How To Find Your Burning Desire To Succeed

Do you have big dreams and goals you want to accomplish? If you are reading this, then the answer is most likely yes. You may have been highly motivated when you started to work toward what you wanted, but now your motivation has waned or even disappeared completely. Perhaps you have not even been able to find the motivation to begin yet.

Whether it is the former or the latter, the root problem is that you have not found your massive motivator. You have not yet found the thing that creates the burning desire in you that will keep you moving forward no matter what happens, no matter who or what gets in your way. In this article I will go over some of the massive motivators that other people have used to become successful in their lives, so that you can find which one will work for you.

Selfless Massive Motivators

People who are driven by selfless massive motivators are inspired to act for the benefit of other people. One example would be new parents who become more mature and responsible so that they can provide a good life for their child.

Another example would be athletes that become totally dedicated to turning pro after seeing the massive sacrifices their parents make for the survival of the family. The athlete’s burning desire is to make enough money so that his parents can live in a nice house and never have to work again.

A third example is a person who is deeply moved by the plight of a group of people that are suffering from some cruel injustice. This person’s driving force is to help those who are unable to help themselves.

Selfish Massive Motivators

People who are driven by selfish massive motivators often do so because they were rejected or felt like they had been wronged. These types of situations happen to us all and can be sources of tremendous anger. While these events may seem bad at the time, they can actually turn out to be excellent opportunities for personal growth. The common reaction is to let your anger be destructive and make the situation worse. If you instead channel your anger into constructive and positive action, then your chances of future success will improve.

A famous example of a person driven by this type of massive motivator would be the NBA legend, Michael Jordan. He was cut from his high school varsity basketball team as a sophomore and could have given up on his dream. Instead, it became his burning desire to succeed in basketball and he went on to become the greatest basketball player of all time.

Multiple Paths Lead To The Same Destination

Finding your own massive motivator is the best way to create the burning desire to succeed. A selfless massive motivator might seem to be the most attractive and feel-good option, but they just do not work for some people. This is because they do not create the necessary amount of motivation for these people.

You might feel inclined to not want to use a selfish massive motivator because of the negative connotations of selfishness and anger. It would be a mistake to dismiss this path if it is what will motivate you the most to keep pushing through all of the inevitable roadblocks to success.

The important thing is to find what works best for you personally. You can always choose to be selfless and giving after you have become successful. In fact, many people that have used the selfish path to become successful have done lots of good in the world through their charity work.

Whether you choose the selfless path or the selfish path you will end up at the same destination: a confident, successful individual in a position to make the world a better place.

People Skill Quotes

Arguing with a fool proves there are two.
Doris M. Smith

The less you speak, the more you will hear.
Alexander Solshenitsen

The art of being yourself at your best is the art of unfolding your personality into the man you want to be. Be gentle with yourself, learn to love yourself, to forgive yourself, for only as we have the right attitude toward ourselves can we have the right attitude toward others.
Wilfred Peterson

No act of kindness, however small, is ever wasted.
Aesop

The greatest pleasure I know is to do a good action by stealth, and to have it found out by accident.
Charles Lamb

No one needs a smile as much as a person who fails to give one.
Unknown

A lot of people are afraid to say what they want. That’s why they don’t get what they want.
Madonna

As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do.
Andrew Carnegie

Constant kindness can accomplish much. As the sun makes ice melt, kindness causes misunderstanding, mistrust and hostility to evaporate.
Albert Schweitzer

Beginning today, treat everyone you meet as if they were going to be dead by midnight. Extend them all the care, kindness and understanding you can muster. Your life will never be the same again.
Og Mandino

You can make more friends in two months by becoming really interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you. Which is just another way of saying that the way to make a friend is to be one.
Dale Carnegie

Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies.
Aristotle

I make progress by having people around who are smarter than I am and listening to them. And I assume that everyone is smarter about something than I am.
Henry J. Kaiser

If you envy successful people, you create a negative force field of attraction that repels you from ever doing the things that you need to do to be successful. If you admire successful people, you create a positive force field of attraction that draws you toward becoming more and more like the kinds of people that you want to be like.
Brian Tracy

A boss creates fear, a leader confidence. A boss fixes blame, a leader corrects mistakes. A boss knows all, a leader asks questions. A boss makes work drudgery, a leader makes it interesting. A boss is interested in himself or herself, a leader is interested in the group.
Russell H. Ewing

The people with whom you work reflect your own attitude. If you are suspicious, unfriendly and condescending, you will find these unlovely traits echoed all about you. But if you are on your best behavior, you will bring out the best in the persons with whom you are going to spend most of your working hours.
Beatrice Vincent

The most basic of all human needs is the need to understand and be understood.
Ralph Nichols

