Top 100 My Burning Desire Quotes
#1. Desire is a bonfire that burns with greater fury, asking for more fuel ...
Sathya Sai Baba
#2. Most people wish for riches, but few people provide the definite plan and burning desire which pave the road to wealth.
Napoleon Hill
#3. You must have a sincere and burning desire to achieve what you dream, dedicate yourself to making progress, and take control of your circumstances to change your body.
Arnold Schwarzenegger
#4. I don't have a burning desire to go out and document anything. It just happens when it happens. It's not a conscious effort, nor is it a struggle. Wouldn't do it if it was. The idea of the suffering artist has never appealed to me. Being here is suffering enough.
William Eggleston
#5. I have this burning desire to get out there and do my best. It's as if I'm keeping it all in a little bottle, and it's all going to come out when I do the best I'm capable of doing.
Jackie Joyner-Kersee
#6. When I was fresh out of law school, I had a burning desire to do something important, to have an impact in some way, but I didn't know what it was.
Jennifer Granholm
#7. Angelique, my dear child, love is not what heals us. Love is what burns us. And in you the flame burns pure and hot.
Anne Golon
#9. But what if your fire is not burning well or, worse, has gone out? Without inner fire, you have no light, no heat, no desire ... there's only one way out - and that's through the dark woods. You must change your life.
Phil Cousineau
#10. Thoughts are things, and powerful things at that, when they are mixed with definiteness of purpose, persistence, and a burning desire ...
Napoleon Hill
#11. I don't have any particular burning desire to go back to being cuddly. Not really.
Hugh Grant
#12. Angels, living light most glorious! Beneath the Godhead in burning desire in the darkness and mystery of creation you look on the eye of your God never taking your fill: What glorious pleasures take shape within you!
Hildegard Of Bingen
#13. The thing for me is I never had this burning desire to do a solo record my whole life.
Julian Casablancas
#14. A strange girl, all phosphorous and cantharides, burning with every desire! And burning with every vice!
Jean Lorrain
#15. Give me a man with an average ability but a burning desire to succeed and I will give you a winner in exchange every time.
Andrew Carnegie
#16. Lord Jesu, I ask Thee, give unto me movement in Thy love without measure; desire without limit; longing without order; burning without discretion. Truly the better the love of Thee is, the greedier it is; for neither by reason is it restrained, nor by dread thronged, nor by doom tempted.
Richard Rolle
#17. TRULY, "thoughts are things," and powerful things at that, when they are mixed with definiteness of purpose, persistence, and a BURNING DESIRE for their translation into riches, or other material objects. A
Napoleon Hill
#18. Do not fear the fire within you, burning brighter than any star it attracts only those whose flame feeds off the very air that you breathe. Let passion be the inferno that engulfs your soul.
Virginia Alison
#19. I love being part of a group who tells stories, whether it be in the theater or in cinema, and I love creating imaginary worlds rather as children do, but I never had a burning desire to act, but it just sort of suited me.
Jeremy Irons
#20. Ravenna felt so good in his arms, too damn good. He never thought he'd crave a woman's touch the way he craved hers. He had a burning desire, an aching need to hold her, kiss her, make her his.
Victoria Roberts
#21. There is nothing that belief plus a burning desire cannot make real.
Napoleon Hill
#22. True learning takes energy, passion and a burning desire.
Robert Kiyosaki
#23. You've got to have this burning desire in your chest to succeed.
Rod Stewart
#24. People who have achieved great success are not necessarily more skillful or intelligent than others. What separates them is their burning desire and thirst for knowledge. The more one knows, the more one achieves.
Robin Sharma
#25. Every person who wins in any undertaking must be willing to cut all sources of retreat. Only by doing so can one be sure of maintaining that state of mind known as a burning desire to win - essential to success.
Napoleon Hill
#26. I have a burning desire to entertain and different mediums allow me to do this in different ways.
Adi Shankar
#27. If you have burning desire to be free (as I have) you must first find this freedom within you. And to be free in this manner, you have to be comfortable with who and what you are.
