“ I won Wimbledon because I wanted to be like her in Australia. I just want to be like her. But if she loses, then I'm like, 'Oh, man, now I have to do it. ”
- Venus Williams- Copy
- 3.2K
“ I have worked all my life, wanted to work all my life, needed to work all my life. ”
- Liz Carpenter- Copy
- 218
“ To be kind to all, to like many and love a few, to be needed and wanted by those we love, is certainly the nearest we can come to happiness. ”
- Mary Roberts Rinehart- Copy
- 53
“ He just wanted to keep us focused. He has a good instinct for that, a good feel for that. ”
- Mike Piazza- Copy
- 1.4K
“ I really wanted to be a dancer, but I ended up as an actress and I got to perform next to some of the greatest actors of our time. ”
- Virginia Mayo- Copy
- 565
“ One of the reasons we wanted to target Mississippi is, obviously, we are from there. ”
- John Grisham- Copy
- 3.5K
“ I was made to be a perfectionist at everything I did. Everything was more important than what I wanted. ”
- Dennis Quaid- Copy
- 270
“ I knew there were a lot of friends out there, and I wanted to be with them. ”
- Ekaterina Gordeeva- Copy
- 430
“ Nobody got what they wanted from Yalta except the Russians, who were in a position to get it. ”
- Franklin D. Roosevelt- Copy
- 95
“ Know thyself. Nothing in excess. The Self is required to balance the Self. ”
- Blum Ralph- Copy
- 425
“ I may have aimed too high sometimes, asked too much of myself and demanded too little from those around me. ”
- Agnetha Faltskog- Copy
- 3.5K
“ All the mistakes I ever made in my life were when I wanted to say No, and said Yes. ”
- Moss Hart- Copy
- 885
“ What I wanted and what I visualized while composing has not always been realized. ”
- Gustav Mahler- Copy
- 2.9K
“ My boyfriend and I broke up. He wanted to get married and I didn't want him to. ”
- Rita Rudner- Copy
- 3.4K
“ I wanted to be the perfect artist. I'd do three hours of media interviews a day, going to every radio station I could squeeze in. I'd sign autographs after the show until everybody left. ”
- Clint Black- Copy
- 3.6K
“ What I wanted to hear didn't exist, so it was necessary for me to go out and create it. ”
- Richard Thompson- Copy
- 475
“ I was between 2 and 3 in the world for two, three years. That's not exactly where I wanted to be. ”
- Ivan Lendl- Copy
- 1.3K
“ I became more courageous by doing the very things I needed to be courageous for — first, a little, and badly. Then, bit by bit, more and better. Being avidly — sometimes annoyingly — curious and persistent about discovering how others were doing what I wanted to do. ”
- Audre Lorde- Copy
- 988
“ I wanted to be a minister when I first went to college. You see, I was very shy as a kid, and couldn't figure out how to communicate with people. I guess I was trying to get people to listen to me, but I thought I was interested in religion. I realized very quickly that I just wanted to move people and be the center of attention. ”
- John Davidson- Copy
- 1.4K
“ I always wanted to be the best I could be at whatever I did. I didn't want to be the number one golfer in the world. I just wanted to be as good as I could be. I work hard, I push myself hard, and I probably even expect too much of myself. ”
- Greg Norman- Copy
- 2.9K
“ In order that people may be happy in their work, these three things are needed: They must be fit for it. They must not do too much of it. And they must have a sense of success in it. ”
- John Ruskin- Copy
- 123
“ Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed. ”
- Storm Jameson- Copy
- 960
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