W Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with W. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“When you want a thing done, 'Don't do it yourself' is a good motto for Scoutmasters.”
“When you want full color perception, you must give up preferring some colors and hating others, for you can only hate one aspect of a color, not a whole color, it seems, hate being blind, like 'love.”
“When you want genuine music -- music that will come right home to you like a bad quarter, suffuse your system like strychnine whisky, go right through you like Brandreth's pills, ramify your whole constitution like the measles, and break out on your hide like the pin-feather pimples on a picked goose, -- when you want all this, just smash your piano, and invoke the glory-beaming banjo!”
Source: Early Tales and Sketches 1864-1869
“When you want it the most, there's no easy way out.When you're ready to go, and your heart's left in doubt. Don't give up on your faith, love comes to those who believe it...And that's the way it is.”
“When you want knowledge and understanding as badly as you wanted air, you won't have to ask anyone to give it to you.”
“When you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it. Each thing has to transform itself into something better, and to acquire a new Personal Legend, until, someday, the Soul of the World becomes one thing only.”
“When you want something bad enough, you work your butt off for it.”
“When you want something bad, you'll tell yourself a thousand lies.”
Source: Sing You Home: A Novel
“When you want something badly enough, it does not matter whether it is going to be easy. The passion will push you forward.”
Source: The Art of Being: 8 Ways to Optimize Your Presence & Essence for Positive Impact
“When you want something badly enough, you will develop the confidence and the ability to overcome any obstacle in your way.”
Source: The Gift of Self-Confidence
“When you want something done, you ask a man. When you want it done quietly and without any fuss, you ask a woman.”
Source: The Wizard of London
“When you want something enough, it brings out primal emotions. You get into this place of 'must happen, must happen.'”
“When you want something, he entire universe conspires to help you achieve it.”
Source: The Alchemist
“When you want something so bad and when something great happens, I think it's instinct that you say, 'This is gonna be the moment that's gonna change everything. Everybody is gonna see me a different way.'”
“When you want something so bad it hurts,” he said quietly, “and you bury it, bury it so deep that you convince yourself it no longer matters . . . and someone tells you you can have it, it's terrifying. What if you take the chance and you're wrong? What if you let yourself feel the loss and it's this huge pain and you can't put it back in the box?”
“When you want something so badly, you just do it. You don't think about how hard it's going to be.”
“when you want something so desperately, you shake with the need for it. you tell yourself that you don't need more than one sip, because it's just the taste you crave, and once it's on your tongue you will be able to make it last alifetime. you dream of it at night. you see a thousand mile-high obstacles between where you stand and what you want, and you convince yourself you have the power to hurdle them. you tell yourself this even when, leaping the first block, you wind up bruised and bloodied and flattened.”
“When you want something very dearly, you make the time.”
“When you want something with all of your heart, the universe conspires to helping you achieve it - The Alchemist”
Source: The Alchemist
“When you want something with all your heart, that's when you are closest to the Soul of the World. It's always a positive force.”
Source: The Alchemist - 10th Anniversary Edition
“When you want something with all your heart, that's when you are closest to the Soul of the World.... when you love someone with all your heart, that's when you are transformed." "Everything on earth is being continuously transformed, because the earth is alive... and it has a soul. We are part of that soul, so we rarely recognize that it is working for us.... we continue to change as change is the nature of man. No one is "just this way". That is who they are today - it will not be who they are tomorrow.”
“When you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it.”
“When you want success as bad as you want to breathe, then you will be successful.”
“When you want success as badly as you want the air, then you will get it. There is no other secret of success.”
“When you want them to die, they never do.”
Source: Heartburn
“When you want this thing as bad as you want to breathe! That's when you find a way!”
“When you want to arrive at your goal more than you want to be doing what you are doing, you become stressed.”
Source: A New Earth (Oprah #61): Awakening to Your Life's Purpose
“When you want to arrive at your goal more than you want to be doing what you're doing, you become stressed.”
