Besides, I’m not in the mood for all this today. I have no desire to demonstrate, surprise, amuse, or persuade. My goal is absolute rest. To know nothing, to teach nothing, to want nothing, to sense nothing, to sleep, and then to sleep more.Charles Baudelaire
If music be the food of love, play on, Give me excess of it; that surfeiting, The appetite may sicken, and so die.William Shakespeare
It's easier to force feed people than it is to give 'em what they want. It makes more money.Tony Randall
Perhaps when we find ourselves wanting everything, it is because we are dangerously close to wanting nothing.Susan Sontag
What I fear is complacency. When things always become better, people tend to want more for less work.Lee Kuan Yew
Only the tiniest fraction of mankind want freedom. All the rest want someone to tell them they are free.Irving Layton
There is a great deal of difference between an eager man who wants to read a book and the tired man who wants a book to read.Gilbert K. Chesterton
A lot of people are afraid to say what they want. That's why they don't get what they want.Madonna Ciccone
You can have anything you want if you want it badly enough. You can be anything you want to be, do anything you set out to accomplish if you hold to that desire with singleness of purpose.Abraham Lincoln
Brick walls are there for a reason. The brick walls aren't there to keep us out. The brick walls are there to show us how badly we want things.Randy Pausch
Success is doing what you want to do, when you want, where you want, with whom you want, as much as you want.Tony Robbins
Savings can be created by spending less. You can spend less if you desire less. And you will desire less if you care less about what others think of you.Morgan Housel
Success is focusing the full power of all you are on what you have a burning desire to achieve.Wilfred Peterson
Champions aren't made in the gyms. Champions are made from something they have deep inside them-a desire, a dream, a vision.Muhammad Ali
There is one quality which one must possess to win, and that is definiteness of purpose, the knowledge of what one wants, and a burning desire to possess it.Napoleon Hill
When a person really desires something, all the universe conspires to help that person to realize his dream.Paulo Coelho
Our dilemma is that we hate change and love it at the same time; what we really want is for things to remain the same but get better.Sydney J. Harris
The size of your success is measured by the strength of your desire; the size of your dream; and how you handle disappointment along the way.Robert Kiyosaki
If the world were merely seductive, that would be easy. If it were merely challenging, that would be no problem. But I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve the world and a desire to enjoy the world. This makes it hard to plan the day.E.B. White
I can never read all the books I want; I can never be all the people I want and live all the lives I want. I can never train myself in all the skills I want. And why do I want? I want to live and feel all the shades, tones and variations of mental and physical experience possible in my life. And I am horribly limited.Sylvia Plath