Desire is a bonfire that burns with greater fury, asking for more fuel. — Sathya Sai Baba
There's such a fierce intense fire burning inside of me, so much that it just wants to explode. — GG Allin
When natural inclination develops into a passionate desire, one advances towards his goal in seven-league boots. — Nikola Tesla
The deepest urge in human nature is the desire to feel important. — John Dewey
Nothing has more strength than dire necessity. — Euripides
Was there any human urge more pitiful-or more intense- than wanting another chance at something? — Joe Hill
There's a storm inside of us. I've heard many team guys speak of this. A burning. A river. A drive. — Marcus Luttrell
I needed to go . . . the pull of Everest was stronger for me than any force on earth. — Tenzing Norgay
If you have an unswerving desire to do something, then usually you’ll get it. — Naval Ravikant
Desire and longing are the whips of God. — Anna Wickham
A strong conviction that something must be done is the parent of many bad measures. — Daniel Webster
Desire is the starting point of all achievement, not a hope, not a wish, but a keen pulsating desire which transcends everything. — Napoleon Hill
Short Strong Urge Quotes
Desire is in men a hunger, in women only an appetite. — Mignon McLaughlin
Passion for fame: A passion which is the instinct of all great souls. — Edmund Burke
Desire will in due time externalize itself as concrete fact. — Thomas Troward
Out of need springs desire, and out of desire springs the energy and the will to win. — Denis Waitley
When your desires are strong enough you will appear to possess superhuman powers to achieve. — Napoleon Hill
Strong Urge Image Quotes
Your hardest times often lead to the greatest moments of your life. Keep going. Tough situations build strong people in the end.
Overwhelming Urge Quotes
When you believe the work before you is the single piece that will forever define you, it’s difficult to let go. The urge for perfection is overwhelming. It’s too much. We are frozen, and sometimes ends up convincing ourselves that discarding the entire work is the only way to move forward. — Rick Rubin
A desire to kneel down sometimes pulses through my body, or rather it is as if my body has been meant and made for the act of kneeling. Sometimes, in moments of deep gratitude, kneeling down becomes an overwhelming urge, head deeply bowed, hands before my face. — Etty Hillesum
Evangelism is not salesmanship. It is not urging people, pressing them, coercing them, overwhelming them, or subduing them. Evangelism is telling a message. Evangelism is reporting good news. — Richard Halverson
A strong person loves, forgives, walks away, lets go, tries again, perseveres... No matter what life throws at them.
If you feel an overwhelming urge to act spontaneously, pull in the reins — Priscilla Shirer
Grace is the central invitation to life and the final word. It's the beckoning nudge and the overwhelming, undeserved mercy that urges us to change and grow, and then gives us the power to pull it off. — Tim Hansel
Sometimes the strongest people are the ones who love beyond all faults, cry behind closed doors and fight battles that nobody knows about.
Most people get overwhelmed by the insignificant decisions of their lives. I'm urging people to minimize the time spent on these when they're not critical to their most important goals. — Robert Pozen
The history of my life is the history of the struggle between an overwhelming urge to write and a combination of circumstances bent on keeping me from it. — F. Scott Fitzgerald
By the time I received my doctorate in American studies in 1957, I was in the twisted grip of a disease of our times in which the sufferer experiences an overwhelming urge to join the 'real world.' So I started working for newspapers. — Tom Wolfe
Strong Desire Quotes
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
Ambition, as that passion is generally understood,- a strong desire to rise above others, to occupy the first place, - formed no part of Lafayette's character. In him the passion was nothing more than a constant and irresistible wish to do good. — Marquis de Lafayette
Never assume that loud is strong and quiet is weak.
I will simply express my strong belief, that that point of self-education which consists in teaching the mind to resist its desires and inclinations, until they are proved to be right, is the most important of all, not only in things of natural philosophy, but in every department of dally life. — Michael Faraday
But I don't have such a strong desire to need to get away from filmmaking. — Mike Figgis
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
Be strong enough to stand alone, be yourself enough to stand apart, but be wise enough to stand together when the time comes.
