Quotes about Obsession
A man is always right to pursue the thing he loves.No matter even if it kills him?I think so. Yes. No matter what.
— Cormac McCarthy
The object of your definite chief aim should become your hobby. You should ride this hobby continuously; you should sleep with it, eat with it, play with it, work with it, live with it and THINK with it.
— Napoleon Hill
I'm not scared of it... I feel that I am a cat lady, I'm a little bit crazy because I love them so much and I dedicate my life to them.
— Beth Ostrosky Stern
If I had a message to my contemporaries it is surely this: Be anything you like, be madmen, drunks, and bastards of every shape and form, but at all costs avoid one thing: success . . . If you are too obsessed with success, you will forget to live. If you have learned only how to be a success, your life has probably been wasted.
— Thomas Merton
Love is a madness; if thwarted it develops fast.
— Mark Twain
Anyone who achieves any kind of success, however you want to define it, sometimes can't let go of it.
— Simon Sinek
I'm extra-good at wanting things. I want things until I feel sort of sick about them. I want enough for two normal people, at least.
— Rainbow Rowell
It was no ordinary DESIRE that survived disappointment, discouragement, temporary defeat, criticism, and the constant reminding of waste of time. It was a BURNING DESIRE! AN OBSESSION!
— Napoleon Hill
Every human being who reaches the age of understanding of the purpose of money, wishes for it. Wishing will not bring riches. But desiring riches with a state of mind that becomes an obsession, then planning definite ways and means to acquire riches, and backing those plans with persistence which does not recognize failure, will bring riches.
— Napoleon Hill
What a different story men would have to tell if only they would adopt a DEFINITE PURPOSE, and stand by that purpose until it had time to become an all-consuming obsession!
— Napoleon Hill
Rainwater held on to pine needles for dear life and Beloved could not take her eyes off Sethe.
— Toni Morrison
She loved nothing in the world except this woman's son, wanted him alive more than anybody, but hadn't the least bit of control over the predator that lived inside her. Totally taken over by her anaconda love, she had no self left, no fears, no wants, no intelligence that was her own.
— Toni Morrison