In this post, you will find great Want Quotes from famous people, such as David Whyte, Booker T. Washington, Britney Spears, Nora Ephron, Monty Williams. You can learn and implement many lessons from these quotes.
I dress the way I want. I don’t pretend to be someone I’m not.
Everything you want is on the other side of hard.
When you’re the best, you only want to surround yourself with the best.
The value of beauty and inspiration is very much underrated, no question. But I want to be clear: I’m not trying to be anyone‘s savior. I’m just trying to think about the future and not be sad.
I don’t want to be a VIP. I want to be an LIP, a Less Important Person.
Business is war. I go out there, I want to kill the competitors. I want to make their lives miserable. I want to steal their market share. I want them to fear me and I want everyone on my team thinking we’re going to win.
It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.
When I want to understand what is happening today or try to decide what will happen tomorrow, I look back.
In good times, people want to advertise; in bad times, they have to.
As a shooter, the one thing you want to be is consistent.
Never give up on what you really want to do. The person with big dreams is more powerful than the one with all the facts.
I don’t care what I look like; it’s how people think of me. And I do care how people think of me. I want people to say, ‘Oh, she‘s nice,’ rather than, ‘Oh, she’s so pretty.’
I love being married. It’s so great to find that one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life.
Life in general has never been even close to fair, so the pretense that the government can make it fair is a valuable and inexhaustible asset to politicians who want to expand government.
The number one benefit of information technology is that it empowers people to do what they want to do. It lets people be creative. It lets people be productive. It lets people learn things they didn’t think they could learn before, and so in a sense it is all about potential.
The biggest problem is that Facebook and Google are these giant feedback loops that give people what they want to hear. And when you use them in a world where your biases are being constantly confirmed, you become susceptible to fake news, propaganda, demagoguery.
The government of the United States doesn’t want peace. It wants to exploit its system of exploitation, of pillage, of hegemony through war. It wants peace, but what’s happening in Iraq? What happened in Lebanon? Palestine? What’s happening? What’s happened over the last hundred years in Latin America and in the world?
It isn’t sufficient just to want – you’ve got to ask yourself what you are going to do to get the things you want.
If you want something done, ask a busy person to do it. The more things you do, the more you can do.
Happiness isn’t getting what you want, it’s wanting what you got.
We all want to be loved. We all want to feel accepted. We all want to feel content. And life is hard.
What we think determines what happens to us, so if we want to change our lives, we need to stretch our minds.
I’ve always done whatever I want and always been exactly who I am.
I’m the one guy who says don’t force the stupid people to be quiet. I want to know who the morons are.
I am not interested in picking up crumbs of compassion thrown from the table of someone who considers himself my master. I want the full menu of rights.
When you want something so badly, you just do it. You don’t think about how hard it’s going to be.
In the old generation, if one kid bought a PlayStation 2 and the other kid bought an Xbox, at his house you played PlayStation, at your house you played Xbox. Now that it’s online, all those early buyers who… you want to play with, they’ve got their reputation online of who they are and how good they are at these games.
Rice is great if you’re really hungry and want to eat two thousand of something.
You have to surround yourself with people who love you and want the best for you.
Sometimes if you want to see a change for the better, you have to take things into your own hands.
If you really want to get along with somebody, let them be themselves.
At some point, I don’t want to have any obligation. And just chill out.
People say I’m extravagant because I want to be surrounded by beauty. But tell me, who wants to be surrounded by garbage?
The dream is to have it all. Who says you can’t have your cake and eat it too? Live this life, that life, this life, you know? You only live one time – I want to get it all in.
With consistency and reps and routine you’re going to achieve your goals and get where you want to be.
When you invest your time, you make a goal and a decision of something that you want to accomplish. Whether it’s make good grades in school, be a good athlete, be a good person, go down and do some community service and help somebody who’s in need, whatever it is you choose to do, you’re investing your time in that.
I appreciate that my fans think I’m classically good-looking and that I have a clean-cut image, but I also want to show other sides of myself.
Although I’m only fourteen, I know quite well what I want. I know who is right and who is wrong. I have my opinions, my own ideas and principles, and although it may sound pretty mad from an adolescent, I feel more of a person than a child. I feel quite independent of anyone.
Freedom isn’t to do what you want at somebody else’s expense.
I want the same thing I’ve wanted since I was 7 years old. I want to be No. 1.
I want to take Justin Bieber for a month and just lock him up in a cage where we sit and make music. He’s one of the most successful people in the world, but his music could be so much tighter.
All the women want to be with me, all the men want to be like me.
The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want and if they can’t find them, make them.
There are many things we do not want about the world. Let us not just mourn them. Let us change them.
I didn’t want a pickup with mud tires. I wanted an old blazer with as many speakers in the back as I could afford. I would even steal them out of my brother’s car and pack them in there. I remember sitting in a parking lot and turning my radio up and walking down the street to see how far you could feel it.
