Wants Quotes

There is one quality which one must possess to win, and that is definiteness of purpose, the knowledge of what one wants, and a burning desire to possess it.
Napoleon Hill

Knowledge, Win, Purpose

When a man wants to murder a tiger he calls it sport; when a tiger wants to murder him he calls it ferocity.
George Bernard Shaw

Him, Tiger, Calls

Every man I meet wants to protect me. I can't figure out what from.
Mae West

Meet, Protect, Figure

America wants its respect.
Tupac Shakur

Respect, America

The best executive is one who has sense enough to pick good people to do what he wants done, and self-restraint enough to keep from meddling with them while they do it.
Theodore Roosevelt

Good, Best, Done

Who wants a stylus. You have to get em and put em away, and you lose em. Yuck. Nobody wants a stylus.
Steve Jobs

Put, Away, Lose

Man wants to live, but it is useless to hope that this desire will dictate all his actions.
Albert Camus

Hope, Live, Desire

The savior who wants to turn men into angels is as much a hater of human nature as the totalitarian despot who wants to turn them into puppets.
Eric Hoffer

Nature, Men, Human

The petty man is eager to make boasts, yet desires that others should believe in him. He enthusiastically engages in deception, yet wants others to have affection for him. He conducts himself like an animal, yet wants others to think well of him.
Xun Zi

Him, Others, Deception

Every man is the architect of his own life. He builds it just the way he wants it. However, after he has built what he wants, he sometimes decides that he doesn't like what he has built and looks for someone or something to blame instead of changing himself.
Sydney Madwed

Life, Someone, Blame

A state arises, as I conceive, out of the needs of mankind; no one is self-sufficing, but all of us have many wants.
Plato

State, Needs, Mankind

Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.
Epictetus

Great, Few, Wealth

No one ever teaches well who wants to teach, or governs well who wants to govern.
Plato

Teach, Govern, Governs

There is one thing I have never taught my body how to do and that is to figure out at 6 A.M. what it wants to eat at 6 P.M.
Erma Bombeck

Body, Eat, Taught

No man will make a great leader who wants to do it all himself or get all the credit for doing it.
Andrew Carnegie

Great, Leader, Himself

People don't want their lives fixed. Nobody wants their problems solved. Their dramas. Their distractions. Their stories resolved. Their messed cleaned up. Because what would they have left? Just the big scary unknown.
Chuck Palahniuk

Big, Problems, Lives

Everybody wants to be somebody; nobody wants to grow.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Everybody, Somebody, Nobody

God wants to bless us where we are.
Joel Osteen

Any man who wants to be president is either an egomaniac or crazy.
Dwight D. Eisenhower

Crazy, President, Either

My wife wants sex in the back of the car and she wants me to drive.
Rodney Dangerfield

The one permanent emotion of the inferior man is fear - fear of the unknown, the complex, the inexplicable. What he wants above everything else is safety.
H. L. Mencken

Fear, Else, Emotion

Capitalism has worked very well. Anyone who wants to move to North Korea is welcome.
Bill Gates

Anyone, Move, Capitalism

The country has come a long way in race relations, but the pendulum swings so far back. Everyone wants to be so sensitive.
Clint Eastwood

Long, Country, Everyone

I think people need to be educated to the fact that marijuana is not a drug. Marijuana is an herb and a flower. God put it here. If He put it here and He wants it to grow, what gives the government the right to say that God is wrong?
Willie Nelson

God, Government, Put

Abortion and racism are both symptoms of a fundamental human error. The error is thinking that when someone stands in the way of our wants, we can justify getting that person out of our lives. Abortion and racism stem from the same poisonous root, selfishness.
Alveda King

Someone, Human, Person

The fact is that a man who wants to act virtuously in every way necessarily comes to grief among so many who are not virtuous.
Niccolo Machiavelli

Fact, Act, Grief

President Obama wants to put free enterprise on trial.
Mitt Romney

Free, Put, President

Everyone wants to be appreciated, so if you appreciate someone, don't keep it a secret.
Mary Kay Ash

Someone, Keep, Everyone

I love to put on lotion. Sometimes I'll watch TV and go into a lotion trance for an hour. I try to find brands that don't taste bad in case anyone wants to taste me.
Angelina Jolie

Love, Bad, Find

Everyone who wants to do good to the human race always ends in universal bullying.
Aldous Huxley

Good, Human, Everyone

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