Quotes
Quotes about Want
Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
To those who do not know mathematics it is difficult to get across a real feeling as to the beauty, the deepest beauty of nature. If you want to learn about nature, to appreciate nature, it is necessary to understand the language that she speaks in.
Those who write against vanity want the glory of having written well, and their readers the glory of reading well, and I who write this have the same desire, as perhaps those who read this have also.
When you want to test the depths of a stream, don't use both feet.
If you want something really important to be done you must not merely satisfy the reason, you must move the heart also.
I do not want the peace that passeth understanding. I want the understanding which bringeth peace.
The main dangers in this life are the people who want to change everything - or nothing.
If you want to know what God thinks of money, just look at the people he gave it to.
Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
When a man wants to murder a tiger he calls it sport; when the tiger wants to murder him he calls it ferocity.
Simplicity doesn't mean to live in misery and poverty. You have what you need, and you don't want to have what you don't need.
Our chief want is someone who will inspire us to be what we know we could be.
The zoo is a prison for animals who have been sentenced without trial and I feel guilty because I do nothing about it. I wanted to see an oyster-catcher, so I was no better than the people who caged the oyster-catcher for me to see.
If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.
Recently, I was asked if I was going to fire an employee who made a mistake that cost the company $600,000. No, I replied, I just spent $600,000 training him. Why would I want somebody to hire his experience?
I like to believe that people in the long run are going to do more to promote peace than our governments. Indeed, I think that people want peace so much that one of these days governments had better get out of the way and let them have it.
I am not one of those who believe that a great army is the means of maintaining peace, because if you build up a great profession those who form parts of it want to exercise their profession.
If you want creative workers, give them enough time to play.
Everybody's talking about people breaking into houses but there are more people in the world who want to break out of houses.
I once wanted to become an atheist, but I gave up - they have no holidays.
Our chief want in life is somebody who shall make us do what we can.
Natural abilities can almost compensate for the want of every kind of cultivation, but no cultivation of the mind can make up for the want of natural abilities.
Abundance, like want, ruins many.
It is not the want, but rather abundance that creates avarice.
My uncle never met an animal he didn't want to kill. (on Book TV).
