Wanting Quotes

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Winning isn't everything. Wanting to is. — Catfish Hunter
Even when we get what we addictively want, our wanting to keep things that way automatically creates a new addiction. — Ken Keyes Jr.
Islam didn't make it Haram for you to fall in love. It didn't forbid you from wanting someone. It only guides that love so it… — Nouman Ali Khan
He that is robbed, not wanting what is stolen, him not know t, and he's not robbed at all. — William Shakespeare
Nothing has so exposed men of learning to contempt and ridicule as their ignorance of things which are known to all but themselves. Those who… — Samuel Johnson
Instead of wanting to win, we expected to win. There's a lifetime between wanting something and expecting something. When you expect something, it means you've… — Red McCombs
To stay with that shakiness-to stay with a broken heart, with a rumbling stomach, with the feeling of hopelessness and wanting to get revenge-that is… — Pema Chodron
Because what nobody ever understood is that I, too, wanted to be a somebody. But how do you go through life wanting to be a… — Debbi Fields
I have found life highly competitive. I accept it. It is useless, merely a hypocritical humbug, to sincerely wish your opponent to win. If you… — Percy Cerutty
We cannot educate white women and take them by the hand. Most of us are willing to help but we can't do the white woman's… — Gloria E. AnzaldÃºa
When you become so determined that you want to feel good - you have become as your Inner Being is, in such a pure place… — Esther Hicks
We all wake up in the morning wanting to live our lives the way we know we should. But we usually don't, in small ways.… — Christopher Nolan
You can do anything you want to do. What is rare is this actual wanting to do a specific thing: wanting it so much that… — Robert Henri
To rescue our children we will have to let them save us from the power we embody: we will have to trust the very difference… — June Jordan
Forget the statistics...we have to do more. You cannot look these children in the eye and see how desperate is their situation without wanting to… — Liam Neeson
Human nature, at its best, had always been based on a deep heroic restlessness, on wanting something-something else, something more, whether it be true love… — Will Ferguson
I watch my daughter wanting to be like other kids and getting upset that she's not. But I always try and instill in her the… — Idris Elba
What we want... is for students to get more interested in things, more involved in them, more engaged in wanting to know; to have projects… — Howard Gardner
For every person wishing to teach there are thirty not wanting to be taught. — W. C. Sellar
If you want to preserve your virginity, it's about not wanting to belong to the human species. — Catherine Breillat

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