The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and , if they can't find them, make them.
George Bernard Shaw
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People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don't believe in circumstances. The people who get on in the world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and if they can't find them, make them.
George Bernard Shaw
To be clever enough to get a great deal of money, one must be stupid enough to want it.
George Bernard Shaw
I want to be all used up when I die.
George Bernard Shaw
The moment we want to believe something, we suddenly see all the arguments for it, and become blind to the arguments against it.
George Bernard Shaw
Successful people in this world are those who get up and look for circumstances they want. If they can't find them, they make them.
George Bernard Shaw
Don't want to be near you for the thoughts we share but the words we never have to speak.
Nikki Giovanni
If you really want something you can figure out how to make it happen.
M. C. Escher
We must become the change we want to see.
Mahatma Gandhi
Faith: not *wanting* to know what is true.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Some people want it to happen, some wish it would happen, others make it happen.
Michael Jordan
If you want to tell people the truth, make them laugh, otherwise they'll kill you.
Oscar Wilde
A cigarette is the perfect type of a perfect pleasure. It is exquisite, and it leaves one unsatisfied. What more can one want?
Oscar Wilde
I am still far from being what I want to be, but with God's help I shall succeed.
Vincent van Gogh
Don't do what you want. Do what you don't want. Do what you're trained not to want. Do the things that scare you the most.
Chuck Palahniuk
It's because we're so trapped in our culture, in the being of being human on this planet with the brains we have, and the same two arms and legs everybody has. We're so trapped that any way we could imagine to escape would be just another part of the trap. Anything we want, we're trained to want.
Chuck Palahniuk
People don't want their lives fixed. Nobody wants their problems solved. Their dramas. Their distractions. Their stories resolved. Their messes cleaned up. Because what would they have left? Just the big scary unknown.
Chuck Palahniuk
Decide that you want it more than you are afraid of it.
Bill Cosby
The ancient books are everything I want; their wisdom is the balm that soothes my pain.
Moses Ibn Ezra
History is more or less bunk. It's tradition. We don't want tradition. We want to live in the present and the only history that is worth a tinker's dam is the history we made today.
Henry Ford
Who can tell who will be the President a year from now? -- John F. Kennedy, speaking to the president of Harvard about why he did not want to delay signing documents relating to a future JFK Presidential Library, 2 October 1963.
John F. Kennedy
A person should want to live, if only out of curiosity.
Yiddish proverb
Memory depends very much on the perspicuity, regularity, and order of our thoughts. Many complain of the want of memory, when the defect is in the judgment; and others, by grasping at all, retain nothing.
Dr. Thomas Fuller
Never fear the want of business. A man who qualifies himself well for his calling, never fails of employment.
Thomas Jefferson
If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else.
Booker T. Washington
Men want sex. If men ruled the world, they could get sex anywhere, anytime. Restaurants would give you sex instead of breath mints on the way out. Gas stations would give sex with every fill-up. Banks would give sex to anyone who opened a checking account.
Scott Adams
I'm against a homogenized society, because I want the cream to rise.
Robert Frost
...And I've looked over, and I've seen the promised land. I may not get there with you, but I want you to know tonight that we as a people will get to the promised land. So I'm happy tonight. I'm not worried about anything. I'm not fearing any man.
Martin Luther King Jr.
If you are not allowed to laugh in heaven, I don't want to go there.
Martin Luther King Jr.
Every time you state what you want or believe, you're the first to hear it. It's a message to both you and others about what you think is possible. Don't put a ceiling on yourself.
Oprah Winfrey
Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down.
Oprah Winfrey
If you want your life to be more rewarding, you have to change the way you think.
Oprah Winfrey
Energy is the essence of life. Every day you decide how you're going to use it by knowing what you want and what it takes to reach that goal, and by maintaining focus.
Oprah Winfrey
If you want to make enemies, try to change something.
Woodrow Wilson
I just want to do God's will. And He's allowed me to go up to the mountain. And I've looked over, and I've seen the Promised Land.
Martin Luther King Jr.
If you want to see the true measure of a man, watch how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.
J. K. Rowling
If you want to be respected, you must respect yourself.
Spanish Proverb
Between two groups of men that want to make inconsistent kinds of worlds I see no remedy except force... It seems to me that every society rests on the death of men.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
You have succeeded in life when all you really want is only what you really need.
Vernon Howard
If you want happiness, provide it to others.
Frank Tyger
You can get everything in life you want if you will just help enough other people get what they want.
Zig Ziglar
If you want to bake an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the Universe.
Carl Sagan
If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.
