Quotes About Desires

What people need and what they want may be very different.

It is not from nature, but from education and habits, that our wants are chiefly derived.

Wonder what customers really want? Ask. Don't Tell.

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.

The law of attraction says that like attracts like, and when you think and feel what you want to attract on the inside, the law will use people, circumstances and events to magnetize what you want...

People think about what they don't want and attract more of the same.

I am not promising that God will give you everything you want. There are times when we want things that God knows would not be good for us.

What do people want? Well, you really can't talk about wants until you talk about needs.

There's a lot of things more than baseball that I want to do.

I've never been that person who wants a Rolls Royce or wants to live in a mansion or what have you.

Make peace with the knowledge that you can't have everything you want. Why? Because it's more important for us to get everything we need.

Don't focus on what others want. See what it is that you want. When you stop looking inside and look at others, that is when you miss the boat.

However much we might deplore the profit motive, or consumerist values, if everyone just wants i-Pods we would probably be better off than if they wanted class revolution.

It beats me how Freud could say "What do women want?" as if we all must want the same thing.

Our necessities never equal our wants.

Somehow proper prayer must put more trust in God's will than in human wants; otherwise failure to get the things we want will force us to doubt either the power of prayer or the ability of God.

You don't get what you want in life. You get who you are.

Jerry Bruckheimer says that he makes films that he would want to see, and it seems that that coincides with what a lot of people want to see.

What people need and what they want may be very different.... Teachers are those who educate the people to appreciate the things they need.

Other than the fact that I like a country house, I can't think of anything I'd want to spend my money on.

In my 20s I used to cry about why I wasn't thinner or prettier, but I want to add that I also used to cry about things like: 'I wish my hair would grow faster. I wish I had different shoes …

Most of us aren't very graceful about not having our needs met, when and how we want them met.

It is a matter of whether one wants to get rich or be rich. We can be rich in Christ Jesus or perhaps get rich in Egypt, but we cannot do both.

Just because you like me doesn't make me what you want or need.