It should be observed that perfect love of God consists not in those delights, tears and sentiments of devotion that we generally seek, but in a strong determination and keen desire to please God in all things, and to promote His glory. — Teresa of Avila
It would seem that Our Lord finds our desires not too strong, but too weak. — C. S. Lewis
I never had any other desire so strong, and so like covetousness, as that ... I might be master at last of a small house and a large garden, with very moderate conveniences joined to them, and there dedicate the remainder of my life to the culture of them and the study of nature. — Abraham Cowley
If you don't feel strong desires for the manifestation of the glory of God, it is not because you have drunk deeply and are satisfied. It is because you have nibbled so long at the table of the world. Your soul is stuffed with small things, and there is no room for the great. — John Piper
You can spend your life however you want, but if you want to get rich, it has to be your number one overwhelming desire. — Naval Ravikant
Definiteness of purpose is the starting point of all achievement. — W. Clement Stone
Think positively; Exercise daily; Eat Healthy; Work Hard; Stay strong; Worry less; Dance more; Love often.
God created us with an overwhelming desire to soar. Our desire to develop and use every ounce of potential He's placed in us is not egotistical. He designed us to be tremendously productive and "to mount up with wings like eagles," realistically dreaming of what He can do with our potential. — Carol Kent
To be with God is really to be involved in some enormous, overwhelming desire, and joy, and power which you cannot control, which controls you. — James A. Baldwin
Don’t be discouraged at seemingly overwhelming odds in your desire to live and to help others live God’s commandments. At times it may seem like David trying to fight Goliath. But remember, David did win. — David B. Haight
People will hate you, rate you, shake you, and break you. But how strong you stand is what makes you.
Don't let your fears overwhelm your desire. Let the barriers you face-and there will be barriers-be external, not internal. Fortune does favor the bold, and I promise that you will never know what you're capable of unless you try. — Sheryl Sandberg
You don't need attention to write. All you need is passion for your work and an overwhelming desire to tell a story you genuinely care about. Readers can sense your sincerity and it separates you from pretenders. — Sefi Atta
Suddenly I've got an overwhelming desire to surround myself with the aura of classical and Romantic art. — Sylvester Stallone
Sometimes when I'm in a bookstore or library, I am overwhelmed by all the things that I do not know. Then I am seized by a powerful desire to read all the books, one by one. — Arthur C. Clarke
Empathy is a respectful understanding of what others are experiencing. Instead of offering empathy, we often have a strong urge to give advice or reassurance and to explain our own position or feeling. Empathy, however, calls upon us to empty our mind and listen to others with our whole being. — Marshall B. Rosenberg
Body have to physically strong and sturdy. Spiritually balanced fi clean and purge me. Mentally advanced fi always urge me. Read a couple books and challenge the clergy. Read a couple psalms up in the morning early. — Damian Marley
When you do the wrong thing, knowing it is wrong, you do so because you haven't developed the habit of effectively controlling or neutralizing strong inner urges that tempt you, or because you have established the wrong habit and don't know how to eliminate them effectively. — W. Clement Stone
It is the weak man who urges compromise -- never the strong man. — Elbert Hubbard
I want to urge you very strongly to travel as much as you can, and to evolve yourself as an internationalist. It's as important a part of your education as a radical as the reading of any book. — Christopher Hitchens
Mistrust those in whom the urge to punish is strong. — Friedrich Nietzsche
Often, instead of offering empathy, we have a strong urge to give advice or reassurance and to explain our own position or feeling. — Marshall B. Rosenberg
The urge to shout filthy words at the top of his voice was as strong as ever. — George Orwell
We are beginning a new era in our government. I cannot too strongly urge the necessity of a rigid economy and an inflexible determination not to enlarge the income beyond the real necessities of the government. — Andrew Jackson
It required a strong heart to stand up against such talk, but I urged my people to be quiet and not to begin a war. — Chief Joseph
I urge the enactment of a civil service law so explicit and so strong that no partisan official will dare evade it, basing all rewards, promotions and salaries solely on merit, on loyalty and industry in the public service. — Arthur Capper
