Inspirations

A desire to be observed, considered, esteemed, praised, beloved, and admired by his fellows is one of the earliest as well as the keenest dispositions discovered in the heart of man.

- John Adams

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

- James Allen

Desire is the key to motivation, but it's the 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

The desire is thy prayers; and if thy desire is without ceasing, thy prayer will also be without ceasing. The continuance of your longing is the continuance of your prayer.

- St. Augustine

Listen to what you know instead of what you fear.

- Richard Bach

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

- Gaston Bachelard

Be careful what you set your heart upon, for it will surely be yours.

- James Baldwin

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

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

The desire of the lazy kill him; for his hands refuse to labor.

- Proverbs 21:25, Bible

The desire accomplished is sweet to the soul.

- Proverbs 13:19, Bible

He who desires but does not act, breeds pestilence.

- William Blake

A man must earnestly want.

- William Frederick Book

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

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

You gotta be hungry!

- Les Brown

Desire, like the atom, is explosive with creative force.

- Paul Vernon Buser

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

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

No matter how old you get, if you can keep the desire to be creative, you're keeping the man-child alive.

- John Cassavetes

If you really want something you can figure out how to make it happen.

- Cher

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

- Robert Collier

Desire is proof of the availability.

- Robert Collier

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

It sometimes seems that we have only to love a thing greatly to get it.

- Robert Collier

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

Supply always comes on the heels of demand.

- Robert Collier

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

- Robert Collier

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

It is said that desire is a product of the will, but the converse is in fact true: will is a product of desire.

- Denis Diderot

Anything you really want, you can attain, if you really go after it.

- Wayne Dyer

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

- Henry Fielding

Know what you want. Become your real self.

- David Harold Fink

The significance of a man is not in what he attains, but rather what he longs to attain.

- Kahlil Gibran

When desire dies, fear is born.

- Baltasar Gracian

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

It (racing) is a matter of spirit, not strength. It is a matter of doing your best each little moment. There's never a break. You must have desire, a very intense desire to keep going.

- Janet Guthrie

Just what you want to be, you will be in the end.

- Justin Hayward

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

- William Hazlitt

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 Helv�tius

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

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 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

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

- Napoleon Hill

The battle is all over except the ''shouting'' when one knows what is wanted and has made up his mind to get it, whatever the price may be.

- Napoleon Hill

Desire creates the power.

- Raymond Holliwell

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

- William James

Events are influenced by our very great desires.

- William James

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

- Samuel Johnson

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

One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar.

- Helen Keller

There are ways which lead to everything, and if we have sufficient will we should always have sufficient means.

- Francois De La Rochefoucauld

We never desire strongly, what we desire rationally.

- Francois De La Rochefoucauld

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

- Walter Lippmann

The discipline of desire is the background of character.

- John Locke

Winning isn't everything, but wanting to win is.

- Vince Lombardi

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

If men could regard the events of their own lives with more open minds, they would frequently discover that they did not really desire the things they failed to obtain.

- Andre Maurois

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

- John Mcdonald

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

Lord, grant that I may always desire more than I can accomplish.

- Michelangelo

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

Desire and force between them are responsible for all our actions; desire causes our voluntary acts, force our involuntary.

- Blaise Pascal

The more wild and incredible your desire, the more willing and prompt God is in fulfilling it, if you will have it so.''

- Coventry Patmore

You can really have everything you want, if you go after it, but you will have to want it. The desire for success must be so strong within you that it is the very breath of your life, your first though when you awaken in the morning, your last thought when you go to bed at night.

- Charles E Popplestone

Unbridled gratification produces unbridled desire.

- Proverb

There are no better masters than poverty and wants.

- Dutch Proverb

This gift is from God and not of man's deserving. But certainly no one ever receives such a great grace without tremendous labor and burning desire.

- Richard of Saint Victor

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

- Edgar F Roberts

When you know what you want, and want it bad enough, you will find a way to get it.

- Jim Rohn

Without a sense of urgency, desire loses its value.

- Jim Rohn

Why not spend some time determining what is worthwhile for us, and then go after that?

- William Ross

Tell me what you like and I'll tell you what you are.

- John Ruskin

All human activity is prompted by desire.

- Bertrand Russell

I learned that if you want to make it bad enough, no matter how bad it is, you can make it.

- Gayle Sayers

Our necessities are few, but our wants are endless.

- George Bernard Shaw

There is a supply for every demand.

- Florence Scovel Shinn

I have always believed that anybody with a little guts and the desire to apply himself can make it, can make anything he wants to make of himself.

- Willie Shoemaker

Desire is the most important factor in the success of any athlete.

- Willie Shoemaker

Desire is the essence of a man.

