Top 100 Things You Want Quotes
#1. Prayer is the soul's sincere desire. Your desire is your prayer. It comes out of your deepest needs and it reveals the things you want in life.
Joseph Murphy
#2. I think anyone who makes products has this simultaneous joy and, almost, shame looking at it. You look at it all day and all you can see is all these things you want to make better.
Ben Silbermann
#3. A lot of things you want to do as part of daily life can now be done over the Internet.
Marc Andreessen
#4. Desire is one of the main drivers in creating your reality; utilise desire by focusing it upon the things you want to achieve in life.
Steven Redhead
#5. I don't believe in depriving yourself of things you want.
Jennie Garth
#6. Turn your tongue seven times before speaking. This way you'll have time to think if you ought to say the things you want to say.
Vaddey Ratner
#7. As a composer you want to tell musicians two completely contradictory things. You want to say, "Play exactly what I wrote, but bring your own thing to it." In a lot of ways they feel like opposites, but in a sense, my job is to cajole or encourage decisions that I approve of.
Nico Muhly
#8. Don't let yourself make excuses for not doing the things you want to do.
Sam Altman
#9. Money is a cruel thing. It's the thing that stands between you and the things you want and the people you love.
Rainbow Rowell
#10. There should be a place where only the things you want to happen, happen
Maurice Sendak
#11. Since you have to do the things you have to do, be wise enough to do some of the things you want to do.
Malcolm Forbes
#12. Who said memory is kind? Memory is merciless. My father was right. 'All the things you want to remember, Paullina, I want to forget'.
Paullina Simons
#13. So you can't compare the present with the past, not really, because you're a different person than you were [when Patrick was alive]. You have to look forward to the things you want, not back at the things you once had.
Kristin Harmel
#14. I don't actually tend to do a lot of research when I'm writing. I do know because I think a lot of what I find you want to do with research is just confirming things you want to do. If the research contradicts what you want to do, you tend to go ahead and do it anyway.
Christopher Nolan
#15. It's all based around the idea that basically VW cars are space age. They're the worst cars to use in action movie, because all the things you want to traditionally do in an action movie they won't allow you to do, because they make you drive safely if you want to or not.
Paul W. S. Anderson
#16. You might not have the things you want, but if you check carefully, you got all you need.
Mr. T
#17. Life is like a giant smorgasbord of more delicious alternatives than you can ever hope to taste. So you have to reject having some things you want in order to get other things you want more.
Ray Dalio
#18. Life is about taking what you want and giving even more. Not because you think you should, because you want to. Love isn't easy because life isn't easy. You have to fight for the things you want. Sometimes you win and sometimes you wish you lost instead
Rachel Robinson
#19. My mom played tennis for, like, six hours a day and went to college on a tennis scholarship, because that was the way she could go to school. So they instilled in me the idea that you have to work hard for the things you want in life and never complain.
Dakota Fanning
#20. There's no narrative to your life, no arc, no reward for achieving all of the things you want. That kind of thinking is a recipe for a you-centric world view and is a very lonely road. Focus instead on the role you play in the stories of others..
Justin McElroy
#21. When you start out in comedy, or probably in a lot of things, you want it to happen fast. You don't want to see yourself having to do this for seven years before you start to get some feedback.
Mitch Hedberg
#22. So let the variety of your reality thrill you as you choose all the things you want.. get behind the good feelings of all your wants.
Rhonda Byrne
#23. It's all about realizing what you're doing to hold yourself back, like through hatred or fear or nihilism or eating gluten. You identify the things you want, and you finally allow yourself to take them-'
William lost the end of her diatribe as a garbage truck rolled by outside
Kristopher Jansma
#24. If you do the things you need to do when you need to do them, then someday you can do the things you want do when you want to do them.
John C. Maxwell
#25. Such a muddy line between the things you want/And the things you have to do.
Sheryl Crow
#26. I think it has a lot to do with determination. I treat people the way I want to be treated and believe if you work hard you can have the things you want in life.
Bo Bice
#27. You lent me The Golden Compass! It's full of jinni trickery, and you were angry at me when I told you that made it dangerous! Why do you get mad when religion tells you that the things you want to be true are true?
When it's true, it's not fun anymore. All right? When it's true it's scary.
G. Willow Wilson
#28. It was very important to me to be with a woman who is better than me at some things. You want someone who brings new, interesting things into your life.
Jesse Williams
#29. If you always attach positive emotions to the things you want, and never attach negative emotions to the things you don't, then that which you desire most will invariably come your way.
Matthew D. Miller
#31. I guess if you're really a friend, you overlook certain things. Its easy to be friends with someone who only says things you want to hear. I guess if you're really a friend, you have to cut a friend some slack.
Catherine Ryan Hyde
#32. Only younger brothers will understand me. We're following in the footsteps of older brothers. You are looking up to your brother. You want to do the same things. You want to do as good as he and do it even better.
Wladimir Klitschko
#33. Writing is a way of living other lives. It is a way of expanding your life. It's not actually living a different life, it just means that you're hungry for life. There are so many things you want to do.
