Quotes About Motivation

I don't want to discount talent and ability, but I still maintain that a lot of it is just sheer desire.

Jesus cares more about desire than about competence

So let your deepest desires direct your aim. Set your sights far above the 'reasonable' target. The power of purpose is profound only if you have a desire that stirs the heart.

It's so important to consider this question: What do I desire?

It is said that desire is a product of the will, but the converse is in fact true: will is a product of desire.

The desire to do something because you find it deeply satisfying and personally challenging inspires the highest levels of creativity, whether it's in the arts, sciences, or business.

Your ability to use the principle of autosuggestion will depend, very largely, upon your capacity to concentrate upon a given desire until that desire becomes a burning obsession.

It's not that I'm a Type-B personality. It's that I'm driven by a passionate, all-consuming desire to take it easy.

Perseverance is an active principle, and cannot continue to operate but under the influence of desire.

Desire is the creator; desire is the destroyer.

True learning takes energy, passion and a burning desire.

Challenge, and not desire, lies at the heart of seduction.

The distance between a person's dream and their accomplishments can only be measured by their desire.

Almost all crime is due to the repressed desire for aesthetic expression.

The thing that keeps me most awake is the desire and curiosity to learn more.

A wish is a desire without energy

Combine your mental images with the emotion of desire to accelerate their realization.

If you have a burning ambition and desire, absolutely anything can be achieved.

If your desire is a 10 but your self-esteem is a 5, you'll never perform at the level of a 10. You'll perform as a 5 or lower. People are ever able to outperform their self-image.

Those things that I must do I shall desire to do.

Desire of praise disposeth to laudable actions.

One must desire something to be alive.

A lot of what has pushed me forward is desire, and I have expressed that in my songwriting - perhaps because it's safer!

I suspect that much of our praying to be used is selfish, and underneath it is the sneaking desire to make our mark and be recognized.