Want Quotes

"However mean your life is, meet it and live it: do not shun it and call it hard names. Cultivate poverty like a garden herb, like sage. Do not trouble yourself much to get new things, whether clothes or friends. Things do not change, we change. Sell your clothes and keep your thoughts. God will see that you do want society."
-Henry David Thoreau

"I want to know God's thoughts; the rest are details."
-Albert Einstein

"I want to know God's thoughts... all the rest are just details."
-Albert Einstein

"Our chief want in life is somebody who shall make us do what we can."
-Ralph Waldo Emerson

"No great man ever complains of want of opportunity."
-Ralph Waldo Emerson

"How many legs does a dog have if you count his tail as a leg? Four. You can call a tail a leg if you want to, but that doesn't make it a leg."
-Abraham Lincoln

"Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power."
-Abraham Lincoln

"In this world one must be like everybody else if he doesn't want to provoke scorn or envy or jealousy."
-Mark Twain

"I can teach anybody how to get what they want out of life. The problem is that I can't find anybody who can tell me what they want."
-Mark Twain

"The only way to keep your health is to eat what you don't want, drink what you don't like, and do what you'd rather not."
-Mark Twain

"If you don't want it bad enough to risk losing it- you don't want it bad enough."
-Tom Krause

"Getting what you want is not nearly as important as giving what you have."
-Tom Krause

"If you want to imagine the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face forever."
-George Orwell

"On the whole human beings want to be good, but not too good and not quite all the time."
-George Orwell

"Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood."
-George Orwell

"Freedom is the right to tell people what they do not want to hear."
-George Orwell

"If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear."
-George Orwell

"Don't want to be near you for the thoughts we share but the words we never have to speak."
-Nikki Giovanni

"People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don't believe in circumstances. The people who get on in the world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and if they can't find them, make them."
-George Bernard Shaw

"To be clever enough to get a great deal of money, one must be stupid enough to want it."
-George Bernard Shaw

"Successful people in this world are those who get up and look for circumstances they want. If they can't find them, they make them."
-George Bernard Shaw

"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."
-George Bernard Shaw

"I want to be all used up when I die."
-George Bernard Shaw

"The moment we want to believe something, we suddenly see all the arguments for it, and become blind to the arguments against it."
-George Bernard Shaw

"How much there is in the world I do not want."
-Socrates

"Never fear the want of business. A man who qualifies himself well for his calling, never fails of employment."
-Thomas Jefferson

"Some people want it to happen, some wish it would happen, others make it happen."
-Michael Jordan

"If you really want something you can figure out how to make it happen."
-M. C. Escher