Some Great Quotes

Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars. ~Les Brown

Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal. ~Henry Ford

Success isn't a result of spontaneous combustion. You must set yourself on fire. ~Arnold H. Glasow

The rung of a ladder was never meant to rest upon, but only to hold a man's foot long enough to enable him to put the other somewhat higher. ~Thomas Henry Huxley, Life and Letters of Thomas Huxley

If you want to make your dreams come true, the first thing you have to do is wake up. ~J.M. Power

Great ideas need landing gear as well as wings. ~C.D. Jackson

Life's problems wouldn't be called "hurdles" if there wasn't a way to get over them. ~Author Unknown

Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a brand new ending. ~Author Unknown

God gives us dreams a size too big so that we can grow in them. ~Author Unknown

Seventy percent of success in life is showing up. ~Woody Allen

Often, what seems an impossible climb is just a staircase without the steps drawn in. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com

The best angle from which to approach any problem is the try-angle. ~Author Unknown

The world needs dreamers and the world needs doers. But above all, the world needs dreamers who do. ~Sarah Ban Breathnach, Simple Abundance: A Daybook of Comfort and Joy, 1996

When solving problems, dig at the roots instead of just hacking at the leaves. ~Anthony J. D'Angelo, The College Blue Book

You must have long-range goals to keep you from being frustrated by short-range failures. ~Charles C. Noble

Wherever you go, no matter what the weather, always bring your own sunshine. ~Anthony J. D'Angelo, The College Blue Book

Don't live down to expectations. Go out there and do something remarkable. ~Wendy Wasserstein

Things turn out best for the people who make the best out of the way things turn out. ~Art Linkletter

I hope when you count the stars you begin with yourself, and may you embrace the moonlight with your dreams. ~Dodinsky, www.dodinsky.com

Excellence is not a skill. It is an attitude. ~Ralph Marston

To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting. ~e.e. cummings, 1955

Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of somebody else. ~Judy Garland

Wherever you go, go with all your heart. ~Confucius

You've got a lot of choices. If getting out of bed in the morning is a chore and you're not smiling on a regular basis, try another choice. ~Steven D. Woodhull (U.S. geologist, 1976-)

Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind. ~Dr. Seuss

Put your future in good hands - your own. ~Author Unknown

It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves. ~Edmund Hillary

What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us. ~Henry S. Haskins, Meditations in Wall Street, 1940, commonly misattributed to Ralph Waldo Emerson (Thanks, Garson O'Toole!)

The promises of this world are, for the most part, vain phantoms; and to confide in one's self, and become something of worth and value is the best and safest course. ~Michelangelo

The man who has done his best has done everything. ~Charles M. Schwab

There are many wonderful things that will never be done if you do not do them. ~Charles D. Gill

What a fool, quoth he, am I, thus to lie in a stinking dungeon, when I may as well walk at liberty! I have a key in my bosom, called Promise, that will, I am persuaded, open any lock in Doubting Castle. ~John Bunyan

The important thing is not to stop questioning. ~Albert Einstein

The best helping hand that you will ever receive is the one at the end of your own arm. ~Fred Dehner

Nature decrees that we do not exceed the speed of light. All other impossibilities are optional. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com

You have brains in your head.
You have feet in your shoes.
You can steer yourself in any direction you choose.
You're on your own.
And you know what you know.
You are the guy who'll decide where to go.
~Dr. Seuss

Promise yourself to live your life as a revolution and not just a process of evolution. ~Anthony J. D'Angelo

Follow your inner moonlight. ~A. Ginsberg

I am always doing that which I cannot do, in order that I may learn how to do it. ~Pablo Picasso

What we are is God's gift to us. What we become is our gift to God. ~Eleanor Powell

The true meaning of life is to plant trees, under whose shade you do not expect to sit. ~Nelson Henderson

A successful person is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks that others throw at him or her. ~David Brinkley

It's not who you are that holds you back, it's who you think you're not. ~Author Unknown

The shell must break before the bird can fly. ~Alfred Tennyson

Whether you think you can or think you can't - you are right. ~Henry Ford

I quit being afraid when my first venture failed and the sky didn't fall down. ~Allen H. Neuharth

In response to those who say to stop dreaming and face reality, I say keep dreaming and make reality. ~Kristian Kan, Rich By 25

People are like stained-glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in their true beauty is revealed only if there is light from within. ~Elisabeth Kübler-Ross

Success comes in cans, not cant's. ~Author Unknown

You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them. ~Michael Jordan

Share your sparkle wherever you are. ~Dodinsky, www.dodinsky.com

If we all did the things we are capable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves. ~Thomas Alva Edison