The Dalai Lama
After one look at this planet any visitor from outer space would say 'I want to see the manager.'
William S. Burroughs
He that is robb'd, not wanting what is stolen,Let him not know 't, and he's not robb'd at all.
William Shakespeare
The covetous man is ever in want.
Horace Mann
I want freedom for the full expression of my personality.
Mahatma Gandhi
I do not want my house to be walled in on all sides and my windows to be stuffed. I want the cultures of all the lands to be blown about my house as freely as possible. But I refuse to be blown off my feet by any.
Mahatma Gandhi
You must be the change you want to see in the world.
Mahatma Gandhi
Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion; it is not the expression of personality, but an escape from personality. But, of course, only those who have personality and emotions know what it means to want to escape from these things.
T. S. Eliot
Half of the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important. They don't mean to do harm but the harm does not interest them.
T. S. Eliot
Whatever you think, be sure it is what you think; whatever you want, be sure that is what you want; whatever you feel, be sure that is what you feel.
T. S. Eliot
I still need more healthy rest in order to work at my best. My health is the main capital I have and I want to administer it intelligently.
Ernest Hemingway
In a rational society we would want our presidents to be teachers. In our actual society we insist they be cheerleaders.
Steve Allen
I want to share something with you: The three little sentences that will get you through life. Number 1: Cover for me. Number 2: Oh, good idea, Boss! Number 3: It was like that when I got here.
Matt Groening
Maturity is the ability to do a job whether or not you are supervised, to carry money without spending it and to bear an injustice without wanting to get even.
Ann Landers
More than an end to war, we want an end to the beginnings of all wars.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
It isn't sufficient just to want - you've got to ask yourself what you are going to do to get the things you want.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Sigmund Freud once said, 'What do women want?' The only thing I have learned in fifty-two years is that women want men to stop asking dumb questions like that.
Bill Cosby
Women don't want to hear what you think. Women want to hear what they think -- in a deeper voice.
Bill Cosby
If you want to be happy for a year, plant a garden; if you want to be happy for life, plant a tree.
English Proverb
Waste makes want.
English Proverb
For the want of a nail, the shoe was lose; for the want of a shoe the horse was lose; and for the want of a horse the rider was lost, being overtaken and slain by the enemy, all for the want of care about a horseshoe nail.
Benjamin Franklin
Where sense is wanting, everything is wanting.
Benjamin Franklin
If you want to win friends, make it a point to remember them. If you remember my name, you pay me a subtle compliment; you indicate that I have made an impression on you. Remember my name and you add to my feeling of importance.
Dale Carnegie
Tell everyone what you want to do and someone will want to help you do it.
W. Clement Stone
Inaction breeds doubt and fear. Action breeds confidence and courage. If you want to conquer fear, do not sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy.
Dale Carnegie
A woman has got to be able to say, and not feel guilty, 'Who am I, and what do I want out of life?' She mustn't feel selfish and neurotic if she wants goals of her own, outside of husband and children.
Betty Friedan
To summarize: it is a well-known fact that those people who must want to rule people are, ipso facto, those least suited to do it. To summarize the summary: anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job. To summarize the summary of the summary: people are a problem.
Douglas Adams
The President is the last person in the world to know what the people really want and think.
James A. Garfield
If you want to reach a state of bliss, then go beyond your ego and the internal dialogue. Make a decision to relinquish the need to control, the need to be approved, and the need to judge. Those are the three things the ego is doing all the time. It's very important to be aware of them every time they come up.
Deepak Chopra
If you don't get what you want, it's a sign either that you did not seriously want it, or that you tried to bargain over the price.
Rudyard Kipling
The ones who want to achieve and win championships motivate themselves.
Mike Ditka
If you keep thinking about what you want to do or what you hope will happen, you don't do it, and it won't happen.
Desiderius Erasmus
Do you want me to tell you something really subversive? Love is everything its cracked up to be. That's why people are so cynical about it...it really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everthing for. And the trouble is, if you don't risk anything, you risk even more.
Erica Jong
A mission could be defined as an image of a desired state that you want to get to. Once fully seen, it will inspire you to act, fuel your imagination and determine your behavior.
Charles Garfield
Peak performers develop powerful mental images of the behavior that will lead to the desired results. They see in their mind's eye the result they want, and the actions leading to it.
Charles Garfield
"But I don't want to go among mad people," said Alice. "Oh, you can't help that," said the cat. "We're all mad here."
Lewis Carroll
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
One day Alice came to a fork in the road and saw a Cheshire cat in a tree. Which road do I take? she asked. Where do you want to go? was his response. I don't know, Alice answered. Then, said the cat, it doesn't matter.
