Favorite Inspirational Quotes

You can have anything you want - if you want it badly enough.  You can be anything you want to be, have anything you desire, accomplish anything you set out to accomplish - if you will hold to that desire with singleness of purpose.

Robert Collier

I suppose that if I do not hold to any desire with a singleness of purpose, then I didn’t want it bad enough.  Maybe that’s how you tell wishes from real desires.  I’ve wished for a lot of stuff in my life and those things happened or not.  If they did, that was cool for awhile but nothing I got real excited about for long.  If it didn’t happen, … oh, well.

But a real desire stays with you.  It can take years to make it happen but it’s always there in the back of your mind.  You dream about it and day dream about it.  You find yourself talking about it as if it is a fact.  This thing will happen.  That is desire.

I now have three things that seem to ride my back all the time.  Because of the attention, I am taking real actions that I never took before.  Who knows when these things will happen?  I don’t.  But I do know as long as my daily focus remains on them and I don’t give up, one day my desires will be met.

I just have to keep holding to that desire, focus on it with singleness of purpose, and take action to reach that desire.  One day it will happen.

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