97 Want Quotes For Inspiration

In the quest for personal growth and motivation, a powerful quote can often serve as a beacon of inspiration. Words have the ability to uplift our spirits, challenge our thinking, and push us towards our goals. That's why we've curated a standout collection of the top 97 want quotes, designed to ignite your inner drive and help you stay focused on your desires. Whether you’re seeking motivation in your career, relationships, or personal endeavors, these quotes will provide the boost you need to keep striving for your dreams. Dive in and let these pearls of wisdom fuel your journey towards achieving everything you aspire to.

1. “He thought himself awake when he was already asleep. He saw the stars above his face, whirling on their silent and sleepless axis, and the leaves of the trees rustling against them, and he heard small changes in the grass. These little noises of footsteps and soft-fringed wing-beats and stealthy bellies drawn over the grass blades or rattling against the bracken at first frightened or interested him, so that he moved to see what they were (but never saw), then soothed him, so that he no longer cared to see what they were but trusted them to be themselves, and finally left him altogether as he swam down deeper and deeper, nuzzling into the scented turf, into the warm ground, into the unending waters under the earth.” - T.H. White

2. “Our labour preserves us from three great evils -- weariness, vice, and want.” - Voltaire

3. “I want her to melt into me, like butter on toast. I want to absorb her and walk around for the rest of my days with her encased in my skin.I want.” - Sara Gruen

4. “I don't want whatever I want. Nobody does. Not really. What kind of fun would it be if I just got everything I ever wanted just like that, and it didn't mean anything? What then?” - Neil Gaiman

5. “Alice suspected Paul couldn’t really picture his father, just like she couldn’t picture Paul when he was away. Maybe that was the case with people you wanted more than was good for you.” - Ann Brashares

6. “As I sat down, though, I realized that you can get used to certain luxuries that you start to think they're necessities, but when you have to forgo them, you come to see that you don't need them after all. There was a big difference between needing things and wanting things--though a lot of people had trouble telling the two apart--and at the ranch, I could see, we have pretty much everything we'd need but precious little else.” - Jeannette Walls

7. “Are these things really better than the things I already have? Or am I just trained to be dissatisfied with what I have now?” - Chuck Palahniuk

8. “Our frustration is greater when we have much and want more than when we have nothing and want some. We are less dissatisfied when we lack many things than when we seem to lack but one thing.” - Eric Hoffer

9. “You're my sister," he said finally. "My sister, my blood, my family. I should want to protect you"—he laughed soundlessly without any humor—"to protect you from the sort of boys who want to do with you exactly what I want to do."Clary's breath caught. "You said you just wanted to be my brother from now on.""I lied," he said. "Demons lie, Clary. You know, there are some kinds of wounds you can get when you're a Shadowhunter—internal injuries from demon poison. You don't even know what's wrong with you, but you're bleeding to death slowly inside. That's what it's like, just being your brother.""But Aline—""I had to try. And I did." His voice was lifeless. "But God knows, I don't want anyone but you. I don't even want to want anyone but you." He reached out, trailed his fingers lightly through her hair, fingertips brushing her cheek. "Now at least I know why."Clary's voice had sunk to a whisper. "I don't want anyone but you, either.” - Cassandra Clare

10. “I want you. I want you so badly I can’t stand it. When you left, it felt like the world got darker. Like I couldn’t truly see anything. Couldn’t feel anything.” - Rachel Vincent

11. “In Rome it seems as if there were so many things which are more wanted in the world than pictures.” - George Eliot

12. “I’ve wanted you from the moment we met, and if you think sitting next to me in your bra doesn’t overwhelm me with desire, you’re very wrong. I just don’t force myself where I’m not invited. (Bones)” - Jeaniene Frost

13. “If I have you for a day, I'll want you for a week. If I have you for a week, I'll want you for another week.” - Michael Stein

14. “Sometimes I think the difference between what we want and what we're afraid of is about the width of an eyelash.” - Jay Mcinerney

15. “It was a kingdom of dreams — a place where things would be just the way I wanted them to be.” - Judith McNaught

