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Quotes about Want


History teaches us that whenever a weak and ignorant people possess a thing which a strong and enlightened people want, it must be yielded up peaceably.

Mark Twain

Tell the FBI that the kidnappers should pick out a judge that Nixon wants back.

William O. Douglas

I want a house that has got over all its troubles; I don't want to spend the rest of my life bringing up a young and inexperienced house.

Jerome K. Jerome

When the heart is enlivened again, it feels like the sun coming out after a week of rainy days. There is hope in the heart that chases the clouds away. Hope is a higher heart frequency and as you begin to reconnect with your heart, hope is waiting to show you new possibilities and arrest the downward spiral of grief and loneliness. It becomes a matter of how soon you want the sun to shine. Listening to the still, small voice in your heart will make hope into a reality. Sara Paddison, The Hidden Power of the Heart Hope is a higher heart frequency, and as you begin to re-connect with your heart, hope is waiting to show you new possibilities and arrest the downward spiral of grief and loneliness. Listening to the still small voice in your heart will make hope into a reality. Benjamin Franklin, preface, Poor Richard's Almanac, 1758 He that lives upon hope will die fasting. -Sara Paddison.

Sara Paddison

For He, who gave this vast machine to roll, Breathed Life in then, in us a Reasoning Soul; That kindred feelings might our state improve, And mutual wants conduct to mutual love.

Juvenal (Decimus Junius Juvenal)

It's funny. All you have to do is say something nobody understands and they'll do practically anything you want them to.

Holden Caulfield

If you want anything done well, do it yourself. This is why most people laugh at their own jokes.

Helen Giangregorio

Your identity and your success go hand in hand. Many people sacrifice their identities by not doing what they really want to do. And that's why they're not successful.

Lila Swell

An idler is a watch that wants both hands; As useless if it goes as when it stands.

William Cowper

Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.

Salvador Dali

I don't want to achieve immortality through my work; I want to achieve immortality through not dying.

Joseph Addison

I don't want to achieve immortality by being inducted into the Hall of Fame. I want to achieve immortality by not dying.

William de Morgan

We do not know what to do with this short life, yet we want another which will be eternal.

Anatole France

I don't want to achieve immortality through my work. . . I want to achieve it through not dying.

Woody Allen

Half of the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important. They don't mean to do harm. But the harm does not interest them.

T. S. Eliot

If you want to see what your friends and family think of you, die broke, and see who comes to your funeral.

Gregory Nunn

Wit's an unruly engine, wildly striking Sometimes a friend, sometimes the engineer: Hast thou the knack? pamper it not with liking; But if thou want it, buy it not too deare Many affecting wit beyond their power, Have got to be a deare fool for an houre.

George Herbert

What this power is, I cannot say. All I know is that it exists...and it becomes available only when you are in that state of mind in which you know exactly what you want...and are fully determined not to quit until you get it.

Alexander Graham Bell

We must become the change we want to see.

Gracie Gandhi

We shape clay into a pot, but it is the emptiness inside that holds whatever we want.

Tao Saying

The simplification of life is one of the steps to inner peace. In my life, what I want and what I need are exactly the same.

John F Pilgrims

You can get anything in life you want if you will just help enough other people get what they want.

Zig Ziglar

What's money? A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do.

Bob Dylan

What this power is I cannot say; all I know is that it exists and it becomes available only when a man is in that state of mind in which he knows exactly what he wants and is fully determined not to quit until he finds it.

Alexander Graham Bell

Prosperity depends more on wanting what you have than having what you want.

Geoffrey F. Abert

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