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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.
Napoleon Hill / Author
Knowledge
Life
Motivational
Positive
Quality
Success
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Desire
Purpose
Win
Must
Possess
Wants
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You've got to have this burning desire in your chest to succeed.
Rod Stewart / Singer-Songwriter
Burning
Burning Desire
Desire
Succeed
Chest
Got
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Desire, burning desire, is basic to achieving anything beyond the ordinary.
Joseph B. Wirthlin / Businessman
Burning
Burning Desire
Desire
Ordinary
Anything
Achieving
Basic
Beyond
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It's true that I've never had a burning desire to rebel against my parents.
Taylor Swift / Singer-Songwriter
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Burning Desire
Desire
Parent
Rebel
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I don't see myself necessarily having a burning desire to write a symphony.
Danny Elfman / Composer
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Burning Desire
Desire
Symphony
Writing
Necessarily
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For me, the burning desire has always been about building what my family had.
Jeanie Buss /
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Family Always Me
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I don't have any particular burning desire to go back to being cuddly. Not really.
Hugh Grant / Actor
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Burning Desire
Desire
Cuddly
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The thing for me is I never had this burning desire to do a solo record my whole life.
Julian Casablancas / Musician
Burning
Burning Desire
Desire
Records
Solo
Life Me Never
Solo Record
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I don't have a burning desire to be taken seriously as an actor. I don't have a master plan in that way.
Ben Stiller / Actor
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Burning Desire
Desire
Taken
Master
Master Plan
Seriously
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I didn't have a burning desire to be a writer or director - writer probably more so, certainly not a director.
Billy Bob Thornton / Actor
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There was never a burning desire to be a top actress in the first place. I happily gave up my career to marry Mahesh.
Namrata Shirodkar /
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Burning Desire
First Place
Marry
Happily
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There's no replacement for having a burning desire to talk about something: 'I know this and other people need to know!'
Adam Conover / Comedian
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Burning Desire
Desire
People Know Talk
Replacement
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If you're bored with life - you don't get up every morning with a burning desire to do things - you don't have enough goals.
Lou Holtz / Football Coach
Inspirational
Life
Motivational
Morning
Bored
Burning
Burning Desire
Desire
Enough
Things
Get
Every
Goals
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I'm producing more, but I think to direct, one has to have a burning desire, and that's not me. I'd rather do something else.
Vincent Cassel / Actor
Burning
Burning Desire
Desire
Direct
Thinking
Me More Something
Producing
Something Else
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When you discover your mission, you will feel its demand. It will fill you with enthusiasm and a burning desire to get to work on it.
W. Clement Stone / Author
Inspirational
Kindness
Motivational
Burning
Burning Desire
Demand
Desire
Enthusiasm
Work Your Will
Discover
Fill
Work Feel Will
Mission
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I'm obviously slightly ill, because there is a burning desire to be perfect in me. It's probably the Catholic, or the ex-Catholic in me.
Dervla Kirwan /
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Burning Desire
Catholic
Ill
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I decided to sing again after settling in Newark in 1982. I had a burning desire to sing and lots of encouragement from my new wife, Earlene.
Jimmy Scott / Vocalist
Encouragement
Burning
Burning Desire
Newark
Settling
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When I was fresh out of law school, I had a burning desire to do something important, to have an impact in some way, but I didn't know what it was.
Jennifer Granholm / Former Governor Of Michigan
Burning
Burning Desire
Desire
Impact
Law
Law School
School
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What is in the Constitution is the burning desire and aspiration of all the people of Vietnam. So for the moment, we don't think about opposition parties.
Nong Duc Manh /
Aspiration
Burning
Burning Desire
Vietnam
Parties
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Frankly, I never had any intense desire to go to India. I know that sounds a bit strange, but it just never was someplace I had a burning desire to visit.
Judi Dench / Film Actress
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Burning Desire
Intense
Strange
Frankly
Intense Desire
Someplace
Visit
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The Rock had the amazing athletic abilities that few people are gifted with, but he also had the burning desire to be the best, and none of that can be denied.
Jim Ross / Professional Wrestling Referee
Burning
Burning Desire
Denied
Gifted
Best Amazing People
Few People
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Burning desire to be or do something gives us staying power - a reason to get up every morning or to pick ourselves up and start in again after a disappointment.
Marsha Sinetar /
Morning
Burning
Burning Desire
Desire
Disappointment
Reason
Staying
Staying Power
After
Gives
Pick
Start
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I never had a burning desire to direct. But Burt and I, on many pictures together, used to watch other directors and we realized that he or I could do a lot better.
Hal Needham / Stuntman
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Burning Desire
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I don't know what keeps me going. Sometimes I wonder... I think it's just pure perseverance and wanting to succeed and having that burning desire to always have success.
Tanya Tucker / Musical Artist
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Burning Desire
Desire
Perseverance
Pure
Succeed
Thinking
Wonder
Having
Wanting
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I don't think Cheney started off in 2000 with a burning desire to become vice-president. I think the prospect gradually became more appealing, and he goosed the process.
Barton Gellman / Journalist
Burning
Burning Desire
Appealing
Cheney
Gradually
Prospect
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I've had other friends who had such a burning desire to have children: they have this biological ticking clock. I don't know what happened to mine. Nobody ever wound it up.
Esther Mcvey /
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Clock
Biological
Ticking
Wound
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I have this burning desire to get out there and do my best. It's as if I'm keeping it all in a little bottle, and it's all going to come out when I do the best I'm capable of doing.
Jackie Joyner-Kersee / Olympic Athlete
Burning
Burning Desire
Capable
Bottle
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I like writers who seem to write because they have to. You get the feeling of this burning desire to tell a story. I find it in Peter Carey, Nicola Barker, Ali Smith and David Foster Wallace.