16. “Besides, who ever asked you what you wanted in this world, girl?The answer to that question, reader, as you well know, was absolutely no one.” - Dicamillo, Kate

17. “No one cared what she wanted. No one had ever cared. And perhaps, worst of all, no one ever would care.” - Dicamillo, Kate

18. “There are words in the soul of a newborn baby, wanting and waiting to be written.” - Toba Beta [Betelgeuse Incident]

19. “But if one had everything one could ever need or want, what was left to dream of?” - Mary Balogh

20. “Do what you want that works.” - Toba Beta

21. “Everybody really wanna be the best. I just wanna be a bit better than them.” - Toba Beta

22. “We want more than there is.” - Jonathan Goldstein

23. “A psychologist said to me, there are only two important questions you have to ask yourself. What do you really feel? And, what do you really want? If you can answer those two, you probably can leave your neuroses behind you.” - Harold Ramis

24. “A lot of people get so hung up on what they can't have that they don't think for a second about whether they really want it.” - Lionel Shriver

25. “To write better you must develop your taste for truth. You have to pay more attention to what you really think, feel, see and want.” - Jonathan Price

26. “Man wanted a home, a place for warmth, or comfort, first of physical warmth, then the warmth of the affections.” - Henry David Thoreau

27. “...when they look at me, I so badly want to be who they see.” - Jodi Picoult

28. “The question, love, is whether you want me enough to take the risk.” - Lisa Kleypas

29. “It isn't sufficient just to want - you've got to ask yourself what you are going to do to get the things you want.” - Franklin D. Roosevelt

30. “To get what he wanted, a man had to give other people what they wanted.” - Dashiell Hammett

31. “I love you. I want to do everything with you. I want to marry you and have kids with you and get old with you. And then I want to die the day before you do, so I never have to live without you.” - Stacey Jay

32. “I have done what they expected of me. I have curtsied for my Queen and made my debut. This is what I have anticipated eagerly for years. So why do I feel so unsatisfied? Everyone is merry. They haven't a care in the world. And perhaps that is it. How terrible it is to have no cares, no longings. I do not fit. I feel too deeply and want too much.” - Libba Bray

33. “Every men wanted to be his friend and every woman wanted to be in his bed” - Dee Remy

34. “Her face felt like it was scattered in pieces and she could not keep it straight. The feeling was a whole lot worse than being hungry for any dinner, yet it was like that. I want--I want--I want--was all that she could think about--but just what this real want was she did no know.” - Carson McCullers

35. “You deserve someone better than me. Someone young and idealistic…someone who can experience things for the first time along with you. I'm not always kind, and I have more faults than I'd care to name. All I can promise is that I'll want you until my last breath.” - Lisa Kleypas

36. “You can want one thing and have a secret wish for its opposite.” - Deb Caletti

37. “Find out what people want to do, then tell them to do it. They'll think you're a genius.” - Connie Brockway

38. “A memory came to me. One time, in middle school, a famous author came to talk to our class and give a writing workshop. One of the things she told us about writing a novel was that the story should be about what the main character wants. Dorothy wants to go home to Kansas. George Milton wants a farm of his own. Amelia Sedley wants to marry her darling George and live happily ever after. The end of the story, according to the famous author, is when the character either gests what he wants or realizes he’s never going to get it. Or sometimes, she said, like Scarlett O’Hara in Gone With the Wind, realizes she doesn’t actually want what she thought she wanted all along. pg. 324 of Bewitching” - Alex Flinn

39. “You asked about love. I don't know about love, Daphne. I just know I don't want anything but you. I don't want to anywhere but with you.” - Brenna Yovanoff

40. “And what, O Queen, are those things that are dear to a man? Are they not bubbles? Is not ambition but an endless ladder by which no height is ever climbed till the last unreachable rung is mounted? For height leads on to height, and there is not resting-place among them, and rung doth grow upon rung, and there is no limit to the number.” - H. Rider Haggard

41. “As soon as you stop wanting something, you get it.” - Andy Warhol

42. “But I don't want more things than I need, either.” - Isabel Allende

43. “I want everything back, the way it was. But there is no point to it, this wanting.” - Margaret Atwood

