Jon Krakauer Quotes

It is natural to want to have a future.

A lot of people don't know what they want or they want much less than they deserve.

Existence alone had never been enough for him; he had always wanted more. Perhaps it was only from the force of his desires that he had regarded himself as a man to whom more was permitted than to others.

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 are a lot of people who have dreams, goals, and hopes, but there aren't a lot who get to see them realized.

Desire creates its own object.

I want to have it all.

People who have given us their complete confidence believe that they have a right to ours. The inference is false, a gift confers no rights.

The kids today all seem to think they should be stars, but I wasn't brought up that way.

Whatever you want in life, other people are going to want it too. Believe in yourself enough to accept the idea that you have an equal right to it.

Be careful what you set your heart upon - for it will surely be yours.

To desire is to obtain; to aspire is to achieve.

The minute you settle for less than you deserve, you get even less than you settled for.

We dream of the perfect wave, the perfect job, the perfect house, the perfect love, and when we get there, we dream of something else, and the journey goes on.

By continually pushing the message that we have the right to gratification now, consumerism at its most expansive encouraged a demand for fulfillment that could not so easily be contained by products.

You have to demand things and believe you're worth more. And once you do demand them, you're usually going to get them. The players who first came in were very humble because we came from obscurity. Today's players, on the other hand, have a sense of entitlement.

My hopes.

Everybody thinks they deserve something.

Lucas is living the life that I wanted, but I want to be clear, I don't feel there's been any pressure for him to live it.

One always wants more when things work out.

Number one is somewhere I always believed I would be.

I have dreams, and I want to see them come to fruition.

Expectation is the springboard of achievement.

I think the main thing I would say is, don't settle. Don't settle for something that's not great.

For if the world treats you well, Sir, you come to believe you are deserving of it.