If you want to rip the heart out of a democracy, you go after the facts. That’s what modern authoritarians do. You lie. All the time. Then, you say it’s your opponents and the journalists who lie.
If you have men who will only come if they know there is a good road, I don’t want them. I want men who will come if there is no road at all.
At the end of the day, you are solely responsible for your success and your failure. And the sooner you realize that, you accept that, and integrate that into your work ethic, you will start being successful. As long as you blame others for the reason you aren’t where you want to be, you will always be a failure.
The hardest thing about being famous is that people are always nice to you. You’re in a conversation and everybody’s agreeing with what you’re saying – even if you say something totally crazy. You need people who can tell you what you don’t want to hear.
Some folk want their luck buttered.
I play a lot of cricket. I just want to play, play, and play.
If you want a good education, go to private schools. If you can’t afford it, tough luck. You can go to the public school.
Individuals need to be willing to face truth about their attitudes, behaviors, even what we want out of life.
People don’t want to go to the dump and have a picnic, they want to go out to a beautiful place and enjoy their day. And so I think our job is to try to take the environment, take what the good Lord has given us, and expand upon it or enhance it, without destroying it.
Do right. Do your best. Treat others as you want to be treated.
Leadership is getting someone to do what they don’t want to do, to achieve what they want to achieve.
At the end of the day, we all want to win, so everybody has to sacrifice when you want to be a part of something special.
Discipline is remembering what you want.
It’s okay for me to make jokes about disabled people and people with horrible diseases because they make me uncomfortable, and I don’t want to be like them.
Everyone’s a critic: when you are doing something good, everybody wants to bring you down, and that’s something I’ve been told. People want to see you do good, but not too good.
What is Apple, after all? Apple is about people who think ‘outside the box,’ people who want to use computers to help them change the world, to help them create things that make a difference, and not just to get a job done.
I’m a private person. People just see me as the bad boy, and if that’s how they want to perceive me, then so be it – but they don’t know who I am.
The people who hold that our culture is an oppressive patriarchy, they don’t want to admit that the current hierarchy might be predicated on competence.
Whatever I do, I want to be the best.
We want to do a lot of stuff; we’re not in great shape. We didn’t get a good night‘s sleep. We’re a little depressed. Coffee solves all these problems in one delightful little cup.
We fear the thing we want the most.
I’ve found that luck is quite predictable. If you want more luck, take more chances. Be more active. Show up more often.
Socialism states that you owe me something simply because I exist. Capitalism, by contrast, results in a sort of reality-forced altruism: I may not want to help you, I may dislike you, but if I don’t give you a product or service you want, I will starve. Voluntary exchange is more moral than forced redistribution.
If you can dream it, then you can achieve it. You will get all you want in life if you help enough other people get what they want.
I don’t want the abnormal or something special. I want to have a normal life.
We all want to be famous people, and the moment we want to be something we are no longer free.
No one is in control of your happiness but you; therefore, you have the power to change anything about yourself or your life that you want to change.
Everything you want is out there waiting for you to ask. Everything you want also wants you. But you have to take action to get it.
The greatest want of the world is the want of men – men who will not be bought or sold; men who in their inmost souls are true and honest; men who do not fear to call sin by its right name; men whose conscience is as true to duty as the needle to the pole; men who will stand for the right though the heavens fall.
Liberals seem to assume that, if you don’t believe in their particular political solutions, then you don’t really care about the people that they claim to want to help.
They say the way to a man’s heart is through his stomach. It’s the same way with women… or at least the ones I want to be with.
Playing with light is something that is very important, especially when you want cinematography in your game.
People can say what they want, but at the end of the day, I’m going to keep working on my game. I always know I have things to work on.
Frankly, I had thought that at the time Roe was decided, there was concern about population growth and particularly growth in populations that we don’t want to have too many of.
I just want to be humble at all times.
We want everybody to act like adults, quit playing games, realize that it’s not just my way or the highway.
I talk so much about sex that girls just want to meet me.
When you are discontent, you always want more, more, more. Your desire can never be satisfied. But when you practice contentment, you can say to yourself, ‘Oh yes – I already have everything that I really need.’
Marriage is a wonderful institution, but who would want to live in an institution?
Decide what you want, decide what you are willing to exchange for it. Establish your priorities and go to work.
I can buy anything I want now. It hasn’t changed me personally. It just changed what I can do for myself and my family.
I want the world to be better because I was here.
Prohibition makes you want to cry into your beer and denies you the beer to cry into.
Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard.
Don’t aim for success if you want it; just do what you love and believe in, and it will come naturally.
The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain.
We only have to look at ourselves to see how intelligent life might develop into something we wouldn’t want to meet.
A little learning, indeed, may be a dangerous thing, but the want of learning is a calamity to any people.
If I get married, I want to be very married.
