A Quote by James Allen

To desire is to obtain; to aspire is to achieve.

James Allen

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Achieve Aspire Desire Obtain

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James Allen
British - Author
November 28, 1864 - January 24, 1912

Use the imagination to picture only what is good, what is beautiful, what is beneficial, what is ideal, and what you wish to realize. Mentally see yourself receiving what you deeply desire to receive. What you imagine, you will think, and what you think, you will become. Therefore, if you imagine only those things that are in harmony with what you wish to obtain or achieve, all your thinking will soon tend to produce what you want to attain or achieve.

Christian D. Larson

The mind lives through more, and the more cannot be fulfilled; that is impossible. IT ENDS IN TEARS. Every desire ends in frustration, because every expectation is the beginning of frustration. Why does every desire end in frustration? There are only two alternatives: either you achieve your object of desire or you don`t achieve it, but in both cases it will end in tears. If you achieve it you will see the utter futility of it all.

Rajneesh

Convince a man that he is an animal, that his own dignity and selfrespect are delusions, that there is no 'beyond' to aspire to, no higher potential self to achieve, and you have a slave. Let a man know he is himself, a spiritual being, that he is capable of the power of choice and has the right to aspire to greater wisdom and you have started him up a higher road.

L. Ron Hubbard

Many people genuinely do not wish to be saints, and it is probable that some who achieve or aspire to sainthood have never felt much temptation to be human beings. If one could follow it to its psychological roots, one would, I believe, find that the main motive for "non-attachment" is a desire to escape from the pain of living, and above all from love, which, sexual or non-sexual, is hard work.

George Orwell

It shouldn't matter what you're into, how you look - you can achieve whatever you aspire to.

Yalitza Aparicio

Such are the vicissitudes of the world, through all its parts, that day and night, labor and rest, hurry and retirement, endear each other; such are the changes that keep the mind in action: we desire, we pursue, we obtain, we are satiated; we desire something else and begin a new pursuit.

Samuel Johnson

A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others.

Ayn Rand

Whatever you ardently and passionately desire, that you obtain.

Napoleon Bonaparte

The difference between DREAM and DESIRE is that the dream is what we build for the team and the desire is what we aspire to build for ourselves.

Anuj

What is human in me is not what is best in me. What is human in me is that I desire, and to obtain what I desire, I believe I would crush anything that stood in my way.

Albert Camus

I do intend to achieve my education goals and obtain my college degree through distance programs.

Gerald Green

Success is creating a state of mind that allows you to obtain anything you really desire.

Mark Victor Hansen

It is very common for us to desire most what we are least qualified to obtain.

Samuel Johnson

Justice is the loveliest and health is the best. but the sweetest to obtain is the heart's desire.

Aristotle

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!