- Baruch

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

To know what you prefer instead of humbly saying Amen to what the world tells you ought to prefer is to have kept your soul alive.

- Robert Louis Stevenson

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

Desire will in due time externalize itself as concrete fact.

- Thomas Troward

I can teach anybody how to get what they want out of life. The problem is that I can't find anybody who can tell me what they want.

- Mark Twain

No person can arise above his real desire. Desires are of value only when they drive us to action. Will and work must accompany desire. Then high resolve is born. Desire is the design that will spurs us into achievement.

- Source Unknown

The more clear you are on what you want, the more power you will have.

- Source Unknown

Desire for security keeps littleness little and threatens the great with smallness.''

- Source Unknown

We accomplish things by directing our desires, not by ignoring them.

- Source Unknown

The distance between success and failure can only be measured by one's desire.

- Source Unknown

If you don't get everything you want, think of the things you don't get that you don't want.

- Source Unknown

Convince a man of what he wants, and he'll move heaven and earth to get it.

- Source Unknown

The man who really wants to do something finds a way, the other finds an excuse.

- Source Unknown

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

- Bobby Unser

You are what your deep driving desire is.

- Brihadaranyaka Upanishad

Out of need springs desire, and out of desire springs the energy and the will to win.

- Denis Waitley

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 a powerful force that can be used to make things happen.

- Marcia Wieder

It's not who jumps the highest, it's who wants it the most

- Buck Williams

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

Understand clearly that when a great need appears a great use appears also; when there is small need there is small use; it is obvious, then, that full use is made of all things at all times according to the necessity thereof.

- Dogen Zenji

Inspire-U-2-Desire

Get Inspired for the Passion Component of Grit

A desire to be observed, considered, esteemed, praised, beloved, and admired by his fellows is one of the earliest as well as the keenest dispositions discovered in the heart of man.

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

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

The desire is thy prayers; and if thy desire is without ceasing, thy prayer will also be without ceasing. The continuance of your longing is the continuance of your prayer.

Listen to what you know instead of what you fear.

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

Be careful what you set your heart upon, for it will surely be yours.

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.

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

The desire of the lazy kill him; for his hands refuse to labor.

The desire accomplished is sweet to the soul.

He who desires but does not act, breeds pestilence.

A man must earnestly want.

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.

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.

You gotta be hungry!

Desire, like the atom, is explosive with creative force.

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.

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.

No matter how old you get, if you can keep the desire to be creative, you're keeping the man-child alive.

If you really want something you can figure out how to make it happen.

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

Desire is proof of the availability.

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.

It sometimes seems that we have only to love a thing greatly to get it.

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

Supply always comes on the heels of demand.

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

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.

It is said that desire is a product of the will, but the converse is in fact true: will is a product of desire.

Anything you really want, you can attain, if you really go after it.

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

Know what you want. Become your real self.

The significance of a man is not in what he attains, but rather what he longs to attain.

When desire dies, fear is born.

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.

It (racing) is a matter of spirit, not strength. It is a matter of doing your best each little moment. There's never a break. You must have desire, a very intense desire to keep going.

Just what you want to be, you will be in the end.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

The battle is all over except the ''shouting'' when one knows what is wanted and has made up his mind to get it, whatever the price may be.

Desire creates the power.

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

Events are influenced by our very great desires.

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

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.

One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar.

There are ways which lead to everything, and if we have sufficient will we should always have sufficient means.

We never desire strongly, what we desire rationally.

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

The discipline of desire is the background of character.

Winning isn't everything, but wanting to win is.

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

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

If men could regard the events of their own lives with more open minds, they would frequently discover that they did not really desire the things they failed to obtain.

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

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.''

Lord, grant that I may always desire more than I can accomplish.

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.

Desire and force between them are responsible for all our actions; desire causes our voluntary acts, force our involuntary.

The more wild and incredible your desire, the more willing and prompt God is in fulfilling it, if you will have it so.''

You can really have everything you want, if you go after it, but you will have to want it. The desire for success must be so strong within you that it is the very breath of your life, your first though when you awaken in the morning, your last thought when you go to bed at night.

Unbridled gratification produces unbridled desire.

There are no better masters than poverty and wants.

This gift is from God and not of man's deserving. But certainly no one ever receives such a great grace without tremendous labor and burning desire.

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

When you know what you want, and want it bad enough, you will find a way to get it.

Without a sense of urgency, desire loses its value.

Why not spend some time determining what is worthwhile for us, and then go after that?

Tell me what you like and I'll tell you what you are.

All human activity is prompted by desire.

I learned that if you want to make it bad enough, no matter how bad it is, you can make it.

Our necessities are few, but our wants are endless.

There is a supply for every demand.