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Welcome to our collection of inspiring and thought-provoking quotes! Words have the power to uplift, motivate, and instill wisdom. Whether you’re seeking guidance, encouragement, or simply a spark of inspiration, you’ve come to the right place. Here, we curate an array of quotes on various topics, offering nuggets of insight from renowned thinkers, writers, leaders, and artists across different eras and cultures.

In a world brimming with noise and distractions, quotes serve as concise reminders of timeless truths and profound insights. They encapsulate the essence of human experience, offering glimpses into the complexities of life, love, resilience, and growth. Whether you’re navigating personal challenges, seeking clarity in your professional journey, or simply pondering the mysteries of existence, these quotes provide a compass to navigate the terrain of existence with grace and wisdom.

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I may not be where I want to be, but thank God I am not where I used to be. Joyce Meyer

Our whole life is set up in the path of least resistance. We don’t want to suffer. We don’t want to feel discomfort. So the whole time, we’re living our lives in a very comfortable area. There’s no growth in that. David Goggins

Anything I do, I want to do it well. J. Cole

When it’s over, I want to say: all my life I was a bride married to amazement. I was the bridegroom, taking the world into my arms. Mary Oliver

If we only wanted to be happy, it would be easy; but we want to be happier than other people, and that is almost always difficult, since we think them happier than they are. Montesquieu

If you want a happy ending, that depends, of course, on where you stop your story. Orson Welles

You don’t get what you want in life. You get who you are! Les Brown

When my time on earth is gone, and my activities here are passed, I want they bury me upside down, and my critics can kiss my ass! Bobby Knight

I know where I’m going and I know the truth, and I don’t have to be what you want me to be. I’m free to be what I want. Muhammad Ali

If you want something said, ask a man; if you want something done, ask a woman. Margaret Thatcher

Men always want to be a woman’s first love – women like to be a man’s last romance. Oscar Wilde

Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard. H. L. Mencken

Time is what we want most, but what we use worst. William Penn

Work hard for what you want because it won’t come to you without a fight. You have to be strong and courageous and know that you can do anything you put your mind to. If somebody puts you down or criticizes you, just keep on believing in yourself and turn it into something positive. Leah LaBelle

I don’t want other people to decide who I am. I want to decide that for myself. Emma Watson

What does love look like? It has the hands to help others. It has the feet to hasten to the poor and needy. It has eyes to see misery and want. It has the ears to hear the sighs and sorrows of men. That is what love looks like. Saint Augustine

If you want to see the true measure of a man, watch how he treats his inferiors, not his equals. J. K. Rowling

The world is so unpredictable. Things happen suddenly, unexpectedly. We want to feel we are in control of our own existence. In some ways we are, in some ways we’re not. We are ruled by the forces of chance and coincidence. Paul Auster

If you want to see the sunshine, you have to weather the storm. Frank Lane

Some people want it to happen, some wish it would happen, others make it happen. Michael Jordan

Just don’t give up trying to do what you really want to do. Where there is love and inspiration, I don’t think you can go wrong. Ella Fitzgerald

If you want to be happy, be. Leo Tolstoy

If you want to be the best, you’ve got to beat the best. The only problem is when I get that belt, who’s going to be left to fight? That’s what I want to know. Donald Cerrone

Discipline is doing what you really don’t want to do so you can do what you really want to do. Jeff Fisher

My psychiatrist told me I was crazy and I said I want a second opinion. He said okay, you’re ugly too. Rodney Dangerfield

If you want to be the best, you have to do things that other people aren’t willing to do. Michael Phelps

I want to thank all our fans all around the world for their unconditional love and support. It really means a lot to me. Jennie

Youth is something I never wanna take for granted. I just want to smile and live life. Tyler, The Creator

Freedom makes a huge requirement of every human being. With freedom comes responsibility. For the person who is unwilling to grow up, the person who does not want to carry his own weight, this is a frightening prospect. Eleanor Roosevelt

