Want Quotes

Do the moment-to-moment work of dropping anything that wants to drag you down, and Reality itself will see to it that you rise.

You should just enjoy it, but as soon as you decide that it is going to be your career, no matter whether you want to be a doctor or an architect or anything else, you need to work 5 hours a day.

After a while, you start to realize that you should write a book you would want to read. I try to write a book I would enjoy.

That's why I made a comeback in 1988. I knew there were chances of not making it, but I didn't want to end up at sixty years old and say I should have tried when I was thirty-eight.

It changed me more than anything else. You don't want to get to that place where you're the adult and you're palpably in the next generation. And, this shoved me into that.

Our challenge is not to educate the children we used to have or want to have, but to educate the children who come to the schoolhouse door.

I never lecture, not because I am shy or a bad speaker, but simply because I detest the sort of people who go to lectures and don't want to meet them.

That is not enough. Sport has been great for me, a great learning place that if you want to achieve you can, even if you are from the poorest part of Africa.

People in Afghanistan want peace, including the Taliban. They're also people like we all are. They have families, they have relatives, they have children, they are suffering a tough time.

Dreams will be fulfilled if you want them badly enough.

In a way, being raised on the farm and doing chores and stuff it's a natural thing for me to want to work outside. It's almost kind of like a rehabilitation for me with doing that.

Never say things to friends which you don't want to hear from enemies.

Communication always has a purpose. Before speaking, the first law is: you must know why you are talking. You must know what you are communicating for. What do you want?

If you don't wake up at three in the morning and want to do something, you're wasting your time.

I feel a big obligation to the audience, almost in a moral sense, to say something useful. If I'm going to spend a year of my life on these things, I want something that I feel that strongly about.

That boy is your company. And if he wants to eat up that tablecloth, you let him, you hear?

Not all civil servants admire strong political leadership. But if you want to change things for the better you need strong political leadership.

Everybody else, including the rich people, are willing to pay more. They want to pay more.

The seeds of totalitarian regimes are nurtured by misery and want.

Writers have to keep on writing if they want to mature, like caterpillars endlessly chewing on leaves.

A girl doesn't always want to go out, you know, Mr. Wind-Up Bird. Sometimes she feels like being nasty--like, if the guy's gonna wait, let him really wait.

I can be hurt, you know. I can get as exhausted as anybody else. I can feel so bad I want to cry, too.

Uhm, I'm the one wanting the lessons! I don't want to say too much about it because I'd rather have you see the movie, but he's trying to find his music.

People want to see big, escapist fare. They don't want to be challenged to think.

I don't mean to be accident prone, but my excuse is if you really want to get somewhere you have to go full gas.

The sad discovery of the adult world was the permanent truth: you don't always do what you want to do; you do what you must.

I do not like the world as it is; so I am trying to make it a little more as I want it.

I, for one, love strength, daring, fortitude. I do not want people to kill the fight in them; I want them to fight for right things.

The few who profit from the labor of the masses want to organize the workers into an army which will protect the interests of the capitalists.

When you write for very young children what they want is something familiar and safe and stereotyped.

I was walking down the street, and I found a man's hand in my pocket. I asked, "What do you want?" "A match" "Why didn't you ask me?" "I don't talk to strangers."

We become actors without realizing it, and actors without wanting to.

It is very hard to stay in touch with our true identity because those who want our money, our time, and our energy profit more from our insecurity and fears than from our inner freedom.

We have to trust that our stories deserve to be told. We may discover that the better we tell our stories the better we will want to live them.

Through discipline, discipline is the other side of discipleship. If you want to follow Jesus, you have to have discipline.

[Nixon] wants a massive bombing campaign in Cambodia. He doesn't want to hear anything about it. It's an order, to be done. Anything that flies on anything that moves.

I was overweight when I went to school. In fact, I was overweight when I left, just taller. Fatty Cavill was the nickname. I mean, no one wants to be Fatty Cavill.

It is not from nature, but from education and habits, that our wants are chiefly derived.

That amid our highest civilization men faint and die with want is not due to the niggardliness of nature, but to the injustice of man.

Who wants to be a hundred? What's the point of it? A short life and a merry one is far better than a long one sustained by fear, caution, and perpetual medical surveillance.

We often excuse our own want of philanthropy by giving the name of fanaticism to the more ardent zeal of others.

I am not a great planner, so I have just a vague idea. And then I start to find out what kind of book I actually want to write.

It is sound planning that invariably earns us the outcome we want; without it, even the gods are unlikely to look with favour on our designs.

If I had to come up with something that just came to me, I think growing up in a small town, I want knowledge. I still think today, knowledge is one of the keys.

When I started out as a little kid, I didn't say 'I just want to run football.' I wanted to be a great athlete.

My feeling is if you're going to be a leader, you have to carefully assess where people are and where people want to go.

People who want to be amused have lost the art of living.

Clever girl. You play with fire because you want to be burnt.

I've started the adoption process... I really want to be a mommy.

When a woman wants to betray her husband, her actions are almost invariably studied but they are never reasoned.