These want quotes will inspire you. Want to desire, wish, or long for something or ought, should, or need to do something.
A collection of motivating, happy, and encouraging want quotes, want sayings, and want proverbs.
Famous Want Quotes
- “Don’t aim for success if you want it; just do what you love and believe in, and it will come naturally.” ~ David Frost
- “If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.” ~ Dalai Lama
- “The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain.” ~ Dolly Parton
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“Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get.” ~ Dale Carnegie
- “Some people want it to happen, some wish it would happen, others make it happen.” ~ Michael Jordan
- “If you want to be happy, be.” ~ Leo Tolstoy
- “It is something that artists do all the time unconsciously, working in the style of someone they consider a great master. I just wanted to make that relationship literal.” ~ Sherrie Levine
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“Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man’s character, give him power.” ~ Abraham Lincoln
- “No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don’t want to die to get there. And yet death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it. And that is as it should be, because Death is very likely the single best invention of Life. It is Life’s change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new.” ~ Steve Jobs
- “If you really want to do something, you’ll find a way. If you don’t, you’ll find an excuse.” ~ Jim Rohn
- “Everything you’ve ever wanted is on the other side of fear.” ~ George Adair
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“If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day so I never have to live without you.” ~ A. A. Milne
- “People say they love truth, but in reality they want to believe that which they love is true.” ~ Robert Ringer , Want quotes love
- “It’s not wrong to be upset. It’s not wrong to cry. It’s not wrong to want attention. It’s not even wrong to scream or throw a fit. What is wrong is to keep it all inside. What is wrong is to blame and punish yourself for simply being human. What is wrong is to never be heard and to be alone in your pain. Share it. Let it out.” ~ Bryant H. McGill , Want quotes to be alone
- “I don’t want to be a passenger in my own life.” ~ Diane Ackerman
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“For the first time, I saw what was in his heart, and I wondered if he might ever want to look deep enough to see mine.” ~ Jennifer Donnelly
- “If you want to make a permanent change, stop focusing on the size of your problems and start focusing on the size of you!” ~ T. Harv Eker
- “We do what we have to so we can do what we want to.” ~ Denzel Washington
- “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.” ~ Steve Jobs
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“Be as you wish to seem.” ~ Socrates
- “Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.” ~ Steve Jobs
- “Align yourself with people that you can learn from, people who want more out of life, people who are stretching and searching and seeking some higher ground in life.” ~ Les Brown , Want quotes about life
- “When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down happy.” ~ John Lennon
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“How few our real wants, and how vast our imaginary ones!” ~ Johann Kaspar Lavater
- “Time is what we want most, but what we use worst.” ~ William Penn
- “The ultimate goal of all goals is to be happy. If you want to be happy make someone else happy.” ~ Deepak Chopra , Want quotes to be happy
- “If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.” ~ George Orwell
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“If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else.” ~ Booker T. Washington
- “Our aspirations are our possibilities.” ~ Samuel Johnson
- “Too many people spend money they haven’t earned to buy things they don’t want to impress people they don’t like.” ~ Will Rogers
- “The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work.” ~ Richard Bach
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“We made the buttons on the screen look so good you’ll want to lick them.” ~ Steve Jobs
- “If I have to die tonight,if this weight is going to kill me tonight,so be it! I am dying where I wanna be” ~ Kai Greene
- “If you really want to live your life to the fullest and realize your greatest potential, you must be willing to run the risk of making some people mad. People may not like what you do, people may not like how you do it, but these people are not living your life. You are!” ~ Iyanla Vanzant
- “When you are in the final days of your life, what will you want? Will you hug that college degree in the walnut frame? Will you ask to be carried to the garage so you can sit in your car? Will you find comfort in rereading your financial statement? Of course not. What will matter then will be people. If relationships will matter most then, shouldn’t they matter most now?” ~ Max Lucado , Want quotes relationship
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“Death is very likely the single best invention of life. It is life’s change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new.” ~ Steve Jobs
- “If you want something, go get it.” ~ Josh Thomson
- “I am not afraid of death. I just don’t want to be there when it happens.” ~ Woody Allen
- “You don’t have to work for a big corporation if you don’t want to.” ~ Daymond John
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“I just don’t want to be self-obsessed.” ~ Ellen Pompeo
- “If you are complaining about things in your life, you are on the complaining frequency, and you are not in a position to attract what you want.
