Wanting More Quotes

• There is no greater offence than harbouring desires. There is no greater disaster than discontent. There is no greater misfortune than wanting more.

  Laozi

  Inspirational, Desire, Disaster

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• Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get.

  Dale Carnegie

  Love, Inspirational, Funny

  Dale Carnegie (2017). “How to enjoy your life and your job”, p.102, Diamond Pocket Books Pvt Ltd

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• It doesn't matter how much you get; you are left wanting more.

  Amy Poehler

  Desire, Matter, Left

  Amy Poehler (2014). “Yes Please”, p.170, Pan Macmillan

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• Wanting more is just a recipe for heartache.

  Stephen King

  Heartache, Recipes

  Stephen King (2001). “Dreamcatcher: A Novel”, p.27, Simon and Schuster

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• You will never stop wanting more until you allow yourself to have what you already have. To take it in. Savor it. Now is a good time to do that . . .

  Geneen Roth

  Good Times

  FaceBook post by Geneen Roth from Jun 13, 2012

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• Society is based on discontent: people wanting more and more and more, being continually dissatisfied with their homes, their bodies, their decor, their clothes, everything.

  Nick Harkaway

  Home, Clothes, People

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• Having more does not keep you from wanting more. And if you always want more - to be richer, more beautiful, more well known - you are missing the bigger picture, and I can tell you from experience, happiness will never come

  Mitch Albom

  Beautiful, Missing, Doe

  Mitch Albom (2009). “Have a Little Faith: A True Story”, Hyperion

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• Our entire society is based on discontent. People wanting more and more and more. Being constantly dissatisfied with their homes, their bodies, their décor, their clothes, everything – taking it for granted that that’s the whole point of life. Never to be satisfied. If you are perfectly happy with what you got, especially if what you got isn’t even all the spectacular then you’re dangerous. You’re breaking all the rules. You’re undermining the sacred economy. You’re challenging every assumption that society is built on.

  Tana French

  Home, Clothes, People

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• Not only do you want to leave the audience wanting more, you want to leave yourself wanting more.

  Carole King

  Desire, Want, Audience

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• Loss is not as bad as wanting more.

  Laozi

  Loss, Taoism

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• Our economy is based upon people wanting more; their happiness on wanting less.

  Frank A. Clark

  People, Economy

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• I think I just have a problem generally in life of wanting more of everything - more emotion, more drama, more glitz.

  Florence Welch

  Drama, Thinking, Emotion

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• She said the reason that love is so painful is that it always amounts to two people wanting more than two people can give.

  Edna O'Brien

  Love Is, Two, People

  Edna O'Brien (2011). “Saints and Sinners”, p.137, Faber & Faber

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• I start every day by wanting more for others than I do for myself. I think that is how God works, and that is how I think we have to work.

  Wayne Dyer

  Thinking

  New Age Retailer Interview, www.drwaynedyer.com. November 2005.

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• Our ego is a monster that loves to sit at the head of the table, and I have learned that my ego is just as rude and loud and hungry as everyone else's. It doesn't matter how much you get; you are left wanting more.

  Amy Poehler

  Rude, Ego, Tables

  Amy Poehler (2014). “Yes Please”, p.170, Pan Macmillan

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• How many years will you crawl through this castle, so satisfied and still wanting more?

  Roger McGuinn

  Philosophy, Years, Castles

  Song: King of the Hill

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• Only yesterday a young woman came to me wanting a trap set for a man with a sweet smile and lithe arms. She was a fool, not for wanting him, but for wanting more of him than that.

  Patricia A. McKillip

  Sweet, Men, Yesterday

  Patricia A. McKillip (2017). “The Forgotten Beasts of Eld”, p.32, Tachyon Publications

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• Wanting more majors, wanting more wins, almost feels like I think Im being too greedy.

  Inbee Park

  Winning, Thinking, Greedy

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• I thought what if death is more like thinking, well, war is like the boss at your shoulder, constantly wanting more, wanting more, wanting more, and then that gave me the idea that Death is weary, he's fatigued, and he's haunted by what he sees humans do to each other because he's on hand for all of our great miseries.

  Markus Zusak

  War, Thinking, Hands

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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• As you keep getting more popular, people are continually wanting more from you and it seems to me that all they want in the end is your death.

  Marilyn Manson

  People, Want, Ends

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• I hope that when girls see my clothes, my shoes, or my outrageous jewelry collection, they feel the thrill of wanting more for themselves too. I love what my friend Andre Leon Talley said: "If you are successful, people want to see it. They want to share in your dream".

  Kimora Lee Simmons

  Girl, Dream, Successful

  Kimora Lee Simmons (2009). “Fabulosity: What It Is & How to Get It”, p.4, Harper Collins

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• The only struggle came from me wanting more for my family and feeling like if they had one less individual to take care of - if my mom only had her and my sister and my grandmother and my aunt to take care of, couldn't she do the things she was doing for me for herself? That's the reason I took myself away from my family. I left home when I was 13 years old to assume the responsibilities of being a man.

  Petey Pablo

  Mom, Struggle, Responsibility

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• For many of us we are always wanting more - we would be happier if we had such and such. Maybe we should pause for a moment and hear what some people in the third world countries would like to make them happier. 1. Having enough to eat so when you go to sleep at night your stomach doesn't ach. 2. Having shoes on your feet and any kind of clothing to keep the cold out. 3. Having a roof over your head. 4. Having the hope that you'll be lucky enough to get some kind of an education. 5. Believing that the dream of freedom, brotherhood, and peace for all mankind will someday come true.

  Abigail Van Buren

  Dream, Country, Believe

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• Advertising prods people into wanting more and better things. Of course advertising makes people dissatisfied with what they have - makes them raise their sights. Mighty good thing it does. Nothing could be worse for the United States than 200,000,000 satisfied Americans.

  Bernice Fitz-Gibbon

  Sight, People, United States

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• Evan Handler is not only a fine actor, he’s a damn good writer. It’s Only Temporary is wise and funny and as righteously indignant as it is endearingly self-effacing. In what may be a literary first, the book actually left me wanting more.

  Meghan Daum

  Wise, Book, Self

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