Top 630 Want Quotes

We want deeper sincerity of motive, a greater courage in speech and earnestness in action.

A stiff apology is a second insult… The injured party does not want to be compensated because he has been wronged; he wants to be healed because he has been hurt.

Life is hard enough. Life is always going to be hard, so you need to push for what you want.

The greatest wealth is to live content with little, for there is never want where the mind is satisfied.

The world is so unpredictable. Things happen suddenly, unexpectedly. We want to feel we are in control of our own existence. In some ways we are, in some ways we’re not. We are ruled by the forces of chance and coincidence.

I try to keep in mind that it’s a long journey. It’s not a race. It’s about staying focused, continuing to do good work, make my family and community proud; that’s all I really want to do… and pay my bills.

We hire people who want to make the best things in the world.

Information is power. But like all power, there are those who want to keep it for themselves.

I don’t try to be sexy, but I do want to look as good as I can.

If you want to know all about Andy Warhol, just look at the surface of my paintings and films and me, and there I am. There’s nothing behind it.

Albert Einstein when asked what he considered to be the most powerful force in the universe answered: Compound interest! What you have become is the price you paid to get what you used to want.

If you want to accomplish the goals of your life, you have to begin with the spirit.

I never want to change so much that people can’t recognize me.

If I had a son, I want him to be able to grow up in a world where he would not be called a sexual predator for trying to kiss someone.

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.

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.

There are two kinds of women, those who want power in the world and those who want power in bed.

Grades don’t measure tenacity, courage, leadership, guts or whatever you want to call it. Teachers or any other persons in a position of authority should never tell anybody they will not succeed because they did not get all A’s in school.

From my own experience, I want to say that you should follow your heart, and the mind will follow you. Believe in yourself, and you will create miracles.

It is not in the nature of politics that the best men should be elected. The best men do not want to govern their fellowmen.

I’ve found that luck is quite predictable. If you want more luck, take more chances. Be more active. Show up more often.

I would never want to be a member of a group whose symbol was a guy nailed to two pieces of wood.

The world sometimes feels like an insane asylum. You can decide whether you want to be an inmate or pick up your visitor’s badge. You can be in the world but not engage in the melodrama of it; you can become a spiritual being having a human experience thoroughly and fully.

If you want to relax, watch the clouds pass by if you’re laying on the grass, or sit in front of the creek; just doing nothing and having those still moments is what really rejuvenates the body.

If you want peace work for justice.

Freedom is the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.

If you want to feel good, you have to go out and do some good.

You’ve got as many lives as you like, and more, even ones you don’t want.

I don’t want other people to decide who I am. I want to decide that for myself.

If you want a love message to be heard, it has got to be sent out. To keep a lamp burning, we have to keep putting oil in it.

If people don’t want to come out to the ball park, nobody’s gonna stop ’em.

The last thing you want to do is finish playing or doing anything and wish you would have worked harder.

If you really want to get along with somebody, let them be themselves.

Success is getting what you want. Happiness is liking what you get.

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’m vegan, though not completely religious about it. While writing ‘Sapiens,’ I became familiar with how we treat animals in the meat and dairy industries. I was so horrified that I didn’t want to be a part of it anymore.

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.

As much as I don’t want to admit it, my fans are the only ones that can hurt my feelings when they’re not pleased with what I’m presenting. I want it to be perfect for them. I want them to have a different sense of pride in my music.

If you want to make enemies, try to change something.

If you want to be thought a liar, always tell the truth.

I am not a demon. I am a lizard, a shark, a heat-seeking panther. I want to be Bob Denver on acid playing the accordion.

Older women know who they are, and that makes them more beautiful than younger ones. I like to see a face with some character. I want to see lines. I want to see wrinkles.

A leader takes people where they want to go. A great leader takes people where they don’t necessarily want to go, but ought to be.

I’m not afraid of dying I just don’t want to be there when it happens.

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.

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.

Men often make up in wrath what they want in reason.

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.

I feel I am lucky. I am grateful for this life that God has given me. I am happy, as I am getting to do work that I want to do and enjoy doing it.

I love the work, love the grind. I love what I have to go through to get what I want.

Raise hell – big time. I want y’all to get out there and raise hell about damned near everything. My word, there’s a world out there that needs fixing. Get out there and get after it.

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.

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.

The reason we want to go on and on is because we live in an impoverished present.

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.

The indispensable first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: decide what you want.

I don’t want to waste anyone’s time or money. I want to give people some truth and positive heart lift.

If you want to see the sunshine, you have to weather the storm.

Religion is like a personal computer. You let people in if you want to… We’re all gods.

Botox should be banned for actors, as steroids are for sportsmen. Acting is all about expression; why would you want to iron out a frown?

I know when I grew up, it was, if it was daylight outside, get outside. Well, now, with the technological age of computers and everything, everyone’s inside virtually going everywhere they want to go, virtually having relationships, virtually traveling across the neighborhood, virtually going to that island.

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.

You become what you believe, not what you think or what you want.

Now I do whatever I want.

I may not be where I want to be, but thank God I am not where I used to be.

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.

Happiness isn’t getting what you want, it’s wanting what you got.

I want the world to be better because I was here.

In a perfect dream, things would be set exactly the way you would want them. But I think it’s more interesting that in real life, things aren’t exactly the way you planned.

When I want to understand what is happening today or try to decide what will happen tomorrow, I look back.