Marcel Proust Quotes

Desire is the key to motivation.

Desire creates its own object.

An ambition is a little creeper that creeps and creeps in your heart night and day, singing a little song, "Come and find me, come and find me."

All desire springs from a lack, which it strives continually to fill.

However gnawing a deficiency, satiety is worse... We are meant to be hungry.

If you have everything, then you don't want to go on. It's the lacking that makes you search for something better.

We'll all be riding that streetcar of desire.

Is there anything better than to be longing for something, when you know it is within reach?

When you catch a glimpse of your potential, that's when passion is born.

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.

In my experience, there is only one motivation, and that is desire. No reasons or principle contain it or stand against it.

There's nothing bloody wrong with wanting it at all.

Desire is the very essence of man.

If you desire something, you don't have it. It is more interesting than enjoyment, because enjoyment erases the mysteries and the vision of desire. Desire opens up possibilities but never achieves anything, whereas enjoyment is just the brutal achievement of something - and after that, it's done.

expectation isn't the same as desire

Desire is no light thing.

Why don't we follow our yearning?

Desire is happiness: satisfaction as happiness is merely the ultimate moment of desire. To be wish and wish alone is happiness, and a new wish over and over again.

Desire is transformed into drive when a dream creates a passion for action

The world is little, people are little, human life is little. There is only one big thing — desire.

It is in virtue of his own desires and curiosities that any man continues to exist with even patience, that he is charmed by the look of things and people, and that he wakens every morning with a renewed appetite for work and pleasure. Desire and curiosity are the two eyes through which he sees the world in the most enchanted colours...and the man may squander his estate and come to beggary, but if he keeps these two amulets he is still rich in the possibilities of pleasure.

Faith does not quench desire, but inflames it.

Desire is one of the burning experiences of human life.

Desire is the great equalizer.

What you want, what you're hanging around in the world waiting for, is for something to occur to you.