Our Wants Quotes

#1. The more we keep our mind on ourselves and our wants, the more unhappy we become. God wants us to love others and meet their needs.

Joyce Meyer

#2. Wonder is our erotic affiliation with all of life. If we develop this, enjoy it, and follow its promptings, our wants will be fewer and our needs plainer.

Stephanie Mills

#3. Why do we bombard God with our prayers for what we lack to be provided? Perhaps we should be asking God not to supply our wants, but to dwell within them.

Margaret Silf

#4. The mind was designed not to defend what we want, but to discover what is ultimately true, which should shape our wants and satisfy them more deeply with God. The purpose of the mind is not to rationalize subjective preferences, but to recognize objective reality and to help the heart revel in God.

John Piper

#5. Abortion and racism are both symptoms of a fundamental human error. The error is thinking that when someone stands in the way of our wants, we can justify getting that person out of our lives. Abortion and racism stem from the same poisonous root, selfishness.

Alveda King

#6. The true use of speech is not so much to express our wants as to conceal them.

Oliver Goldsmith

#7. Our necessities never equal our wants.

Benjamin Franklin

#8. Our wants always exceed our resources, and we believe that's the source of our unhappiness. Not so. Never was. No wonder we always feel stressed out and inadequate; we never make enough money to afford what we tell ourselves we need.

Anonymous

#9. When we stop thinking primarily about ourselves, of our wants, our image and our own self-preservation, we undergo a transformation of truly heroic proportions.

Jose N. Harris

#10. If our focus is whether our wants are met, it is almost impossible to remain thankful. Let's be thankful that our needs have been met!

Assegid Habtewold

#11. Nature has provided for the exigency of privation, by putting the measure of our necessities far below the measure of our wants. Our necessities are to our wants as Falstaff's pennyworth of bread to his any quantity of sack.

Christian Nestell Bovee

#12. It's a short step from the belief that every child should be wanted to the belief that a child exists to satisfy our wants.

Leon Kass

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

Henry Fielding

#14. There is black. There is white. Gray is a cowardly excuse to mix our wants with our needs.

Kim Harrison

#15. Our levels of consciousness and awareness define our wants and needs. When we achieve higher levels of consciousness, our wants cease to exist.

Debasish Mridha

#16. Sometimes our wants or needs have nothing to do with being ungrateful and everything to do with making a mistake.

Shannon L. Alder

#17. Our necessities are few, but our wants are endless.

George Bernard Shaw

#18. Suffering is having what you do not want, and wanting what you do not have. However, suffering is minimized when we equalize our desires to fit our circumstances. Subtract our wants, and we will be closer to contentment.

Joni Eareckson Tada

#19. The satisfaction derived from the fleeting things of life is not lasting; and our wants remain unfulfilled. There is thus a general sense of dissatisfaction accompanied by all kinds of worries.

Meher Baba

#20. The stoical scheme of supplying our wants by lopping off our desires, is like cutting off our feet, when we want shoes.

Jonathan Swift

#21. We can imprison ourselves with our wants, wishes, and false dreams.

Kilroy J. Oldster

#22. The fewer our wants the more we resemble the Gods.

Socrates

#23. Whatever our desires, our difficulties, our wants, we are at liberty to spread all before Him

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

#24. Our elected leaders treat us as children or consumers - ideally both, monstrous in our appetites, unable to discriminate between our wants and our needs.

Philip Connors

#25. Life is not a question of how much happiness we want, it is how happiness uses time to make our wants into need.

Kasey Collin P. Dumdum

#26. When we have accepted Jesus Christ, we have become akin to the Father; having become real children of God, we then have the spirit of sonship by which we can come into His presence and make known our wants in a familiar way.

A.C. Dixon

#27. I think 'vegan' is a beautiful word. It is more than just a description for our diet. I see it as a visible template for an ethical, healthy, responsible, and rational life. Because it describes our character, it says we do not take the life of another living being to satisfy our wants.

Philip Wollen

#28. Reality never meets our wants, and adjusting both is why we tell stories.

Rabih Alameddine

#29. No one likes to feel that he or she is being sold some-thing or told to do a thing. We much prefer to feel that we are buying of our own accord or acting on our own ideas. We like to be consulted about our wishes, our wants, our thoughts.

