A sound mind in a sound body, is a short, but full description of a happy state in this World: he that has these two, has little more to wish for; and he that wants either of them, will be little the better for anything else.
John Locke

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

The Indian knew how to live without wants, to suffer without complaint, and to die singing.
Alexis de Tocqueville

Baseball is like a poker game. Nobody wants to quit when he's losing; nobody wants you to quit when you're ahead.
Jackie Robinson

No one wants advice - only corroboration.
John Steinbeck

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

Prior to being allowed to enter the profession, prospective teachers should be asked to talk with a group of friendly students for at least half an hour and be able to engage them in an interesting conversation about any subject the prospective teacher wants to talk about.
William Glasser

The future is like heaven, everyone exalts it, but no one wants to go there now.
James A. Baldwin

The writer's greed is appalling. He wants, or seems to want, everything and practically everybody, in another sense, and at the same time, he needs no one at all.
James A. Baldwin

Perhaps everything terrible is in its deepest being something helpless that wants help from us.
Rainer Maria Rilke

One must work and dare if one really wants to live.
Vincent Van Gogh

A bureaucrat is a Democrat who holds some office that a Republican wants.
Harry S. Truman

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

There are times when even the best manager is like the little boy with the big dog, waiting to see where the dog wants to go so he can take him there.
Lee Iacocca

I don't believe that the public knows what it wants; this is the conclusion that I have drawn from my career.
Charlie Chaplin

The individual who can do something that the world wants done will, in the end, make his way regardless of his race.
Booker T. Washington

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

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

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

Reality means you live until you die. The real truth is nobody wants reality.
Chuck Palahniuk