Top 100 Want To Be Quotes
#1. I didn't want to be Red Fox's saviour, but I wanted to be hers.
Karina Halle
#2. There are some people, be they black or white, who don't want others to rise above them. They want to be the source of all knowledge and share it piecemeal to others less endowed. That is what's wrong with all these carpenters and men who have a certain knowledge. It is the same with rich people.
Ngugi Wa Thiong'o
#3. See the world and then come home and decide who you want to be in it,
Rachel Friedman
#4. I want to be remembered as the guy who gave his all whenever he was on the field.
Walter Payton
#5. Become the leader of your life. Lead yourself to where you want to be. Breathe life back into your ambitions, your desires, your goals, your relationships.
Steve Maraboli
#6. I always liked acting in school and drama classes, but when people asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up, I always told them I wanted to be a singer. I didn't want to be a jack of all trades. I wanted to master one.
Eliza Doolittle
#7. I certainly have gotten caught up in the music business at various times in my life, mostly because you want to get along with whatever record company you're dealing with. I don't want to be flaky. I don't want to be some temperamental, hard-to-work-with musician.
Frank Black
#8. I want to be independent. To meet interesting people ... I just mean new people with clever things to say. Things I've never heard before. I want to be free. Open to whatever adventure comes along and sweeps me off my feet.
Kate Morton
#9. I don't really even go out that much now except to walk my dogs, because I don't want to be recognised.
Sia Furler
#10. I don't want to be some skinny mini with my tits out. I really don't want to do it and I don't want people confusing what it is that I'm about.
Adele
#11. We do not want to merely "see" beauty. We want to be united with it, to receive it into ourselves, to become part of it.
C.S. Lewis
#12. The player who looks least engaged may be the most committed member of the group. A cynic, after all, is a passionate person who does not want to be disappointed again.
Benjamin Zander
#13. I don't want to be here. I missed my dream world where everything was sunshine and smiles, away from whatever memories snarled on the out skirts of comprehension.
I want to forget ... just for a little longer.
Pepper Winters
#14. If you want to be on top, you've got to have broad shoulders, because as fast as you get there, the faster they try to knock you down.
Barry Bonds
#15. We shouldn't have to be faithful, we should want to be faithful.
Larry Kramer
#16. When you admire someone you want to be them, when you love someone, you want to be with them.
Gary Edward Gedall
#17. Beware of the gap. The gap between where you are and where you want to be. Simply thinking of the gap widens it. And you end up falling through.
Matt Haig
#18. Ready or not, I peer into your soul and dive deep... Your eyes don't like what I see. You don't want to be me. So you curse and smash the mirror which gets you what? A bit of blood , a handful of glass splinters, another source of pain.
Nikki Grimes
#19. You can be anything you want to be, and you can start today, instead of waiting for some opportunity.
Russell Simmons
#21. You're a tree in whose shadow we can't thrive. We want to be our own.
C.S. Lewis
#22. My one thing is I continue to be interested and want to be a student. I don't want to be a master. When I'm learning something, I'm in my element.
Chick Corea
#23. It is important not to copy other people's careers but set the tone of who you want to be. My father's always encouraged me to do that.
Nicole Richie
#24. I want to be harder to reach, not easier.
John Waters
#25. I want to write my life. I want to be able to write my life.
You are a second away from saying it.
You have no idea how much I love you.
David Levithan
#26. Some boys take a beautiful girl and hide her away from the rest of the world, I want to be the one to walk in the sun.
Cyndi Lauper
#27. Who doesn't want to be famous? I am famous. I'm dying to be on TV.
Eileen Myles
#28. You make me want to be less of an asshole.
Penny Reid
#29. If you want to be regarded as a superwoman, you have to standout like one!
Yadi J.
#30. I used to think it bordered on tragedy the way families lose touch, the way people sever ties, putting a pretty place to live above being together. But now I realize that's just how people like it. They don't always want to be together.
Paula Daly
#31. Leadership is creating an environment in which people want to be part of the organization and not just work for the organization. Leadership creates an environment that makes people want to, rather than have to, do.
Horst Schulze
#32. I'd love to work with Pharrell, but it's annoying because everyone is working with him now, and you don't want to be like, 'Oh, I want to work with you, too.' But he is the dream.
Eliza Doolittle
#33. Take the Friendmaker, for instance. Oi called 'im that , and now, when people see 'im, they instantly want to be my friend. Those that live, o' course. - Grunthor
Elizabeth Haydon
#34. I want to be true to the character and maintain some consistency and give the audience what they love while at the same time keeping things fresh and grow the character.
Martha Plimpton
#35. For a producer, you want to be in L.A. You want to be close to the action, and in L.A. there are always singers, artists, songwriters, collaborators and other producers. It's easy to get access to all that, which gives you more opportunity to work records.