44. “This is the most beautiful piece of advice I can offer. I you don't have what you want now, you don't have what you want.” - Ann Brashares

45. “There was always a way, when one knew what one wanted.” - Donna Woolfolk Cross

46. “Sometimes you don't even know what you want until you find out you can't have it.” - Meghan O'Rourke

47. “If you don't get what you want, you suffer; if you get what you don't want, you suffer; even when you get exactly what you want, you still suffer because you can't hold on to it forever.” - Dan Millman

48. “I want, I don’t want.How can one live with such a heart?” - Margaret Atwood

49. “People left him alone. And that was all he wanted.” - Patrick Suskind

50. “What you focus on expands. So focus on what you want, not what you do not want.” - Esther Jno-Charles

51. “I wanted to drown inside a woman in the feeling and drooling of the love I could give her. I wanted her pulse to crush me with its intensity. That's what I wanted. That's what I wanted myself to be.” - Markus Zusak

52. “I want to build you a house with my bare hands and carry you over the threshold. I want too cook for you every evening and bring you tea in bed in the mornings. I want to read with you in front of an open fire, sipping a glass of wine. I want to drive you to the beach and lie next to you in the sun. I may not be a man of means, bit I want to take care of you as best I can.” - Catherine Sanderson

53. “I don’t want there to be things you “love about me”, I want you to love “all of me”.” - Mathias Malzieu

54. “I will never know you well enough. I will always want more.” - Priya Ardis

55. “i felt her absence. it was like waking up one day with no teeth in your mouth. you wouldn't need to run to the mirror to know they were gone” - James Dashner

56. “It does seem as if the more one gets the more one wants” - Louisa May Alcott

57. “Create your own miracles, don't just wait for miracles to happen. Infinite possibilities exist by keeping focus on what you really want.” - Steven Redhead

58. “Infinite possibilities exist by keeping focus on what you really want to create your bliss.” - Steven Redhead

59. “In the silence of night I have often wished for just a few words of love from one man, rather than the applause of thousands of people.” - Judy Garland

60. “You’re everything I’ve ever wanted, Pigeon.”“Just remember that when I take all of your money in the next poker game,” I said, pulling off my shirt.” - Jamie McGuire

61. “Part of me wanted this more than anything else in the world—to have someone to hang out with, be like everyone else for a while. The rest of me screamed to get the hell out of there, not to get sucked in.” - Rachel Ward

62. “I don't want anything to happen to you. You being hurt...that thought fills me with dread. I can't promise not to interfere, not if I think you'll come to harm." He pauses and takes a deep breath. "I love you, Anastasia. I will do everything in my power to protect you. I cann't imagine my life without you.” - E.L. James

63. “He was still a mystery to me. And God, did I want to play Nancy Drew.” - Cora Carmack

64. “Phaedra keeps saying she's being selfish. That she hates herself for it, but she does it anyway. She can't deny herself what she wants, even if it brings about her downfall and his." "And have you learned anything from our literary parallel?" "Not really, I keep thinking that she would do it all over again if there were a chance...a chance that it could go right. Even if 99 times out of a 100 the story ends badly, it's worth it if only once she gets a happy ending.” - Cora Carmack

65. “I know what it is to want something that could destroy you.” - Nenia Campbell

66. “It isnt for wantof something to say--something to tell you--something you should know--but to detain you--keep you from going--feeling myself hereas long as you are--as long as you are” - Cid Corman

67. “You might be able to kiss like a rock star, but you’ve got to get over this macho trip. You don’t own me.” - Missy Lyons

68. “I feel alive when you kiss me.” - Missy Lyons

69. “Never was I supposed to hear the words 'He says he wants to see you.' But now that I have, there's no way to refuse.” - Suzanne Collins

70. “I don't want to be dying. I want to be dead.” - Lisa Cander

71. “I want something good to die for. . . to make it beautiful to live.” - Stacey T. Hunt

72. “Even if things aren't going the way we want right now, we will always get through it.” - Stacey T. Hunt

73. “I just want you to be happy. If that’s with me or with someone else or with nobody. I just want you to be happy.” - John Green