Dale Carnegie

#30. God gave us cats so that we would have an example of how we treat Him-mainly that we totally ignore Him as we go about our lives, but when we want something we will start to purr and figuratively rub ourselves against His legs to gain His attention for our wants.

Jeff Miller

#31. Our wants were simple, but they could not have been more complicated.

Susan Abulhawa

#32. Contentment is a rose, and the daily increase of our wants, are the thorns.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#33. The perfection of wisdom, and the end of true philosophy is to proportion our wants to our possessions, our ambitions to our capacities, we will then be a happy and a virtuous people.

Mark Twain

#34. The more various our artificial necessities, the wider is our circle of pleasure; for all pleasure consists in obviating necessities as they rise; luxury, therefore, as it increases our wants, increases our capacity for happiness

Oliver Goldsmith

#35. Human desire is an unlimited and boundless ocean, a body of water which can never be filled. If we make our wants and our desires for status our financial mission, we are doomed to fail from the start, because just as we think we have made it, there is always another hill to climb.

Erik Wecks

#36. Society is produced by our wants, and government by wickedness; the former promotes our happiness positively by uniting our affections, the latter negatively by restraining our vices. The one encourages intercourse, the other creates distinctions. The first is a patron, the last a punisher.

Thomas Paine

#37. The more we deny ourselves, the more the gods supply our wants.
[Lat., Quanto quisque sibi plura negaverit,
A dis plura feret.]

Horace

#38. So one aspect of becoming a Christian is having to leave behind what everyone else thinks and wants, the prevailing standards, in order to enter the light of the truth of our being, and aided by that light to find the right path. Mary

Pope Benedict XVI

#39. We are on parallel paths with the planet. The wants and needs of marine wildlife are our own: we want connection, companionship, a healthy clean environment.

Adrian Grenier

#40. God is bigger than our sins. God wants you as you are - stumbling, sinning, confused.

Sierra Simone

#41. It's in our best interest to put some of the old rules aside and create new ones and follow the consumer - what the consumer wants and where the consumer wants to go.

Bob Iger

#42. Only a fool wants war, but once a war starts then it cannot be fought half-heartedly. It cannot even be fought with regret, but must be waged with a savage joy in defeating the enemy, and it is that savage joy that inspires our bards to write their greatest songs about love and war.

Bernard Cornwell

#43. We must remember in our struggles that our duty lies outside of trying to understand God's plan. He never asks that of us. Instead, He wants to see our trust in Him, through simple daily obedience, even in a land of affliction and confusion.

Wayne Stiles

#44. We try to conceal our defects and say the things we think the other one wants to hear. We pretend that we're always lovely and sweet-tempered and that we don't mind the other's nasty little habits. And then after the wedding, we lower the boom.

Lisa Kleypas

#45. The time and intelligence that our ancestors spent on understanding the sovereignty revealed in Father, Son, and Holy Spirit are directed by our contemporaries in affirming and validating the sovereignty of our needs, wants, and feelings.

Eugene H. Peterson

#46. The world wants disarmament, the world needs disarmament. We have it in our power to help fashion future history.

Arthur Henderson

#47. Jesus didn't call us to merely make a decision for him. He doesn't need our vote of approval. He doesn't want deciders. He wants disciples - people who are devoted to becoming more and more like him in everything, everyday.

Jeff Vanderstelt

#48. The practice of thrift is not outdated. We must discipline ourselves to live within our incomes even if it means going without or making do. The wise person can distinguish ... between basic needs and extravagant wants. Some find budgeting extremely painful, but I promise you, it is never fatal.

Marvin J. Ashton

#49. American music is something the rest of the world wants to listen to. Our job is to make sure they pay for it.

Jason Michael Berman

#50. God always wants what's best for us, just as you want what's best for someone you really love. You put them before you, and God does that too. God puts us before His Son, who He sacrificed for our salvation. But the Son did it voluntarily because He has the love of the Father before us.

Francis George

#51. You heard me, Laila. He broke up with Meri, and now, wants me back. I told him to go fuck himself."
She smiles at me with pride. "That's my bitch." We click our bottles and swig a large mouthful.

Dora Sky

#52. Sean's our boy, big into computer games and football, wants to help the Redskins build a dynasty, though he doesn't really know what that means.

