C. S. Lewis Quotes

Before we can be cured, we must want to be cured.

People are only influenced in the direction in which they want to go, and influence consists largely in making them conscious of their wishes to proceed in that direction.

Most of my films deal with people who are stuck in certain routines and habits that don't make them happy. They want to change, but they need something to push them. I think it's mostly love that causes them to break their routines and move on.

What I learned: Shun nonbelievers. Ignore critics. Do your best for people who want to dance with you.

If you want to be the best, find out what the top people do & do it yourself.

[I want to be] Something that really touched you - and as far as image and change goes, I just really want a lot of people to respect my music and treat me... [as] inspiration.

I feel like if I show people how good I'm doing with myself, then it'll bring people to want me to manage them as well.

I want to succeed. And I want to succeed in the best way possible, without caring whether people call my actions leftist or rightist.

Never, never underestimate the power of desire. If you want to live badly enough, you can live. The great question, at least for me, was: How do I decide I want to live?

I think people want to see change, want to see something new and Hillary Clinton is just not that person.

She wanted—what some people want throughout life—a grief that should deeply touch her, and thus humanize and make her capable of sympathy.

I don't want my reasons to be informed by what people think about what I'm doing.

Many people tell me what I ought to do and just how I ought to do it, but Few have made me want to do something.

Do yourself what you wish others to do.

If you're looking for self-help, why would you read a book written by somebody else?

Don't you wish we could pick the people we love?" "Yeah," I say. "Or just make the people we love want the same things we want.

One of the marks of excellent people is that they never compare themselves with others. They only compare themselves with themselves and with their past accomplishments and future potential.

The fear of punishment, the desire of reward, the sense of duty, are all useful arguments, in their way, to persuade people to holiness. But they are all weak and powerless, until a person loves Christ.

Active, successful natures act, not according to the maxim, "know thyself," but as if prompted by the commandment: will a self, and so become a self.

My working life is me doing what I want to do. This is that. I've made movies that people don't go to see.

You play a part in every aspect of your life going the way you want or not going the way that you want. It has very little to do with other people.

God gave you your own race to run, stop comparing yourself to other people. They have their race and you have yours. Run hard and don't quit.

Sometimes I wish they'd ask for my wisdom more often - there are so many things I could tell them; things I wish they would change. But they don't want change. Life here is so orderly, so predictable - so painless. It's what they've chosen.

Good products are built by people who want to use it themselves

Everyone wants a better life: very few of us want to be better people.