Quotes
Quotes about Want
People who want the most approval get the least and people who need approval the least get the most.
Unhappiness is in not knowing what we want and killing ourselves to get it.
There are two things people want more than sex and money... recognition and praise.
You don't get in life what you want; you get in life what you are.
We can do anything we want. The next time you hear yourself saying, to another-and especially yourself-"I Can't," take a deep breath and say instead, "My resources are otherwise engaged.
Want to learn to eat a lot? Here it is: Eat a little. That way, you will be around long enough to eat a lot.
Success is doing what you want to do, when you want, where you want, with whom you want, as much as you want.
If the human race wants to go to hell in a basket, technology can help it get there by jet.
You can change anything you want. You just can't change everything you want.
People who want to appear clever rely on memory. People who want to get things done make lists.
You can have anything you want in life, you just can't have everything you want.
Choosing what you want to do, and when to do it, is an act of creation.
You can have anything you want if you want it desperately enough. You must want it with an exuberance that erupts through the skin and joins the energy that created the world. -Sheila Graham.
Intolerance betrays want of faith in one's cause.
Want, the mistress of invention.
My wife's jealousy is getting ridiculous. The other day she looked at my calendar and wanted to know who May was.
My wife's jealousy is getting ridiculous. The other day she looked at my calendar and wanted to know who May was.
All lies and jests, still a man hears what he wants to hear and disregards the rest.
People that make puns are like wanton boys that put coppers on the railroad tracks.
Jesting, often, only proves a want of intellect. [Fr., La moquerie est souvent une indigence d'esprit.]
My plenteous joys, Wanton in fullness, seek to hide themselves In drops of sorrow.
Tekel: Thou art weighed in the balances, and art found wanting.
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.
I don't know very much, but what I do know, I know better than anybody else and I don't want to argue about it... A mind is not a bed to be made and re-made.
What we want is to see the child in pursuit of knowledge, and not knowledge in pursuit of the child.
