Top 200 Desire Quotes (2025 Update)

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

— Napoleon Hill

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2. “If my mind can conceive it, and my heart can believe it, then I can achieve it.”

— Muhammad Ali

Also featured in: Positive Quotes, Success Quotes, Confidence Quotes, Interesting Quotes

3. “The only real limitation on your abilities is the level of your desires. If you want it badly enough, there are no limits on what you can achieve. ”

— Brian Tracy

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4. “If you will assume your desire and live there as though it were true, no power on earth can stop it from becoming a fact.”

— Neville Goddard

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5. “When you imagine the reality of the fulfilled desire and feel the thrill of accomplishment, your subconscious brings about the realisation of desire.”

— Joseph Murphy

Also featured in: Intention Quotes, Manifestation Quotes, Fulfillment Quotes, Imagination Quotes

6. “Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve. Thoughts are things! Strong, deeply rooted desire is the starting point of all achievement.”

— Napoleon Hill

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7. “Never mind what is. Imagine it the way you want it to be so that your vibration is a match to your desire. When your vibration is a match to your desire, all things in your experience will gravitate to meet that match every time.”

— Esther Hicks

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8. “Ask for what you want and be prepared to get it.”

— Maya Angelou

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9. “VISUALIZE!!! See it, feel it! This is where action begins.”

— Rhonda Byrne

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

— Napoleon Hill

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11. “The law of attraction says that like attracts like, and when you think and feel what you want to attract on the inside, the law will use people, circumstances and events to magnetize what you want.”

— Rhonda Byrne

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12. “Sadness does not last forever when we walk in the direction of that which we always desired.”

— Paulo Coelho

Also featured in: Emotional Quotes, Emotion Quotes, Fiction Quotes, Deep Quotes

13. “Believe that you are what you want to be.”

— Neville Goddard

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14. “He who knows that enough is enough will always have enough.”

— Lao Tzu

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15. “When there is no desire, all things are at peace.”

— Lao Tzu

Also featured in: Harmony Quotes, Peace Quotes, Short Deep Quotes

16. “The one who has no control over his desires has no control over his mind.”

— Ali ibn Abi Talib

Also featured in: Self Control Quotes

17. “Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for.”

— Epicurus

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18. “Both desire and imagination are stored in the mind of the individual and when stretched, both have the potential to position a person for greatness.”

— Eric Thomas

Also featured in: Positive Motivation Quotes, Mindset Quotes, Greatness Quotes

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

— George Bernard Shaw

Also featured in: Short Quotes About Life, Quotes About Feelings

20. “I would rather die of passion than of boredom.”

— Vincent van Gogh

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21. “The world is yourself pushed out. Ask yourself what you want and then give it to yourself! Do not question how it will come about; just go your way knowing that the evidence of what you have done must appear, and it will.”

— Neville Goddard

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22. “All that is great cannot be possessed – and that is one of the most foolish things man goes on doing. We want to possess.”

— Osho

23. “To understand the limitation of things, desire them.”

— Lao Tzu

Also featured in: Taoism Quotes

24. “What do you want meaning for? Life is desire, not meaning.”

— Charlie Chaplin

25. “Boredom: the desire for desires.”

— Leo Tolstoy

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26. “All I knew was that I NEVER wanted to be AVERAGE.”

— Michael Jordan

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27. “A lot of people are afraid to say what they want. That's why they don't get what they want.”

— Madonna

Also featured in: Boldness Quotes, Overcoming Fear Quotes

28. “If I had a flower for every time I thought of you... I could walk through my garden forever.”

— Alfred Tennyson

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29. “Stars, hide your fires; Let not light see my black and deep desires.”

— William Shakespeare

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30. “Doing what you love is the cornerstone of having abundance in your life.”

— Wayne W. Dyer

Also featured in: Positivity Quotes, Happy Quotes, Self-Empowerment Quotes, Affirmation Quotes

31. “As you think of yourself living in abundance, you are powerfully and consciously determining your life through the law of attraction.”

— Rhonda Byrne

Also featured in: Positive Life Quotes, Manifestation Quotes, Law Of Attraction Quotes, Self-Empowerment Quotes, Miracle Quotes

32. “I wanted the whole world or nothing.”

— Charles Bukowski

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33. “Take care to get what you like or you will be forced to like what you get.”

— George Bernard Shaw

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34. “I love you as certain dark things are to be loved, in secret, between the shadow and the soul.”

— Pablo Neruda

Also featured in: Love Quotes, Poetry Quotes, Soul Quotes, Quotes About Heart

35. “If you want to accomplish something, you must first expect it of yourself.”

— Wayne W. Dyer

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36. “Open your arms if you want the Beloved’s embrace.”

— Rumi

Also featured in: Poetry Quotes, Sufism Quotes, Love You Quotes

37. “I care how I feel and it is my desire to feel good.”

— Esther Hicks

Also featured in: Optimism Quotes, Good Morning Quotes, Being Happy Quotes, Quotes About Feelings

38. “What I want is to be number one.”

— Steve Prefontaine

Also featured in: Athlete Quotes, Excellence Quotes, Victory Quotes, Competition Quotes

39. “Asking is the beginning of receiving. Make sure you don’t go to the ocean with a teaspoon. At least take a bucket so the kids won’t laugh at you.”

— Jim Rohn

Also featured in: Self-Esteem Quotes, Prosperity Quotes, Clever Quotes

40. “The minute I heard my first love story, I started looking for you, not knowing how blind that was. Lovers don’t finally meet somewhere. They’re in each other all along.”

— Rumi

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41. “Assume the feeling of your wish fulfilled and observe the route that your attention follows.”

— Neville Goddard

Also featured in: Fulfillment Quotes, Intention Quotes, Law Of Attraction Quotes, Imagination Quotes

42. “I Wish I Could Give You A Taste Of The Burning Fire Of Love. There Is A Fire Blazing Inside Of Me. If I Cry About It, Or If I Don’t, The Fire Is At Work, Night And Day.”

— Rumi

Also featured in: Love Quotes, Emotional Quotes, Love Life Quotes

43. “The law operates by faith. If you believe, no effort is necessary to see the fulfillment of your every desire.”

— Neville Goddard

Also featured in: Fulfillment Quotes, Faith Quotes, Miracle Quotes, Quotes About Believing

44. “My ambition cannot be stopped!”

— Cao Cao

Also featured in: Willpower Quotes, Not Giving Up Quotes, Ambition Quotes, Moving Forward Quotes

45. “At night, I open the window and ask the moon to come and press its face against mine. Breathe into me. Close the language-door and open the love-window. The moon won’t use the door, only the window.”

— Rumi

Also featured in: Poetry Quotes, Quotes About Feelings, Soul Quotes

46. “I make myself rich by making my wants few.”

— Henry David Thoreau

Also featured in: Contentment Quotes, Simplicity Quotes

47. “No one will take better care of your dream than you.”

— Les Brown

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48. “Greed is a bottomless pit which exhausts the person in an endless effort to satisfy the need without ever reaching satisfaction.”

— Erich Fromm

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49. “I am so mad with love that mad men say to me – be still!”

— Rumi

Also featured in: Love Life Quotes, Poetry Quotes, Love You Quotes

50. “The minute I heard my first love story, I started looking for you.”

— Rumi

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