Get on to the frequency of good with your thoughts and words. Firstly you will feel good, and secondly you will be on the frequency of receiving more good.” ~ Rhonda Byrne - “Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.” ~ Dwight D. Eisenhower
- “Happiness is wanting what you have.” ~ Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
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“Men always want to be a woman’s first love – women like to be a man’s last romance.” ~ Oscar Wilde
- “I want to honor Jesus with the things I say and the things I choose not to say. Lord, help us all be so careful with sharing opinions as if they are truth.” ~ Lysa TerKeurst
- “To travel a circle is to journey over the same ground time and time again. To travel a circle wisely is to journey over the same ground for the first time. In this way, the ordinary becomes extraordinary, and the circle, a path to where you wish to be. And when you notice at last that the path has circled back into itself, you realize that where you wish to be is where you have already been … and always were.” ~ Neale Donald Walsch
- “When you want success as bad as you want to breathe, then you will be successful.” ~ Eric Thomas
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“If you want somethin’, go get it. Period.” ~ Will Smith
- “There’s not one woman in America who does not care about her hair, but we give it way too much value. We deprive ourselves of things, we use it to destroy each other, we’ll look at a child and judge a mother and her sense of motherhood by the way the child’s hair looks. I am not going to traumatize my child about her hair. I want her to love her hair.” ~ Viola Davis
- “Now, here, you see, it takes all the running you can do, to keep in the same place. If you want to get somewhere else, you must run at least twice as fast as that!” ~ Lewis Carroll
- “To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness.” ~ Bertrand Russell
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“You have made some mistakes and you may not be where you want to be, but that has nothing to do with your future.” ~ Zig Ziglar
- “If you want to understand a society, take a good look at the drugs it uses. And what can this tell you about American culture? Well, look at the drugs we use. Except for pharmaceutical poison, there are essentially only two drugs that Western civilization tolerates: Caffeine from Monday to Friday to energize you enough to make you a productive member of society, and alcohol from Friday to Monday to keep you too stupid to figure out the prison that you are living in.” ~ Bill Hicks
- “The body does not want you to do this. As you run, it tells you to stop but the mind must be strong. You always go too far for your body. You must handle the pain with strategy…It is not age; it is not diet. It is the will to succeed.” ~ Jacqueline Gareau
- “The first right on earth is the right of the ego. Man’s first duty is to himself. His moral law is never to place his prime goal within the persons of others. His moral obligation is to do what he wishes, provided his wish does not depend primarily upon other men.” ~ Ayn Rand
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“There’s nothing more precious in this world than the feeling of being wanted.” ~ Diana Dors
- “No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don’t want to die to get there.” ~ Steve Jobs
- “I don’t want to be unapproachable.” ~ Angie Harmon
- “I don’t want to spend the rest of my life giving speeches.” ~ Colin Powell
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“Don’t let other people tell you what you want.” ~ Pat Riley
- “If you want something, go get it. Period.” ~ Chris Gardner
- “You really can’t explain how you do the things you do. I can’t, anyway. I love certain actors, but sometimes they say the stupidest things about technique. I don’t want to say something stupid.” ~ Kirsten Dunst
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“It’s really hard to design products by focus groups. A lot of times, people don’t know what they want until you show it to them.” ~ Steve Jobs
- “Do what you gotta do so you can do what you wanna do.” ~ Denzel Washington
- “I think honesty is the ultimate liberation in life. People want to shy away from the truth and keep sweeping it under the rug. But after a while, you pick up the rug and there’s just way too much dirt, so you might as well just be up front about it.” ~ Rihanna
