Overwhelming Desire Quotes

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

  Napoleon Hill

  Inspirational, Success, Dream

  "The Law of Success". Book by Napoleon Hill, 1928.

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• Suddenly I've got an overwhelming desire to surround myself with the aura of classical and Romantic art.

  Sylvester Stallone

  Romantic, Art, Auras

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• Definiteness of purpose is the starting point of all achievement.

  W. Clement Stone

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  "Success Through a Positive Mental Attitude". Book by W. Clement Stone and Napoleon Hill (Chapter 2: You Can Change Your World), 1960.

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• God created us with an overwhelming desire to soar. Our desire to develop and use every ounce of potential He's placed in us is not egotistical. He designed us to be tremendously productive and "to mount up with wings like eagles," realistically dreaming of what He can do with our potential.

  Carol Kent

  Christian, Dream, Eagles

  Carol Kent (1990). “Secret Longings of the Heart: Overcoming Deep Disappointment and Unfulfilled Expectations”

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• Scotland is my country, the nation that shaped me, that taught me my values. A nation whose achievements inspired and inspire me, a community whose failings drive me - drive my overwhelming desire to fight for social justice and equality.

  Johann Lamont

  Country, Fighting, Scotland

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• But what's true about comedians is that we've all got a huge hole in our personality. In a room of 3,000 people, we're the one person facing in the opposite direction - yet we have this overwhelming desire to be liked.

  Jimmy Carr

  Opposites, People, Personality

  "He who laughs last... - Comedy" by Stephen Armstrong, The Sunday Times, December 3, 2006.

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• The American people are not uniquely, but characteristically the most spontaneously generous in the world and you're seeing that all over this country in Web sites of charitable organizations that are crashing because of the overwhelming desire on the part of ordinary people to help out.

  Richard Norton Smith

  Country, Organization, People

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• The thing that I'm always left with is this overwhelming desire for people to be rooted and the only way that they feel rooted is through another person.

  John R. Allen

  People, Way, Feels

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• You don't need attention to write. All you need is passion for your work and an overwhelming desire to tell a story you genuinely care about. Readers can sense your sincerity and it separates you from pretenders.

  Sefi Atta

  Passion, Writing, Needs

  Source: www.percontra.net

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• Dreams burst like bubbles in the wind. But change takes time.When people fall in love and lose the overwhelming desire for it to last a lifetime,they think something is wrong with them.Only now,when every other marriage ends in divorce,have people begun to understand that falling in love seldom grows into love,and that not even love can free a person from loneliness.And that sexual enjoyment does not make life meaningful.

  Marianne Fredriksson

  Meaningful, Dream, Falling In Love

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• Women particularly should concern themselves with peace because men by nature are more foolhardy and headstrong, and their overwhelming desire to avenge themselves prevents them from foreseeing the resulting dangers and terrors of war. But woman by nature is more gentle and circumspect. Therefore, if she has sufficient will and wisdom she can provide the best possible means to pacify man.

  Christine de Pizan

  War, Mean, Men

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• Very few persons, comparatively, know how to Desire with sufficient intensity. They do not know what it is to feel and manifest that intense, eager, longing, craving, insistent, demanding, ravenous Desire which is akin to the persistent, insistent, ardent, overwhelming desire of the drowning man for a breath of air; of the shipwrecked or desert-lost man for a drink of water; of the famished man for bread and meat.

  Robert Collier

  Men, Air, Water

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• To be with God is really to be involved in some enormous, overwhelming desire, and joy, and power which you cannot control, which controls you.

  James A. Baldwin

  God, Joy, Enormous

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• This overwhelming desire to be close to you directly conflicts with my intense fear of people.

  Joseph Gordon-Levitt

  People, Conflict, Intense

  FaceBook post by Joseph Gordon-Levitt from Aug 23, 2012

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• I’ve had that kind of experience myself: I’m looking at a map and I see someplace that makes me think, ‘I absolutely have to go to this place, no matter what’. And most of the time, for some reason, the place is far away and hard to get to. I feel this overwhelming desire to know what kind of scenery the place has, or what people are doing there. It’s like measles - you can’t show other people exactly where the passion comes from. It’s curiosity in the purest sense. An inexplicable inspiration.

  Haruki Murakami

  Inspiration, Passion, Thinking

  Haruki Murakami (2011). “1Q84: Books 1 and 2”, p.276, Random House

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• Halt regarded him. He loved Horace like a younger brother. Even like a second son, after Will. He admired his skill with a sword and his courage in battle. But sometimes, just sometimes, he felt an overwhelming desire to ram the young warrior's head against a convenient tree. "You have no sense of drama or symbolism, do you?" he asked. "Huh?" replied Horace, not quite understanding. Halt looked around for a convenient tree. Luckily for Horace, there were none in sight.

  John Flanagan

  Brother, Drama, Warrior

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• She had an overwhelming desire to tell him, like the most banal of women. Don't let me go, hold me tight, make me your plaything, your slave, be strong! But they were words she could not say. The only thing she said when he released her from his embrace was, "You don't know how happy I am to be with you." That was the most her reserved nature allowed her to express.

  Milan Kundera

  Strong, Unbearable Lightness Of Being, Slave

  "The Unbearable Lightness of Being". Book by Milan Kundera, 1984.

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• Sorry," [Hamlet] said, rubbing his temples. "I don't know what came over me. All of a sudden I had this overwhelming desire to talk for a very long time without actually doing anything.

  Jasper Fforde

  Sorry, Long, Temples

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• My theory is that humans aren't really bad; we all do bad things, but being bad is not our natural state. You're acting out of fear, lack of understanding, compassion, but essentially communication. Human beings are made of love, an overwhelming desire to love. When we communicate, we exist in our natural state.

  Seal

  Communication, Compassion, Understanding

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