Desire Quotes

"Even what people take to be their most personal desires are usually programmed by the imagined order."

"Nobody speaks the truth when there's something they must have."

Elizabeth Bowen

"Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired."

Robert Frost

"The Heart wants what it wants – or else it does not care."

Emily Dickinson

"Love and desire are the spirit's wings to great deeds."

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"Wars and revolutions and battles are due simply and solely to the body and its desires."

"Thousands of desires, each worth dying for; many of them I fulfilled, yet still they were too few."

Mirza Ghalib

"Champions aren't made in gyms. Champions are made from something they have deep inside them – a desire, a dream, a vision."

Muhammad Ali

"Success is focusing the full power of all you are on what you have a burning desire to achieve."

Wilfred Peterson

"Champions aren't made in gyms. Champions are made from something they have deep inside them: a desire, a dream, a vision."

Muhammad Ali

"The glory of sport comes from dedication, determination, and desire."

Jackie Joyner-Kersee

"Thousands of desires, each one worth dying for."

Mirza Ghalib

"The heart wants what it wants – or else it does not care."

Emily Dickinson

"To burn with desire and keep quiet about it is the greatest punishment we can bring on ourselves."

Federico García Lorca

"Eros, the melter of limbs, now again stirs me – sweet-bitter, irresistible."

Sappho

"All men desire peace, but very few desire those things that make for peace."

Thomas à Kempis

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

“There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.”

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

“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.”

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

“Without a sense of urgency, desire loses its value.”

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

“There are two tragedies in life. One is to lose your heart's desire. The other is to gain it.”

“Freedom is not procured by a full enjoyment of what is desired, but by controlling the desire.”