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Money never made a man happy yet, nor will it. The more a man has, the more he wants. Instead of filling a vacuum, it makes one. (Quote by - Benjamin Franklin)

It's too bad to want a thing and not be allowed it. (Quote by - Norwegian Proverb)

Abundance, like want, ruins many. (Quote by - Romanian Proverb)

Make sure you want it enough. (Quote by - Frank Kingdon)

More than we use is more than we want. (Quote by - Gaelic Proverb)

I don't want the cheese, I just want to get out of the trap. (Quote by - Latin Proverb)

The average man does not know what to do with this life, yet wants another one which will last forever. (Quote by - Anatole France)

He can feel no little wants who is in pursuit of grandeur. (Quote by - Johann Kaspar Lavater)

There are two things to aim at in life: first, to get what you want; and, after that, to enjoy it. Only the wisest of mankind achieve the second. (Quote by - Logan Pearsall Smith)

If God wants people to suffer, he sends them too much understanding. (Quote by - Yiddish Proverb)

If you want to gather a lot of knowledge, act as if you are ignorant. (Quote by - Vietnamese Proverb)

It is not from nature, but from education and habits, that our wants are chiefly derived. (Quote by - Henry Fielding)

The keener the want the lustier the growth. (Quote by - Wendell Phillips)

The things that I can't have I want, And what I have seems second-rate, The things I want to do I can't, And what I have to do I hate. (Quote by - Don Marquis)

The stoical scheme of supplying our wants by lopping off our desires, is like cutting off our feet when we want shoes. (Quote by - Jonathan Swift)

Our necessities never equal our wants. (Quote by - Benjamin Franklin)

A want becomes a have with time. (Quote by - Marilyn Bencosme)

Want is a growing giant whom the coat of Have was never large enough to cover. (Quote by - Ralph Waldo Emerson)

The fewer our wants, the nearer we resemble the gods. (Quote by - Socrates)

If you want to know all about Andy Warhol, just look at the surface of my paintings and films and me, and there I am. There's nothing behind it. (Quote by - Andy Warhol)

I suppose I have a really loose interpretation of "work," because I think that just being alive is so much work at something you don't always want to do. The machinery is always going. Even when you sleep. (Quote by - Andy Warhol)

I think having land and not ruining it is the most beautiful art that anybody could ever want to own. (Quote by - Andy Warhol)

Teamwork is so important that it is virtually impossible for you to reach the heights of your capabilities or make the money that you want without becoming very good at it. (Quote by - Brian Tracy)

I've found that luck is quite predictable. If you want more luck, take more chances. Be more active. Show up more often. (Quote by - Brian Tracy)

The more credit you give away, the more will come back to you. The more you help others, the more they will want to help you. (Quote by - Brian Tracy)

The best things and best people rise out of their separateness; I'm against a homogenized society because I want the cream to rise. (Quote by - Robert Frost )

What you do not want done to yourself, do not do to others. (Quote by - Confucius)

I want you to be everything that's you, deep at the center of your being. (Quote by - Confucius)

I will not be concerned at other men's not knowing me;I will be concerned at my own want of ability. (Quote by - Confucius )

Someday I want to be rich. Some people get so rich they lose all respect for humanity. That's how rich I want to be. (Quote by - Rita Rudner)

It's so great to find that one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life. (Quote by - Rita Rudner)

Men who consistently leave the toilet seat up secretly want women to get up to go the bathroom in the middle of the night and fall in. (Quote by - Rita Rudner)

My boyfriend and I broke up. He wanted to get married and I didn't want him to. (Quote by - Rita Rudner)

Recently I heard a 'wise guy' story that I had a party at my home for twenty-five men. It's an interesting story, but I don't know twenty-five men I'd want to invite ta a party. (Quote by - Joan Crawford )

If you want a guarantee, buy a toaster. (Quote by - Clint Eastwood)

I don't believe in pessimism. If something doesn't come up the way you want, forge ahead. If you think it's going to rain, it will. (Quote by - Clint Eastwood)

The easiest thing to be in the world is you. The most difficult thing to be is what other people want you to be. Don't let them put you in that position. (Quote by - Leo Buscaglia )

If anyone comes to me, I want to lead them to Him. (Quote by - Edith Stein)

I think that people want peace so much that one of these days government had better get out of their way and let them have it. (Quote by - Dwight D. Eisenhower)

Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it. (Quote by - Dwight D. Eisenhower)

If you want total security, go to prison. There you're fed, clothed, given medical care and so on. The only thing lacking... is freedom. (Quote by - Dwight D. Eisenhower)

Motivation is the art of getting people to do what you want them to do because they want to do it. (Quote by - Dwight D. Eisenhower)

The people of the world genuinely want peace. Some day the leaders of the world are going to have to give in and give, it to them. (Quote by - Dwight D. Eisenhower)

I like to believe that people in the long run are going to do more to promote peace than our governments. Indeed, I think that people want peace so much that one of these days governments had better get out of the way and let them have it. (Quote by - Dwight D. Eisenhower)

Nine-tenths of the people were created so you would want to be with the other tenth. (Quote by - Horace Walpole)

In faith there is enough light for those who want to believe and enough shadows to blind those who don't. (Quote by - Blaise Pascal)

It is natural for the mind to believe and for the will to love; so that, for want of true objects, they must attach themselves to false. (Quote by - Blaise Pascal)

When I want to know what France thinks, I ask myself. (Quote by - Charles de Gaulle)

People who want to share their religious views with you almost never want you to share yours with them. (Quote by - Dave Barry )

When you know what you want, and want it bad enough, you will find a way to get it. (Quote by - Jim Rohn)

The American people... want change. They want big ideas, big reform. (Quote by - Rahm Emanuel)

I don't want to go negative on Franklin Delano Roosevelt, but he didn't pass an economic deal in the first 100 days. We have passed the largest Recovery Act in the history of the country. (Quote by - Rahm Emanuel)

The one thing I want to leave my children is an honorable name. (Quote by - Theodore Roosevelt)

People are still willing to do an honest day's work. The trouble is they want a week's pay for it. (Quote by - Joey Adams)

At the center of your being you have the answer; you know who you are and you know what you want. (Quote by - Lao Tzu)

There is only one way... to get anybody to do anything. And that is by making the other person want to do it. (Quote by - Dale Carnegie)

Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get. (Quote by - Dale Carnegie)

Inaction breeds doubt and fear. Action breeds confidence and courage. If you want to conquer fear, do not sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy. (Quote by - Dale Carnegie)

If you want to be enthusiastic, act enthusiastic. (Quote by - Dale Carnegie)

If you want to conquer fear, don't sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy. (Quote by - Dale Carnegie)

If you want to gather honey, don't kick over the beehive. (Quote by - Dale Carnegie )