Catherine Coulter

#53. I'd rather live a life I truly love by spending my time doing things I love and have that be my only life rather than devote myself to someone who can't be proven exists at all that wants our time and our love more than our virtues simply just so I can live again

Anonymous

#54. As for my father, few souls are less troubled. He can be simply pleased with us, pleased that we exist, and, from the vantage point of his wondrously serene old age, he contemplates our lives almost as if they were books he can dip into whenever he wants. His back pages, perhaps.

Angela Carter

#55. Each of us has been given the ability to reach God with our prayers ... Whatever form it takes, each prayer is an invitation for God to bring his power into another life. God wants to help us, but he waits for us to seek his help.

Betty Eadie

#56. At a time when everybody in our culture is talking about tolerance, it seems that tolerance has the highest premium of any response - "If we just tolerate one another ... " But my feeling is: Who wants to be tolerated? People don't want to be tolerated; they want to be loved.

Derek Webb

#57. Commandments are loving counsel from a wise Father. Our understanding and concept of God as a loving and personal Heavenly Father allows us no other definition. He gives us commandments for one reason only-because he loves us and wants us to be happy.

Paul H. Dunn

#58. If our life is a dream, let it continue; who wants the reality? If our life is a reality, let it continue; who wants the dream? Unknown is unreliable!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#59. Supernatural explanations always mean the end of inquiry: that's the way God wants it, end of story. Science, on the other hand, is never satisfied: our studies of the universe will continue until humans go extinct.

Jerry A. Coyne

#60. One of the most important things to do in a church that wants to nurture and administrate prophetic ministry is to dial down the mysticism and the carnal desire to look superspiritual. We need to keep our eyes off people and remain focused on Jesus and His purpose for us.

Mike Bickle

#61. Putin wants to stay in power, but not so that he can finally solve our most pressing problems: education, health care, poverty.

Mikhail Gorbachev

#62. I guess God can be whatever God wants to be. Maybe God's so great that even our little rules about material reality and our tiny little universe don't mean anything to God. You ever think of that?

Donna Leon

#63. We will never accomplish what God wants for our lives unless we stop making excuses for ourselves and pampering our flesh. When we get into seemingly impossible situations, we have to remember - it's not about us.

Monica Johnson

#64. He just wants to be heard," Hank said.
That's all any of us want. To know that someone hears our pain.

Kathy Lyons

#65. The whole message God wants to tell us is that if we want to experience God, we must first abandon our thoughts and then start thinking His.

K.P. Yohannan

#66. But why will God not speak to me? ... I think when God is silent, He wants us to prove in our hearts that we are willing to follow Him no matter the cost. If all answers were crystal-clear, how could we show our devotion to Him?

Jennifer Beckstrand

#67. The Spirit doesn't require our perfect performance to work with; He simply needs willingness to yield to whatever the Father wants to do.

Michael Brown

#68. Our problem as leaders is we do everything we know to do. That's not enough. We need to do everything God wants us to do.

Richard Blackaby

#69. Prayer shouldn't be a burden but a privilege - God wants our fellowship.

Billy Graham

#70. Our Congress should stay in session all summer - camp out in D.C., and turn off the AC. Put on their stuffiest powdered wigs and sweat it out, until they give in and put their John Hancocks (and their Nancy Pelosis and their John Boehners) on at least one meaningful law that no one wants to repeal.

Kevin Bleyer

#71. The truth is God created us to have relationship with us. He wants to love us and take care of us, and He wants us to love Him. That's where our walk with Christ has to start.

Joyce Meyer

#72. But it is not our place to punish a father for his political beliefs or where he wants to raise his child. Indeed, if we were to start judging parents on the basis of their political beliefs, we would change the concept of family for the rest of time.

Janet Reno

#73. A part of us resists all of this and wants to make it sound as if it's much too religious, an arbitrary thing that we have to do with our life. This is nonsense. This is the real fun.

Frederick Lenz

#74. Our society seems to say that a real man needs and wants nobody.

Stuart Miller

#75. Our goal as women should be to discover who we are and not who we think we should be or who the world wants us to be. It's not our responsibility to be arm candy!

Elisabeth Rohm

#76. I'm not one of those who wants to purge our society of our Christian history.

