Top 200 Desire Quotes (2024 Update)
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151. “We are told that talent creates opportunity, yet it is desire that creates talent.”

— Bruce Lee

152. “Anything is possible as long as you want it, you work for it. Doesn’t matter what anyone else thinks, the only person that can really put pressure on you is yourself.”

— Michael Phelps

153. “Human behavior flows from three main sources: desire, emotion, and knowledge.”

— Plato

154. “Desires make slaves out of kings and patience makes kings out of slaves.”

— Al-Ghazali

155. “Happiness is your nature. It is not wrong to desire it. What is wrong is seeking it outside when it is inside.”

— Ramana Maharshi

156. “Cherish your visions and your dreams, as they are the children of your soul; the blueprints of your ultimate achievements.”

— Napoleon Hill

157. “All your anxiety is because of your desire for harmony. Seek disharmony, then you will gain peace.”

— Rumi

158. “Dreams are only dreams until you wake up and make them real.”

— Ned Vizzini

159. “There is nothing that belief plus a burning desire cannot make real.”

— Napoleon Hill

160. “I don’t know if I ever told you this before, but you’re the only one I ever waited for this long.”

— Frank Ocean

161. “If something burns your soul with purpose and desire, it’s your duty to be reduced to ashes by it. Any other form of existence will be yet another dull book in the library of life.”

— Charles Bukowski

162. “Every sale has five basic obstacles: no need, no money, no hurry, no desire, no trust.”

— Zig Ziglar

163. “Wonder implies the desire to learn.”

— Aristotle

164. “If you limit your choices only to what seems possible or reasonable, you disconnect yourself from what you truly want, and all that is left is a compromise.”

— Robert Fritz

165. “The desire to know your own soul will end all other desires.”

— Rumi

166. “Don’t feel bad for one moment about doing what brings you joy.”

— Sarah J. Maas

167. “Cinema is the ultimate pervert art. It doesn’t give you what you desire – it tells you how to desire.”

— Slavoj Žižek

168. “Life is found in the dance between your deepest desire and your greatest fear.”

— Tony Robbins

169. “Your current thoughts are creating your future life. What you think about the most or focus on the most will appear as your life.”

— Rhonda Byrne

170. “If you are influenced by the opinions of others, you will have no DESIRE of your own.”

— Napoleon Hill

171. “I have spent all my life resisting the desire to end it.”

— Franz Kafka

172. “Create a definite plan for carrying out your desire and begin at once, whether you are ready or not, to put this plan into action.”

— Napoleon Hill

173. “The Universe does not know whether the vibration that you’re offering is because of something you’re observing or something you’re remembering or something that you are imagining. It just receives the vibration and answers it with things that match it.”

— Esther Hicks

174. “God’s wealth circulates in my life, it flows to me in avalanches of abundance. All my needs, desires and goals are met instantaneously, for I am one with God and he is everything!”

— Tony Robbins

175. “Capture the feeling associated with your realized wish by assuming the feeling that would be yours were you already in possession of the thing you desire, and your wish will objectify itself.”

— Neville Goddard

176. “My heart is, and always will be, yours.”

— Jane Austen

177. “Desire backed by faith knows no such word as impossible.”

— Napoleon Hill

178. “By perseverance, study, and eternal desire, any man can become great.”

— George S. Patton Jr.

179. “Deliberately seek the company of people who influence you to think and act on building the life you desire.”

— Napoleon Hill

180. “It is in your power to withdraw yourself whenever you desire. Perfect tranquility within consists in the good ordering of the mind, the realm of your own.”

— Marcus Aurelius

181. “The desire that guides me in all I do is the desire to harness the forces of nature to the service of mankind.”

— Nikola Tesla

182. “Body. Soul. Mind. Sensations: the body. Desires: the soul. Reasoning: the mind.”

— Marcus Aurelius

183. “I once had a thousand desires. But in my one desire to know you, all else melted away.”

— Rumi

184. “My definition of financial freedom is simple: it is the ability to live the lifestyle you desire without having to work or rely on anyone else for money.”

— T. Harv Eker

185. “Within you is the divine capacity to manifest and attract all you desire.”

— Wayne W. Dyer

186. “The desire to win is born in most of us. The will to win is a matter of training. The manner of winning is a matter of honour.”

— Margaret Thatcher

187. “Soul meets soul on lovers’ lips.”

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

188. “O Divine Providence, I ask not for more riches but more wisdom with which to make wiser use of the riches you gave me at birth, consisting in the power to control and direct my own mind to whatever ends I might desire.”

— Napoleon Hill

189. “I have a deeply hidden and inarticulate desire for something beyond the daily life.”

— Virginia Woolf

190. “The universe will start to rearrange itself to make it happen for you.”

— Joe Vitale

191. “Mastery is not a question of genetics or luck, but of following your natural inclinations and the deep desires that stir you from within.”

— Robert Greene

192. “When our deepest desire is not the things of God, or a favor from God, but God Himself, we cross a threshold.”

— Max Lucado

193. “I’m the last person who has any desire to instruct anybody in shame. That’s no errand for me.”

— Jock Sturges

194. “The world is yours and everything in it, it’s out there- get on your grind and get it.”

— Young Jeezy

195. “There cannot be self-restraint in the absence of desire: when there is no adversary, what avails thy courage? Hark, do not castrate thyself, do not become a monk: chastity depends on the existence of lust.”

— Rumi

196. “I need nothing. I seek nothing. I desire nothing.”

— Milarepa

197. “I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than in attempting to satisfy them.”

— John Stuart Mill

198. “I don’t care if the whole world is against you or teasing you or saying you are not gonna make it. Believe in yourself, no matter what.”

— Michael Jackson

199. “Learn to distinguish what you can and can’t control. Within our control are our own opinions, aspirations, desires and the things that repel us. They are directly subject to our influence.”

— Epictetus

200. “All is well. You did not come here to fix a broken world. The world is not broken. You came here to live a wonderful life. And if you can learn to relax a little and let it all in, you will begin to see the universe present you with all that you have asked for.”

— Esther Hicks