Wants Quotes

The true man wants two things: danger and play. For that reason he wants woman, as the most dangerous plaything.
Friedrich Nietzsche

True, Woman, Two

Money has never made man happy, nor will it, there is nothing in its nature to produce happiness. The more of it one has the more one wants.
Benjamin Franklin

Happiness, Nature, Money

There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.
Oscar Wilde

Life, Two, Getting

Never trust anyone who wants what you've got. Friend or no, envy is an overwhelming emotion.
Eubie Blake

Trust, Envy, Friend

There are horrible people who, instead of solving a problem, tangle it up and make it harder to solve for anyone who wants to deal with it. Whoever does not know how to hit the nail on the head should be asked not to hit it at all.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Problem, Anyone, Head

The Chinese government wants me to say that for many centuries Tibet has been part of China. Even if I make that statement, many people would just laugh. And my statement will not change past history. History is history.
Dalai Lama

Change, History, Government

The worst thing one can do is not to try, to be aware of what one wants and not give in to it, to spend years in silent hurt wondering if something could have materialized - never knowing.
Jim Rohn

Hurt, Give, Try

What's money? A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do.
Bob Dylan

Success, Money, Morning

No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don't want to die to get there. And yet death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it. And that is as it should be, because Death is very likely the single best invention of Life. It is Life's change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new.
Steve Jobs

Life, Change, Best

Man falls from the pursuit of the ideal of plan living and high thinking the moment he wants to multiply his daily wants. Man's happiness really lies in contentment.
Mahatma Gandhi

Happiness, Daily, Thinking

There are two ways of being happy: We must either diminish our wants or augment our means - either may do - the result is the same and it is for each man to decide for himself and to do that which happens to be easier.
Benjamin Franklin

Happy, May, Two

Our problems are man-made, therefore they may be solved by man. And man can be as big as he wants. No problem of human destiny is beyond human beings.
John F. Kennedy

Human, May, Destiny

In every real man a child is hidden that wants to play.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Real, Play, Child

How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create it herself.
Anais Nin

Woman, Wrong, Rather

Each generation wants new symbols, new people, new names. They want to divorce themselves from their predecessors.
Jim Morrison

Divorce, Themselves, Generation

A man who wants to lead the orchestra must turn his back on the crowd.
Max Lucado

Turn, Lead, Crowd

Marriage is a wonderful institution, but who wants to live in an institution?
Groucho Marx

Marriage, Live, Wonderful

An Atheist believes that a hospital should be built instead of a church. An atheist believes that deed must be done instead of prayer said. An atheist strives for involvement in life and not escape into death. He wants disease conquered, poverty vanished, war eliminated.
Madalyn Murray O'Hair

Life, War, Death

Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.
Dwight D. Eisenhower

Leadership, Art, Someone

Money won't make you happy... but everybody wants to find out for themselves.
Zig Ziglar

Money, Happy, Find

Our necessities never equal our wants.
Benjamin Franklin

I cannot believe in a God who wants to be praised all the time.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Time, God, Cannot

Can anything be so elegant as to have few wants, and to serve them one's self?
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Self, Few, Serve

The postman wants an autograph. The cab driver wants a picture. The waitress wants a handshake. Everyone wants a piece of you.
John Lennon

Everyone, Picture, Piece

I've been saying for a couple of years now that people need to let God out of the Sunday morning box, that He doesn't want to just be with you for an hour or two on Sunday morning and then put back in His box to sit there until you have an emergency, but He wants to invade your Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, and Sunday.
Joyce Meyer

God, Morning, Sunday

A stiff apology is a second insult... The injured party does not want to be compensated because he has been wronged; he wants to be healed because he has been hurt.
Gilbert K. Chesterton

Hurt, Insult, Second

Girdles and wire stays should have never been invented. No man wants to hug a padded bird cage.
Marilyn Monroe

Bird, Hug, Cage

I distrust those people who know so well what God wants them to do, because I notice it always coincides with their own desires.
Susan B. Anthony

God, Distrust, Desires

God wants us to prosper financially, to have plenty of money, to fulfill the destiny He has laid out for us.
Joel Osteen

Money, God, Destiny

The best executive is one who has sense enough to pick good people to do what he wants done, and self-restraint enough to keep from meddling with them while they do it.
Theodore Roosevelt

Good, Best, Done

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