Lewis Carroll
Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma - which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of other's opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, 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
'But I don't want to go among mad people,' Alice remarked. 'Oh, you can't help that,' said the Cat: 'We're all mad here. I'm mad. You're mad.'
Lewis Carroll
So we went to Atari and said, 'Hey, we've got this amazing thing, even built with some of your parts, and what do you think about funding us? Or we'll give it to you. We just want to do it. Pay our salary, we'll come work for you.' And they said, 'No.' So then we went to Hewlett-Packard, and they said, 'Hey, we don't need you. You haven't got through college yet.'
Steve Jobs
I feel like somebody just punched me in the stomach and knocked all my wind out. I'm only 30 years old and I want to have a chance to continue creating things. I know I've got at least one more great computer in me. And Apple is not going to give me a chance to do that.
Steve Jobs
You can't just ask customers what they want and then try to give that to them. By the time you get it built, they'll want something new.
Steve Jobs
Do you want to spend the rest of your life selling sugared water or do you want a chance to change the world?
Steve Jobs
If you want to make peace with your enemy, you have to work with your enemy. Then he becomes your partner.
Nelson Mandela
I think it's an honor to be a role model to one person or maybe more than that. If you are given a chance to be a role model, I think you should always take it because you can influence a person's life in a positive light, and that's what I want to do. That's what it's all about.
Tiger Woods
Men fail much oftener from want of perseverance than from want of talent.
William Cobbett
Then he saw also that it matters little what profession, whether of religion or irreligion, a man may make, provided only he follows it out with charitable inconsistency, and without insisting on it to the bitter end. It is in the uncompromisingness with which dogma is held and not in the dogma or want of dogma that the danger lies.
Samuel Butler
The Christian religion, then, is not an affair of preaching, or prating, or ranting, but of taking care of the bodies as well as the souls of people; not an affair of belief and of faith and of professions, but an affair of doing good, and especially to those who are in want; not an affair of fire and brimstone, but an affair of bacon and read, beer and a bed.
William Cobbett
You want more constraints on you. You want to embrace constraints. Don't try to use resources to get them out of the way.
Jason Fried
It has beeen said that the love of money is the root of all evil. The want of money is so quite as truly.
Samuel Butler
Some prices are just too high, no matter how much you may want the prize. The one thing you can't trade for your heart's desire is your heart.
Lois McMaster Bujold
Be you in what line of life you may, it will be amongst your misfortunes if you have not time properly to attend to pecuniary [monetary] matters. Want of attention to these matters has impeded the progress of science and of genius itself.
William Cobbett
Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult, and not tried.
G. K. Chesterton
I want to see the correct focus and the correct attitude, not just from the players, but the entire organization of the importance of the season. Last year, we rebounded and had a very good regular season and our expectations were high, and we didn't meet those expectations in the playoffs. I think rather than running from that, we need to meet those expectations head-on.
Doug Armstrong
We don't have the time to have a 30- or 35-man camp here because of exhibition games. We want to start building a team here, and to do that you have to have the players that will be a part of it around. We're going to let it play out up in Dallas.
Doug Armstrong
If you don't want anyone to know, don't do it.
Chinese Proverb
A slave begins by demanding justice and ends by wanting to wear a crown.
Albert Camus
If you can't do what you want, do what you can.
Lois McMaster Bujold
The friendships which last are those wherein each friend respects the other's dignity to the point of not really wanting anything from him.
Cyril Connolly
You try to give away what you want yourself.
Lois McMaster Bujold
If you want to catch something, running after it isn't always the best way.
Lois McMaster Bujold
If you want to endure life, prepare yourself for death.
Sigmund Freud
I want to work for a company that contributes to and is part of the community. I want something not just to invest in. I want something to believe in.
Anita Roddick
We found that a slick truck can also be on the edge in the draft. We found last year that we want a fair amount of drag on it because during the race, drag means grip. There's kind of a fine line. I think you want to build a truck that has a little bit of drag.
David Starr Jordan
What you really want for yourself is always trying to break through, just as a cooling breeze flows through an open window on a hot day. Your part is to open the windows of your mind.
Vernon Howard
Not wanting to die was another universal constant, it seemed.
Robert J. Sawyer
The artist doesn't have time to listen to the critics. The ones who want to be writers read the reviews, the ones who want to write don't have the time to read reviews.
William Faulkner
If I were reincarnated, I'd want to come back a buzzard. Nothing hates him or envies him or wants him or needs him. He is never bothered or in danger, and he can eat anything.
