"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"
About this Quote
The subtext is quietly anti-romantic about inspiration. Desire is not a lightning bolt but a sustained heat, the kind that survives the mundane and the humiliating. Notice how she pairs "get up every morning" with "start in again after a disappointment". The first is about routine; the second is about recovery. Put together, they frame resilience as a repeatable practice: wake, return, re-enter. That rhythm matters because disappointment is treated as expected, not exceptional. You don't avoid setbacks; you budget for them.
Contextually, Sinetar sits in a late-20th-century American lane where self-actualization talk intersects with pragmatic psychology: vocation, purpose, the inner life as a tool for navigating modern churn. The quote is less a pep talk than a diagnostic: when people stall, its often not because they lack talent or discipline, but because they lack an animating "why" strong enough to outlast boredom and bruised ego. The line lands because it makes motivation feel like infrastructure, not mood.
Quote Details
| Topic | Perseverance |
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| Source | Later attribution: Quotes To Remember (Volume 3) (Dr Purushothaman, 2014) modern compilationID: qoPiBAAAQBAJ
Evidence:
... 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 Desire is a powerful force that can be used to make things ... |
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APA Style (7th ed.)
Sinetar, Marsha. (2026, February 22). 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. FixQuotes. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/burning-desire-to-be-or-do-something-gives-us-108187/
Chicago Style
Sinetar, Marsha. "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." FixQuotes. February 22, 2026. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/burning-desire-to-be-or-do-something-gives-us-108187/.
MLA Style (9th ed.)
"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." FixQuotes, 22 Feb. 2026, https://fixquotes.com/quotes/burning-desire-to-be-or-do-something-gives-us-108187/. Accessed 6 Mar. 2026.










