You will become as small as your controlling desire: as great as your dominant aspiration.

A human being has a natural desire to have more of a good thing than they need.

No matter who you are or what your position you must keeping fighting for whatever it is you desire to achieve.

The things are mighty few on earth That wishes can attain. Whate'er we want of any worth We've go to work to gain.

All cravings are the mind seeking salvation or fulfillment in external things and in the future as a substitute for the joy of Being.

It is hard to fight desire; but to control it is the sign of a reasonable man.

For you can only be free when even the desire of seeking freedom becomes a harness to you.

It is not because men's desires are strong that they act ill; it is because their consciences are weak.

A burning desire is the greatest motivator of every human action. The desire for success implants ''success consciousness'' which, in turn, creates a vigorous and ever-increasing ''habit of success.''

I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is the victory over self.

To be happy at home is the ultimate result of all ambition, the end to which every enterprise and labor tends, and of which every desire prompts prosecution.

Suppose your whole world seems to rock on its foundations. Hold on steadily, let it rock, and when the rocking is over, the picture will have reassembled itself into something much nearer to your heart's desire.

Trust in dreams, for in them is hidden the gate to eternity.

The greatest achievement was at first and for a time a dream. The oak sleeps in the acorn, the bird waits in the egg, and in the highest vision of the soul a waking angel stirs. Dreams are the seedlings of realities.

A man, to carry on a successful business, must have imagination. He must see things as in a vision, a dream of the whole thing. A man can cultivate this faculty only by an appreciation for the finer things in life.

Remember your dreams and fight for them. You must know what you want from life. There is just one thing that makes your dream become impossible: the fear of failure.

Never give up on what you really want to do. The person with big dreams is more powerful than one with all the facts.

Never give up on a dream just because of the time it will take to accomplish it. The time will pass anyway.

I dream, I test my dreams against my beliefs, I dare to take risks, and I execute my vision to make those dreams come true.

When someone makes a decision, he is really diving into a strong current that will carry him to places he had never dreamed of when he first made the decision.

Desire is the key to motivation, but it’s the determination and commitment to an unrelenting pursuit of your goal—a commitment to excellence—that will enable you to attain the success you seek.

Put your greatest possession on the tallest shelf, so if you fall you have something to reach for.

Yes, I am a dreamer. For a dreamer is one who can find his way by moonlight, and see the dawn before the rest of the world.

If you can imagine it you can achieve it. If you can dream it, you can become it.

If you ask enough people, eventually someone will say yes.

If you want to be happy, set a goal that commands your thoughts, liberates your energy and inspires your hopes.

There will be obstacles. There will be doubters. There will be mistakes. But with hard work, there are no limits.

Do not seek to bring things to pass in accordance with your wishes, but wish for them as they are, and you will find them.

First, have a definite, clear practical ideal; a goal, an objective. Second, have the necessary means to achieve your ends; wisdom, money, materials, and methods. Third, adjust all your means to that end.

The victory of success is half won when one gains the habit of setting and achieving goals.

How much time he gains who does not look to see what his neighbor says or does or thinks, but only at what he does himself, to make it just and holy.

Most men die at 27, we just bury them at 72.

Most people die with their music still locked up inside them.

Remember that you ought to behave in life as you would at a banquet. As something is being passed around it comes to you; stretch out your hand, take a portion of it politely. It passes on; do not detain it. Or it has not come to you yet; do not project your desire to meet it, but wait until it comes in front of you. So act toward children, so act toward a wife, so toward office, so toward wealth.

Fourscore and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.

You will find rest from vain fancies if you perform every act in life as though it were your last.

The purpose of life is to contribute in some way to making things better.

An aspiration is a joy forever, a possession as solid as a landed estate, a fortune which we can never exhaust and which gives us year by year a revenue of pleasurable activity.

Every act you have ever performed since the day you were born was performed because you wanted something.

When you are enthusiastic about what you do, you feel this positive energy. It’s very simple.