Want Something Quotes - Page 14

• Artistically I am still a child with a whole life ahead of me to discover and create. I want something, but I won't know what it is until I succeed in doing it.

  Alberto Giacometti

  Children, Succeed, Whole Life

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• When you really want something, and you couple that with an understanding of your nature, of your spiritual being, and the laws that govern you, you will keep going, regardless of what's happened. Nothing will stop you.

  Bob Proctor

  Spiritual, Couple, Law

  FaceBook post by Bob Proctor from Aug 14, 2011

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• When people are convinced you want something FOR them rather than something FROM them, they are less likely to be offended when you challenge them.

  Andy Stanley

  People, Challenges, Convinced

  Andy Stanley (2016). “Deep and Wide: Creating Churches Unchurched People Love to Attend”, p.116, Zondervan

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• We can no longer ignore that voice within women that says: 'I want something more than my husband and my children and my home.'

  Betty Friedan

  Children, Husband, Home

  BETTY FRIEDAN (1963). “The Feminine Mystique”

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• Have you thought about what it means to be a god?" asked the man. He had a beard and a baseball cap. "It means you give up your mortal existence to become a meme: something that lives forever in people's minds, like the tune of a nursery rhyme. It means that everyone gets to re-create you in their own minds. You barely have your own identity any more. Instead, you're a thousand aspects of what people need you to be. And everyone wants something different from you. Nothing is fixed, nothing is stable.

  Neil Gaiman

  Baseball, Giving Up, Mean

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• The four basic ingredients for success are: you must have the will to want something; you must have the right kind of attitude; you must have perseverance, and then you must have wisdom. Then you combine these four and then you get to where you want to get to.

  Aung San Suu Kyi

  Perseverance, Attitude, Four

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• I just want to make a tray of good tofu. If people want something else, they should go to the restaurants and shops.

  Yasujiro Ozu

  People, Tofu, Restaurants

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• If you want something and don't get it, there are only two reasons. You either really didn't want it, or you tried to bargain over the price.

  Rudyard Kipling

  Two, Wellness, Reason

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• When someone wants something, they must know why they are fighting. This is the only reason to seek a reward.

  Paulo Coelho

  Life, Inspiration, Fighting

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• When someone wants something then they should be aware that they are taking a risk. But this is precisely what makes life interesting.

  Paulo Coelho

  Life, Inspiration, Interesting

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• Conviction is a force multiplier. If you want something, claim it in your gut. The universe itself responds to your inner certainty.

  Marianne Williamson

  Inspirational, Power Of Positive Thinking, Conviction

  FaceBook post by Marianne Williamson from Apr 16, 2013

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• If you want something bad enough and you have that desire, you'll walk to another state or country if you have to.

  Puff Daddy

  Success, Country, Desire

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• We put out real hip-hop at a time when it was turning into pop or R&B ... We brought the focus back to the music in its rawest form, without studio polish or radio hooks. ... People want something that gives them an adrenaline rush. We're here to supply that fix.

  RZA

  Real, People, Giving

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• It doesn't matter if you are a Democrat or Republican, we are going to legalize marijuana no matter what happens in ten years, because when 60% of the American public wants something, they're going to get it.

  Allen St. Pierre

  Marijuana, Years, Matter

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• For four years, we didn't do any 'Halloweens,' ... But I believed in it. It's not a genius creation or anything. But whenever Halloween season comes around audiences want something like this.

  Moustapha Akkad

  Halloween, Years, Genius

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• There are three wants which never can be satisfied: that of the rich, who wants something more; that of the sick, who wants something different; and that of the traveler, who says anywhere but here.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Sick, Different, Three

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.2368, Delphi Classics

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• If you want something done right, do it yourself.

  Charles-Guillaume Etienne

  Done, Do It Yourself, Ifs

  "Dictionary of Quotations (French and Italian)" by Thomas Benfield Harbottle and Philip Hugh Dalbiac, (p. 169), 1904.

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• Praying puts us at risk of getting involved in God's conditions. Be slow to pray. Praying most often doesn't get us what we want but what God wants, something quite at variance with what we conceive to be in our best interests.

  Eugene H. Peterson

  Prayer, Risk, Praying

  Eugene H. Peterson (1987). “Working the Angles: The Shape of Pastoral Integrity”, p.44, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

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• If you want something badly enough, you make arrangements. If you don't want it badly enough, you make excuses.

  Hanif Kureishi

  Excuse, Enough, Arrangements

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• It is going to be changed to straight P. Diddy. You could call me P. or Diddy, or P. Diddy. I just want something fresh, man.

  Puff Daddy

  Men, Air, Call Me

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• Our ego seeks to understand everything. It wants all the answers. Part of what destroys the ego and connects us with the light is doing things that absolutely don't make any sense. If we want something beyond logic, like a miracle, we have to do something that is beyond logic.

  Yehuda Berg

  Light, Miracle, Ego

  FaceBook post by Yehuda Berg from Nov 05, 2012

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• And it hurts so much to want something you can't have.

  Johnny Depp

  Hurt, Want, It Hurts

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• Those doing soul work, who want the searing truth more than solace or applause, know each other right away. Those who want something else turn and take a seat in another room. Soul-makers find each other’s company.

  Rumi

  Soul, Rooms, Makers

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• I'm the kind of person that when I really want something, I wish for it. I wish on shooting stars. I wish on lots of things.

  Picabo Street

  Stars, Wish, Shooting

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• When you want something badly enough, you will develop the confidence and the ability to overcome any obstacle in your way.

  Brian Tracy

  Overcoming, Way, Obstacles

  Brian Tracy (1998). “The Gift of Self-Confidence”, p.46, Jaico Publishing House

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