Fennel Hudson
#28. I'm not able to tell you what the best song is yet, because there's more to come. I feel that in me. I can still feel the burning energy and the desire to create and create and create.
John Lydon
#29. Above all else stands the burning question of bipartisanship. Whatever else the politicians might say they're about, our news analysts know that this is the true object of the nation's desire, the topic to which those slippery presidential spokesmen need always to be dragged back.
Thomas Frank
#30. And that's the most horrible thing about censorship: To avoid falling afoul of the censors, we question ourselves and censor ourselves and make a big deal out of things in our heads. We do the work of the control freaks for them, out of a desire to avoid them.
G.R. Reader
#31. A BURNING DESIRE TO BE, AND TO DO is the starting point from which the dreamer must take off. Dreams are not born of indifference, laziness, or lack of ambition.
Napoleon Hill
#32. Nothing constructive and worthy of man's efforts ever has or ever will be achieved except by that which comes from a positive mental attitude, based on a definiteness of purpose and activated by a burning desire, and acted upon until the burning desire is elevated to the level of applied faith.
Napoleon Hill
#33. At one point, I animated villains in our stories, a bear or a giant, then on The Little Mermaid Ariel just called to me and I started to fall in love with characters who had that burning desire inside of them, this hope.
Glen Keane
#34. All you need is something to say, and a burning desire to say it ... it doesn't matter where your hands are.
Lou Holtz
#35. Success is focusing the full power of all you are on what you have a burning desire to achieve.
Wilferd Peterson
#36. Burning desire to be or do something gives us staying power - a reason to get up every morning or to pick ourselves up and start in again after a disappointment.
Marsha Sinetar
#37. Bring me my bow of burning gold: Bring me my arrows of desire: Bring me my spear: O clouds, unfold! Bring me my chariot of fire.
William Blake
#38. Saw in their eyes something I was to see over and over in every part of the nation - a burning desire to go, to move, to get under way, anyplace, away from any Here. They spoke quietly of how they wanted to go someday, to move about, free and unanchored, not toward something but away from something.
John Steinbeck
#39. Scriptures reveal the divine desires of the Lord in our behalf. Each of us should have a burning desire to search the scriptures diligently and daily to seek the will of the Lord in our life. For some, it may be necessary to develop the discipline to search the scriptures daily.
L. Lionel Kendrick
#40. Thoughts mixed with definiteness of purpose, persistence, and a burning desire are powerful things.
Napoleon Hill
#41. Our care of the child should be governed, not by the desire to make him learn things, but by the endeavor always to keep burning within him that light which is called intelligence.
Maria Montessori
#42. I do think New York prepares you for the crossection of personalities and realities on display when you leave the country, and I'd live somewhere else if I had a reason or burning-the-the-point-of-discomfort desire to do so.
Sloane Crosley
#43. The first and foremost requisite of a good football player is that he must have a burning desire to play the game. There is absolutely no substitute for this.
Frank Leahy
#44. There was no desire in him for a state or condition, no picture in his mind of the thing to be when he had followed his longing; but only a burning and a will overpowering to journey outward and outward after the earliest risen star.
John Steinbeck
#45. I don't have a burning desire to be taken seriously as an actor. I don't have a master plan in that way.
Ben Stiller
#46. A burning itch to know is higher than a solemn vow to pursue truth. To feel the burning itch of curiosity requires both that you be ignorant, and that you desire to relinquish your ignorance.
Eliezer Yudkowsky
#47. When we kiss my heart's on fire, burning with a strange desire. And I know that every time I kiss you, that your heart's on fire, too.
Elvis Presley
#48. Frankly, I never had any intense desire to go to India. I know that sounds a bit strange, but it just never was someplace I had a burning desire to visit.
Judi Dench
#49. I don't know what keeps me going. Sometimes I wonder ... I think it's just pure perseverance and wanting to succeed and having that burning desire to always have success.