Richard Dawkins

#77. If you take a look at our natural history, there's always a moment where the young lion wants to challenge the older lion and, inherently, that's going to be problematic, and I don't think we're any different.

Kiefer Sutherland

#78. The [Barack] Obama administration wants to take our rights to keep and bear arms away from us. They are trying to take our God, and our gun. And if they do that, they can impose a dictatorship upon us.

Ted Cruz

#79. Everyone wants a prodigy to fail; it makes our mediocrity more bearable.

Harold Bloom

#80. I've discovered that when we take time to renew our minds with God's Word, we learn how to think like God thinks, say what God says, and act like He wants us to act.

Joyce Meyer

#81. I used to believe the purpose in life is to find happiness. I don't believe that anymore. I believe we are all given gifts from our Father, and that our purpose is to offer them to Him. He knows how He wants us to use them.

Francine Rivers

#82. We should not open our mouths too hastily upon approaching God. On the contrary, we first must ask God to show us what and how to pray before we make our request known to Him. Have we not consumed a great deal of time in the past asking for what we wanted? Why not now ask for what God wants?

Watchman Nee

#83. Until we become fully free, we put up a false front, a facade, to others for the purpose of winning the acceptance and approval of others. We behave in accordance with what we think the other one wants rather than by expressing our own real feelings.

Lester Levenson

#84. Ten years ago, you wrote a book and you never expected to find out anything about the author. Now with social media, everyone wants that connection. I think our readers want to be invited into our lives and brought on the journey and be part of this whole process.

Jane Green

#85. Some say that the Black Rabbit hates us and wants our destruction. But the truth is - or so they taught me - that he, too, serves Lord Frith and does no more than his appointed task

Richard Adams

#86. Satan's first appearance in the Bible included an attack on a marriage - trying to divide Adam and Eve. His tactics have not changed. He wants our marriages to flounder and fail, because he knows that few things will discourage us more.

Billy Graham

#87. The material body has a practical reality that is accessible. It is here and now, and we can do something with it. However, we must not forget that the innermost part of our being is also trying to help us. It wants to come out to the surface and express itself.

B.K.S. Iyengar

#88. We have no need to learn to think much of ourselves, to care for ourselves, to consider our own needs, wants, and desires. We already do that far too much. The problem is getting us to think of others, to have a lowliness of mind that springs from humility and love.

Nancy Wilson

#89. It's easier to say (I'm going to be myself and if anyone wants to be with me, then she/he has to accept me as I am ... flaws and all) than it is for us to work at reducing our flaws and making ourselves more acceptable.

Darrell Roberts

#90. God wants us to be significant; he wants the world to know us that is why He encourages us to have an active civil position in our nations

Sunday Adelaja

#91. I think that women are often lumped into categories - single gals, or soccer moms, or career women, or women of a certain age. For some reason our society wants women to wear labels, and not only on their clothes.

Elizabeth Heyert

#92. The very fact that God has placed a certain soul in our way is a sign that God wants us to do something for him or her. It is not chance; it has been planned by God. We are bound by conscience to help him or her.

Mother Teresa

#93. God wants our conscience to be certain and sure that it is pleasing to Him. This cannot be done if the conscience is led by its own feelings, but only if it relies on the Word of God.

Martin Luther

#94. Someone's running your life. Most of us are on the throne of our own lives. Jesus wants to sit on the throne of your life.

Steve Farrar

#95. I am not one of these people who wants everyone to live the way I live. What causes more trouble on our troubled earth than people like that?

Roland Merullo

#96. Even though He wants our help, values our help, and calls for our help in changing the world, our all-powerful God is not helpless - even without us.

Nik Ripken

#97. As we get past our superficial material wants and instant gratification we connect to a deeper part of ourselves, as well as to others, and the universe.

Judith Wright

#98. For He, who gave this vast machine to roll, Breathed Life in then, in us a Reasoning Soul; That kindred feelings might our state improve, And mutual wants conduct to mutual love.

Juvenal

#99. If we choose to turn left when God wants us to go right, we cannot expect God to support the plans we made on our own.

Jim Cymbala

#100. We should turn our death into a celebration, even if only out of a malice towards life: towards the woman who wants to leave
us!

Friedrich Nietzsche