Just take the ball and throw it where you want to. Throw strikes. Home plate don’t move.
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.
If you want to be enthusiastic, act enthusiastic.
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.
I want to touch the heart of the world and make it smile.
Courage is managing fear to accomplish what you want to accomplish. And it’s a great demonstration of love. It’s really what love is. It’s finding areas in which other people are more important than you.
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.’
The challenge of life, I have found, is to build a resume that doesn’t simply tell a story about what you want to be, but it’s a story about who you want to be.
I genuinely want to do my best every day, and I genuinely want to enjoy life every day.
We need to steer clear of this poverty of ambition, where people want to drive fancy cars and wear nice clothes and live in nice apartments but don’t want to work hard to accomplish these things. Everyone should try to realize their full potential.
You say to a brick, ‘What do you want, brick?’ And brick says to you, ‘I like an arch.’ And you say to brick, ‘Look, I want one, too, but arches are expensive and I can use a concrete lintel.’ And then you say: ‘What do you think of that, brick?’ Brick says: ‘I like an arch.’
I want my friend to miss me as long as I miss him.
I still find each day too short for all the thoughts I want to think, all the walks I want to take, all the books I want to read, and all the friends I want to see.
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.
I can’t think of the last Asian that I ran into that talked about internment camps. But black people always want to talk to me about slavery.
I do what I want, when I want.
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.
I’m not afraid of death, but I’m in no hurry to die. I have so much I want to do first.
When you want to fool the world, tell the truth.
I don’t want to impugn the motives of my colleagues, but my attitude is, speaking just for me, you either believe in border security or you don’t.
Great companies start because the founders want to change the world… not make a fast buck.
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 crave for adventure. It makes me feel alive and excited. It’s a constant tussle between what you want to do and other parameters that aren’t in your hands.
Marriage is a wonderful institution, but who would want to live in an institution?
Time is what we want most, but what we use worst.
It was a perfect marriage. She didn’t want to and he couldn’t.
When you’re the best, you only want to surround yourself with the best.
Prohibition makes you want to cry into your beer and denies you the beer to cry into.
I think it all comes down to motivation. If you really want to do something, you will work hard for it.
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.
If I can’t dance, I don’t want to be part of your revolution.
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.
Cute is when a person’s personality shines through their looks. Like in the way they walk, every time you see them you just want to run up and hug them.
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.
Ironing is a great diversion from the reality you don’t want to face.
It’s a small world, but I wouldn’t want to have to paint it.
For the past 33 years, I have looked in the mirror every morning and asked myself: ‘If today were the last day of my life, would I want to do what I am about to do today?’ And whenever the answer has been ‘No’ for too many days in a row, I know I need to change something.
You’ve got to always go back in time if you want to move forward.
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.
You can’t just ask customers what they want and then try to give that to them. By the time you get it built, they’ll want something new.
If you want to go east, don’t go west.
I do like to have guns around. I don’t like to carry them. But I like – if somebody is going to come into my house and I have not put out the welcome mat, I want to stop them.
You owe it to yourself to be the best person possible. Because if you are, others will want to be with you, want to provide you with the things you want in exchange for what you’re giving to them.
There are always flowers for those who want to see them.
If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.
One of the things you can always depend on – this is one of the truths of the universe, and you heard it first from here – whatever we decide we want to do is what we do.
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.
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.
If there’s a book you really want to read, but it hasn’t been written yet, then you must write it.
If you want to study the social and political history of modern nations, study hell.
There is only one way… to get anybody to do anything. And that is by making the other person want to do it.
I love being married. It’s so great to find that one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life.
I’m not interested in preserving the status quo; I want to overthrow it.
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.
There’s no success story. Everybody’s got a ghetto story. You always want to make it bigger than what it is.
If you’re a young black dude from the hood you want to come through the hood in a car that makes a lot of noise.
If you want bigger arms, target the triceps, not the biceps.
As a shooter, the one thing you want to be is consistent.
To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness.
You have succeeded in life when all you really want is only what you really need.
You can have anything you want in life if you dress for it.
I don’t want to get to the end of my life and find that I lived just the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well.
Our strength as a nation comes in our unity. We are the United States of America, not the divided states. And those who want to divide us are trying to divide us, and we shouldn’t let them do it.
I always liked having my own money and buying my own stuff. I didn’t want to depend on somebody to do it for me.
That’s the good thing about being president, I can do whatever I want.
If you want someone to miss you, go secretly and spray your fragrance somewhere.
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.
People say I’m extravagant because I want to be surrounded by beauty. But tell me, who wants to be surrounded by garbage?
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.
I just want to inspire my fans to be whoever they want to be, because that’s what I’ve always done.
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.
The Lord may not come when you want Him, but he’s always going to be there on time.