If you want to work in engineering and to have an impact that’s global, come work in the aerospace sector.
You always want to win. That is why you play tennis, because you love the sport and try to be the best you can at it.
If you want to be successful, it’s just this simple. Know what you are doing. Love what you are doing. And believe in what you are doing.
If you want to go east, don’t go west.
Accept responsibility for your life. Know that it is you who will get you where you want to go, no one else.
I want to congratulate all the men out there who are working diligently to be good fathers whether they are stepfathers, or biological fathers or just spiritual fathers.
I really love to ride my motorcycle. When I want to just get away and be by myself and clear my head, that’s what I do.
As an actor, every opportunity, every role, everything that I do is an opportunity to have someone have a human experience with my work. I don’t just want it to be about a cute wardrobe and a high paycheck.
I got some cash from agents. I’ve talked to the NCAA. I think that should be legal. I want some money, too; everybody else is making money. I want to go on dates. I want to go buy myself some new suits. I want to buy myself some new sneakers, and I paid the agents back.
Don’t listen to what anybody says except the people who encourage you. If it’s what you want to do and it’s within yourself, then keep going and try to do it for the rest of your life.
I’m the one that has to die when it’s time for me to die, so let me live my life, the way I want to.
I want to show the world, the universe rather, that I am confidently beautiful with a heart.
If people don’t want to come to the ballpark, how are you going to stop them?
I don’t want to make money, I just want to be wonderful.
I don’t believe in gun bans; that’s a fallacy that people have, that they think if you believe in gun control you want to ban guns. That’s not true.
You can fool some of the people all the time, and those are the ones you want to concentrate on.
Can you ever imagine yourself in a situation like Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie or Kim Kardashian and Kanye West, where the world feels like they have a stake in your private life? I would never want it.
I pray to God every day that he makes me the biggest superstar, but before that, I ask God to make me a good actor. Being a star is hard, but being an actor is even harder. I want to be both before I am done.
If you don’t want to work you have to work to earn enough money so that you won’t have to work.
Most people do not really want freedom, because freedom involves responsibility, and most people are frightened of responsibility.
You’ve got to always go back in time if you want to move forward.
I just want to go through Central Park and watch folks passing by. Spend the whole day watching people. I miss that.
Times of transition are strenuous, but I love them. They are an opportunity to purge, rethink priorities, and be intentional about new habits. We can make our new normal any way we want.
I’ve got two daughters. 9 years old and 6 years old. I am going to teach them first of all about values and morals. But if they make a mistake, I don’t want them punished with a baby.
If you want to run, run a mile. If you want to experience a different life, run a marathon.
Whatever you do, do with determination. You have one life to live; do your work with passion and give your best. Whether you want to be a chef, doctor, actor, or a mother, be passionate to get the best result.
Our object should be peace within, and peace without. We want to live peacefully and maintain cordial friendly relations with our immediate neighbours and with the world at large.
Too many people spend money they haven’t earned to buy things they don’t want to impress people they don’t like.
I want people to talk to one another no matter what their difference of opinion might be.
When you come to see a picture of mine, I want you to know that I’m not going to do anything that will make you uncomfortable. I want you to know that you won’t be disappointed in me.
If you want something said, ask a man; if you want something done, ask a woman.
I don’t go by or change my attitude based on what people say. At the end of the day, they, too, are judging me from their perspective. I would rather be myself and let people accept me for what I am than be somebody who I am not, just because I want people’s approval.
If you want to be successful, you need consistency and if you don’t have it, you’ve got no chance.
What can cake teach you about life? That practice makes perfect, and if you try something once, it probably won’t be perfect, and you have to keep working on it if you want to be good at it.
If you want to feel good, you have to go out and do some good.
If you want total security, go to prison. There you’re fed, clothed, given medical care and so on. The only thing lacking… is freedom.
We do not know what we want and yet we are responsible for what we are – that is the fact.
The easiest thing to be in the world is you. The most difficult thing to be is what other people want you to be. Don’t let them put you in that position.
You may have heard of Black Friday and Cyber Monday. There’s another day you might want to know about: Giving Tuesday. The idea is pretty straightforward. On the Tuesday after Thanksgiving, shoppers take a break from their gift-buying and donate what they can to charity.
We need enlightenment, not just individually but collectively, to save the planet. We need to awaken ourselves. We need to practice mindfulness if we want to have a future, if we want to save ourselves and the planet.
I genuinely want to do my best every day, and I genuinely want to enjoy life every day.
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.
Right now I just want to chill for a while. Take a hiatus from all the craziness. To clean my house, see my family. Just see some movies and pick some strawberries.
A man can do what he wants, but not want what he wants.
I’m living a dream I never want to wake up from.
I just want to inspire my fans to be whoever they want to be, because that’s what I’ve always done.
I want you to be everything that’s you, deep at the center of your being.
