Wanting More Quotes

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

  Frank A. Clark

  People, Economy

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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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• 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

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• When I was growing up, I would try to sing out of key very consciously. I was probably afraid of trying too hard to do something beautiful, and then I just wasn't good enough. But I've learned that I was also on the outside - wanting more challenge by living in that more conventional world.

  Jenny Hval

  Beautiful, Growing Up, Keys

  "Jenny Hval's Soft Dick Rock". Interview with Jenn Pelly, pitchfork.com. June 15, 2015.

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

  Inbee Park

  Winning, Thinking, Greedy

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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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• 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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• We actually did a lot of takes on this movie [J. Edgar Hoover]. I never left the set wanting more. That's for sure. I don't know. This was a very difficult character for me and a lot of the other actors here, and at times we went and did 8 or 9 or 10 takes on a single day.

  Leonardo DiCaprio

  Character, Actors, J Edgar Hoover

  "Clint Eastwood, Leonardo DiCaprio Interview, J Edgar". MoviesOnline Interview, www.moviesonline.ca. November 2011.

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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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• 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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• 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.

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• 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

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• You need to keep everyone wanting more. Every character has so much depth, and there was so much thought that went into it, but it would've taken away at some point from the main story, and everything I think kind of was woven together really beautifully, so that you cared about everyone, and everyone had their own story, but everything helped the main plotline.

  Ashley Greene

  Taken, Character, Thinking

  Source: www.twilightlexicon.com

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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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• 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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• Loss is not as bad as wanting more.

  Laozi

  Loss, Taoism

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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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• 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

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