Source: A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose
“When you want to attract something into your life, make sure your actions don’t contradict your desires.. Think about what you have asked for, and make sure that your actions are mirroring what you expect to receive, and that they’re not contradicting what you‘ve asked for. Act as if you are receiving it. Do exactly what you would do if you were receiving it today, and take actions in your life to reflect that powerful expectation. Make room to receive your desires, and as you do, you are sending out that powerful signal of expectation.”
“When you want to be a designer today, you are in a subversion.”
“When you want to be a good player in next years worldcup you wanna be in good shape to appear strong at the tournament.”
“When you want to be a woman, follow my advice. Speak in a thin, pretty voice. It has to be high-pitched. Try pushing it up into your nose. Cover your mouth when you laugh. Press down firmly and neatly when writing. Grow your hair to your shoulders. Curls are discouraged. Flap your wrists often. Show enthusiasm about grocery shopping and cooking. Beef up your cooking skills. Be unfailingly kind to others—especially men. Use your charm to get out of danger. Fall in love with a man. Eat very little. Even if you really want to finish it, leave some on your plate. Make sure you attain a slim figure and maintain it for your whole life. Play dumb, with no regard for your actual intelligence. Disparage your driving. Be chatty. Try your best to sincerely enjoy cleaning and doing laundry. Think of weakness as a virtue, and let your strength rot away. Wear makeup even in your dreams. Wear bright clothing. Conceal your sexual appetite, and take it to your grave. Become shyness incarnate. . . . There’s a fuckton more where that all comes from. I just couldn’t write it all down. To act the part of a woman, you’ve got to memorize a hefty script.”
Source: Walking Practice
“When you want to be alone, even few people around you will seem like a tremendous crowd to you!”
“When you want to be close to me, listen to the music. The love is stored there and will not die.”
“When you want to be honored by others, you learn to honor them first.”
“When you want to be somebody else, remember you are always a step behind that person.
Instead try being yourself, you might be a step ahead.”
“When you want to be well-liked in the world, you have to let a lot of people teach you things that you know and they don't.”
“When you want to become free, your righteousness and anger are much less interesting than they used to be.”
“When you want to become great, you have to know what to do, I mean you must first determine what you were born to do.”
Source: The Mountain of Ignorance
“When you want to believe in something, you also have to believe in everything that's necessary for believing in it.”
Source: Struggle Till Dawn
“When you want to build a ship, then do not drum the men together in order to procure wood, to give instructions or to distribute the work, but teach them longing for the wide endless sea.”
“When you want to change things, you can't please everyone. If you do please everyone, you aren't making enough progress.”
“When you want to change things, you won't please everyone.”
“When you want to change your circumstances, you must first change your thinking.”
Source: The Secret
“When you want to court a woman, court her sister first”
“When you want to die, you at least have a goal. You're aiming for something. It's not a good goal, but at least you want something. And you've got anger and fear, but at least you're feeling something.”
“When you want to direct someone toward the good, first put him at peace bodily and honor him with words of love. For nothing inclines such a man to shame and induces him to cast of his vice and be changed for the better as do bodily goods and honor, which he sees in you. Then, with love tell him a word or two, and do not be inflamed with anger toward him. Do not let him see any cause of enmity toward you. For love does not know how to lose its temper.”
“When you want to do a big thing, get the mental pattern, make it perfect, know just what it means, enlarge your thought, keep it to yourself, pass it over to the creative power behind all things, wait and listen, and when the impression comes, follow it with assurance. Don't talk to anyone about it. Never listen to negative talk or pay attention to it and you will succeed where all others fail.”
Source: Creative Mind and Success
“When you want to do something creative and you want to do something new, you have to start with the thing that's making you want to jump up out of bed in the morning.”
“When you want to do something just do it, no matter what people say because no one has the right to give you the approval to do something.”