It’s not that I’m afraid to die. I just don’t want to be there when it happens.
Three o’clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.
I mean, I’ve always been a libertarian. Leave everybody alone. Let everybody else do what they want. Just stay out of everybody else’s hair.
You don’t get what you want in life. You get who you are!
The change I want to see is a start-up environment where everyone, regardless of gender and background, feels welcome and safe; where sexual harassment or discrimination will not impede great talent from producing great impact.
My message is that it’s never too late. If it’s something you want to do or if it’s important to you, go for it.
All I want is an education, and I am afraid of no one.
I want to rip out his heart and feed it to Lennox Lewis. I want to kill people. I want to rip their stomachs out and eat their children.
Every opportunity that comes your way, you can’t take lightly. You have to take it very, very seriously, because the opportunities are limited. If you want to keep working, you can’t be such an elitist, to say no, that’s not good enough, not big enough, not smart enough, whatever.
If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.
I’m not afraid to die, I just don’t want to be there when it happens.
Think about what people are doing on Facebook today. They’re keeping up with their friends and family, but they’re also building an image and identity for themselves, which in a sense is their brand. They’re connecting with the audience that they want to connect to. It’s almost a disadvantage if you’re not on it now.
I threw up before every single football game I played, and I did so up through my NFL career. It was good pressure. It was pressure to be good. It was pressure to be the best. It was pressure to want to win.
Anything I do, I want to do it well.
If you really want to make a friend, go to someone’s house and eat with him… the people who give you their food give you their heart.
The man who doesn’t want anything is invincible.
We will build the city from scratch. It will be drone-friendly and a center for the development of robotics. We want to create something different. Neom is a place for dreamers who want to create something new in the world, something extraordinary.
I told somebody once, ‘You don’t want the Herschel that plays football… babysitting your child. When I am competing, I am a totally different person.’
There is no room for second place. There is only one place in my game and that is first place. I have finished second twice in my time at Green Bay and I never want to finish second again.
You will reciprocally promise love, loyalty and matrimonial honesty. We only want for you this day that these words constitute the principle of your entire life and that with the help of divine grace you will observe these solemn vows that today, before God, you formulate.
I don’t have no friends. I don’t want no friends. That’s how I feel.
I don’t want the fear of failure to stop me from doing what I really care about.
I want true love, because I don’t have so much time, and I want to spend my time with the right girl.
When you love someone and care about them, you want what’s best for them, and it’s always the hardest thing to realize maybe you aren’t what’s best for them, how hard you try.
Life is too short to spend in negativity. So I have made a conscious effort to not be where I don’t want to be.
I want to be the white man’s brother, not his brother-in-law.
The past is a great place and I don’t want to erase it or to regret it, but I don’t want to be its prisoner either.
No one wants to hear the truth if it isn’t what they want to hear.
When I was in high school, there was ‘Superbad’ and ‘The Girl Next Door‘ and ‘Wedding Crashers’ and all these great movies. You hope to be a part of something that’s smart, funny and in that Todd Phillips-vein. You want to make something like ‘Superbad.’ That movie was so good and so funny.
I want to be known for what I am, black and white, because I’m proud of both.
What we want is to see the child in pursuit of knowledge, and not knowledge in pursuit of the child.
You can live to be a hundred if you give up all the things that make you want to live to be a hundred.
There’s no glory in climbing a mountain if all you want to do is to get to the top. It’s experiencing the climb itself – in all its moments of revelation, heartbreak, and fatigue – that has to be the goal.
Life doesn’t just happen. You happen to life. You decide how you want to write your story.
The indispensable first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: decide what you want.
I don’t want to be alone, I want to be left alone.
That is the key of this collection, being yourself. Don’t be into trends. Don’t make fashion own you, but you decide what you are, what you want to express by the way you dress and the way to live.
I know you’ve heard it a thousand times before. But it’s true – hard work pays off. If you want to be good, you have to practice, practice, practice. If you don’t love something, then don’t do it.
Our mission is to accelerate the development of a better financial system; it’s not just development of a better Bitcoin financial system, and so we want to back the best teams, who have the biggest ideas, unique solutions to big problems.
You got one life to live. So I’m living it the way I want to live it.
If you want to make enemies, try to change something.
You will never find time for anything. If you want time you must make it.
I want to have fun. It’s a beautiful life. You learn, you win, you lose, but you get up.
I don’t want to miss out on the chance of having a good time.
If there is a book that you want to read, but it hasn’t been written yet, you must be the one to write it.
My advice for young people is to just be yourself. There’s no pressure. Do what you want to do. And if you want to do something, then go after it and make it happen.
There are always flowers for those who want to see them.
The clear and present danger of climate change means we cannot burn our way to prosperity. We already rely too heavily on fossil fuels. We need to find a new, sustainable path to the future we want. We need a clean industrial revolution.