Hamas, the opponents of Arafat, the opponents of peace, urged a boycott of the election, and yet there was an 85 percent turnout where Hamas is supposed to be strong. Isn't that really quite incredible? — Warren Christopher
For the good of our environment, the good of the economy, and the good of the Nation, I strongly urge support of the upper Mississippi locks and dams project. — Leonard Boswell
I would strongly urge the Donald Trump administration to pick someone who is completely apolitical, who doesn't come out of the political process, someone who is a retired judge or an acting judge willing to step down from their judgeship, someone ideally who has prosecutorial experience, but someone who could come in and give credibility to the Russia investigation that is severely in jeopardy. — Adam Schiff
Scientists have a strong urge to write papers but only a relatively mild one to read them. — Derek J. de Solla Price
Of course, the more you read, the more you learn, and ultimately there is more information than you can ever use. The difficulty is that as an outsider, you know you're too ignorant for your own good, and so the urge to keep researching and *never* start writing is pretty strong. — Paolo Bacigalupi
The human psyche has two great sicknesses: the urge to carry vendetta across generations, and the tendency to fasten group labels on people rather than see them as individuals. Abrahamic religion gives strong sanction to both-and mixes explosively with both. Only the willfully blind could fail to implicate the divisive force of religion in most, if not all, of the violent enmities in the world today. — Richard Dawkins
The urge to sing was so strong one day I performed in a club and it was very successful. — Klaus Nomi
I don't write out of fear. I write out of a strong urge to meet death on its own eternal terms, because the fact is that if you write as little as a page of prose-even bad prose-that is eternal. — Anthony Burgess
You are the only woman who has a sense of gaiety, a wise tolerance - no more, you seem to urge me to betray you. I love you for that. [...] I don't know what to expect of you, but it is something in the way of a miracle. I am going to demand everything of you - even the impossible, because you encourage it. You are really strong. I even like your deceit, your treachery. It seems aristocratic to me. — Henry Miller
I strongly urge you to consciously consider what success means to you. Instead of allowing others or society to determine when you win, you determine it. — Pat Heim
I strongly support SNAP and will continue to urge my colleagues in Congress to provide adequate funding to this important program. — Dan Maffei
To me writing was not a career but a necessity. And so it remains, though I am now, technically, a professional writer. The strength of this inborn desire to write has always baffled me. It is understandable that the really gifted should feel an overwhelming urge to use their gift; but a strong urge with only a slight gift seems almost a genetic mistake. — Dervla Murphy
There are men who are possessed by an urge so strong to do some particular thing that they can't help themselves, they've got to do it. They're prepared to sacrifice everything to satisfy their yearning. — W. Somerset Maugham
I am terrified of flying. I am a wreck right before I get on an airplane. That, and the ocean. I can only get in there for 10 minutes, I have this strong urge to run out and I won't go back in for the rest of the day. I've always been like that. — Kyle Gallner
I strongly urge students to learn to take risks, to be bold, to let their genius convert that fear into power and brilliance. — Robert Kiyosaki
Are you one of those people who notices the problems of the world and says ... somebody ought to do something about that? Why not you? If you feel a strong urge to see a problem fixed, then why not act on it? — Steve Pavlina
You know I love you, right?” The urge to kiss her goodbye was so strong that I almost broke our rules. She smiled, beautiful and golden in the late morning light. “Not as much as I love you.” “Oh, man. This is my dream come true: having an ‘I love you more’ debate. Here, I’ll start. I love you more. Your turn.” Sydney laughed and opened the door. “I’ve taken debate classes. You’d lose to my logic. — Richelle Mead
On average, since the urge to kill myself isn't so strong that I actually kill myself, the world is worth living in. — Tao Lin
He had black hair anybody could see was dyed, and even had one long piece wrapped around his head in that way some men did to fool no one into believing they weren't bald. I resisted a sudden strong urge to tug away that piece and scream peekaboo! at his bare crown underneath. — Jeaniene Frost
I don't have a lot of domestic instincts," Ranger said to me, his attention fixing on the unidentifiable glob in my hair, "but I have a real strong urge to take you home and hose you down." I went dry mouth. Connie bit into her lower lip, and Lula fanned herself with a file. — Janet Evanovich
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