Tanya Tucker
#50. It only wakes up the burning desire I always feel whenever I'm close to this man and the shadows of my fears back away. - Skye
Stephanie Witter
#51. You could feel hurt and rejected right now but you must know that both pain and rejection are not here to stay. They just passing by and they'll never take away the burning fire that resides in you called desire.
Euginia Herlihy
#52. I don't have any desire to do something that sounds explicitly rock. Like, I don't have a burning need to be a rock musician. I feel like I've taken that as far as I can take it, for me.
Kim Gordon
#53. If you're bored with life, if you don't get up every morning with a burning desire to do things, you don't have enough goals.
Lou Holtz
#54. You may kill a fire. And everything you know falls to dust and ash. Yet the remarkable treasure in this seemingly hopeless pile, is hidden deep within. The burning embers incarnate the perpetual desire to go from spark to flame.
Akilnathan Logeswaran
#55. The whole army is burning with an insatiable desire to wreak violence upon South Carolina. I almost tremble for her fate.
William Tecumseh Sherman
#56. There is one quality which one must possess to win, and that is definiteness of purpose, the knowledge of what one wants, and a burning desire to possess it.
Napoleon Hill
#57. What's the secret to success? It's no secret. You need a winning attitude, honesty and integrity, and a burning desire to succeed.
Dave Thomas
#58. If you don't put a value on money and seek wealth, you most probably won't receive it. You must seek wealth for it to seek you. If no burning desire for wealth arises within you, wealth will not arise around you. Having definiteness of purpose for acquiring wealth is essential for its acquisition.
John Frederick Demartini
#59. No matter what face he wears, Satan has one overmastering ambition, one burning desire-to dethrone the Almighty and to place himself upon the highest throne of the universe.
Adrian Rogers
#60. I don't have a burning desire to act, strangely enough. I don't know that if I hadn't been an actor as a young person, I don't know that I ever would have chosen this because it's not really my personality.
Jodie Foster
#61. I should have been conceived during Woodstock; it's in my blood: that burning desire to turn an absolute on its head and see what's underneath. I'm as random as I can be and as responsible as I should be. Attempting to fuse the two makes for interesting days.
Chila Woychik
#62. A wealthy gentleman who imperils his life to rescue a young gentlewoman from a burning building must secretly harbor the desire to make said young woman his wife.
P.O. Dixon
#63. A good fiction writer can write any character or any story that she wants to write. The importance, IMO, is a burning desire to tell that person's story.
Suzanne Brockmann
#64. Love lasts a long time but burning desire lasts two to three weeks.
Carla Bruni
#65. I don't see myself necessarily having a burning desire to write a symphony.
Danny Elfman
#66. I had a burning desire in me to win and started to get him on the back foot. I was looking for that one special shot when I put him down with the famous Horsley Muckspreader right hand ... an unstoppable force. Incredibly, he got up and took the count and the ref waved us to continue.
Stephen Richards
#67. Success comes to us when we have a burning desire to achieve and we focus our full power on achieving that.
Sakshi Chetana
#68. In my dream a burning desire
Like the lights from a diamond
Make my life ever precious
That is my love.
Debasish Mridha
#69. Show up. Show up consistently. Show up consistently with a positive outlook. Be prepared for and committed to the long haul. Cultivate a burning desire backed by faith. Be willing to pay the price. And do the things you've committed to doing - even when no one else is watching.
Jeff Olson
#70. One writes because one has a burning desire to objectify what it is indispensable to one's happiness to express ...
Marianne Moore
#71. Bombing teaches you how badly you want to become a comedian. Because unless it's a burning desire, you'll quit when the consistent bombing becomes too much to take.
Franklyn Ajaye
#72. It's true that I've never had a burning desire to rebel against my parents.
Taylor Swift
#73. I like writers who seem to write because they have to. You get the feeling of this burning desire to tell a story. I find it in Peter Carey, Nicola Barker, Ali Smith and David Foster Wallace.
