Burning Desire Quotes

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.

Skullcaps, fezes, turbans – it all costs money which goes to foreigners. We will become civilized…We will march forward…Civilization is a fearful fire which consumes those who ignore it.

Most people wish for riches, but few people provide the definite plan and burning desire which pave the road to wealth.

Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve. Thoughts are things! And powerful things at that, when mixed with definiteness of purpose, and burning desire, can be translated into riches. Use auto-suggestion, have faith, imagination and overcome fear and time is your opposite player as in checkerboard.

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.

With only one thing in common, they got the fire down below.

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.

Lovers feel a certain burning in their hearts. A deep longing and desire to meet with the beloved creates that burning. To love God is bound to create a very great fire in you. You will be on fire because you have chosen as your love object something impossible. You will have to weep and cry, and you will have to pray, and you will have to fast, and your mind has to continuously repeat and remember the beloved.

I never had a burning desire to have children. But then I met Nick, and I thought, 'This is the only person I'd do this with.' So we tried, but I was a little long in the tooth for that sort of thing. But we didn't turn it into a soap opera. We tried for about a year or so, and it didn't happen and took that to mean it wasn't meant to be.

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.

Desire is hunger is the fire I breathe, love is a banquet on which we feed.

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.

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.

If I had to name a driving force in my life, I would name PASSION every time

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.

The mere presence of PASSION within you is all you need to fulfill your DREAMS.

The thing for me is I never had this burning desire to do a solo record my whole life.

It's true that I've never had a burning desire to rebel against my parents.

I love 'Fire On The Floor.' It's just smouldering. I think it's gonna be a fantastic piece to perform live. It's filled with passion. It's about when someone you know is so bad for you, but you can't help it.

What is the fire that burns in your heart? If you are lucky enough to discover it, than by all means fan the flames and let the fire be the guiding light for a life worth living.

I believe there is something on this earth that you desire more than anything, and it isn't me.

My pen is alight and my body aflame. Until both burn down to ash, my love and my hate will remain here in the world.

I am a fanatic! I feel a power within me...a fire that I may not quench, but must keep ablaze.

God, I pray light these idle sticks of my life and may I burn up for thee.