180 Desir Quotes

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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

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

The will to win, the desire to succeed, the urge to reach your full potential... these are the keys that will unlock the door to personal excellence. — Eddie Robinson

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

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

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

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

What it comes down to is intense desire. To get this winning edge, you need to build an indomitable will. This means you must be relentless; you must never give up. — Anson Dorrance

In order to succeed, your desire for success should be greater than your fear of failure. — Bill Cosby

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

To wish is of little account; to succeed you must earnestly desire; and this desire must shorten thy sleep. — Ovid

The first principle of success is desire -- knowing what you want. Desire is the planting of your seed. — Robert Collier

The most important word in our business is desire. — Bernard Arnault

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

Some succeed because they are destined to, but most succeed because they are determined to. — Henry Van Dyke

All great achievements have one thing in common - people with a passion to succeed — Pat Cash

Short Desir Quotes

  • A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others. — Ayn Rand
  • Desires make slaves out of kings and patience makes kings out of slaves. — Al-Ghazali
  • Life contains but two tragedies. One is not to get your heart's desire; the other is to get it. — Socrates
  • It's not tyranny we desire; it's a just, limited, federal government. — Alexander Hamilton
  • We cannot free ourselves unless we move forward united in a single desire. — Emilio Aguinaldo
  • Champions are made of something they have deep inside them - a desire, a dream, a vision. — Muhammad Ali
  • The goal of early childhood education should be to activate the child's own natural desire to learn. — Maria Montessori
  • I - Want - Peace, I is ego, Want is desire; Remove ego and desire and you have peace. — Sathya Sai Baba
  • It's important to create what you desire to, not what people expect you to. — Shigeru Miyamoto
  • When all your desires are distilled; You will cast just two votes: To love more, And be happy. — Hafez

Desir Image Quotes

Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not. - Epicurus quote

Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not. — Epicurus

Mystery creates wonder and wonder is the basis of man's desire to understand. - Neil Armstrong quote

Mystery creates wonder and wonder is the basis of man's desire to understand. — Neil Armstrong

Humans are driven by a perpetual and restless desire of power. - Thomas Hobbes quote

Humans are driven by a perpetual and restless desire of power. — Thomas Hobbes

Let me forget the world and be swallowed up in the desire to glorify God. - David Brainerd quote

Let me forget the world and be swallowed up in the desire to glorify God. — David Brainerd

Human behavior flows from three main sources: desire, emotion, and knowledge. - Plato quote

Human behavior flows from three main sources: desire, emotion, and knowledge. — Plato

Boredom: the desire for desires. - Leo Tolstoy quote

Boredom: the desire for desires. — Leo Tolstoy

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

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

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

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

Never doubt God's desire or ability to help you. - T. B. Joshua quote

Never doubt God's desire or ability to help you. — T. B. Joshua

Knowledge is the eye of desire and can become the pilot of the soul. - Will Durant quote

Knowledge is the eye of desire and can become the pilot of the soul. — Will Durant

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

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

This is part of human nature, the desire to change consciousness. - Michael Pollan quote

This is part of human nature, the desire to change consciousness. — Michael Pollan

Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired. - Robert Frost quote

Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired. — Robert Frost

He who desires, but acts not, breeds pestilence. - William Blake quote

He who desires, but acts not, breeds pestilence. — William Blake

Always desire to learn something useful - Sophocles quote

Always desire to learn something useful — Sophocles

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

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

Desire is a bonfire that burns with greater fury, asking for more fuel. - Sathya Sai Baba quote

Desire is a bonfire that burns with greater fury, asking for more fuel. — Sathya Sai Baba

Lastly, do I vow, that mine eyes desire you above all things. - Catherine of Aragon quote

Lastly, do I vow, that mine eyes desire you above all things. — Catherine of Aragon

The moguls are driven by their respective desires for profit - period. - Todd Gitlin quote

The moguls are driven by their respective desires for profit - period. — Todd Gitlin

Love is not a desire for beauty; it is a yearning for completion. - Octavio Paz quote

Love is not a desire for beauty; it is a yearning for completion. — Octavio Paz

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For what it's worth: it's never too late to be whoever you want to be. I hope you live a life you're proud of, and, if you find that you're not, I hope you have the strength to start over.