Life is not about discovering our talents; it is about pushing our talents to the limit and discovering our genius. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com

Always hold your head up, but be careful to keep your nose at a friendly level. ~Max L. Forman

Don't let anyone steal your dream. It's your dream, not theirs. ~Dan Zadra

Plant your own garden and decorate your own soul, instead of waiting for someone to bring you flowers. ~Veronica A. Shoffstall, "After a While," 1971

The best way to gain self-confidence is to do what you are afraid to do. ~Author Unknown

I've got a theory that if you give 100 percent all of the time, somehow things will work out in the end. ~Larry Bird

The difference between try and triumph is a little umph. ~Author Unknown

Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work. ~Thomas Edison

The only place where success comes before work is in the dictionary. ~Attributed to both Vidal Sassoon and Donald Kendall

Nobody ever drowned in his own sweat. ~Ann Landers

When the world says, "Give up,"
Hope whispers, "Try it one more time."
~Author Unknown

If one dream should fall and break into a thousand pieces, never be afraid to pick one of those pieces up and begin again. ~Flavia Weedn, Flavia and the Dream Maker, © Flavia.com

There is no telling how many miles you will have to run while chasing a dream. ~Author Unknown

Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

Don't find fault. Find a remedy. ~Henry Ford

To the question of your life, you are the only answer. To the problems of your life, you are the only solution. ~Jo Coudert, Advice From A Failure (Thanks, Elizabeth!)

Your work is to discover your world and then with all your heart give yourself to it. ~Buddha

Dreams Quotes(02-09-2011)

I have spread my dreams beneath your feet. Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.
W.B. Yeats

Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined.
Henry David Thoreau

Every great dream begins with a dreamer. Always remember, you have within you the strength, the patience, and the passion to reach for the stars to change the world.
Harriet Tubman

Reach high, for stars lie hidden in your soul. Dream deep, for every dream precedes the goal.
Pamela Vaull Starr

All men dream but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds wake in the day to find that it was vanity; but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act their dream with open eyes to make it possible.
T.E. Lawrence

Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake.
Henry David Thoreau

So often times it happens that we live our lives in chains,And we never even know we have the key.
Lyrics from Already Gone, peformed by the Eagles for their 1974 On the Border album

The end of wisdom is to dream high enough not to lose the dream in the seeking of it.
William Faulkner

I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.
Patrick Henry

Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken winged bird that cannot fly.
Lanston Hughes

You cannot dream yourself into a character: you must hammer and forge yourself into one.
Henry D. Thoreau

The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
Eleanor Roosevelt

Commitment leads to action. Action brings your dream closer.
Marcia Wieder

Dreams are the touchstones of our character.
Henry David Thoreau

The question for each man to settle is not what he would do if he had means, time, influence and educational advantages; the question is what he will do with the things he has. The moment a young man ceases to dream or to bemoan his lack of opportunities and resolutely looks his conditions in the face, and resolves to change them, he lays the corner-stone of a solid and honorable success.
Hamilton Wright Mabie

The best way to make your dreams come true is to wake up.
Paul Valery

A skillful man reads his dreams for self-knowledge, yet not the details but the quality.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Our waking hours form the text of our lives, our dreams, the commentary.
Anonymous

Hope is the dream of the waking man.
French Proverb

To unpathed waters, undreamed shores.
William Shakepeare

Happiness Quotes(02-09-2011)

When one door of happiness closes, another opens, but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened for us.
Helen Keller

Happiness does not consist in pastimes and amusements but in virtuous activities.
Aristotle

Happiness resides not in posessions and not in gold; the feeling of happiness dwells in the soul.
Democritus

People with many interests live, not only longest, but happiest.
George Matthew Allen

In the hopes of reaching the moon men fail to see the flowers that blossom at their feet.
Albert Schweitzer

Happiness is not achieved by the conscious pursuit of happiness; it is generally the by-product of other activities.
Aldous Huxley

There is only one person who could ever make you happy, and that person is you.
David Burns, Intimate Connections

The happiness of life is made up of minute fractions—the little soon-forgotten charities of a kiss, a smile, a kind look, a heartfelt compliment in the disguise of a playful raillery, and the countless other infinitessimals of pleasurable thought and genial feeling.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge

The man is happiest who lives from day to day and asks no more, garnering the simple goodness of life.
Euripides

Happiness consists in activity: such is the constitution of our nature; it is a running stream, and not a stagnant pool.
John M. Good

Happiness is not a state to arrive at, but a manner of traveling.
Margaret Lee Runbeck

Men spend their lives in anticipations,—in determining to be vastly happy at some period when they have time. But the present time has one advantage over every other—it is our own. Past opportunities are gone, future have not come. We may lay in a stock of pleasures, as we would lay in a stock of wine; but if we defer the tasting of them too long, we shall find that both are soured by age.
Charles Caleb Colton