I want to get a vending machine, with fun sized candy bars, and the glass in front is a magnifying glass. You’ll be mad, but it will be too late.
In 1964, when Lee Iacocca said, ‘Shelby, I want you to make a sports car out of the Mustang,’ the first thing I said was, ‘Lee, you can’t make a race horse out of a mule. I don’t want to do it.’ He said, ‘I didn’t ask you to make it; you work for me.’
I want a real revolution, a real change in society: society, a great organic mass of well-regulated forces used for the bringing-about a happy life for all.
Where there is a will, there is a way. If there is a chance in a million that you can do something, anything, to keep what you want from ending, do it. Pry the door open or, if need be, wedge your foot in that door and keep it open.
If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.
Information is power. But like all power, there are those who want to keep it for themselves.
If you want to be the best, you’ve got to beat the best. The only problem is when I get that belt, who’s going to be left to fight? That’s what I want to know.
Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get.
History will see advertising as one of the real evil things of our time. It is stimulating people constantly to want things, want this, want that.
Well, I don’t know as I want a lawyer to tell me what I cannot do. I hire him to tell how to do what I want to do.
No woman in my time will be prime minister or chancellor or foreign secretary – not the top jobs. Anyway, I wouldn’t want to be prime minister; you have to give yourself 100 percent.
What has happened has happened. What is done cannot be undone. There is no point in looking back and ruminating over the past. I am a forward-looking man. I want to look ahead; I want to put my past behind me. I want to make my country proud.
I am a sports enthusiast, and if given an opportunity, I want to be a sportsman, even today. I want to promote the sport that is indigenous to India. Kabaddi is a matter of national pride. Why can’t cricket, hockey, football and kabaddi be given equal platforms and co-exist? I believe that can happen.
Whether it is a tsunami, or whether it is a hurricane, whether it’s an earthquake – when we see these great fatal and natural acts, men and women of every ethnic persuasion come together and they just want to help.
I don’t want to just revolve. I want to evolve. As a man, as a human, as a father, as a lover.
It was a perfect marriage. She didn’t want to and he couldn’t.
I faced a number of challenges whilst I built Biocon. Initially, I had credibility challenges where I couldn’t get banks to fund me; I couldn’t recruit people to work for a woman boss. Even in the businesses where I had to procure raw materials, they didn’t want to deal with women.
When you’re young, you look at television and think, there’s a conspiracy. The networks have conspired to dumb us down. But when you get a little older, you realize that’s not true. The networks are in business to give people exactly what they want.
I’m just here for good times, man. I want people to have the best time ever. Especially if they’re around me.
Do what you love. Do what is important to you and your family. I just want to encourage people to just go for it and do what makes sense to you.
If you want it, and the more you keep hearing you can’t have it, you just go and get it.
Once you taste the sweet honey, you want more of that.
To see what is right and not to do it is want of courage, or of principle.
When I was a child, there’s one thing I said: ‘I never want to be alone.’ That’s what I would say. I don’t want to be alone.
Success is a state of mind. If you want success, start thinking of yourself as a success.
If you want to do something, just do it. No one is going to do it for you.
I do what I want, when I want.
Forgiveness is not a feeling – it’s a decision we make because we want to do what’s right before God. It’s a quality decision that won’t be easy and it may take time to get through the process, depending on the severity of the offense.
People who want the most approval get the least and people who need approval the least get the most.
Here are the values that I stand for: honesty, equality, kindness, compassion, treating people the way you want to be treated and helping those in need. To me, those are traditional values.
Follow your dreams. If you have a goal, and you want to achieve it, then work hard and do everything you can to get there, and one day it will come true.
We are bombarded on all sides by a vast number of messages we don’t want or need. More information is generated in a single day than we can absorb in a lifetime. To fully enjoy life, all of us must find our own breathing space and peace of mind.
If we only wanted to be happy, it would be easy; but we want to be happier than other people, and that is almost always difficult, since we think them happier than they are.
Trust the young people; trust this generation‘s innovation. They’re making things, changing innovation every day. And all the consumers are the same: they want new things, they want cheap things, they want good things, they want unique things. If we can create these kind of things for consumers, they will come.
Each generation wants new symbols, new people, new names. They want to divorce themselves from their predecessors.
If a horse won’t eat it, I don’t want to play on it.
I like joy; I want to be joyous; I want to have fun on the set; I want to wear beautiful clothes and look pretty. I want to smile, and I want to make people laugh. And that’s all I want. I like it. I like being happy. I want to make others happy.
The transgender bathroom thing – it’s just so obvious that people are scared of what they don’t understand. It’s like, ‘I don’t want to deal with the fact that some people might have been born in the wrong body.’
I’m trying to show everybody that I’m a girl, and I’m five foot four, and you can do anything you want, no matter your gender. It’s your world, too!