Desire Success Quotes

Champions aren't made in the gyms. Champions are made from something they have deep inside them-a desire, a dream, a vision. — Muhammad Ali

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

The size of your success is measured by the strength of your desire; the size of your dream; and how you handle disappointment along the way. — Robert Kiyosaki

Doing little things with a strong desire to please God makes them really great. - Saint Francis de Sales

Doing little things with a strong desire to please God makes them really great. — Saint Francis de Sales

Educational success should be measured by how strong your desire is to keep learning. — Alfie Kohn

What inspires me is the desire to be on. The desire to be successful. The desire to reach people through my music and make a living off it and never have to do anything else. Being able to do music full time and travel the world and share this music with everybody. That's the dream. — G-Eazy

Add to this the pride of achievement; the desire to rank among the successful souls on earth, and we have the factors which have brought some of the ablest of human beings into the limelight that revealed them to an admiring world, as leaders and examples. — Lewis Howard Latimer

Yet one more item is needed to complete success, and that is the rendering of service to others in the community. Without this the mere satisfaction of selfish desire does not reach the top notch. — Robert Baden-Powell

The key to success is to focus our conscious mind on things we desire not things we fear. — Brian Tracy

We must use what we have to invent what we desire. - Adrienne Rich

We must use what we have to invent what we desire. — Adrienne Rich

Desire For Success Quotes

The craving for equality can express itself either as a desire to pull everyone down to our own level (by belittling them, excluding them, tripping them up) or as a desire to raise ourselves up along with everyone else (by acknowledging them, helping them, and rejoicing in their success). — Friedrich Nietzsche

You only have to believe that you can succeed, that you can be whatever your heart desires, be willing to work for it, and you can have it. — Oprah Winfrey

This is how civilizations decline. They quit taking risks. Every year there are more referees and fewer doers. When you’ve had success for too long, you lose the desire to take risks. — Elon Musk

With a positive attitude, you can be anything you want to be. — Selena

The desire to reach for the stars is ambitious. The desire to reach hearts is wise. — Maya Angelou

A desire to be in charge of our own lives, a need for control, is born in each of us. It is essential to our mental health, and our success, that we take control. — Robert Foster Bennett

You cannot allow your desire to be a winner to be diminished by achieving success before and I believe there is room for improvement in every sportsman. — Lionel Messi

I have affirmed that cooperation between the State's bodies is the basis of any successful national action and the optimal method for achievement to meet development aspirations desired by the country's people, in line with the democratic path. — Nawaf Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah

Definiteness of purpose is the starting point of all achievement. — W. Clement Stone

Human beings are social animals and nearly all of us are driven by the need to be loved and the desire to successfully sustain meaningful romantic relationships for life. — Matthew Hussey

Determination To Succeed Quotes

Failure will never overtake me if my determination to succeed is strong enough. - Og Mandino

Failure will never overtake me if my determination to succeed is strong enough. — Og Mandino

Nothing makes me more determined to succeed than someone telling me something's impossible. — Jackie Chan

I have been seriously afraid at times but have used my fear as a stimulating factor rather than allowing it to paralyse me. My abilities have not been outstanding, but I have had sufficient strength and determination to meet my challenges and have usually managed to succeed with them. — Edmund Hillary

I’ve come to understand that if you want to learn something badly enough, you’ll find a way to make it happen. Having the will to search and succeed is very important. — Wim Hof

Only the passion for the dreams, courage to pursue them, determination to succeed, turns them into reality. — Khabib Nurmagomedov

Quit. Most men succeed because they are determined to. — George Allen

All you've got to do is decide to go and the hardest part is over. - Tony Wheeler

All you've got to do is decide to go and the hardest part is over. — Tony Wheeler

There's only one way to succeed in anything, and that is to give it everything. - Vince Lombardi

There's only one way to succeed in anything, and that is to give it everything. — Vince Lombardi

Be diligent to succeed as there is a way where there be no way, only the persistent and diligent finds it. — Folorunsho Alakija

Failure will not overcome me so long as my will to succeed is stronger — Michael Kirby

Desire To Achieve Quotes

To make a perfume, take some rose water and wash your hands in it, then take a lavender flower and rub it with your palms, and you will achieve the desired effect — Leonardo da Vinci

