work and couple that with desire and unflagging perseverance. — Yngwie Malmsteen
A desire is a call between you and that which is greater than you. — Dr. Anne Davin
A life is either all spiritual or not spiritual at all. No man can serve two masters. Your life is shaped by the end you live for. You are made in the image of what you desire. — Thomas Merton
A strong passion for any object will ensure success, for the desire of the end will point out the means. — Henry Hazlitt
Sometimes it’s a good idea to think about what you want from a situation, and try to get it, rather than just blurt out the first thing that comes into your head. — E. Lockhart
Desire urges me on, while fear bridals me. — Giordano Bruno
Wanting is why people get up in the morning. It gives them something to dream of at night. The more I wanted, the more I became like them, the more real I became. — Leigh Bardugo
Some people wanted champagne and caviar when they should have had beer and hot dogs. — Dwight D. Eisenhower
Life is always listening to hear what you want but you have to believe you deserve to have it or I don’t think life can deliver it to you at least not with ease. — Danielle LaPorte
We are always striving for things forbidden, and coveting those denied us. — Ovid
They told me to take a streetcar named Desire and then transfer to one called Cemeteries and ride six blocks and get off at – Elysian Fields! — Tennessee Williams
Out of need springs desire, and out of desire springs the energy and the will to win. — Denis Waitley