L. Frank Baum Quotes

You want what you want, whether or not you think you can have it.

Where there is life there is wishful thinking.

In my experience, there is only one motivation, and that is desire. No reasons or principle contain it or stand against it.

There's nothing bloody wrong with wanting it at all.

Whoever desires is always poor.

Want! You must want something. What do you want?

I think that what people always want is what they don't have a lot of...

All human activity is prompted by desire.

When we begin to desire a thing, to yearn for it with all our hearts, we begin to establish relationship with it in proportion to the strength and persistency of our longing and intelligent effort to realize it.

There's a difference between expectations and aspirations.

Desire creates the power.

I've always loved those movies where somebody really wants something, and then the thing they want is right in front of them.

Can people who hunger so desperately for what other people have ever have enough?

The thought that life could be better is woven indelibly into our hearts and our brains.

I didn't want much. I wanted much more. In fact, I wanted everything.

Life is a progress from want to want, not from enjoyment to enjoyment.

I always want more.

He who does not want does not act.

The keener the want the lustier the growth.

The mind is never satisfied with the objects immediately before it, but is always breaking away from the present moment, and losing itself in schemes of future felicity... The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope.

The nonexistent is whatever we have not sufficiently desired.

I find hunger more interesting than accomplishment.

We all possess the need to dream.

What one hopes for is always better than what one has.