Wanting more Quotes

46 quotes from 43 authors

When satisfaction feels too small, the drive for more becomes a fire. These 46 reflections from 43 distinct writers capture that impulse, from self‑challenge to bold calls for expansion. The collection highlights the tension between contentment and ambition, offering perspectives that may steer a pursuit beyond status quo.

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It doesn't matter how much you get; you are left wanting more.

Amy Poehler

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Loss is not as bad as wanting more.

Anonymous

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Wanting more is just a recipe for heartache.

Stephen King

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Leave them wanting more and you know theyll call you back.

Bobby Womack

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She said the reason that love is so painful is that it always amounts to two people wanting more than two people…

Edna O'Brien

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I like stories that leave you wanting more, leave you wondering, but don't tell you everything.

Viggo Mortensen

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Soup dumplings, sitcoms, one-night stands--good ones leave you wanting more.

Eddie Huang

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Wanting more majors, wanting more wins, almost feels like I think Im being too greedy.

Inbee Park

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I start every day by wanting more for others than I do for myself. I think that is how God works, and…

Wayne Dyer

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Economic disaster begins with a philosophy of doing less and wanting more.

Jim Rohn

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Our economy is based upon people wanting more; their happiness on wanting less.

Frank A. Clark

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Love is great, love is fine. Out the box, out of line. The affliction of the feeling leaves me wanting more.

Rihanna

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I hope that when girls see my clothes, my shoes, or my outrageous jewelry collection, they feel the thrill of wanting more…

Kimora Lee Simmons

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Advertising prods people into wanting more and better things. Of course advertising makes people dissatisfied with what they have - makes them…

Bernice Fitz-Gibbon

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As you keep getting more popular, people are continually wanting more from you and it seems to me that all they want…

Marilyn Manson

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I had done 'Die Hard' and it was somebody's franchise. I actually just got done with the 'Hawaii Five-O' pilot and I…

Len Wiseman

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It's often the case with successful TV shows that they kind of inadvertently live on past their prime. It's best to leave…

Vince Gilligan

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There is no greater offence than harbouring desires. There is no greater disaster than discontent. There is no greater misfortune than wanting…

Laozi

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Only yesterday a young woman came to me wanting a trap set for a man with a sweet smile and lithe arms.…

Anonymous

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Our ego is a monster that loves to sit at the head of the table, and I have learned that my ego…

Amy Poehler

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'Sustainable Development' is an oxymoron. 'Development' in all it's senses entails expansion and wanting more. Continual expansion and wanting more are unsustainable.…

Don Johnston

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Our entire society is based on discontent. People wanting more and more and more. Being constantly dissatisfied with their homes, their bodies,…

Tana French

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When I was growing up, I would try to sing out of key very consciously. I was probably afraid of trying too…

Jenny Hval

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The moment you enter Bhutan, you notice that there are no traffic lights. It is almost like you've stepped into a Shangri-La…

Karan Bajaj

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The only struggle came from me wanting more for my family and feeling like if they had one less individual to take…

Petey Pablo

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I thought what if death is more like thinking, well, war is like the boss at your shoulder, constantly wanting more, wanting…

Markus Zusak

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You need to keep everyone wanting more. Every character has so much depth, and there was so much thought that went into…

Ashley Greene

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International adoption does not begin to solve the problems of the world's orphaned children. It's truly not the answer. At the same…

Melissa Fay Greene

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For many of us we are always wanting more - we would be happier if we had such and such. Maybe we…

Abigail Van Buren

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But I guessed she would never stop wanting more for me, more from me. Maybe that's what mothers did.

Kiera Cass

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Not only do you want to leave the audience wanting more, you want to leave yourself wanting more.

Carole King

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I think I just have a problem generally in life of wanting more of everything - more emotion, more drama, more glitz.

Florence Welch

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How many years will you crawl through this castle, so satisfied and still wanting more?

Roger McGuinn

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It's better to leave them wanting more than to be the show where people are like, "Oh, that's still on the air?"

Robbie Amell

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Everything we have today that's cool comes from someone wanting more of something they loved in the past. Action figures, videogames, superhero…

Patton Oswalt

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We actually did a lot of takes on this movie [J. Edgar Hoover]. I never left the set wanting more. That's for…

Leonardo DiCaprio

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Pornography is just 'fast-food feminine energy', it will always leave you wanting more, with little or no nutritional value. There is nothing…

Barry Long

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Homosexuality is a cage in which you are trapped in an endless cycle of constantly wanting more - sexually - that you…

Michael Glatze

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Last thing you want to do with a good movie is hold the audience hostage. As an entertainer myself, I just know…

Simon Kinberg

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Having more does not keep you from wanting more. And if you always want more - to be richer, more beautiful, more…

Mitch Albom

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