74. “Contentment comes from wanting what we need, not needing what we want.” - Wayne Gerard Trotman

75. “I want you to stay. I need you to go.” - Kimberly Sabatini

76. “If God created our will, then he's responsible for every choice we make... So-- as I recall, the official philosophical answer is that free will doesn't exist. Only the illusion of free will, because the causes of hour behavior are so complex that we can't trace them back. If you've got one line of dominoes knocking each other down, one by one, then you can always say, look, this domino fell because that one pushed it. But when you have an infinite number of dominoes that can be traced back in an infinite number of directions, you can never find where the causal chain begins. So you think, That domino fell because it wanted to... Even if there is no such thing as free will, we have to treat each other as if there were free will in order to live together in society.” - Orson Scott Card

77. “Have you ever wanted something so badly that you would do anything, believe anything in order to acquire it?” - Lorraine Heath

78. “Id you're finished picking out my flaws,maybe you'd like to tell me what you want now.I have other customers--""You.""What was that?""I Want You.” - Johanna Lindsey

79. “All I ever wanted from you was to know that I was wanted by you.  That would have changed everything.” - Richelle E. Goodrich

80. “This may be a thing you neither want nor need," she said. "But I'd rather you have it, wishing didn't, than not have it and wish you did.” - Kristin Cashore

81. “That's how it is with want. As long as you lack something you yearn for it without cease. if only I could have that one thing, you tell yourself, all my problems would be solved. But once you get it, once the object of your desires is thrust into your hands, it begins to lose its charm. Other wants assert themselves, other desires make themselves felt, and bit by bit you discover that you're right back where you started.” - Paul Auster

82. “Be not wishing and pining but thankfully content.  For it is a short bridge between wanting and regret."- from "Dimpellumpzki” - Richelle E. Goodrich

83. “Sometimes it's a good idea to think about what you want from a situation, and try to get it, rather than just blurt out the first thing that comes into your head.” - E. Lockhart

84. “She nodded against me. “Do you need me to do anything?” I didn’t need a thing from her, but I wanted everything. I wanted her to leave Tyler, to love me, to want to live here with me for the rest of our lives. I wanted so damn much. ”Just go back to sleep, then enjoy the rest of the day with the girls. I’ll be back tonight.” ”I’ll be waiting her for you.” Closing my eyes, I took a deep breath in and held it. if only she knew what she did to me.” - Molly McAdams

85. “I came running down the stairs that morning, like it was Christmas. My parents were already up. In my family, presents never waited; they were there upon waking. Our family has a problem with what they called delayed gratification. We want what we want when we want it, and we always want it now.” - Neal Shusterman

86. “The life of less, one bent on simplicity, and not needing or wanting anything other than what God has deemed good for you turns out to be all you could ever need or want.” - Hayley and Michael DiMarco

87. “If you have the woman you love, what more do you need? Well, besides an alibi for the time of her husband’s murder.
” - Dark Jar Tin Zoo

88. “A gift involves sacrifice. If you give away something that you no longer value or want, it cannot be a gift. It is simply a discarded item.” - Wayne Gerard Trotman

89. “Somehow, we'll find it. The balance between whom we wish to be and whom we need to be. But for now, we simply have to be satisfied with who we are.” - Brandon Sanderson

90. “Who people think they are and what people think they want is not really who they are or what they want.” - Laurie Frankel

91. “We want who we want, right? No matter what other people say. No matter what reason or reality we’re faced with. No matter what facts our brains process. The heart’s a stubborn organ.” - Kim Harrington

92. “Better off dead than giving in; not taking what you want.” - Carol Ann Duffy

93. “When you want something this badly, you don't just give up. You fight and fight until you absolutely can't fight anymore.” - Gail McHugh

94. “I do not always know what I want, but I do know what I don't want.” - Stanley Kubrick

95. “If you do not waste, you do not want.” - Syed Ather

96. “There's not one good thought in that place. There's nothing but waste and want. I can feel his selfish cravings and an abyss of secrets I hope to never know.” - Steve V. Cypert

97. “Everyone has something they can't live without.” - Cassandra Clare