Desire Quote by Napoleon Hill

“He read greedily but understood selectively, choosing the bits and pieces of other men's ideas that supported whatever predilection he had at the moment.”

— Toni Morrison

“Later he would ponder the relation between our extreme desire for something and our ability to realize it- was what we wanted inevitably brought…

— Alaa Al Aswany

“And nothing, or no one, was going to get in his way of having what he wanted.”

— Lia Davis

“He's thought he was willing to do anything in order to get what he wanted, what was right for his kind. He'd been certain…

— Linda Howard

“He found something that he wanted, had always wanted and always would want -- not to be admired, as he had feared; not to…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

“It's like he never wanted anything, but only thought and fretted about what he should want, what other people wanted him to want.”

— Jardine Libaire

“She did not realize it herself, but she had so long been accustomed to wanting what she did not have, that to state offhand…

— Eleanor H. Porter

“He remained annoyed with himself until he realized that not knowing what he wanted was actually quite natural. We can never know what to…

— Milan Kundera

“had come to suspect that the main reason he had had such a wild and successful life was that he never really understood the…

— Douglas Adams

“He was ready to stop trying to matter; he was ready to simply live.”

— Jess Walter

“In the end, having no compass for his desires, he yielded to his nature.”

— K.J. Bishop

“He wanted, quite simply, for the world to be a better place. and he was in the habit of hoping for it.”

— Colum McCann