Freedom is the right to tell people what they do not want to hear. George Orwell

I just want to be better every day, to get better every day, not to be better than anyone else. Neymar

Style is knowing who you are, what you want to say, and not giving a damn. Gore Vidal

May you live as long as you want and not want as long as you live. Tom Hanks

We all want progress, but if you’re on the wrong road, progress means doing an about-turn and walking back to the right road; in that case, the man who turns back soonest is the most progressive. C. S. Lewis

The only way to keep your health is to eat what you don’t want, drink what you don’t like, and do what you’d rather not. Mark Twain

That is the key of this collection, being yourself. Don’t be into trends. Don’t make fashion own you, but you decide what you are, what you want to express by the way you dress and the way to live. Gianni Versace

My fans are so important to me, and I would never want to disappoint them. Selena Gomez

I give the fight up: let there be an end, a privacy, an obscure nook for me. I want to be forgotten even by God. Robert Browning

I love being married. It’s so great to find that one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life. Rita Rudner

If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion. Dalai Lama

When I’m not longer rapping, I want to open up an ice cream parlor and call myself Scoop Dogg. Snoop Dogg

I know you’ve heard it a thousand times before. But it’s true – hard work pays off. If you want to be good, you have to practice, practice, practice. If you don’t love something, then don’t do it. Ray Bradbury

There are people in every time and every land who want to stop history in its tracks. They fear the future, mistrust the present, and invoke the security of a comfortable past which, in fact, never existed. Robert Kennedy

There are always flowers for those who want to see them. Henri Matisse

Wherever you are, be there totally. If you find your here and now intolerable and it makes you unhappy, you have three options: remove yourself from the situation, change it, or accept it totally. If you want to take responsibility for your life, you must choose one of those three options, and you must choose now. Then accept the consequences. Eckhart Tolle

One thing I always tell players is that there are three bad things: Nothing good happens after midnight, nothing good happens when you’re around guns unless you’re going hunting, and you don’t want to mess around with women that you don’t know because a lot of times, bad things happen. Nick Saban

You want a friend in Washington? Get a dog. Harry S Truman

Most people want to avoid pain, and discipline is usually painful. John C. Maxwell

The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain. Dolly Parton

For the past 33 years, I have looked in the mirror every morning and asked myself: ‘If today were the last day of my life, would I want to do what I am about to do today?’ And whenever the answer has been ‘No’ for too many days in a row, I know I need to change something. Steve Jobs

If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day so I never have to live without you. A. A. Milne

A government big enough to give you everything you want is a government big enough to take from you everything you have. Gerald R. Ford

If you want to build a ship, don’t drum up people to collect wood and don’t assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea. Antoine de Saint-Exupery

I just want to live each moment to the fullest. And enjoy life. Kadeena Cox

It is the privilege of the gods to want nothing, and of godlike men to want little. Diogenes

I’ve found that luck is quite predictable. If you want more luck, take more chances. Be more active. Show up more often. Brian Tracy

If you want peace, you don’t talk to your friends. You talk to your enemies. Desmond Tutu

I believe everyone should be equal, and we should all love and support each other and express ourselves the way we want to express ourselves and be whoever we want. That’s my motto. Melanie Martinez

In faith there is enough light for those who want to believe and enough shadows to blind those who don’t. Blaise Pascal

If you want to be a Millionaire, start with a billion dollars and launch a new airline. Richard Branson

The most important thing is to try and inspire people so that they can be great in whatever they want to do. Kobe Bryant

I want to live my life, not record it. Jackie Kennedy

Success is about dedication. You may not be where you want to be or do what you want to do when you’re on the journey. But you’ve got to be willing to have vision and foresight that leads you to an incredible end. Usher

If you want to improve, be content to be thought foolish and stupid. Epictetus

I have a personal ambition to live my life honestly and honor the true love that I’ve had and also the people I’ve had around me. I want to stay hopeful, even though I get scared about why we’re even alive at all. Lana Del Rey

