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One must have a high opinion of a work of art - not the work one is creating at the moment, but of that which one desires to achieve one day. Without this it is not worthwhile working.
Oct 1, 2025
It is everyone's right to achieve this state of ones evolution and everything necessary is already inbuilt. But as I respect your freedom, you have to have the desire to achieve this state, it cannot be forced upon you!
The desire to achieve grand utopian plans often poses a grave threat to freedom.
If you desire many things, many things will seem few.
When desire dies, fear is born.
To desire and strive to be of some service to the world, to aim at doing something which shall really increase the happiness and welfare and virtue of mankind - this is a choice which is possible for all of us; and surely it is a good haven to sail for.
Research indicates that the desire to achieve the skills associated with success is more highly correlated with achievement than the desire for success itself.
The key to success is to focus our conscious mind on things we desire not things we fear.
Want of passion is, I think, a very striking characteristic of Americans, not unrelated to their predilection for violence. For very few people truly have a passionate desire to achieve, and violence serves as a kind of substitute.
Success is focusing the full power of all you are on what you have a burning desire to achieve.
If we desire a society without discrimination, then we must not discriminate against anyone in the process of building this society. If we desire a society that is democratic, then democracy must become a means as well as an end.
Watch your thoughts, they become words. Watch your words, they become your actions. Watch your actions, they become habits. Watch your habits, they become character. Watch your character, it becomes your destiny.
All the breaks you need in life wait within your imagination.
Watch your thoughts, they become words.
What we should grasp, however, from the lessons of European history is that, first, there is nothing necessarily benevolent about programmes of European integration; second, the desire to achieve grand utopian plans often poses a grave threat to freedom; and third, European unity has been tried before, and the outcome was far from happy.
When your desires are strong enough you will appear to possess superhuman powers to achieve.
Human behavior flows from three main sources: desire, emotion, and knowledge.
Don’t be afraid to give up the good for the great.
Where the willingness is great, the difficulties cannot be great.
Well,’ you may ask, ‘how may I know when I am in love?’ . . . George Q. Morris [who later became a member of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles, gave this reply]: ‘My mother once said that if you meet a girl in whose presence you feel a desire to achieve, who inspires you to do your best, and to make the most of yourself, such a young woman is worthy of your love and is awakening love in your heart.
You haven't changed. You may say: 'I'm full of love, I'm full of truth, I'm full of knowledge, I'm full of wisdom.' I say: 'That's all nonsense. Do you behave? Are you free of fear? Are you free of ambition, greed, envy and the desire to achieve success in every field? If not, you are just playing a game. You are not serious.'
Don't be afraid to give up the good to go for the great.
Nothing is more common than unsuccessful people with talent.
Watch your thoughts, they become words. Watch your words, they become actions. Watch your actions, they become habit.
You miss 100% of the shots you don't take.
A desire presupposes the possibility of action to achieve it; action presupposes a goal which is worth achieving.
Effort only fully releases its reward after a person refuses to quit.
Greatness comes to those who develop a burning desire to achieve high goals.
Keep this constantly in mind. Weak desires bring weak results, just as a small amount of fire makes a small amount of heat. When your desires are strong enough you will appear to possess superhuman powers to achieve.
The will to win, the desire to succeed, the urge to reach your full potential... these are the keys that will unlock the door to personal excellence.
Obstacles are what you see when you take your eyes off your goals.
A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others.
Definiteness of purpose is the starting point of all achievement.
All the breaks you need in life wait within your imagination, Imagination is the workshop of your mind, capable of turning mind energy into accomplishment and wealth.
Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.
You can have anything you want
You can have anything you want, if you want it badly enough.
Cherish your visions and your dreams, as they are the children of your soul; the blueprints of your ultimate achievements.
Desire is the starting point of all achievement, not a hope, not a wish, but a keen pulsating desire which transcends everything.
The kind of caring that the client-centered therapist desires to achieve is a gullible caring, in which clients are accepted as they say they are, not with a lurking suspicion in the therapist's mind that they may, in fact, be otherwise. This attitude is not stupidity on the therapist's part; it is the kind of attitude that is most likely to lead to trust.
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.
Watch your character; it becomes your destiny.
The starting point of all achievement is desire.
The question isn't who is going to let me; it's who is going to stop me.
I've failed over and over and over again in my life and that is why I succeed.
If you can dream it, you can do it.
If you can dream it, you can make it so.
If you can dream it, you can achieve it.
In order to succeed, your desire for success should be greater than your fear of failure.
You will become as small as your controlling desire; as great as you dominant aspiration.