If we desire a society without discrimination, then we must not discriminate against anyone in the process of building this society. If we desire a society that is democratic, then democracy must become a means as well as an end. — Bayard Rustin

We do take seriously our obligation to assess whether our reforms are achieving their desired effects without imposing unnecessary burden. — Jerome Powell

The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring. — Carl Sandburg

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

Humility is the most difficult of all virtues to achieve; nothing dies harder than the desire to think well of self. — T. S. Eliot

If you don’t give yourself a moment to visualize the clear results you want to create, then you are less likely to achieve what you desire. — Lewis Howes

Successful and unsuccessful people do not vary greatly in their abilities. They vary in their desires to reach their potential. — John C. Maxwell

Weak desires bring weak results, just as a small amount of fire brings a small amount of heat. — Napoleon Hill

Trying to achieve something in the spiritual world is just as foolish as trying to achieve something in the material world. There's nothing to achieve. There's only letting go. As we let go, more and more, of ego identifications, desires, and support systems, bliss will arise. — Ayya Khema

Determined To Succeed Quotes

Because youve done the horrible jobs, it gives you an even grittier determination to succeed. — Rob James-Collier

That's the worst…or the best…of real life, Anne. It won't let you be miserable. It keeps on trying to make you comfortable…and succeeding…even when you're determined to be unhappy and romantic. — Lucy Maud Montgomery

SAS is 'created' 50 million times a year, 15 seconds at a time. These 50 million 'moments of truth' are the moments that ultimately determine whether SAS will succeed or fail as a company. They are the moments when we must prove to our customers that SAS is their best alternative. — Jan Carlzon

Within each of us is a hidden store of determination. Determination to keep us in the race when all seems lost. — Roger Dawson

Failure will not stop you if you are determined to succeed. — Jentezen Franklin

You have to be willing to put in the hard work if you want to succeed in life. — Joe Rogan

Prejudice and bigotry are brought down...by the sheer force of determination of individuals to succeed and the refusal of a human being to let prejudice define the parameters of the possible. — Condoleezza Rice

I think my strengths perhaps are that I'm determined. I may not be the best climber in the world, but I do like to sort of succeed and so that tends to drive me on, as it were, and I don't give up too easily. — Edmund Hillary

People of mediocre ability sometimes achieve outstanding success because they don't know when to quit. — George Allen

We must believe in ourselves as no one else will believe in us, we must match our expectations with the competence, courage and determination to succeed. — Rosalyn Sussman Yalow

Strive For Success Quotes

Achievement is largely the product of steadily raising one's level of aspiration and expectation. — Jack Nicklaus

Striving for success without hard work is like trying to harvest where you haven't planted. — David Bly

As a negotiator, you should strive for a reputation of being fair. Your reputation precedes you. Let it precede you in a way that paves success. — Chris Voss

SEO success comes to marketers who strive for stellar content and an impeccable user experience. — Brian Dean

A vision on its own is not enough. Hard work and dedication is required to make that vision a reality. — Strive Masiyiwa

Yeah I want it all, that's why I strive for it — Drake

Whether you're a farmer, builder or engineer, the opportunities are equal: Just add a little innovation. — Strive Masiyiwa

The game might be divided into three parts, the opening, the middle-game and the end-game. There is one thing you must strive for, to be equally efficient in the three parts. — Jose Raul Capablanca

Success doesn't always come in the form of a trophy. Keep striving for success. — Andre Agassi

Superstars strive for approbation; heroes walk alone. Superstars crave consensus; heroes define themselves by the judgment of a future they see it as their task to bring about. Superstars seek success in a technique for eliciting support; heroes pursue success as the outgrowth of inner values. — Henry A. Kissinger

Will To Succeed Quotes

People don't have to believe in you for you to succeed. Just work hard, when you succeed, they will believe. — Stephen Keshi

With God's help, you will continue to succeed in your leadership and in your duties, because Our Lord's work is accomplished not so much by the multitude of workers as by the fidelity of the small number whom He calls. — Vincent de Paul

If Pakistan has any ideas of annexing any part of our territories by force, she should think afresh. I want to state categorically that force will be met with force and aggression against us will never be allowed to succeed. — Lal Bahadur Shastri

