Want Quotes Worth Reading Twice

A government big enough to give you everything you want, is strong enough to take everything you have. – Thomas Jefferson

A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and gets to bed at night, and in between he does what he wants to do. – Bob Dylan

All I want to do is learn to think how God thinks. – Albert Einstein

By thought, the thing you want is brought to you. By action, you receive it. – Wallace D. Wattles

Do something every day that you don’t want to do. This is the golden rule for acquiring the habit of doing your duty without pain. – Mark Twain

Don’t waste your time with explanations. People only hear what they want to hear. – Paulo Coelho

Go ahead, want it all. Just learn to be happy before it arrives, or you may not notice when it does. – Mike Dooley

How could I be anything but a dissenter? Who wants the opinion of a group? – Saul Bellow

I always wanted to be somebody, but now I realize I should have been more specific. – Lily Tomlin

I don’t want to die, I want to watch cartoons. – Stephen Berg’s Daughter

I don’t want to pay any dues in life. I want to be a one-in-a-million, overnight success! I want the world handed to me on a silver platter! – Bill Watterson

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

I know the price of success. Dedication, hard work, and an unremitting devotion to the things you want to see happen. – Frank Lloyd Wright

I want people to see a flower whether they want to or not. – Georgia O’Keeffe

If Christians want us to believe in a redeemer, let them act redeemed. – Voltaire

If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said faster horses. – Henry Ford

If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear. – George Orwell

If you want small changes, work on your behavior. If you want quantum-leap changes, work on your paradigms. – Stephen Covey

If you want the truth to stand clear before you, never be for or against. The struggle between for and against is the mind’s worst disease. – Sent-ts’an

If you want to awaken all of humanity, then awaken all of yourself. If you want to eliminate the suffering in the world, then eliminate all that is dark and negative in yourself. Truly, the greatest gift you have to give is that of your own self-transformation. – Lao Tzu

If you want to be happy, set a goal that commands your thoughts, liberates your energy, and inspires your hopes. – Andrew Carnegie

If you want to hold the beautiful one, hold yourself to yourself. – Rumi

If you want to know what you want, look at what you have. – Bijan

If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else. – Booker T. Washington

If you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal, not to people or objects. – Albert Einstein

If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe. – Carl Sagan

If you want to teach people a new way of thinking, don’t bother trying to teach them. Instead, give them a tool, the use of which will lead to new ways of thinking. – Buckminster Fuller

If you want to travel fast, travel alone. If you want to travel far, travel together. – Proverb

If you want your prayers answered, get up off your knees and hustle. – Philip Simmons

I’ve been absolutely terrified every moment of my life and I’ve never let it keep me from doing a single thing I wanted to do. – Georgia O’Keeffe

Life is brief and have to spend every day having to do something that someone else wants you to do is not the way to live it. – Cormack McCarthy

Many people, especially ignorant people, want to punish you for speaking the truth, for being correct, for being you. Never apologize for being correct, or for being years ahead of your time. If you’re right and you know it speak your mind, even if you are a minority of one, the truth is still the truth. – Gandhi

Never give up on what you really want to do. The person with big dreams is more powerful than one with all the facts. – Albert Einstein

No one would think of keeping a (musical) chord to himself. You’d give it to anyone who wanted it. – John Cage

Of 100 people who say they want to start a business, 90 won’t lift a finger, 9 will make an effort, perhaps for a few weeks, quitting when fame doesn’t crash through the door. But that 1 person, working late into the night by the warm glow of an old desk lamp, will win. He knows, as every successful man and woman knows, results take time. Be patient. – Gary Vaynerchuk

Oh Seeker! Rely on nothing until you want nothing! – Dhammapada

One day you will wake up and there won’t be any more time to do the things you’ve always wanted. – Paulo Coelho

Our chief want in life is somebody who will make us do what we can. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don’t believe in circumstances. The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and, if they can’t find them, make them. – George Bernard Shaw

People who want to share their religious views with you almost never want you to share yours with them. – Dave Barry

The man I want to become, if I believe myself to be, I will become. – Gandhi

The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work. – Richard Bach

The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain. – Dolly Parton 

There are lots of would-be censors out there, and although they may have different agendas, they all want basically the same thing: for you to see the world they see… or to at least shut up about what you do see that’s different. They are the agents of the status quo. – Stephen King

There are two different types of people in the world, those who want to know, and those who want to believe. – Friedrich Nietzsche

Those who don’t want to change, let them sleep. – Rumi

To find happiness, first remove I for it is ego. Then remove want for it is desire. Then what you are left with is happiness. – Buddha

To keep your resolve, surround yourself with those who want you to succeed. – Robert Ornstein

Too many people spend money they haven’t earned, to buy things they don’t want, to impress people they don’t like. – Will Smith

Want a 25 million dollar idea? Take one good idea and stick with it. – Dale Carnegie

We must shift America from a needs- to a desires-culture. People must be trained to desire, to want new things, even before the old have been entirely consumed. […] Man’s desires must overshadow his needs. – Paul Mazur (Lehman Bros, ca.1930)

What counts is knowing who you want to be and asking for it. – Bruce Wilkinson

What I want is to make people laugh so they’ll see things seriously. – William Zinsser

You can go anywhere you want if you look serious and carry a clipboard. – Scott Adams

You can have anything you want, be anything you want to be and do anything you set out to accomplish if you hold to that desire with singleness of purpose. –  Abraham Lincoln

You can have everything you want in life if you help enough other people get what they want. – Zig Ziglar

You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself any direction you choose. You’re on your own. You know what you know. You’re the one who’ll decide where you’ll go. – Theodor ‘Doctor Seuss’ Geisel