Andre Gide Quotes

Its easy to lose sight of what you want when you think you want everything.

He to whom many objects of pursuit arise at the same time, will frequently hesitate between different desires till a rival has precluded him, or change his course as new attractions prevail, and harass himself without advancing.

He can feel no little wants who is in pursuit of grandeur.

There is nobody in the world that you can't get if you really concentrate on it, if you really want them. You've got to want it to the exclusion of everything else.

You have to know what you want to get it.

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

Just because I bought some jewelry and things I've always wished for and always wanted, it doesn't mean I'm not focused. It doesn't mean that I'm not hungry anymore.

Our problem is that we go from toy to toy rather than from glory to glory.

The first step in getting what you want from life-decide what you want.

You can be an artist without visual images, a reader without eyes, a mass of erudition with a bad elementary memory. In almost any subject your passion for the subject will save you. If you only care enough for a result, you will almost certainly attain it. If you wish to be rich, you will be rich; if you wish to be learned, you will be learned; if you wish to be good, you will be good. Only you must, then, really wish these things, and wish them with exclusiveness, and not wish at the same time a hundred other incompatible things just as strongly.

He who wants to do everything will never do anything.

Whatever you want is as elusive as you make it.

Everything in life turns out to be a distraction from the real thing you want to do. There are a million distractions and when I was a kid I was very disciplined. I knew that the other kids weren't. I was the one able to do the thing, not because I had more talent, maybe less, but because they simply weren't applying themselves.

I take no pride in hopeless longing; I wouldn't hold a stillborn aspiration. I'd want to have it, to make it, to live it.

When you want what you want more than you fear what you want, you will have it.

Never settle for anything less than you want.

Once you want something, everything changes.

When you are hunting elephants, don't get distracted chasing rabbits.

When you set goals, you have to keep them always in mind.

In the ardor of pursuit men soon forget the goal from which they start.

If you want it and expect it, it will be yours very soon.

Know what you want - and get it

Know what you want to do, because if you don't know what you want to do, you'll get stuck.

Getting everything you want has nothing to do with anything.

The greater the value of what we want, the greater the sacrifice we will have to make.