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- I was taught that everything is attainable if you are prepared to give up, to sacrifice, to get it. Whatever you want to do, you can do it, if you want it badly enough, and I do believe that. I believe that if I wanted to run a mile is four minutes I could do it. I would have to give up everything else in my life, but I could run a mile in four minutes. I believe that if a man wanted to walk on water and was prepared to give up everything else in life, he could do that
- Stirling Moss
- Desires are the pulses of the soul; as physicians judge by the appetite, so may you by desires.
- Manton
- Desire creates the power.
- Raymond Holliwell
- Every man without passions has within him no principle of action, nor motive to act.
- Claude A. Helvetius
- There is nothing capricious in nature and the implanting of a desire indicates that its gratification is in the constitution of the creature that feel it.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)
- Something must be done when you find an opposing set of desires of this kind well to the fore in your category of strong desires. You must set in operation a process of competition, from which one must emerge a victor and the other set be defeated.
- Robert Collier
- One essential to success is that your desire be an all-obsessing one, your thoughts and aims be co-ordinated, and your energy be concentrated and applied without letup.
- Claude M. Bristol
- Many things are worse than defeat,and compromise with evil is one of them.
- Author Unknown
- On his examination paper a boy wrote, "A natural death is where you die by yourself without a doctor's help.
- Author Unknown
- The few little years we spend on earth are only the first scene in a Divine Drama that extends into Eternity.
- Edwin Markham
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