William Faulkner
Style is knowing who you are, what you want to say and not giving a damn.
Gore Vidal
Many people weigh the guilt they will feel against the pleasure of the forbidden action they want to take.
Peter McWilliams
I want to grow. I want to be better. You grow. We all grow. We're made to grow. You either evolve or you disappear.
Tupac Shakur
If you want peace, stop fighting. If you want peace of mind, stop fighting with your thoughts.
Peter McWilliams
If you're not actively involved in getting what you want, you don't really want it.
Peter McWilliams
Beauty isn't worth thinking about; what's important is your mind. You don't want a fifty-dollar haircut on a fifty-cent head.
Garrison Keillor
As human beings we all want to be happy and free from misery… we have learned that the key to happiness is inner peace. The greatest obstacles to inner peace are disturbing emotions such as anger, attachment, fear and suspicion, while love and compassion and a sense of universal responsibility are the sources of peace and happiness.
The Dalai Lama
If I want to be great I have to win the victory over myself... self-discipline.
Harry S Truman
I have found the best way to give advice to your children is to find out what they want and then advise them to do it.
Harry S Truman
I learned that a great leader is a man who has the ability to get other people to do what they don't want to do and like it.
Harry S Truman
I don't want prizes. I turned down the National Institute of Arts and Letters when I was elected to it in 1976 on the grounds that I already belonged to the Diner's Club.
Gore Vidal
I'm the one that has to die when it's time for me to die, so let me live my life, the way I want to.
Jimi Hendrix
Try to love someone who you want to hate, because they are just like you, somewhere inside, in a way you may never expect, in a way that resounds so deeply within you that you cannot believe it.
Margaret Cho
I will not eat oysters. I want my food dead- not sick, not wounded - dead.
Woody Allen
I want to entertain people. That's my whole life. To my last breath.
Elvis Presley
I am society's child, this is how they made me, and now I'm saying what's on my mind and they don't want that. This is what you made me America.
Tupac Shakur
It is no surprise to me that hardly anyone tells the truth about how they feel. The smart ones keep themselves to themselves for good reason. Why would you want to tell anyone anything that's dear to you? Even when you like them and want nothing more than to be closer than close to them? It's so painful to be next to someone you feel strongly about and know you can't say the things you want to.
Henry Rollins
If he gets the surgery, then he will probably be able to play baseball in the spring, ... I don't want him not to be able to play golf with his kids when he grows up because his knee is so torn up.
Robert Browning
If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get married.
Katharine Hepburn
You can live to be a hundred if you give up all the things that make you want to live to be a hundred.
Woody Allen
When I die, I want people to play my music, go wild and freak out and do anything they want to do.
Jimi Hendrix
I don't want to achieve immortality through my work. I want to achieve it through not dying.
Woody Allen
Many people seek after what they do not possess and are thus enslaved by the very things they want to acquire.
Anwar El sadat
I don't want to become immortal through my work, I want to become immortal through not dying.
Woody Allen
Death doesn't really worry me that much, I'm not frightened about it... I just don't want to be there when it happens.
Woody Allen
I'm astounded by people who want to 'know' the universe when it's hard enough to find your way around Chinatown.
Woody Allen
When your mother asks, "Do you want a piece of advice?" it is a mere formality. It doesn't matter if you answer yes or no. You're going to get it anyway.
Erma Bombeck
Remember that not getting what you want is sometimes a wonderful stroke of luck.
The Dalai Lama
It's not that I'm afraid to die, I just don't want to be there when it happens.
Woody Allen
I think vision is highly overrated today. I think what really blesses a ministry is, if you want the power of God in your life, its humility and integrity. I'll take a person who's humble and has integrity over a person who has vision any day. A lot of people have vision just based on ego, but it's in that dependence upon God that we get His vision and develop more trust in Him.
Frederick Warren
The stoical scheme of supplying our wants by lopping off our desires, is like cutting off our feet when we want shoes.
Jonathan Swift
I believe you can have whatever you really want in this life, in one form or another, sooner or later. All you have to do is take care of your health and be lucky enough to live for a while. But you can't have it all at once and you can't have it forever. No life has the room for everything in it, not on the same day.
Barbara Sher
I want to tell you a terrific story about oral contraception. I asked this girl to sleep with me and she said 'no'.
Woody Allen
Don't use words too big for the subject. Don't say 'infinitely' when you mean 'very'; otherwise you'll have no word left when you want to talk about something really infinite.
C. S. Lewis
In faith there is enough light for those who want to believe and enough shadows to blind those who don't.
