If you really want to do something, you’ll find a way. If you don’t, you’ll find an excuse.

It is not fair to ask of others what you are not willing to do yourself.

What do you want a meaning for? Life is a desire, not a meaning.

Life ought to be a struggle of desire toward adventures whose nobility will fertilize the soul.

Weak desires bring weak results, just as a small amount of fire brings a small amount of heat.

The remedy against want is to moderate your desires.

I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self.

Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get.

Migrants and refugees are not pawns on the chessboard of humanity. They are children, women and men who leave or who are forced to leave their homes for various reasons, who share a legitimate desire for knowing and having, but above all for being more.

After you hear and listen. First must come desire. Second must come willingness. Third should come understanding. Fourth should come progression and with progression will come more understanding.

That is love, to give away everything, to sacrifice everything, without the slightest desire to get anything in return.

We experience ourselves, our thoughts and feelings as something separate from the rest. A kind of optical delusion of consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us.

When you make contact with your Higher Self, you’ll have the support of Nature, which will allow for the manifestation of all you desire.

Desire to me is a contract that you make with yourself to be unhappy until you get what you want.

Life is short. But desire, desire is long.

It is very common for us to desire most what we are least qualified to obtain.

Traveling is one expression of the desire to cross boundaries.

The things we do without the fear of failure and the desire for success are the purest acts we’ll ever do.

To fight against one’s desires is the greatest of all fights.

Self expression is the new entertainment, We never used to question why people sit on the couch for seven hours a day watching bad TV. Nobody ever asked, Why are they doing that for free? We need to celebrate [this desire to contribute for free] rather than question it.

The will to win, the desire to succeed, the urge to reach your full potential… these are the keys that will unlock the door to personal excellence.

Pick your one overwhelming desire – it’s okay to suffer over that one. But on all the other desires, let them go so you can be calm and peaceful and relaxed.

The desire for transcendence is intimately connected with the desire for creativity. It is just as essential to who and what we are.

Receiving involves feeling the way you feel once your desire has manifested.

No one who desires to become good will become good unless he does good things.

Victory is plesant, not only to those who love to conquer, but to all; for there is produced an idea of superiority, which all with more or less eagerness desire.

What gives value to travel is fear. It is a fact that, at a certain moment, when we are so far from our own country, we are seized by a vague fear and an instinctive desire to go back to the protection of old habits. I look upon it more as an occasion for testing.

You call it hope-that fire of fire! It is but agony of desire.

What you lack in talent can be made up with desire, hustle, and giving 110 percent all the time.

When one is overcome by this wretched, clinging desire in the world, one’s sorrows increase like grass growing up after a lot of rain.

We’ve never declared war on anybody. We [Iran] defended ourselves against wars that were imposed on us. We have no desire to engage in confrontation with anybody.

You don’t give up the intention, and you don’t give up the desire. You give up your attachment to the results.

The law is reason unaffected by desire.

All men desire by nature to know.

In order to succeed, your desire for success should be greater than your fear of failure.