There is no success without sacrifice. If you succeed without sacrifice it is because someone has suffered before you. If you sacrifice without success it is because someone will succeed after. — Adoniram Judson

Love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control. To these I commit my day. If I succeed, I will give thanks. If I fail, I will seek his grace. And then, when this day is done, I will place my head on my pillow and rest. — Max Lucado

Beloved, pursue Jesus and you will experience wisdom in every area of your life. You cannot try to earn, deserve or study to acquire God’s wisdom. It comes by His unmerited favor. His wisdom will give you good success in your career. It will cause you to succeed as a student, parent or spouse. — Joseph Prince

The will to succeed is important, but what's more important is the will to prepare. — Bobby Knight

We should spend less time ranking children and more time helping them to identify their natural competencies and gifts and cultivate these. There are hundreds and hundreds of ways to succeed and many, many different abilities that will help you get there. — Howard Gardner

If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded. — Maya Angelou

Focus on your dream and never quit. It is always too soon to quit. If you quit, you can't succeed. By achieving your dream you will be an inspiration to others. You will set the example and make an enormous impact on the world. — Rudy Ruettiger

Ability To Succeed Quotes

Courage is the ability to go from failure to failure with enthusiasm. - Winston Churchill

Courage is the ability to go from failure to failure with enthusiasm. — Winston Churchill

Your ability to face setbacks and disappointments without giving up will be the measure of your ability to succeed. — Calvin Coolidge

When you absolutely believe in yourself and your ability to succeed, nothing will stop you. — Brian Tracy

Don’t question your ability. You were created to succeed and live a life of purpose. Don’t you dare put a question-mark where God put a period! — Steve Maraboli

I really believe that everyone has a talent, ability, or skill that he can mine to support himself and to succeed in life. — Dean Koontz

Your persistence is, in fact, the true measure of your belief in yourself and your ability to succeed. Each time that you persist in the face of adversity and disappointment, you build the habit of persistence. — Brian Tracy

Your ultimate success or failure will depend on your ability to ignore the worries of the world long enough to allow your investments to succeed. — Peter Lynch

Good writing does not succeed or fail on the strength of its ability to persuade. It succeeds or fails on the strength of its ability to engage you, to make you think, to give you a glimpse into someone else's head. — Malcolm Gladwell

Remember the 'Parable of the Talents' in the New Testament? Christ exhorts us to be the best we can be by developing our skills and abilities, by succeeding in all our tasks and endeavors. What better description can there be of capitalism? — Margaret Thatcher

Give me a man with an average ability but a burning desire to succeed and I will give you a winner in exchange every time. — Andrew Carnegie

Desire To Win Quotes

I am lucky that whatever fear I have inside me, my desire to win is always stronger. — Serena Williams

Every person who wins in any undertaking must be willing to cut all sources of retreat. Only by doing so can one be sure of maintaining that state of mind known as a burning desire to win - essential to success. — Napoleon Hill

The desire to maximize the number of winning trades (or minimize the number of losing trades) works against the trader. The success rate of trades is the least important performance statistic and may even be inversely related to performance. — William Eckhardt

The deepest urge in human nature is the desire to feel important. - John Dewey

The deepest urge in human nature is the desire to feel important. — John Dewey

What does it take to be a champion? Desire, dedication, determination, concentration and the will to win. — Patty Berg

Champions are made from something they have deep inside of them-a desire, a dream, a vison. — Mahatma Gandhi

You just need enough 'winning' to experience satisfaction and just enough 'wanting' to experience desire. — James Clear

What is the single most important quality in a tennis champion? I would have to say desire, staying in there and winning matches when you are not playing that well. — John McEnroe

I have so much love for football, that I think is the reason why I seek refuge in training – I’m always guided by that desire to conquer, to win. — Kylian Mbappe

What’s the secret to success? It’s no secret. You need a winning attitude, honesty and integrity, and a burning desire to succeed. — Dave Thomas

Trying To Succeed Quotes

Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time. — Thomas A. Edison

I have learned that success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has had to overcome while trying to succeed. — Booker T. Washington

So remember to look up at the stars and not down at your feet. Try to make sense of what you see and hold on to that childlike wonder about what makes the universe exist. — Stephen Hawking