Steve Aoki
#36. If you want to be free, learn to live simply.
John Heider
#37. This is the contradiction we have in the media. We love vigilantes: Batman, Tarzan, Green Arrow - the comic books and the TV shows are filled with vigilantes. We love to promote it. Jesus Christ was a vigilante. We admire these people, but we don't want to be associated with them.
Paul Watson
#38. I think everybody should take the attitude that we're working to be a champion, that we want to be a champion in everything that we do. Every choice, every decision, everything that we do every day, we want to be a champion.
Nick Saban
#39. I'm usually at home and in bed by 10 o'clock. I do not want to be out at anybody's New Year's Eve party.
Andre Leon Talley
#40. Because people with that much spirit frighten the hell out of me. They make me want to be a better person when I know it's not possible.
Melina Marchetta
#41. Being a first-rounder is a dream. You want to be mentioned as a first-rounder, the best of the best.
Rahim Moore
#42. I'm a selfish person, and I'm going onstage to have a good time, and I'd love if you want to be a part of it. So if people don't get it, they're wrong. I think they're wrong, and I think they either don't want to have a good time or they just don't like my style.
Chris D'Elia
#43. Millions of people are suffering: they want to be loved but they don't know how to love. And love cannot exist as a monologue; it is a dialogue, a very harmonious dialogue.
Osho
#44. There are two sides of the Velvet Rope. Those who want to be on the other side and those who are on the other side.
Janet Jackson
#45. Hiro feels even at this moment that something has been torn open in the world and that he is dangling above the gap, staring into a place where he does not want to be.
Neal Stephenson
#46. I want to be able to open up the really good treasures of the Church and Christianity to people, and that's not going to be achieved by shouting at them to convert or they'll go to hell. It's about giving them an opportunity to reimagine Christianity.
Alan Green
#47. I remember feeling enormous pressure because I didn't want to be Shirley Temple. Shirley Temple was Shirley Temple, and I didn't ever feel like I could live up to that.
Mara Wilson
#48. I want to be around for a long time. I don't want to be a one-hit wonder.
Ruben Studdard
#49. I want to be a good actor more than anything - someone you can respect.
Logan Lerman
#50. He pressed his lips to her shoulder, whispering along her soft skin, "I'm right where I want to be.
Lisa Kessler
#51. You can be whatever you want to be. Don't let discouragement take you down.
Fawad Afzal Khan
#52. When a guest blogger can't even be bothered sharing their own post on their social networks; they're pretty much admitting 'I don't care about this post, and I don't want to be associated with it'. In the end these guests posts are just another form of spam.
George Stevens
#53. Please be thinking about me. I'm quite lonely and I want to be thought about
Jean Webster
#54. Every job I've had since 'Smallville' has wanted me to have red hair, so I have to thank 'Smallville' for that. But, just the fact that it was so different was appealing to me. As an actor, you want to be able to play a lot of different things.
Cassidy Freeman
#55. I'm turning left. Look, everyone, my blinker is on, and I'm turning left. I am so happy to be alive, driving along, making a left turn. I'm serious. I am doing exactly what I want to be doing at this moment: existing on a Tuesday, going about my business, on my way somewhere, turning left.
Amy Krouse Rosenthal
#56. How do these people have any credibility? How do they get away with this? It's mind boggling that its gotten to a point where the EPA is dictating policy based on what is an obvious fraud, or if you want to be gentle about it, creates enough doubt to back off.
Joe Bastardi
#57. My ultimate goal is to be the best player in the world. If I'm the best player in the world, I'll be the face of American golf. It will come with the territory. That's where I want to be. If I want to be there, I have a lot of guys I have to beat out, in the U.S. and the world.
Rickie Fowler
#58. When I am in New York, I want to be in Europe, and when I am in Europe, I want to be in New York.
Woody Allen
#59. There's a lot of actors out there or people who want to be actors. It's unique to find somebody that, you know, needs to be an actor.
Jeremy Sisto
#60. If you really do want to be an actor who can satisfy himself and his audience, you need to be vulnerable. You must reach the emotional and intellectual level of ability where you can go out stark naked, emotionally, in front of an audience.
Jack Lemmon
#61. Emma: I want to be parabatai again. The way we were before.
Jules: We'll always be parabatai, Emma. It's for life.
Emma: It's been weird ever since we - ever since I started dating Mark.
Cassandra Clare
#62. Great players and great teams want to be driven. They want to be pushed to the edge. They don't want to be cheated. Ordinary players and average teams want it to be easy
Pat Riley
#63. I do not want to be bored listening to music that is muffled and known only to the poet himself.
F. Sionil Jose
#64. Has the luxury of not doing the political stuff, which is really where I want to be as a company.
Glenn Beck
#65. I have a lot of favorite films. I tend to love the silliness of 'Bringing Up Baby.' 'Charade' is fantastic. 'His Girl Friday,' the banter in that, that alone made me want to be a writer.