Authenticity is everything! You have to wake up every day and look in the mirror, and you want to be proud of the person who’s looking back at you. And you can only do that if you’re being honest with yourself and being a person of high character. You have an opportunity every single day to write that story of your life. Aaron Rodgers

The first lesson of economics is scarcity: there is never enough of anything to fully satisfy all those who want it. The first lesson of politics is to disregard the first lesson of economics. Thomas Sowell

Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it. Dwight D. Eisenhower

Anytime someone tells me that I can’t do something, I want to do it more. Taylor Swift

I never said, ‘I want to be alone.’ I only said, ‘I want to be left alone.’ There is all the difference. Greta Garbo

If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else. Booker T. Washington

With consistency and reps and routine you’re going to achieve your goals and get where you want to be. Mandy Rose

I’m living a dream I never want to wake up from. Cristiano Ronaldo

I don’t want to have lived in vain like most people. I want to be useful or bring enjoyment to all people, even those I’ve never met. I want to go on living even after my death! Anne Frank

It’s not having what you want, it’s wanting what you’ve got. Sheryl Crow

I am still far from being what I want to be, but with God’s help I shall succeed. Vincent Van Gogh

As long as we persevere and endure, we can get anything we want. Mike Tyson

If I can’t dance, I don’t want to be part of your revolution. Emma Goldman

I want to live and feel all the shades, tones, and variations of mental and physical experience possible in my life. And I am horribly limited. Sylvia Plath

When you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it. Paulo Coelho

Do right. Do your best. Treat others as you want to be treated. Lou Holtz

It is a well-known fact that those people who must want to rule people are, ipso facto, those least suited to do it… anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job. Douglas Adams

I’m the one that has to die when it’s time for me to die, so let me live my life, the way I want to. Jimi Hendrix

The people who are bullying you, they’re insecure about who they are, and that’s why they’re bullying you. It never has to do with the person they’re bullying. They desperately want to be loved and be accepted, and they go out of their way to make people feel unaccepted so that they’re not alone. Madelaine Petsch

I’m just here for good times, man. I want people to have the best time ever. Especially if they’re around me. Travis Scott

If you want a guarantee, buy a toaster. Clint Eastwood

Where there is a will, there is a way. If there is a chance in a million that you can do something, anything, to keep what you want from ending, do it. Pry the door open or, if need be, wedge your foot in that door and keep it open. Pauline Kael

Rice is great if you’re really hungry and want to eat two thousand of something. Mitch Hedberg

Do you want to know who you are? Don’t ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you. Thomas Jefferson

Discipline is remembering what you want. David Campbell

If you want a thing done well, do it yourself. Napoleon Bonaparte

Winners do what losers don’t want to do. Gary Busey

It’s a small world, but I wouldn’t want to have to paint it. Steven Wright

Our chief want is someone who will inspire us to be what we know we could be. Ralph Waldo Emerson

I’ve always followed my heart and pursued my dreams, and I imagine that people find that inspiring. I hope that is the effect I have on my fans and people in general. I definitely want to project a positive energy out into the world. Britney Spears

The number one benefit of information technology is that it empowers people to do what they want to do. It lets people be creative. It lets people be productive. It lets people learn things they didn’t think they could learn before, and so in a sense it is all about potential. Steve Ballmer

Money doesn’t mean anything to me. I’ve made a lot of money, but I want to enjoy life and not stress myself building my bank account. I give lots away and live simply, mostly out of a suitcase in hotels. We all know that good health is much more important. Keanu Reeves

You only live once and you need to enjoy life, to go out and achieve whatever you want to. Ellie Simmonds

If you want to succeed you should strike out on new paths, rather than travel the worn paths of accepted success. John D. Rockefeller

Growth is uncomfortable; you have to embrace the discomfort if you want to expand. Jonathan Majors

Anton Usov
Anton Usov
I am Anton Usov, an educator with a passion for quotes that resonate with the human experience. Over many years, I have curated a collection that reflects wisdom and emotions across time. Join me in exploring the power of words to inspire and enlighten our paths.
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