God doesn't require us to succeed, he only requires that you try. — Mother Teresa

It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed. — Theodore Roosevelt

If you try to fail, and succeed, which have you done? — George Carlin

If you want to succeed you must never stop learning, never stop trying and just keep being yourself. You are your own person. You make the choices in life that affect you. — Ruby Rose

It takes as much courage to have tried and failed as it does to have tried and succeeded. — Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Under democracy one party always devotes its chief energies to trying to prove that the other party is unfit to rule—and both commonly succeed, and are right. — H. L. Mencken

Being a successful trader also takes courage: the courage to try, the courage to fail, the courage to succeed, and the courage to keep on going when the going gets tough. — Michael Marcus

Drive And Success Quotes

Success is born out of faith, an undying passion, and a relentless drive. - Stephen Curry

Success is born out of faith, an undying passion, and a relentless drive. — Stephen Curry

Doesn't matter where you come from, what you have or don't have... All you need to have is faith in God, an undying passion for what you do and what you choose to do in this life, and a relentless drive and the will to do whatever it takes to be successful in whatever you put your mind to. — Stephen Curry

If you're going to be thinking anyway, think big! — Donald Trump

Success today requires the agility and drive to constantly rethink, reinvigorate, react, and reinvent. — Bill Gates

The road to success is not easy to navigate, but with hard work, drive and passion, it's possible to achieve the American dream. — Tommy Hilfiger

A real entrepreneur is somebody who has no safety net underneath them. — Henry Kravis

Determination is the wake-up call to the human will. — Tony Robbins

Athletic success is the result of knowing what to do, the willingness to do it, and the drive to continually improve at it. — Tim Grover

The price of success is hard work, dedication to the job at hand - Vince Lombardi

The price of success is hard work, dedication to the job at hand — Vince Lombardi

The key to content marketing success is creating lots of useful, relevant, and authoritative content, the objective of which is to drive people to your website. — Brian Clark

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More Desir Quotes

Love enjoys knowing everything about you; desire needs mystery. - Esther Perel quote

Love enjoys knowing everything about you; desire needs mystery. — Esther Perel

Dancing is a perpendicular expression of a horizontal desire. - George Bernard Shaw quote

Dancing is a perpendicular expression of a horizontal desire. — George Bernard Shaw

Never let go of that fiery sadness called desire. - Patti Smith quote

Never let go of that fiery sadness called desire. — Patti Smith

I have no desire to prove anything by dancing ... I just dance. - Fred Astaire quote

I have no desire to prove anything by dancing ... I just dance. — Fred Astaire

Desire is in men a hunger, in women only an appetite. - Mignon McLaughlin quote

Desire is in men a hunger, in women only an appetite. — Mignon McLaughlin

Whosoever desires constant success must change his conduct with the times. - Niccolo Machiavelli quote

Whosoever desires constant success must change his conduct with the times. — Niccolo Machiavelli

If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectable. - Louis D. Brandeis quote

If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectable. — Louis D. Brandeis

At the moment I sin, I desire the sin more than I desire to please God. - R. C. Sproul quote

At the moment I sin, I desire the sin more than I desire to please God. — R. C. Sproul

Someday I'll wish upon a star. - Yip Harburg quote

Someday I'll wish upon a star. — Yip Harburg

All happiness comes from the desire for others to be happy. - Shantideva quote

All happiness comes from the desire for others to be happy. — Shantideva

We were born to run; we were born because we run. - Christopher McDougall quote

We were born to run; we were born because we run. — Christopher McDougall

You are made in the image of what you desire. - Thomas Merton quote

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 quote

We always long for the forbidden things, and desire what is denied us. — Francois Rabelais

Embrace simplicity. Put others first. Desire little. - Lao Tzu quote

Embrace simplicity. Put others first. Desire little. — Lao Tzu

Desire is individual. Happiness is common. - Julian Casablancas quote

Desire is individual. Happiness is common. — Julian Casablancas

The scientist is motivated primarily by curiosity and a desire for truth. - Irving Langmuir quote

The scientist is motivated primarily by curiosity and a desire for truth. — Irving Langmuir

Be suspicious of what you want. - Rumi quote

Be suspicious of what you want. — Rumi

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