You can have anything you want, but not everything. If it was really important to spend an afternoon at my daughter’s school, I had to think, how was I going to organize my life to do that? How could I become more efficient? I always tried to put my priorities on the table, personal and professional, and work around them.
The greatest wealth is to live content with little, for there is never want where the mind is satisfied.
Men want a battle to fight, an adventure to live, and a beauty to rescue. That is what is written in their hearts. That is what little boys play at. That is what men’s movies are about. You just see it. It is undeniable.
Sometimes if you want to get rid of the gun, you have to pick the gun up.
I want to live and feel all the shades, tones, and variations of mental and physical experience possible in my life. And I am horribly limited.
I am not afraid of death, I just don’t want to be there when it happens.
If you want to truly understand something, try to change it.
I just want you to know that, when we talk about war, we’re really talking about peace.
Tolerance, compromise, understanding, acceptance, patience – I want those all to be very sharp tools in my shed.
Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down.
When you know what you want, and want it bad enough, you will find a way to get it.
I want my friend to miss me as long as I miss him.
It is greed to do all the talking but not to want to listen at all.
Be sure what you want and be sure about yourself. Fashion is not just beauty, it’s about good attitude. You have to believe in yourself and be strong.
If you want something, work hard for it, go after it. I can’t worry about all the ‘no’s, because I believe there’s a yes, and I’ve been very fortunate to find those in my career and made the most of those opportunities.
Clever and attractive women do not want to vote; they are willing to let men govern as long as they govern men.
It is the privilege of the gods to want nothing, and of godlike men to want little.
I’m not a politician. I don’t want to be a politician, because politicians do what is politically expedient. I want to do what’s right.
The people who are bullying you, they’re insecure about who they are, and that’s why they’re bullying you. It never has to do with the person they’re bullying. They desperately want to be loved and be accepted, and they go out of their way to make people feel unaccepted so that they’re not alone.
If you didn’t want to believe in me, that’s OK, because I’ll make a believer out of you.
I’m trying to stay focused on what I’m doing. I don’t want a whole lot of things going on – people to call back, or text messages or whatever. I chill out, relax a little bit, and then I don’t have those issues.
I don’t want to be fake. I’m just being me. And I have the power to break stereotypes and whatever useless rules that society puts on us.
The sovereignty of scriptures of all religions must come to an end if we want to have a united integrated modern India.
I know where I’m going and I know the truth, and I don’t have to be what you want me to be. I’m free to be what I want.
Unhappiness is not knowing what we want and killing ourselves to get it.
What the people want is very simple – they want an America as good as its promise.
Anytime someone tells me that I can’t do something, I want to do it more.
God and Nature first made us what we are, and then out of our own created genius we make ourselves what we want to be. Follow always that great law. Let the sky and God be our limit and Eternity our measurement.
If your life were a book and you were the author, how would you want your story to go? That’s the question that changed my life forever.
Nothing is more bothersome to me than retiring. Weird things happen when you disengage; first you get negative, then you start telling people about your latest surgeries, and eventually you lose touch. I want to stay in touch.
Hair color is just an expression of something different that you want to have, or something creative.
I want to stand as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all the kinds of things you can’t see from the center.
I want to marry Arline because I love her – which means I want to take care of her. That is all there is to it. I want to take care of her. I am anxious for the responsibilities and uncertainties of taking care of the girl I love.
You can convince yourself of just about anything when you want to believe a conspiracy theory.
Our decisions about transportation determine much more than where roads or bridges or tunnels or rail lines will be built. They determine the connections and barriers that people will encounter in their daily lives – and thus how hard or easy it will be for people to get where they need and want to go.
If you really want something you can figure out how to make it happen.
If you want to change the culture, you will have to start by changing the organization.
Exceed your customer‘s expectations. If you do, they’ll come back over and over. Give them what they want – and a little more.
Money doesn’t mean anything to me. I’ve made a lot of money, but I want to enjoy life and not stress myself building my bank account. I give lots away and live simply, mostly out of a suitcase in hotels. We all know that good health is much more important.
I just want people to know that I’m a good person, and I’m not a thug like everybody thinks I am.
As long as we persevere and endure, we can get anything we want.
I have self-doubt. I have insecurity. I have fear of failure. I have nights when I show up at the arena and I’m like, ‘My back hurts, my feet hurt, my knees hurt. I don’t have it. I just want to chill.’ We all have self-doubt. You don’t deny it, but you also don’t capitulate to it. You embrace it.
When you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it.
Some people want it to happen, some wish it would happen, others make it happen.
You only live once and you need to enjoy life, to go out and achieve whatever you want to.
If I can’t dance, I don’t want to be part of your revolution.
Whatever you want to do, if you want to be great at it, you have to love it and be able to make sacrifices for it.
I don’t want to name my fandom, I want them to name themselves. If I’m cool with it, I’m cool with it.
If you want to be thought a liar, always tell the truth.
