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The jump is so frightening
between where I am,
and where I want to be.
Because of all I may become,
I will close my eyes and leap.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
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To live is to choose. But to choose well,
you must know who you are and what you stand for,
where you want to go and why you want to get there.
- Kofi Annan
Remember that not getting what you want
is sometimes a wonderful stroke of luck.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
We seek opinions that are likely to
support what we want to be true.
- Thomas Gilovich
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Thank you for joining me on this journey we call life,
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Nothing is ever going to work out the way you want,
so you may as well choose to want the way life does work out.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The way I see it, if you want the rainbow,
you gotta put up with the rain.
- Dolly Parton
What you want is irrelevant,
what you have chosen is at hand.
- Spock character in Star Trek VI movie
Celebrate what you want to see more of.
- Tom Peters
If you want to improve,
be content to be thought foolish and stupid.
- Epictetus
If you have health, you probably will be happy,
and if you have health and happiness,
you have all the wealth you need, even if it is not all you want.
- Elbert Hubbard
How do you want to be remembered?
Live life full out - Begin today.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
For want of a nail the shoe was lost;
for want of a shoe the horse was lost;
and for want of a horse the rider was lost.
- Benjamin Franklin
If you want peace, stop fighting.
If you want peace of mind,
stop fighting with your thoughts.
- Peter McWilliams
You will never find time for anything.
If you want time you must make it.
- Charles Buxton
If you want reality to be different than it is,
you might as well try to teach a cat to bark.
- Byron Katie
If you want others to be happy, practice compassion.
If you want to be happy, practice compassion.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
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
If you want to be incrementally better: Be competitive.
If you want to be exponentially better: Be cooperative.
- Anonymous
Whatever you want in life, start today.
Not tomorrow - today.
Let it be a small beginning - a tiny beginning.
Your happiness depends on starting today - every day.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Motivation is the art of getting people to do
what you want them to do because they want to do it.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
You can have anything you want in life if you
just help enough other people get what they want.
- Zig Ziglar
"Good morning!" he said at last.
"We don't want any adventures here, thank you!
You might try over The Hill or across The Water."
- J. R. R. Tolkien
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 others' 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
Dream up the world you want to live in. Dream out loud.
- Bono
Teamwork is so important that it is virtually impossible for you
to reach the heights of your capabilities
or make the money that you want
without becoming very good at it.
- Brian Tracy
Die when I may, I want it said by those who knew me best
that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower
where I thought a flower would grow.
- Abraham Lincoln
Decide that you want it more than you are afraid of it.
- Bill Cosby
Take time to play!
Ask for what you want.
Laugh.
Live loudly.
Be avid.
Learn a new thing.
Be Yourself!
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Where am I? Who am I? How did I come to be here?
What is this thing called the world?
How did I come into the world?
Why was I not consulted?
And If I am compelled to take part in it,
Where is the director? I want to see him.
- Soren Kierkegaard
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.
His responses was a question: "Where do you want to go?"
"I don't know," Alice answered.
"Then," said the cat, "it doesn't matter."
- Lewis Carroll
Nearly all men can stand adversity,
but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
- Abraham Lincoln
There is only one way... to get anybody to do anything.
And that is by making the other person want to do it.
- Dale Carnegie
To accuse others for one's own misfortunes
is a sign of want of education.
To accuse oneself shows that one's education has begun.
To accuse neither oneself nor others
shows that one's education is complete.
- Epictetus
I know the price of success: dedication, hard work,
and an unremitting devotion to the things you want to see happen.
- Frank Lloyd Wright
No great man ever complains of want of opportunity.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
If you want to do it,
Do It - TODAY.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Do you want to know who you are?
Don't ask. Act!
Action will delineate and define you.
- Thomas Jefferson
Determine never to be idle.
No person will have occasion to complain
of the want of time who never loses any.
It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing.
- Thomas Jefferson
We can do anything we want to
if we stick to it long enough.
- Helen Keller
If you don't know what you want, you will probably never get it.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
I want it said of me by those who knew me best,
that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower
where I thought a flower would grow.
- Abraham Lincoln
Success is a state of mind.
If you want success,
start thinking of yourself as a success.
- Joyce Brothers
Smile.
Today would be a wonderful day
not to take life so seriously.
Today may end up the way you prefer -
and it may not.
Happiness is not about being a winner -
it's about being gentle with life -
being gentle with yourself.
Let life be a dance,
and choose the kind of
dance you want for today -
perhaps a gentle loving dance.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
You can do what you want to do.
- David Thomas
Sometimes the things you really want
sneak in the back door.
Notice.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Be the change you want to see in the world.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
At the center of your being you have the answer;
you know who you are and you know what you want.
- Lao Tzu
Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition -
they somehow already know what you truly want to become.
- Steve Jobs
Success is getting what you want;
happiness is wanting what you get.
- Dale Carnegie
The indispensable first step to getting
the things you want out of life is this:
Decide what you want.
- Ben Stein
Most of us are prisoners of habit,
and don't even notice that we do the same things,
think the same things, want the same things each day -
mostly without conscious thought.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Do you have a plan for your life?
If not, allocate some time today to sit quietly
with pen and paper to begin writing your life plan -
what you want to accomplish with your life,
and what projects will support your goals.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Intolerance betrays want of faith in one's cause.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Faith is not the belief that God will do what you want.
It is the belief that God will do what is right.
- Max Lucado
We believe whatever we want to believe.
- Demosthenes
Here's a toast to your new bride who has everything a girl
could want in her life, except for good taste in men.
- Anonymous
Nine-tenths of the people were created
so you would want to be with the other tenth.
- Horace Walpole
If you want to feel rich,
just count all of the things you have that money can't buy.
- Anonymous
Men always want to be a woman's first love -
women like to be a man's last romance.
- Oscar Wilde
Learn to become still. And to take your attention
away from what you don't want, and all the emotional charge around it,
and place your attention on what you wish to experience.
- Michael Beckwith
You'll live to be a hundred if you give up
all the things that make you want to.
- the movie Interiors
You want a friend in Washington? Get a dog.
- Harry S. Truman
Getting old is a fascination thing.
The older you get, the older you want to get.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Take time to contemplate -
away from the opinions and influence of others -
what you really want
and what you believe to be important in your life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Just because an animal is large, it doesn't mean he doesn't want kindness;
however big Tigger seems to be, remember that he wants as much kindness as Roo.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
My boyfriend and I broke up.
He wanted to get married and I didn't want him to.
- Rita Rudner
We have to let go of all blame, all attacking, all judging,
to free our inner selves to attract what we say we want.
- Joe Vitale
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
Can miles truly separate us from friends?
If we want to be with someone we love, aren't we already there?
- Richard Bach
You want to do mankind a real service?
Tell funnier jokes.
- the Woody Allen movie Stardust Memories (1980)
The key to happiness is not to have what you want
but to want what you have.
- Anonymous
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