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Quotes about Wants
A man is a success if he gets up in
the morning and gets to bed at night,
and in between he does what he wants to do.
- Bob Dylan
Related topics: Values Motivational Success
Can anything be so elegant as to have few wants,
and to serve them one's self?
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Man falls from the pursuit of the ideal
of plain living and high thinking
the moment he wants to multiply his daily wants.
Man's happiness really lies in contentment.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
He who wants to do good knocks at the gate:
he who loves finds the door open.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Wealth consists not in having great possessions,
but in having few wants.
- Epictetus
I distrust those people who know so well
what God wants them to do,
because I notice it always coincides
with their own desires.
- Susan B. Anthony
Money has never made man happy, nor will it,
there is nothing in its nature to produce happiness.
The more of it one has the more one wants.
- Benjamin Franklin
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All God wants of man is a peaceful heart.
- Meister Eckhart
Just because an animal is large, it doesn't mean he doesn't want kindness;
however big Tigger seems to be, remember that he wants as much kindness as Roo.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
Our problems are man-made, therefore they may be solved by man.
And man can be as big as he wants.
No problem of human destiny is beyond human beings.
- John F. Kennedy
Conversations with God are very different
from the usual nature of prayer.
Prayers are commonly only in one direction -
the one praying speaks and hopes God is listening.
Prayers also tend to focus on asking
for specific things or outcomes one wants,
rather than seeking to better understand the mind of God.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Money won't make you happy...
but everybody wants to find out for themselves.
- Zig Ziglar
Priorities - what's really important -
health, and doing what one wants to do -
it's certainly not money.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If the mind wants to comprehend reality,
it will have to come out of the past and the future.
But coming out of the past and the future,
it is no longer the mind at all.
Hence the insistence of all the great masters of the world
that the door to reality is no-mind.
- Osho
Do real life people actually fall in love
with the idea of being in love?
Unfortunately, it is actually quite common.
Someone wants desperately to have
the husband or wife of their dreams.
They visualize the vine-covered cottage
with the white picket fence.
They choose the colors for the nursery.
They design all the aspects of their married life.
A real person stands no chance of measuring up to those fantasies.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Leadership is the art of getting someone else
to do something you want done because he wants to do it.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
Want Quotes and Sayings
The way I see it, if you want the rainbow,
you gotta put up with the rain.
- Dolly Parton
The jump is so frightening
between where I am,
and where I want to be.
Because of all I may become,
I will close my eyes and leap.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
How do you want to be remembered?
Live life full out - Begin today.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Take time to play!
Ask for what you want.
Laugh.
Live loudly.
Be avid.
Learn a new thing.
Be Yourself!
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition -
they somehow already know what you truly want to become.
- Steve Jobs
Success is getting what you want;
happiness is wanting what you get.
- Dale Carnegie
Be the change you want to see in the world.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Sometimes the things you really want
sneak in the back door.
Notice.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
If you want to be happy, be.
- Leo Tolstoy
To live is to choose. But to choose well,
you must know who you are and what you stand for,
where you want to go and why you want to get there.
- Kofi Annan
If you want others to be happy, practice compassion.
If you want to be happy, practice compassion.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
At the center of your being you have the answer;
you know who you are and you know what you want.
- Lao Tzu
If you want to make peace with your enemy,
you have to work with your enemy.
Then he becomes your partner.
- Nelson Mandela
Nearly all men can stand adversity,
but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
- Abraham Lincoln
Celebrate what you want to see more of.
- Tom Peters
Dream up the world you want to live in. Dream out loud.
- Bono
You can do what you want to do.
- David Thomas
If you want to be heroic,
Don't emulate your heroes,
learn from them.
Heroes don't follow anyone,
they set their own course.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If you want peace, stop fighting.
If you want peace of mind,
stop fighting with your thoughts.
- Peter McWilliams
Nothing is ever going to work out the way you want,
so you may as well choose to want the way life does work out.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If you want to be happy,
put your effort into controlling the sail, not the wind.
- Anonymous
Never say or do anything you wouldn't want
to be the last thing you ever said or did.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If you want to feel rich,
just count all of the things you have that money can't buy.
- Anonymous
Know that you can have whatever you want,
when you ask from a compassionate heart.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If you want to improve,
be content to be thought foolish and stupid.
- Epictetus
You can have anything you want in life if you
just help enough other people get what they want.
- Zig Ziglar
Determine never to be idle.
No person will have occasion to complain
of the want of time who never loses any.
It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing.
- Thomas Jefferson
Motivation is the art of getting people to do
what you want them to do because they want to do it.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
If you want to do it,
Do It - TODAY.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
We can do anything we want to
if we stick to it long enough.
- Helen Keller
There are two things to aim at in life:
first, to get what you want,
and after that to to enjoy it.
- Logan Pearsall Smith
For want of a nail the shoe was lost;
for want of a shoe the horse was lost;
and for want of a horse the rider was lost.
- Benjamin Franklin
I want it said of me by those who knew me best,
that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower
where I thought a flower would grow.
- Abraham Lincoln
Die when I may, I want it said by those who knew me best
that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower
where I thought a flower would grow.
- Abraham Lincoln
I know the price of success: dedication, hard work,
and an unremitting devotion to the things you want to see happen.
- Frank Lloyd Wright
If we want a love message to be heard,
it has got to be sent out.
To keep a lamp burning,
we have to keep putting oil in it.
- Mother Teresa
Just another cold, misty morning inviting,
"want to go again?"
- Mary Anne Radmacher
No great man ever complains of want of opportunity.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
May your right hand always be
stretched out in friendship, never in want.
- Irish Blessing
The key to happiness is not to have what you want
but to want what you have.
- Anonymous
We seek opinions that are likely to
support what we want to be true.
- Thomas Gilovich
There is only one way... to get anybody to do anything.
And that is by making the other person want to do it.
- Dale Carnegie
If you want reality to be different than it is,
you might as well try to teach a cat to bark.
- Byron Katie
If you don't know what you want, you will probably never get it.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
If you want to be incrementally better: Be competitive.
If you want to be exponentially better: Be cooperative.
- Anonymous
Inaction breeds doubt and fear.
Action breeds confidence and courage.
If you want to conquer fear,
do not sit home and think about it.
Go out and get busy.
- Dale Carnegie
Take time to contemplate -
away from the opinions and influence of others -
what you really want
and what you believe to be important in your life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
We really have to understand the person we want to love.
If our love is only a will to possess, it is not love.
- Thich Nhat Hanh
What you want is irrelevant,
what you have chosen is at hand.
- Spock character in Star Trek VI movie
The indispensable first step to getting
the things you want out of life is this:
Decide what you want.
- Ben Stein
If you have health, you probably will be happy,
and if you have health and happiness,
you have all the wealth you need, even if it is not all you want.
- Elbert Hubbard
Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life.
Don't be trapped by dogma -
which is living with the results of other people's thinking.
Don't let the noise of others' opinions
drown out your own inner voice.
And most important, have the courage
to follow your heart and intuition.
They somehow already know what you truly want to become.
Everything else is secondary.
- Steve Jobs
Success is a state of mind.
If you want success,
start thinking of yourself as a success.
- Joyce Brothers
Teamwork is so important that it is virtually impossible for you
to reach the heights of your capabilities
or make the money that you want
without becoming very good at it.
- Brian Tracy
We have to let go of all blame, all attacking, all judging,
to free our inner selves to attract what we say we want.
- Joe Vitale
Learn to become still. And to take your attention
away from what you don't want, and all the emotional charge around it,
and place your attention on what you wish to experience.
- Michael Beckwith