Etgar Keret
#34. 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.
Harry Browne
#35. Failing often is the only way to ever get the things you want out of life.
David McRaney
#36. That being said, it's horrible when people you hate get things you want.
Lena Dunham
#37. Never let the things you want make you forget the things you have.
Sanchita Pandey
#38. You become what you think about and focus on the most. See yourself attracting the things you want to accomplish. Thoughts and desires in your mind can become a reality.
Jonathan Toews
#39. A key to improved prayer is to learn to ask the right questions. Consider changing from asking for the things you want to honestly seeking what He wants for you. Then as you learn His will, pray that you will be led to have the strength to fulfill it.
Richard G. Scott
#40. There are only three requirements for success. First, decide exactly what it is you want in life. Second, determine the price that you are going to have to pay to get the things you want. And third, and this is most important, resolve to pay that price.
H. L. Hunt
#41. You're not going to become a great manager overnight. You're not going to become a great public speaker or figure out how to raise money. These are the things you want to start the clock on as early as possible.
Drew Houston
#42. We don't need a melting pot in this country, folks. We need a salad bowl. In a salad bowl, you put in the different things. You want the vegetables - the lettuce, the cucumbers, the onions, the green peppers - to maintain their identity. You appreciate differences.
Jane Elliot
#43. If you burn yourself out in two years of intense selfless giving, what good is that if you could have given 20 years? Set yourself up well. Get the things you want - God exists in the material and in the spiritual.
Frederick Lenz
#44. I believed in myself and I am a firm believer you have to think the things you want and visualize.
John Legend
#45. life's too short, after all, isn't it? not to do the things you want - the things that make you happy? hannah had been thinking that quite a lot t. oday
Elizabeth Noble
#46. I have very supportive parents who said, 'Go and do what you want to do. Home is always here for you, and if you don't like it out there, come back. You can always do something different.' So when you have an option like that, you are able to choose roles or choose the things you want to be in.
Michelle Yeoh
#47. The one thing about being a parent is the ability to be selfless: To give up the things you want and need for the benefit of someone else.
Danny McBride
#48. Count the things you want more of. Count the laughs, not calories.
Grady Miller
#49. Do battle with the enemy. Do battle with your fears. Build your courage to fight what's holding you back, what's keeping you from your goals and dreams. Be courageous in your life and in your pursuit of the things you want and the person you want to become.
Jim Rohn
#50. When you live a hard life, you spend years wishing for the easy stuff, but then when you get it, it never feels right. You get used to having to fight and claw for the things you want, and when you don't have to do that anymore, everything feels a little bit muted.
Cora Carmack
#51. Constantly through thought you are creating your inner conditions and helping to create the conditions around you. So keep your thoughts on the positive side, think about the best that could happen, think about the good things you want to happen.
Peace Pilgrim
#52. The most important thing about skating is that it teaches you to do the things you should do before you do the things you want to do.
Barbara Ann Scott
#53. Love means sometimes sacrificing the things you want in order to make somebody else happy. It means being there for them, even when maybe you don't feel like it, because they need you.
Leila Sales
#54. If you wish to care for your body, first of all take care of material things, though even when you have all the things you want, the body can still be uncared for
Zhuangzi
#55. Sometimes,
you must refrain from doing things you want so bad.
Toba Beta
#56. Do the things you want to do; if you don't, the things which keep you alive inside you die and you turn into a ghost!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#57. Sara, your work is not to look for the perfect place where only the things you want exist. Your work is to look for the things you want in every place.
Esther Hicks
#58. People spend time worrying about things they think they have to have and lose perception of what they do have. You can have all the money and material things you want. If you aren't here to enjoy them, what good do they do?
Eric Davis
#59. The universe knows the perfect timing for all those things you want and will find, through the crack of least resistance, the best way to deliver it to you.
Esther Hicks
#60. Be thankful, Lincoln. Money is a cruel
thing. It's the thing that stands between you
and the things you want and the people you
love."
"How does money come between you and
the people you love?"
"It's coming between us right now.
Rainbow Rowell
#61. You can achieve all the things you want to do, but it's much better to do it with loved ones around you; family and friends, people that you care about that can help you on the way and can celebrate you, and you can enjoy the journey.
John Lasseter
#62. 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.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
#63. By now, I'm sure you can see that most of the things you want are stupid and most of the decisions you make are bad.
Allie Brosh
#64. As you become known, the demands on you are such that you get less and less time to do the things you want to do. But if there are no demands, then that means nobody wants to read what you're doing anyway, so you're stuck.
Iain Sinclair
#65. My suggestion is that you find the true source of your satisfaction and your happiness will follow. Then, you will become the things you want to become. Then you will have the THINGS that you want.
J.B. Glossinger
#66. If you're not getting the things you want, need or desire, it's because you have not accepted that you can have them.
Della Reese
#67. That you gotta go after the things you want, because they might not be there when you finally pull your head out of your ass and realize they're important.
