Explore Quotes on Want

Happiness doesn't come from getting what you want. It doesn't come from within, either. Happiness comes from *between*--from finding the right relationship between yourself and others, between yourself and your work, and between yourself and something larger than yourself.

No great man ever complains of want of opportunity.

I didn't want to be greedy. It's a mark of bad character and I always believed that pigs go the slaughterhouse.

Men fail much oftener from want of perseverance than from want of talent.

Satan wants anxiety to hinder us from becoming effective servants of Christ.

If I had unlimited, god-like powers and could grant my prospectivecustomer the biggest benefit I can possibly imagine he or she would ideally want from myproduct, what would that be?

All I'm looking for is a guy who'll do what I want, when I want, for as long as I want, and then go away. Or wait nearby, like a Dust Buster, charged up and ready when needed.

Without imagination, you live in a small room with the windows closed. Imagination opens the windows and shows us landscapes, horizons that we would not otherwise perceive…I want education to empower people to see possibility.

Quality and service are important, if you want to make a sale. If you want to keep a customer for life, keep your promises.

I don't want anything given to me.

Want to extinguish an adolescent's curiosity? Cover as much material as possible.

I want to keep pushing the limits to see what’s possible. That’s the nice thing about ski racing - no one is stopping you from going faster.

When you move with this thought that 'I want', then the mind wanders. When you move with this thought that 'I have received', then you are content.

You can do what you want, at home. But when you go out, keep it together.

I don't want my life to be explainable without the Holy Spirit.

When a child keeps asking you to tell him/her a story, what they instinctively really want to know -- is their true purpose and mission in life. Sadly, this knowledge was never sought out by their parents, and explains why childrens books are a very hot and lucrative industry. Instead of telling your child the truth of our history and existence, you are conditioned by society to simply read your kid a fairytale.

I wonder how biology can explain the physical pain you feel in your chest when all you want to do is be with someone.

Designers can show us a better future, can present us with all kinds of new possibilities so that we can decide: Is this what we want? Before any of that can happen, though, the designer must first commit—by taking what is just a faint glimmer in the mind’s eye and giving it shape and life.

We will never be the women God wants us to be if our hearts are continually chasing after human approval.

I am not the girl the guy gets at the end of the movie. I am not a fantasy. If you want me, earn me.

I don’t want normal and easy and simple. I want painful, difficult, devastating, life-changing, extraordinary love.