Patrick Ness / Author
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Burning Desire
Peter
Ali
David
Foster
Smith
Wallace
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I don't have a burning desire to act, strangely enough. I don't know that if I hadn't been an actor as a young person, I don't know that I ever would have chosen this because it's not really my personality.
Jodie Foster / Actress
Burning
Burning Desire
Chosen
Desire
Enough
Young
Act
Actor
Strangely
Young Person
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Every person who wins in any undertaking must be willing to cut all sources of retreat. Only by doing so can one be sure of maintaining that state of mind known as a burning desire to win - essential to success.
Napoleon Hill / Author
Inspirational
Motivational
Burning
Burning Desire
Desire
Determination
Maintaining
Retreat
Softball
Willing
Sure
Cut
Essential
Sources
Undertaking
Wins
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I agree that my single-minded approach was a failing in life, but if I upset people, it was never intentional - it was just the unfortunate result of a burning desire to get the best out of myself and achieve as much as possible.
Geoffrey Boycott / Cricketer
Achieve
Agree
Approach
Burning
Burning Desire
Desire
Failing
Unfortunate
Upset
Life Best Myself
Possible
Intentional
Result
Single-Minded
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It was also important for me to have a burning desire to achieve something worthwhile on that instrument, and I devoted many many many hours with little or no compensation to perfecting whatever I could, because I loved it so much.
Billy Sheehan / Bassist
Achieve
Burning
Burning Desire
Compensation
Desire
Devoted
Important
Worthwhile
Instrument
Perfecting
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With the help of personal introductions by Andrew Carnegie, diligence and an absolute burning desire to teach the world how to become successful, Napoleon Hill devoted nearly his entire adult lifetime creating practical content entrepreneurs need to become successful.
Clay Clark /
Andrew
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Carnegie
Creating
Desire
Devoted
Diligence
Lifetime
Successful
Teach
Adult
Absolute
Content
Nearly
Entire
Entrepreneurs
Napoleon
Personal
Practical
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Scriptures reveal the divine desires of the Lord in our behalf. Each of us should have a burning desire to search the scriptures diligently and daily to seek the will of the Lord in our life. For some, it may be necessary to develop the discipline to search the scriptures daily.
L. Lionel Kendrick / Author
Behalf
Burning
Burning Desire
Discipline
Divine
Lord
Daily
Desires
Diligently
Seek
Reveal
Scriptures
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Along with my passion for horse breeding, I was a horse racing enthusiast... In 1974 I was elected as a committee member and subsequently as a steward of the Turf Club. I had a burning desire to clean up the sport, which had always carried the stigma of gambling and manipulation.
Cyrus S. Poonawalla /
Breeding
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Burning Desire
Clean
Desire
Gambling
Horse
Horse Racing
Manipulation
Passion
Racing
Turf
Enthusiast
Along
Carried
Clean Up
Club
Committee
Elected
Sport
Member
Steward
Subsequently
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I've always had a burning desire to help people and make a difference in the world. I didn't know how I could do that in modelling when it can be such a fake world. But my dad told me I could make a difference by being true to myself and teaching people what I've learnt about spirituality, health and nutrition.
Miranda Kerr / Model
Dad
Burning
Burning Desire
Fake
Fake World
Modelling
Nutrition
Spirituality
Teaching
Help People
Learnt
Make A Difference
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If you're doing this because you feel like you have a burning desire to do it, then you'll find a way to do it, no matter what. If you're doing this because you're thinking, 'Hey, this will be really cool. I'll be famous. I'll be on YouTube,' then you'll probably quit, because it's not easy to do for the long haul.
Trisha Yearwood / Singer
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Burning Desire
Haul
Hey
Long Haul
What If
Youtube
Quit
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A God of fire is the only one there is. Our God is not like an iceberg but like a forest fire. He is never compared to the moon with its cool glow but rather to the sun, radiating warmth. He dwells in the light of the rising sun. Whatever he does shines brightly and is carried out with burning desire and a blazing purpose.
Reinhard Bonnke / Evangelist
God
Cool
Blazing
Burning
Burning Desire
Desire
Fire
Iceberg
Light
Moon
Purpose
Rising
Sun
Warmth
Does
Brightly
Carried
Compared
Dwells
Whatever
Forest
Glow
Rather
Shines
To The Moon
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What I would say is Jesus came to save lost sinners like you and me, and if Jesus Christ has a burning desire to seek and save the lost, then you should, too, if Christ is living within you. If you don't have a concern for the lost, then I am concerned about your salvation because the Holy Spirit wants the lost to come to Christ.
Kirk Cameron / Actor
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Burning Desire
Christ
Concern
Holy
Holy Spirit
Jesus Christ
Salvation
I Am Your Me
I Am Me Lost
Your Me Lost
Seek
Sinners
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If I had been straight, I would have been an entirely different person. I would never have turned toward writing with a burning desire to confess, to understand, to justify myself in the eyes of others... I wouldn't have been impelled to live in New York and choose the hard poverty of bohemia over the soft comfort of the business world.
Edmund White / Novelist
Bohemia
Burning
Burning Desire
Comfort
Desire
Justify
Poverty
Choose
Confess
Different Person
Entirely
Impelled
Toward
Turned
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I never had a burning desire to have children. But then I met Nick, and I thought, 'This is the only person I'd do this with.' So we tried, but I was a little long in the tooth for that sort of thing. But we didn't turn it into a soap opera. We tried for about a year or so, and it didn't happen and took that to mean it wasn't meant to be.
Megan Mullally / Actress
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Burning Desire
Meant To Be
Opera
Soap
About A Year
Nick
Soap Opera
Tooth
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