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"Prosperity depends more on wanting what you have than having what you want." Geoffrey F. Abert 4.9167 average rating Rate this Quote
"I don't want to get to the end of my life and find that I have just lived the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well." Diane Ackerman 4.7206 average rating Rate this Quote
"I desire so to conduct the affairs of this administration that if at the end, when I come to lay down the reins of power, I have lost every other friend on earth, I shall at least have one friend left, and that friend shall be down inside me." William Adams 3.7143 average rating Rate this Quote
"You can have anything you want--if you want it badly enough. You can be anything you want to be, do anything you set out to accomplish if you hold to that desire with singleness of purpose." William Adams 4.5918 average rating Rate this Quote
"Contemplate thy powers, contemplate thy wants and thy connections; so shalt thou discover the duties of life, and be directed in all thy ways." Akhenaton 4.8000 average rating Rate this Quote
"Unless you know what you want, you can't ask for it." Emma Albani 4.7273 average rating Rate this Quote
"If a cow can't eat it, I don't want to play on it." Dick Allen 4.0000 average rating Rate this Quote
"We do not attract what we want, But what we are." James Lane Allen 4.8889 average rating Rate this Quote
"I don't want to achieve immortality through my work. I want to achieve it through not dying." Woody Allen 4.4571 average rating Rate this Quote
"I will not eat oysters. I want my food dead. Not sick -- not wounded -- dead." Woody Allen 4.4545 average rating Rate this Quote
"It's not that I'm afraid to die, I just don't want to be there when it happens." Woody Allen 4.7188 average rating Rate this Quote
"To see what is right, and not to do it, is want of courage or of principle." Lisa Alther 4.6364 average rating Rate this Quote
"In real love you want the other person's good. In romantic love you want the other person." Margaret Anderson 4.7500 average rating Rate this Quote
"All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire." Aristotle 4.5357 average rating Rate this Quote
"Whatsoever that be within us that feels, thinks, desires, and animates, is something celestial, divine, and, consequently, imperishable." Aristotle 4.0000 average rating Rate this Quote
"I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies, for the hardest victory is over self." Aristotle 4.7000 average rating Rate this Quote
"All men by nature desire to know." Aristotle 4.5263 average rating Rate this Quote
"I count him braver who conquers his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victort is the victory over self." Aristotle 4.9474 average rating Rate this Quote
"There is no such thing as can't, only won't. If you're qualified, all it takes is a burning desire to accomplish, to make a change. Go forward, go backward. Whatever it takes! But you can't blame other people or society in general. It all comes from your mind. When we do the impossible we realize we are special people." Jan Ashford 4.4348 average rating Rate this Quote
"One reason I don't drink is that I want to know when I am having a good time." Lady Nancy Astor 4.1111 average rating Rate this Quote
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