Elisabeth Naughton
#68. You are the master of your environment. You've got your own head, your own mind. So once you figure out what you want for yourself, you have to create the proper environment to make sure you can live out all the things you want.
Tyrese Gibson
#69. Sometimes you're just too close to something to see it clearly. To see it for what it really is. It's like you've got your face pressed to it, and all you can see is the small points. The things you want to see.
Scott Snyder
#70. When you are confident that you are the Father's treasured possession, you are also confident that his loving care will continue forever. Building warehouses is a waste of time and space. His gifts to you become things you want to give him back in gratitude. Then he gives you even more.
Edward T. Welch
#71. The greatest personal limitation is to be found not in the things you want to do and can't, but in the things you've never considered doing.
Richard Bandler
#72. It's a wisdom that comes from seeing how things work. Things you want to happen always take a long time.' She pointed one little finger at the meech dragon and shook it in his face. 'You may read books and know bunches, but I have lived life longer than you.
Donita K. Paul
#73. The starting point of great success in your life begins, in the simplest terms, when you discipline yourself to think and talk about only the things you want and refuse to think and talk about anything you don't want.
Brian Tracy
#74. The things you want are always possible; it is just that the way to get them is not always apparent. The only real obstacle in your path to a fulfilling life is you, and that can be a considerable obstacle because you carry the baggage of insecurities and past experience.
Les Brown
#76. My philosophy is to enjoy yourself. Do the things you want to do, like play golf!
Phil Daniels
#77. There's no pleasure in working if you don't do the things you want to do.
Sophia Loren
#78. One of the nice things about a second book is that your readers already have so much of the introductions on board, they don't have to put all their attention into figuring out the world and can more easily let that play out as a background to the other things you want to do.
Ann Leckie
#79. Watching someone you love die is like driving through a fog. You know you're headed somewhere but you can't see your hand in front of your face; you're so focused on steering without crashing that you never say the things you want to say.
Vikki Wakefield
#80. I do genuinely believe that young people who play sport at a competitive level, sensibly controlled, sensibly organised, that has to be a good thing. It will teach them to win, it will teach them to lose with dignity and magnanimity - all the things you want. It's a pretty good metaphor for life.
Sebastian Coe
#81. ...life is too short to live without the things you want, to not fight for the things you love...
Natalie Ward
#82. Learn to thank God for the things you want but cannot have. Matthew 6:25-34.
Felix Wantang
#83. I suggest that you become obsessed about the things you want; otherwise, you are going to spend a lifetime being obsessed with making up excuses as to why you didn't get the life you wanted.
Grant Cardone
#84. Start enjoying the things you like about yourself, and if there are things you want to change, either get to work on it or get over it.
Benji Madden
#85. Haven't you ever heard of compromise?" "Oh sure," I said. "That's when you give away half the things you want. That's when you give the other guy half of what's rightfully yours. I've done that lots of times. It sucks.
Sue Grafton
#86. Yes, I want money more than anything else in the world."
"Then you've made the only choice. But there's a penalty attached, as there is to most things you want. It's loneliness.
Margaret Mitchell
#87. Sixteen years on the streets and you can learn a lot. But all the wrong things, not the things you want to learn. Sixteen years on the streets and you see a lot. But all the wrong sights, not the things you want to see.
S.E. Hinton
#88. me. That's what it does. Nothing is ever enough. You get more, and more, but you're never happy. It's a trap baited with all the things you want most. That life - it's not worth living.
Christie Golden
#89. You don't need a ball to play football; all you need is a strong wish! After then, you can use even a stone as a ball! For all other things you want to do, all you need is a strong wish!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#90. When you have passion it changes your perspective on things, you want every tiny detail to be right. You wanna give your all.
Alex Pettyfer
#91. When you're faced with the possibility of an early death, it makes you realize that life is worth living and there are a lots of things you want to do.
Stephen Hawking
#92. You know that the things you put it your head stay there, right?'
'Yeah. But you remember some things, don't you?'
'Yeah. You remember the things you want to forget and forget the things you want to remember.
Cormac McCarthy
#93. Always do the things fast in your life, because some things are coming from the future towards you; they may separate you forever from doing the things you want to do! Never forget, some things are coming from the future, be fast!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#94. See the things you want as already yours. Think of them as yours, as belonging to you, as already in your possession.
Robert Collier
#95. Claim the things you want by feeling and believing they are yours.
Rhonda Byrne
#96. The Nexus 7 is about the same size as a Moleskine notebook, and it just 'feels' like the right form factor for doing all those things you want to do on a smart phone, but can't quite do in the right way. It's not too big, and not too small - just right.
John Battelle
#97. Why? Why do you have to leave?" "Because sometimes you have to suffer without the things you want now so you can have everything you need later.
Cassia Leo
#98. Either you let your life slip away by not doing the things you want to do, or you get up and do them.
Roger Von Oech
#99. Then I heard a voice: "Until you learn to be grateful for the things you have," it said, "you will not receive the things you want.
John Kralik
#100. Witches do that, they put things you want in places you shouldn't go.
Claire King
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