Wanting More Quotes

• 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

  1 Copy quote

  Show source

• 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

  1 Copy quote

• Wanting more is just a recipe for heartache.

  Stephen King

  Heartache, Recipes

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

  17 Copy quote

  Show source

• 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

  14 Copy quote

  Show source

• 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

  162 Copy quote

  Show source

• 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

  0 Copy quote

• 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

  0 Copy quote

  Show source

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

  Frank A. Clark

  People, Economy

  3 Copy quote

• 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

  9 Copy quote

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

  Carole King

  Desire, Want, Audience

  24 Copy quote

• 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.

  3 Copy quote

  Show source

• 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

  6 Copy quote

  Show source

• 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

  5 Copy quote

  Show source

• Loss is not as bad as wanting more.

  Laozi

  Loss, Taoism

  36 Copy quote

• 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

  0 Copy quote

  Show source

• 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

  2 Copy quote

  Show source

• 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

  0 Copy quote

  Show source

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

  Inbee Park

  Winning, Thinking, Greedy

  2 Copy quote

• International adoption does not begin to solve the problems of the world's orphaned children. It's truly not the answer. At the same time, it solves a problem for a few. I think it can be a brilliant solution to the problem of adults wanting a child in their lives or wanting more children in their lives and the problem of children who want parents in their lives.

  Melissa Fay Greene

  Children, Thinking, Adoption

  Source: www.cnn.com

  0 Copy quote

  Show source

• 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

  0 Copy quote

• 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

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• 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

  0 Copy quote

• There's not a day I live that doesn't start with me getting up and first saying, "What can I do for somebody else?" Whether that means sending something to one of my children or picking up the phone and calling a stranger who is in the hospital, I start every day by wanting more for others than I do for myself.

  Wayne Dyer

  Children, Mean, Phones

  "Wayne Dyer Interview: On God and goodness, inspiration and presence". Interview with Ray Hemachandra, rayhemachandra.com. September 5, 2015.

  0 Copy quote

  Show source

• The moment you enter Bhutan, you notice that there are no traffic lights. It is almost like you've stepped into a Shangri-La or a vortex of time 200 years ago. Those kinds of experiences are very much of the countryside of Bhutan, where people are truly happy in the sense of not creating and wanting more.

  Karan Bajaj

  Light, Bhutan, Years

  Source: www.edgemagazine.net

  10 Copy quote

  Show source

• But I guessed she would never stop wanting more for me, more from me. Maybe that's what mothers did.

  Kiera Cass

  Daughter, Mother

  Kiera Cass (2015). “The Selection Series 4-Book Collection: The Selection, The Elite, The One, The Heir”, p.37, HarperCollins

  0 Copy quote

  Show source