I’ve been asked over the years to compile a list of desert-island discs. I couldn’t do that. If I was trapped on a desert island, I don’t think I’d want 10 songs to bring with me.
Sometimes you have to do what you don’t like to get to where you want to be.
Employees are a company’s greatest asset – they’re your competitive advantage. You want to attract and retain the best; provide them with encouragement, stimulus, and make them feel that they are an integral part of the company’s mission.
Indeed, a major source of objection to a free economy is precisely that it… gives people what they want instead of what a particular group thinks they ought to want. Underlying most arguments against the free market is a lack of belief in freedom itself.
Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion; it is not the expression of personality, but an escape from personality. But, of course, only those who have personality and emotions know what it means to want to escape from these things.
Music is still part of my life, but I hate the idea of people coming to see me play the guitar because they’ve seen me in movies. You want people who are listening to be only interested in the music.
After one look at this planet any visitor from outer space would say ‘I want to see the manager.’
I’ve always followed my heart and pursued my dreams, and I imagine that people find that inspiring. I hope that is the effect I have on my fans and people in general. I definitely want to project a positive energy out into the world.
If you want to change the world, find someone to help you paddle.
The only thing I want is to awaken all humans on the planet that we are living on Mother Earth.
What does immortality mean to me? That we all want more time; and we want it to be quality time.
We all want to help one another. Human beings are like that. We want to live by each other’s happiness, not by each other’s misery.
I don’t try to be sexy, but I do want to look as good as I can.
Political tags – such as royalist, communist, democrat, populist, fascist, liberal, conservative, and so forth – are never basic criteria. The human race divides politically into those who want people to be controlled and those who have no such desire.
We want to lead normal lives, lives where our religion and our traditions translate into tolerance, so that we coexist with the world and become part of the development of the world.
You want to know whether we’re better off? I’ve got a little bumper sticker for you: Osama bin Laden is dead and General Motors is alive. Osama bin Laden is dead and General Motors is alive! Osama bin Laden is dead and General Motors is alive!
You want to see an angry person? Let me hear a cell phone go off.
Those who want to look more youthful should live life with a young heart.
I’m confident to say that if you want to grow in a profession, consistency is the key… I’m strict about my work goals and training.
God has already done everything He’s going to do. The ball is now in your court. If you want success, if you want wisdom, if you want to be prosperous and healthy, you’re going to have to do more than meditate and believe; you must boldly declare words of faith and victory over yourself and your family.
There’s a saying. If you want someone to love you forever, buy a dog, feed it and keep it around.
You can’t have everything you want, but you can have the things that really matter to you.
If you want to love others, I think you should love yourself first.
If you want creativity, take a zero off your budget. If you want sustainability, take off two zeros.
Motivation is the art of getting people to do what you want them to do because they want to do it.
If you want to be a legend you have to fight with legends.
I want to put a ding in the universe.
Don’t let other people tell you what you want.
If you’re nervous, that means you care and you want to give your best.
Everybody should be able to enjoy their life, because you only live once. So I just want to get it all out there and be the best role model that I can be, if people want to put me in that kind of predicament. I mean, I didn’t ask to be a role model, because I’m not perfect.
There’s too much darkness in the world. Everywhere you turn, someone is tryin’ to tear someone down in some way; everywhere you go, there’s a feeling of inadequacy, or a feeling that you’re not good enough. I want to bring a certain light to the world.
Grooming a successor, is it an inheritance? In a democratic party, you don’t want leaders appointed that way. They have to be appointed properly by the people.
Everything you want to accomplish is already within yourself so when you start to roll in self-doubt and think negative thoughts then you’ll fall off. So keep visualising and keep knowing what you’re destined for, it’ll come to you.
You know how advice is. You only want it if it agrees with what you wanted to do anyway.
I think there’s no limit to ambition, and if you want something, you can make anything happen, so go for it.
As far as Saddam Hussein being a great military strategist, he is neither a strategist, nor is he schooled in the operational arts, nor is he a tactician, nor is he a general, nor is he a soldier. Other than that, he’s a great military man, I want you to know that.
I want a world without war, a world without insanity. I want to see people do well. I don’t even think it’s as much as what I want for myself. It’s more what I want for the people around me. That’s what I want.
I wanted to live the life, a different life. I didn’t want to go to the same place every day and see the same people and do the same job. I wanted interesting challenges.
If you really want to do it, you do it. There are no excuses.
You just gotta keep going and fighting for everything, and one day you’ll get to where you want.
If you want to conquer fear, don’t sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy.
You can have everything in life you want, if you will just help other people get what they want.
If the people don’t want to come out to the ballpark, nobody’s going to stop them.
We all want progress, but if you’re on the wrong road, progress means doing an about-turn and walking back to the right road; in that case, the man who turns back soonest is the most progressive.
If you want to make beautiful music, you must play the black and the white notes together.
Men always want to be a woman’s first love – women like to be a man’s last romance.
