Quotes on Want

If you want everything, you first have to give everything up.

Whoever wants to reach a distant goal must take small steps.

When the game is over I just want to look at myself in the mirror, win or lose, and know I gave it everything I had.

The purpose of fear is to determine how badly you want your dream.

I want a different world. One where I don't wake up thinking I'm so lucky to be able to feed my daughter, and able to give people a clean drink of water. I don't want images of starving babies at the breast in my mind. I want that to change. And if I want that, I had better do something about it.

If you want to improve your world, then focus your attention on helping others.

I want to give myself totally to Him...I want to live no longer but for Him.

Not getting what you want either means you don't want it enough, or you have been dealing too long with the price you have to pay.

Because when the world quiets to the sound of your own breathing, we all want the same things: comfort, love, and a peaceful heart.

I have lived with the prospect of an early death for the last 49 years. I'm not afraid of death, but I'm in no hurry to die. I have so much I want to do first. I regard the brain as a computer which will stop working when its components fail. There is no heaven or afterlife for broken down computers; that is a fairy story for people afraid of the dark.

I don't want to be immortal through my works. I want to be immortal by not dying.

Our necessities are few, but our wants are endless.

We look forward to a world founded upon four essential human freedoms. The first is freedom of speech and expression. The second is freedom of every person to worship God in his own way. The third is freedom from want. The fourth is freedom from fear.

I want to be remembered as part of the group of the greatest players ever.

I want to scare the hell out of the rest of the world.

Try to love someone who you want to hate, because they are just like you, somewhere inside, in a way you may never expect, in a way that resounds so deeply within you that you cannot believe it.

Even if we are spared destruction by war, our lives will have to change if we want to save life from self-destruction.

The prayer power has never been tried to its full capacity...if we want to see mighty wonders of divine power and grace wrought in the place of weakness, failure and disappointment, let us answer God's standing challenge, "Call unto me, and I will answer thee, and show thee great and mighty things which thou knowest not."

One set of messages of the society we live in is: Consume. Grow. Do what you want. Amuse yourselves. The very working of this economic system, which has bestowed these unprecedented liberties, most cherished in the form of physical mobility and material prosperity, depends on encouraging people to defy limits.

Everyone wants to win, but not everyone is willing to prepare to win.

If we rail and kick against it and grow bitter, we won't change the inevitable; but we will change ourselves. I know. I have tried it. I once refused to accept an inevitable situation with which I was confronted. I played the fool and railed against it, and rebelled. I turned my nights into hells of insomnia. I brought upon myself everything I didn't want. Finally, after a year of self-torture, I had to accept what I knew from the outset I couldn't possible alter.