Blaise Pascal
I'm in favor of legalizing drugs. According to my values system, if people want to kill themselves, they have every right to do so. Most of the harm that comes from drugs is because they are illegal.
Milton Friedman
I think we can win state. But I always want to take first.
Andrew Smith
I do not want the peace which passeth understanding, I want the understanding which bringeth peace.
Helen Keller
If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.
Baruch Spinoza
If I can't dance - I don't want to be part of your revolution.
Emma Goldman
As Americans, we want peace -- we work and sacrifice for peace. But there can be no peace if our security depends on the will and whims of a ruthless and aggressive dictator. I'm not willing to stake one American life on trusting Saddam Hussein.
George W. Bush
They want the federal government controlling Social Security like it's some kind of federal program.
George W. Bush
I just want you to know that, when we talk about war, we're really talking about peace.
George W. Bush
When an idea is wanting, a word can always be found to take its place.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Don't take the bull by the horns, take him by the tail; then you can let go when you want to.
Josh Billings
Most people do not really want freedom, because freedom involves responsibility, and most people are frightened of responsibility.
Sigmund Freud
I was [ticked] off, all my teammates were. That's not the way you want the game to end.
Jose Molina
I don't want to see resources distracted for something seen as your hobby.
Tom Borelli
He wants to invoke the threat of polls (new elections), which the allies do not obviously want at this stage.
Somnath Chatterjee
We want to rebuild New Orleans.
Bruce Karatz
I believe love is primarily a choice and only sometimes a feeling. If you want to feel love, choose to love and be patient.
Real Live Preacher
Call it what you want: over-extended, spread too thin, burned-out... the bottom line is, in an effort to put lots of irons in the fire, help some people out, and increase my opportunities to retire in style at the age of 25, I've given too much of myself to other people, and there hasn't been enough left over for me and the people I love.
Wil Wheaton
This is one of those deals where everybody can be really proud. In a day and age when it's only about the team using a player for the amount of time they'll think he'll be totally at his best, or a day in age when players want to get paid all they can right now, this was every party understanding the other's needs.
Perry Rogers
I want to thank each volunteer for their hard work.
Kristi Flippin
I don't want any yes-men around me. I want everybody to tell me the truth even if it costs them their jobs.
Samuel Goldwyn
I'm at the point I want to feel good after a game. We've got a bad taste in our mouths. We've had it there for weeks.
Trey Teague
The reason they have these jobs is because other people don't want to do the jobs they do.
Roberto Flores
If you really do want to be an actor who can satisfy himself and his audience, you need to be vulnerable. [You must] reach the emotional and intellectual level of ability where you can go out stark naked, emotionally, in front of an audience.
Jack Lemon
We want to improve every time we play, but it's hard to work on your hitting when only one out of every seven or eight pitches is a strike. We faced some fast pitching in a tournament on Saturday, and we had just started to get our timing down by the end of the day. It was a little hard to readjust to the slow stuff we saw today.
Susie Sellers
I want to know God's thoughts; the rest are details.
Albert Einstein
I balance things better and don't kill myself so much, but conflict makes me a more interesting actress to watch. The places I go to to pull emotions from, I think if you have a perfect, happy life, you just don't have those places. And I want those places. I'm proud of those places.
Vanessa Marcil
My biggest concern is who is going to police it. It's a role I don't want to take on or have my staff take on.
Jeff Forbes
I just want to help. I'm an American and want to do whatever I can to assist these people. There is nothing in it for me except the knowledge that we tried, in our own way, to help.
David Perkins
We can be dangerous in the playoffs, ... A team that others would not want to play.
Jovan Kirovski
I don't think it's a mystery that we'd prefer to run the ball. When you've got Jesse Stephens and Eugene Lyons, you want to run the ball as much as you can.
Jack Touhey
Money is a subsidiary of success. People always want to sponsor you. Without them there would be no money in sport.
Clive Lloyd
I want everyone to get their say, whether they say yes or no.
Sabrina Davis
Commuter rail is a very ambitious endeavor. That is all the more reason we would want the Legislature to be involved in the process.
Heather Hedrick
The Internet is like alcohol in some sense. It accentuates what you would do anyway. If you want to be a loner, you can be more alone. If you want to connect, it makes it easier to connect.
Esther Dyson
Hopefully I can impress the next manager but at the moment I just want to concentrate on the present.
Wayne Bridge
We fear the thing we want the most.
Dr. Robert Anthony
He probably is harder on himself than I want him to be right now. Sometimes he makes a mistake and beats himself up and he allows that to affect him two, three plays down the road.
Derrick Jackson
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