In a free society, government reflects the soul of its people. If people want change at the top, they will have to live in different ways. Our major social problems are not the cause of our decadence. They are a reflection of it.
Want of foresight, unwillingness to act when action would be simple and effective, lack of clear thinking, confusion of counsel until the emergency comes, until self-preservation strikes its jarring gong – these are the features which constitute the endless repetition of history.
I want to be a force for real good. In other words. I know that there are bad forces, forces that bring suffering to others and misery to the world, but I want to be the opposite force. I want to be the force which is truly for good.
People can say what they want about me. But I’ve got a big heart and will keep going.
We want our legacy to stand upon the youth. We want to give knowledge to the younger generation and be a part of changing the game.
If you want to go somewhere, it is best to find someone who has already been there.
If you want a thing done well, do it yourself.
What makes a river so restful to people is that it doesn’t have any doubt – it is sure to get where it is going, and it doesn’t want to go anywhere else.
Don’t block your blessings. Don’t let doubt stop you from getting where you want to be.
On the whole, human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time.
I want to love. I want to enjoy life.
In essence, if we want to direct our lives, we must take control of our consistent actions. It’s not what we do once in a while that shapes our lives, but what we do consistently.
You need to aim beyond what you are capable of. You must develop a complete disregard for where your abilities end. Try to do things that you’re incapable of… If you think you’re incapable of running a company, make that your aim… Make your vision of where you want to be a reality. Nothing is impossible.
If you want to make God laugh, tell him about your plans.
No matter what you achieve, what you want to aspire to be, or how famous and powerful you become, the most important thing is whether you are excited about each and every moment of your life because of your work and people around you.
I don’t want any yes-men around me. I want everybody to tell me the truth even if it costs them their job.
I have my own high standards for what I want in a partner and how I want to be treated. I bring a lot to the table. I’m not talking about material things but what I have to offer as a person – love and loyalty and all the things that make a good relationship.
I want to show people they don’t have to be scared of being different.
I never said, ‘I want to be alone.’ I only said, ‘I want to be left alone.’ There is all the difference.
Meetings are indispensable when you don’t want to do anything.
I realize that humor isn’t for everyone. It’s only for people who want to have fun, enjoy life, and feel alive.
Just getting older, you stop caring what other people think, but also, you know who you are, and you know what you want.
If you want peace, you don’t talk to your friends. You talk to your enemies.
You know it’s love when all you want is that person to be happy, even if you’re not part of their happiness.
I don’t want to achieve immortality through my work. I want to achieve it through not dying.
I do not play football to win the Ballon d’Or. I play football to be happy, because I love it and want to play football.
I always want to say to people who want to be rich and famous: ‘try being rich first’. See if that doesn’t cover most of it. There’s not much downside to being rich, other than paying taxes and having your relatives ask you for money. But when you become famous, you end up with a 24-hour job.
I may not be where I want to be, but thank God I am not where I used to be.
A sure way to lose happiness, I found, is to want it at the expense of everything else.
Those who want the Government to regulate matters of the mind and spirit are like men who are so afraid of being murdered that they commit suicide to avoid assassination.
I never want to change so much that people can’t recognize me.
I’m not possessive, I’m caring… Once you realize a person doesn’t want that much care, you automatically back off.
Remember your dreams and fight for them. You must know what you want from life. There is just one thing that makes your dream become impossible: the fear of failure.
The one thing I learned is to just give everything a shot. You don’t want to live in regret.
More than an end to war, we want an end to the beginning of all wars – yes, an end to this brutal, inhuman and thoroughly impractical method of settling the differences between governments.
If you want to do something, go for it -you’ve got nothing to lose.
I never wanted to give in to my condition. My life changed a lot but I didn’t want it to change my dreams or goals.
I did not want to be a tree, a flower or a wave. In a dancer‘s body, we as audience must see ourselves, not the imitated behavior of everyday actions, not the phenomenon of nature, not exotic creatures from another planet, but something of the miracle that is a human being.
Mafia guys are all just insecure people who want their money. They’re like little seven-year old kids when they don’t get their way. I knew guys like that growing up in New Jersey.
Success is about dedication. You may not be where you want to be or do what you want to do when you’re on the journey. But you’ve got to be willing to have vision and foresight that leads you to an incredible end.
Plastic surgery and breast implants are fine for people who want that, if it makes them feel better about who they are. But, it makes these people, actors especially, fantasy figures for a fantasy world. Acting is about being real being honest.
May you live as long as you want and not want as long as you live.
You’ve got as many lives as you like, and more, even ones you don’t want.
If you want special results, you have to feel special things and do special things together. You can speak about spirit, or you can live it.
If you limit your choices only to what seems possible or reasonable, you disconnect yourself from what you truly want, and all that is left is compromise.
It is better to vote for what you want and not get it than to vote for what you don’t want and get it.
