Wanted Quotes

• I seldom end up where I wanted to go, but almost always end up where I need to be.

  Douglas Adams

  Inspirational, Uplifting, Destiny

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• I wanted a perfect ending. Now I've learned, the hard way, that some poems don't rhyme, and some stories don't have a clear beginning, middle and end.

  Gilda Radner

  Goodbye, Farewell, Perfect

  Gilda Radner (2015). “It's Always Something”, p.254, Simon and Schuster

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• If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said faster horses.

  Henry Ford

  Inspirational, Funny, Motivational

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• I got what I wanted. I wanted a win.

  Milo Hamilton

  Winning

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• Now, what I want is Facts. Teach these boys and girls nothing but Facts. Facts alone are wanted in life. Plant nothing else, and root out everything else. You can only form the minds of reasoning animals upon Facts; nothing else will ever be of any service to them.

  Charles Dickens

  Girl, Hard Times, Animal

  Charles Dickens (1858). “Hard Times”, p.205

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• 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

  Inspirational, Life, Courage

  Dennis Abrams, Georgia O'Keeffe (2009). “Georgia O'Keeffe”, p.56, Infobase Publishing

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• I wanted to change the world. But I have found that the only thing one can be sure of changing is oneself.

  Aldous Huxley

  Change, Life Changing, Yoga

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• Even the rich are hungry for love, for being cared for, for being wanted, for having someone to call their own.

  Mother Teresa

  Love, Grandchildren, Hungry Eyes

  Mother Teresa (2001). “Mother Teresa: Essential Writings”

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• The impression that you are a demigod worried me. I wanted to be like an ordinary human being with virtues and vices.

  Nelson Mandela

  Worry, Vices, Ordinary

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• It's really hard to design products by focus groups. A lot of times, people don't know what they want until you show it to them.

  Steve Jobs

  Inspiring, Technology, Best Job

  "Steve Jobs: `There's Sanity Returning'". Bloomberg interview, www.bloomberg.com. May 25, 1998.

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• I wanted to tell you that my whole being opened for you. Since I fell in love with you everything is transformed and is full of beauty... love is like an aroma, like a current, like rain.

  Frida Kahlo

  Rain, Love You, Love Is

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• I would like to be remembered as a person who wanted to be free... so other people would be also free.

  Rosa Parks

  Freedom, People, Would Be

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• I'm in shock. Whitney was such an amazing artist. When I started my English career, I wanted to be like her. I loved her so much. My prayers go out to her daughter and to all of her family.

  Celine Dion

  Daughter, Prayer, Artist

  FaceBook post by Céline Dion from Feb 13, 2012

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• When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life. When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down ‘happy’. They told me I didn’t understand the assignment, and I told them they didn’t understand life.

  John Lennon

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.

  Steve Jobs

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  Commencement Address at Stanford University, delivered 12 June 2005, Palo Alto, CA

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• It's been nice not having a boyfriend. I could be in a relationship if I wanted to be, but I haven't finished doing what I'm doing. I like boy, a lot. I'm boy crazy. That hasn't changed since I was very young.

  Cameron Diaz

  Single, Nice, Crazy

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• All my life I knew I would have a big business. That’s what I wanted from the time I was in second grade; there was never a doubt in my mind.

  Paul Orfalea

  Doubt, Mind, Bigs

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• I was deeply uncertain of who I was and who I wanted to be. I really thought I wanted to be a much cooler guy than what I was.

  Daniel Ek

  Guy, Uncertain

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• I wanted to say to Governor Dean, don't be hard on yourself about hooting and hollering. If I had spent the money you did and got 18 percent, I'd still be in Iowa hooting and hollering.

  Al Sharpton

  Iowa, Dean, Stills

  Al Sharptona at Democratic Presidential Candidates Debate at St. Anselm College in Manchester, New Hampshire, www.foxnews.com. January 23, 2004.

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• Normally we'd draw the curtain here, but I just wanted to see what he'd play next.

  Bobby Fischer

  Play, Chess, Next

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• From the beginning... I wanted to build a company that could sustain not for two years or four years or even ten years but be something that really matters over time the way Amazon and Google and others have.

  Mark Pincus

  Years, Two, Entrepreneur

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• One of the first things we did was to find role models or mentors at companies that had achieved what we wanted to do. We bribed them or annoyed them for long enough until they decided to mentor us.

  Mitch Harper

  Long, Role Models, Entrepreneur

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• Man has wanted to look beyond, wanted to expand himself; and all that we call progress, evolution, has been always measured by that one search, the search for human destiny, the search for God.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Destiny, Men, Astrology

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “Jnana Yoga: The Yoga of Knowledge”, p.195, Advaita Ashrama

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• Just think about it: God wanted to communicate with you in the twenty-first century -and he wrote His message in a book.

  Howard G. Hendricks

  Book, Thinking, Twenties

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• The best tournament that I have ever played in was in 1950. It was great - a waiter came to you during the game, and you could order anything you wanted to drink (even some vodka, if you liked). Pity, there are no longer tournaments organized in this manner.

  Boris Spassky

  Order, Games, Chess

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