Jennifer Grant
#66. We're getting rewarded. We don't give up on the play and we show some character at the same time, but there is a long way for us to get to where we want to be.
Peter Bondra
#67. I don't mind being accused of being a bad comedian and I don't even mind being accused of being a bad talk-show host, but I never want to be accused of being an arrogant, pompous showbiz asshole.
David Letterman
#69. I don't want to be at a point where I'm trying to steal the spotlight from the team or anyone else or make it seem like it's just about me.
Tyler Beede
#70. i am not an angel ,and i don't want to be an angel.
I Born as a Human and and my Biggest Task to keep my self Just a Human.
Mohammed Zaki Ansari
#71. I know Dark Phoenix is a huge part of the X-Men saga, so I'm assuming they're at least going to want to touch on it, but I don't know and I don't know whether I would want to be involved. That depends on many different things.
Famke Janssen
#72. The last thing I want to be known as is 'The Girl Who Got Raped'. The big turn around you make in your head is from victim to survivor.
Tori Amos
#73. I want to be an inspirational model. I want people to look at me and say, 'Wow, she looks healthy.'
Ireland Baldwin
#75. We love the idea of transformation, so we can make ourselves something more than just ordinary. It's why you're doing this, isn't it?" she asked. "You don't want to settle for what you are; you want to be more. You want to win.
Abby McDonald
#76. If I had a party to attend and didn't want to be there, I would play the part of someone who was having a lovely time.
Shirley Maclaine
#77. I don't mind being slightly fat-ish, I just don't want to be fat.
Chris O'Dowd
#78. I always think of it like this: Rather than be the sun to someone and light up everything around them, I want to be the moon and light the way just a little in front of them when they are lost or uncertain in the darkness, and always be there with them when they look up. That's my way of living.
Gackt
#79. If there were no heaven and no hell, I would still want to be a Christian because of what it does for our homes and our own families in this life.
Billy Graham
#80. Now we have so many more social outlets, so many ways to be stalked and bullied. If social media is too much for you to handle, then don't have a Twitter or Facebook account. Just be yourself. Be who you want to be.
Khloe Kardashian
#81. I don't want to be somebody who stands still and sings pretty. Each song is a world. Each song is a story. I don't achieve nearly what I want.
Renee Fleming
#82. If you want to be loved by everyone, don't go into politics.
Teresa Heinz
#83. We cannot become what we want to be by remaining what we are.
Max DePree
#84. I was freakishly ambitious. I didn't want to be a child. I wanted my own flat, to work and be a grown up.
Billie Piper
#85. I don't want to be one of those young actors who is around for a couple of years and melts off the scene.
Tuppence Middleton
#86. Grace," he whispered as he slid his fingers over my swollen lips. "I want to be inside you so damn bad right now. But when I do that, I want to hear you scream my fucking name as you claw your nails down my back.
Christine Zolendz
#87. If you want to be of use to God, get rightly related to Jesus Christ and He will make you of use unconsciously every minute you live.
Oswald Chambers
#88. We believe in treating others as we would want to be treated.
Terry Goodkind
#89. Sometimes, you have to step outside of the person you've been and remember the person you were meant to be. The person you want to be. The person you are.
H.G.Wells
#90. What a world we live in. I want to be incredibly close to the heart of it all. To live honestly, truthfully and to be completely present is the ultimate enterprise.
Dianna Agron
#91. ... because talent isn't genius, and no amount of energy can make it so. I want to be great, or nothing.
Louisa May Alcott
#92. I saw what's going on under my chin. I don't want to be the one the President has to pardon on Thanksgiving.
Joan Rivers
#93. People always try to be perfect. That's why they don't start anything. Perfection is the lowest standard in the world. Because if you're trying to be perfect, you know you can't be. So what you really have is a standard you can never achieve. You want to be outstanding, not perfect.
Tony Robbins
#94. I was always flattered, but I just want my movies to make money. I want to be commercial. I'm never the person who says, "I don't care if people don't see my movies." I always want people to see my movies.
John Waters
#96. I want to be a traditional king first and foremost, building on the tradition of my predecessors standing for continuity and stability in this country, but also a 21st-century king who can unite, represent and encourage society.
Willem-Alexander, Prince Of Orange
#97. I would love to find myself in a position where I have to decide, 'Gosh, do I want to be on a series?'
Wil Wheaton
#98. Why shouldn't a child look to want to be a political figure, to change our nation, to lead us the right directions?
Will.i.am
#99. I do and re-do things that I used to do in a flash, because I want to be more perfectionist about these things. Maybe it sounds pompous and pretentious, but that's the way I feel.
Manolo Blahnik
#100. Submissives are not greedy, she reminded herself, even if they secretly want to be.
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