Wants Quotes

Mama - Mama - I want so many things... I want so many things that they are driving me kind of crazy.

Society is produced by our wants, and government by our wickedness; the former promotes our happiness POSITIVELY by uniting our affections, the latter NEGATIVELY by restraining our vices. The one encourages intercourse, the other creates distinctions. The first a patron, the last a punisher.

Even if we try to see people in our lives accurately, it is distorted by our own wants and prejudices and experiences.

Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.

You can never get enough of what you don't need to make you happy.

Luxury is a necessity that begins where necessity ends

Be modest in your wants...There is nothing that will cause greater tensions in marriage than grinding debt, which will make of you a slave to your creditors.

God, when He made man with wants, and rendered labour an indispensable resource, made the right of work the property of every individual in the world, and this property is the first, the most sacred, and the most imprescriptible of all kinds of property. We regard it as one of the first duties of our justice, and as one of the acts most of all worthy of our benevolence, to free our subjects from every infraction of that inalienable right of humanity.

Poor is the man who desires a lot

Those who want much, are always much in need; happy the man to whom God gives with a sparing hand what is sufficient for his wants.

Don't struggle to get what you want, but modify your wants.

I remember when I was like 9, 10, 11 going into stores and saying, 'Wow! I wish I had this.'

The art of our necessities is strange, And can make vile things precious.

He chose to be rich by making his wants few, and supplying them himself.

Whoever desires is always poor.

You can have anything in life you really want - but you can't have everything in life you really want. Decide.

He is the least in want who is the least covetous.

Historic opportunities are missed because we fixate on what folks say they want. And what folks say they want in business and politics is limited to what they believe is possible.

What I want is what I've not got, but what I need is all around me.

There are few things we should keenly desire if we really knew what we wanted.

Where necessity ends, desire and curiosity begin; and no sooner are we supplied with everything nature can demand than we sit down to contrive artificial appetites.

Life is like a giant smorgasbord of more delicious alternatives than you can ever hope to taste. So you have to reject having some things you want in order to get other things you want more.

In a democracy, not everyone gets what they want.

The more wants a man has, the less freedom.

She said, "Do you have more things that you need, or more that you don't need?" I said, "It depends on what it means to need.