Patrick Ness
#74. My interest in photography did not begin with books or mentors, or with any burning desire to see the world through a camera. It evolved from an intense devotion to mountains and wilderness that eventually shaped all the parts of my life and brought them together.
Galen Rowell
#75. There is one quality that one must possess to win, and that is definiteness of purpose, the knowledge of what one wants and a burning desire to achieve it.
Brian Tracy
#76. Along with my passion for horse breeding, I was a horse racing enthusiast ... In 1974 I was elected as a committee member and subsequently as a steward of the Turf Club. I had a burning desire to clean up the sport, which had always carried the stigma of gambling and manipulation.
Cyrus S. Poonawalla
#77. Be determined and never give up. you are much, much better than you think you are. All you need is a burning desire. Follow your dream and you'll go far.
Roger Stevens
#78. If you have a burning ambition and desire, absolutely anything can be achieved.
Jahangir Khan
#79. Although, I admit, I desire,
Occasionally, some backtalk
From the mute sky, I can't honestly complain:
A certain minor light may still
Lean incandescent
Out of kitchen table or chair
As if a celestial burning took
Possession of the most obtuse objects now and then
Sylvia Plath
#80. I was besieged by a yearning, a craving, a burning desire. My heart had opened like one of those mysterious flowers that only bloom at night.
Chloe Thurlow
#81. It was also important for me to have a burning desire to achieve something worthwhile on that instrument, and I devoted many many many hours with little or no compensation to perfecting whatever I could, because I loved it so much.
Billy Sheehan
#82. The challenges facing Britain required not just a cool head, but a heart burning with the desire for change - not business as usual but a bold vision.
Michael Gove
#83. Intense, burning desire is the motivational force that enables you to overcome any obstacle and achieve almost any goal
Brian Tracy
#84. A burning desire is the greatest motivator of every human action.
Paul J. Meyer
#85. To be wealthy you must develop a burning desire for wealth and financial independence.
Brian Tracy
#86. Desire, burning desire, is basic to achieving anything beyond the ordinary.
Joseph B. Wirthlin
#87. If I stayed here, something inside me would be lost forever - something I couldn't afford to lose. It was like a vague dream, a burning, unfulfilled desire. The kind of dream people have only when they're seventeen.
Haruki Murakami
#88. Why a tender curb upon the youthful burning boy?
Why a little curtain of flesh on the bed of our desire?
William Blake
#89. What is in the Constitution is the burning desire and aspiration of all the people of Vietnam. So for the moment, we don't think about opposition parties.
Nong Duc Manh
#90. An inner knowing, along with a burning desire, is the prerequisite for becoming a person capable of manifesting his or her heart's desires.
Wayne Dyer
#91. He must have a burning desire to solve the problem. But after he has defined the problem sees in his imagination the desired end result secured all the information and facts that he can then additional struggling fretting and worrying over it does not help but seems to hinder the solution.
Maxwell Maltz
#92. All achievement, no matter what may be its nature, or its purpose, must begin with an intense, burning desire for something definite.
Napoleon Hill
#93. I'm producing more, but I think to direct, one has to have a burning desire, and that's not me. I'd rather do something else.
Vincent Cassel
#94. Worship is a vigorous act of reordering our desires in the light of God's burning desire for the wellness of all creation. (pg. 152)
Ellen F. Davis
#95. I have a burning desire to see what things look like photographed by me.
Garry Winogrand
#96. The tone of his remarks filled me with a burning desire to kick Mr. Horridge; but that being impracticable, I should certainly, if left to myself, have told him to go to the devil and forthwith walked out of the house.
R. Austin Freeman
#97. 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.
Napoleon Hill
#98. I don't think Cheney started off in 2000 with a burning desire to become vice-president. I think the prospect gradually became more appealing, and he goosed the process.
Barton Gellman
#99. There is nothing, right or wrong, which belief, plus burning desire, cannot make real. These qualities are free to everyone. In
Napoleon Hill
#100. When you discover your mission, you will feel its demand. It will fill you with enthusiasm and a burning desire to get to work on it.
W. Clement Stone
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