Who is the happiest of men? He who values the merits of others, and in their pleasure takes joy, even as though 'twere his own.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The chances are that you have already come to believe that happiness is unattainable. But men have attained it. And they have attained it by realising that happiness does not spring from the procuring of physical or mental pleasure, but from the development of reason and the adjustment of conduct to principles.
from How to Live on 24 Hours a Day, by Arnold Bennett

Happiness is not a matter of events, it depends upon the tides of the mind.
Alice Meynell

Fortify yourself with contentment, for this is an impregnable fortress.
Epictetus

Happiness depends more on the inward disposition of mind than on outward circumstances.
Benjamin Franklin

There is only one way to happiness, and that is to cease worrying things which are beyond the power of our will.
Epictetus

I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than attempting to satisfy them.
John Stuart Mills

You're happiest while you're making the greatest contribution.
Robert F. Kennedy

Action may not always bring happiness;
but there is no happiness without action.
Benjamin Disraeli

Great effort from great motives is the best definition of a happy life.
William Ellery Channing

There is more to life than increasing its speed.
Mahatma Ghandi

The rays of happiness, like those of light, are colorless when unbroken.
Henry W. Longfellow

Happiness grows at our own firesides, and is not to be picked in strangers' gardens.
Douglas Jerrold

Happiness is where we find it, but rarely where we seek it.
J. Petit Senn

To be happy, we must not be too concerned with others.
Albert Camus

Happiness depends upon ourselves.
Aristotle

Try to be happy in this present moment, and put not off being so to a time to come,—as though that time should be of another make from this which has already come and is ours.
Thomas Fuller

Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness.
George Santayana

No man is happy who does not think himself so.
Publilius Syrus

Our minds are as different as our faces: we are all traveling to one destination; --happiness; but few are going by the same road.
Charles Caleb Colton

Motivational Quotes(02-09-2011)

"Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict."

~William E. Channing~

"It is surmounting difficulties that makes heroes."

~Louis Kossuth~

~Life's challenges are not supposed to paralyze you, they're supposed to help you discover who you are.~

~Bernice Johnson Reagon~

"Men take only their needs into consideration, never their abilities."

~Napoleon Bonaparte~

"We would accomplish many more things if we did not think of them as impossible."

~C. Malesherbes~

"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."

~Dale Carnegie~

"If not us, who? If not now, when?"

~Kennedy, John F.~

"Never be satisfied with what you achieve, because it all pales in comparison with what you are capable of doing in the future."

~Rabbi Nochem Kaplan~

"All our dreams can come true - if we have the courage to pursue them."

~Walt Disney~

"Dream as if you'll live forever. Live as if you'll die tomorrow."

~James Dean~

"If you're going to be thinking, you may as well think big."

~Donald Trump~

"Where there's a will there's a way."

~English Proverb~

"If you really want something, you can figure out how to make it happen."

~Cher~

"A determined person will do more with a pen and paper, than a lazy person will accomplish with a personal computer."

~Catherine Pulsifer~

"So long as there is breath in me, that long I will persist. For now I know one of the greatest principles on success; if I persist long enough I will win."

~Og Mandino~

"We will either find a way, or make one!"

~Hannibal~

"You have a very powerful mind that can make anything happen as long as you keep yourself centered."

~Dr. Wayne W. Dyer~

"Desire is the starting point of all achievement, not a hope, not a wish, but a keen pulsating desire which transcends everything."

~Napoleon Hill~

"Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others without getting a few drops on yourself."

~Ralph Waldo Emerson~

"Happiness is the only good. The time to be happy is now. The place to be happy is here. The way to be happy is to make others so."

~Robert G. Ingersoll~

"Did you ever see an unhappy horse? Did you ever see bird that had the blues? One reason why birds and horses are not unhappy is because they are not trying to impress other birds and horses."

~Dale Carnegie~

"You have succeeded in life when all you really want is only what you really need."

~Vernon Howard~

"Real happiness comes from inside. Nobody can give it to you."

~Sharon Stone~

"Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish."

~John Quincy Adams~

"That some achieve great success, is proof to all that others can achieve it as well."

~Abraham Lincoln~

"Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work."

~Thomas Edison~

"The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty."

~Winston Churchill~

"When written in Chinese, the word 'crisis' is composed of two characters—one represents danger, and the other represents opportunity."

~John F. Kennedy~

"He that is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else."

~Benjamin Franklin~

"Ninety-nine percent of failures come from people who have the habit of making excuses."

~George W. Carver~

"Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover."

~Mark Twain~