“Almost every desire a poor man has is a punishable offence.”
“It's not who jumps the highest -- it's who wants it the most”
“Desire will in due time externalize itself as concrete fact.”
“Lord, grant that I may always desire more than I can accomplish.”
“One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar.”
“Desire is a powerful force that can be used to make things happen.”
“While man's desires and aspirations stir he cannot choose but err.”
“Desire is the most important factor in the success of any athlete.”
“If you care enough for a result, you will most certainly attain it.”
“Anything you really want, you can attain, if you really go after it.”
“The desire for success lubricates secret prostitution's in the soul.”
“Ignore what a man desires and you ignore the very source of his power”
“If you really want something you can figure out how to make it happen.”
“Life is a progress from want to want, not from enjoyment to enjoyment.”
“Be careful what you set your heart upon -- for it will surely be yours.”
“It sometimes seems that we have only to love a thing greatly to get it.”
“The man never feels the want of what it never occurs to him to ask for.”
“Every man's road in life is marked by the grave of his personal likings.”
“I can do whatever I want -- I'm rich, I'm famous, and I'm bigger than you.”
“We trifle when we assign limits to our desires, since nature hath set none.”
“O lyric Love, half angel and half bird. And all a wonder and a wild desire.”
“Manifest plainness, embrace simplicity, reduce selfishness, have few desires.”
“We are ever striving after what is forbidden, and coveting what is denied us.”
“I do want to get rich but I never want to do what there is to do to get rich.”
“Can anything be so elegant as to have few wants, and to serve them one's self?”
“To educate the intelligence is to expand the horizon of its wants and desires.”
“All through nature, you will find the same law. First the need, then the means.”
“It is much easier to suppress a first desire than to satisfy those that follow.”
“The intensity of your desire governs the power with which the force is directed.”
“The want of a thing is perplexing enough, but the possession of it, is intolerable.”