Wanting Something Quotes

37 quotes by 34 authors

Wanting something is not enough. You must hunger for it. Your motivation must be absolutely compelling in order to overcome the obstacles that will invariably… — Les Brown
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
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 think [the spotlight] is a lonely place to be. Everybodys wanting something from you, pulling at you. — Angie Everhart
The truth is, I pretend to be a cynic, but I am really a dreamer who is terrified of wanting something she may never get. — Joanna Hoffman
Thinking something does not make it true. Wanting something does not make it real. — Michelle Hodkin
You're getting like an attitude. What you get put through for just wanting something more out of life. Makes you vulnerable. Inside, that tug of… — Sandra Newman
Stress is wanting something to be the way it isn't. — Eckhart Tolle
You forget what it was like. You'd swear on your life you never will, but year by year it falls away. How your temperature ran… — Tana French
Wanting something to make you happy is a sure way to be miserable. — Mooji
You see it is important to understand how damaged people don't always know how to say yes, or to choose the big thing, even when… — Lidia Yuknavitch
I identify with someone wanting something to work out, but not being able to get through the rocks to the river. — Emile Hirsch
In America, the distance between wanting something and having it delivered to your living room is not terribly great. — Gary Shteyngart
Happiness is a by-product of wanting something more than happiness-to be rightly related to God and our neighbor. — Timothy Keller
There is no greater sin than desire, No greater curse than discontent, No greater misfortune than wanting something for oneself. Therefore he who knows that… — Laozi
Seeking is a combination of emotions people usually think of as being different: wanting something really good, looking forward to getting something really good and… — Temple Grandin
Hope is wanting something so eagerly that-in spite of all the evidence that you're not going to get it-you go right on wanting it. — Norman Vincent Peale
You should do what you want, but I think you should also consider wanting something different. — Amy Dickinson
In life, in true life, there can be nothing better than what is. Wanting something different than what is, is blasphemy. — Leo Tolstoy
Envy, after all, comes from wanting something that isn't yours. But grief comes from losing something you've already had. — Jodi Picoult

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