Top 100 Quotes About Get What You Want
#1. I sighed. "Now what do I do?" He leaned against my wall. "What do you want to do?" "Since when has that mattered?" "It's always mattered. It doesn't mean you'll get what you want, but what you want always matters. That's what defines you.
Richard Paul Evans
#2. You may know what you need, but to get what you want, better see that you keep what you have.
Stephen Sondheim
#4. If you have a past with which you feel dissatisfied, then forget it, now. Imagine a new story for your life and believe in it. Focus only on the moments when you achieved what you desired, and that strength will help you to get what you want.
Paulo Coelho
#5. What good is democracy if you can't get what you want?
Drew Carey
#6. You can push someone's button over and over again to get what you want, but there comes a point when your finger slips and you finally hit the whrong one.
Alexandra Bracken
#7. Don't ever wait around for your life. Go get what you want. Because believe me, no one's going to give it to you.
Jill Shalvis
#8. If you work hard, stay focused, and never give up, you will eventually get what you want in life.
Donald Miller
#9. Moral #1: "If you work hard, stay focused, and never give up, you will eventually get what you want in life."
Moral #2: Sometimes the things we want most in life are the things that will kill us.
Donald Miller
#10. No matter how big the risk will be, you're willing to do anything, to get what you want or save yourself.
Ebelsain Villegas
#11. You don't get what you want from investing, you get what you deserve.
Bill Bonner
#12. I once learned, a long time ago, to get what you want, to have all the power, to be the hero and the good guy, you have to make everyone else look like the bad guy.
Angela Richardson
#13. To get what you want you must communicate with others in a way that inspires them to want to give it to you.
Marshall Sylver
#14. When I'm moving down Broadway to meet Jean, my secretary, for brunch, in front of Tower Records a college student with a clipboard asks me to name the saddest song I know. I tell him, without pausing, "You Can't Always Get What You Want" by the Beatles.
Anonymous
#15. Live by your own rules Move to your rhythm, instead of dancing to the beat of someone else's drum Decide how you want to be treated Choose what you will or will not tolerate Leave if you don't get what you want.
Sherry Argov
#16. Do not be satisfied by just getting what you need, strive and work harder to get what you want.
Auliq Ice
#17. And sometimes - to get what you want - you must be prepared to accept the apparently unacceptable.
Anne O'Brien
#18. There are two things to aim at in life; first to get what you want, and after that to enjoy it. Only the wisest of mankind has achieved the second.
Logan Pearsall Smith
#19. If you can't get what you want from life, see if you're withholding something from someone else, because you won't get what you want unless you start giving away what you have to those that need it. Selfishness is incompatible with abundance and going to Church won't help you escape this Divine law.
Robin Sacredfire
#20. It's your life. If you don't make it so that you get what you want, nobody else will.
Abby McDonald
#21. To get what you want out of life, all you can really do is find out who you are, and do that.
Anders Holm
#22. You go through things in life where you're not always going to get what you want, but if God feels it's supposed to happen, it's going to happen.
Kevin Ware
#23. What's wrong with that is that it's not how the real
world works. That's why, sometimes, it's good to be
flexible. When you don't get what you want, you make
other plans.
Katie Klein
#24. Be honest and work hard to get what you want. Don't take shortcuts; you only cheat yourself in the long run. Success is not measured by money or fame, but by how you feel about your own goals and accomplishments and the time and effort you put into them.
Willie Stargell
#25. Writing a novel and living a life are very much the same thing. The secret is finding the balance between going out to get what you want and being open to the thing that actually winds up coming your way.
Ann Patchett
#26. You are to become a creator, not a competitor; you are going to get what you want, but in such a way that when you get it every other man will have more than he has now.
Wallace D. Wattles
#27. I'm tempted to tell you that you think too much, but I'm not really one to talk,' Jacob said. 'Henry Miller wrote something about fear making you fearless. It's a very powerful emotion. Use it to get what you want. I mean if it's going to rule our life, it might as well rule you to freedom, right?
Tiffanie DeBartolo
#28. Free yourself from the shackles of an oppressive reality. What's real to you is what you imagine and what you feel. If you manage your illusions wisely, you might get what you want, but you won't necessarily understand why it worked.
Scott Adams
#29. Come on Josie." He leaned closer and whispered in my ear, "I really want you there."
"Yeah?" I asked, slamming my locker shut. "And do you always get what you want?"
"Yes," he said.
Rachel Vail
#30. Of what use to get what you want if you must become someone else to get it.
Robert Breault
#31. Life's always a big fucking compromise. You don't always get what you want, no matter how smart you are, how hard you work, how good you are. That's a myth. We're all hanging in the best way we can.
Amy Tan
#32. Always strive to get what you want, what you need, especially if your intentions are good and nobody gets hurt in the process.
Janvier Chouteu-Chando
#33. First you find out what you have , Dad would say. Then you figure out how to make it work for what you need, 'cause you don't get what you want. You get just what you have and no more.
Lilith Saintcrow
#34. It's too damn hard to watch someone else get what you want.
Emery Lord
#35. Fox dung! I'm a loyal ShadowClan cat. If I'm ever made deputy or leader it will be because I have earned it myself - and my Clanmates and StarClan wish it. You're twisting the warrior code to get what you want, just like you did when you were alive.
Erin Hunter
#36. Now Everybody has some secret goals in life ... Sometimes you can get what you want and what you need at the sames time.
Robert Fulghum
#37. Ian " she said quietly "I'd rather die than go back to you."
"Be careful what you ask for you may get what you want.
Amanda Stephan
#38. When they see you get what you want and move on, quickly, you've done a contract with the crew from that point. In Britain if the sparks call you Guv on day two, you never need an award of any other kind.
William Monahan
#39. But if you don't take the chance to read the story, how will you know if you get what you want? Pickup that book and let me create your fairytale ending." "Talen,
Milly Taiden
#40. I think when you work really hard and you help others, God helps you get what you want.
Gina Rodriguez
#41. As an artist, you can never get what you want. What you do never approaches what you want it to be.
Janet Fitch
#42. To get what you want help others get what they want
Zig Ziglar
#43. I believe you can make forces of good and evil work for you, to get what you want.
GG Allin
#44. Remember, it's Ok to get what you want from life.
Stuart Wilde
#45. I think it's better to be obsessed than to be depressed ... I think pushing to get what you want can't be so awful. I think it's key to success.
Ellen Hopkins
#46. [Ivan: ] " ... you haven't let the lack of half-marks stop you. Or the rules. Or respect for reality, as afar as I can tell."
[Miles:] "I never let anything stop me. That's how you get what you want, Ivan. No one's going to just hand it to you.
Lois McMaster Bujold
#49. Discipline is a necessary tool to help you get what you want in life. It forces you to stay on center and to move away from the things that are not necessary.
Diana Ross
#50. You can't always get what you want, but if you really need something, you usually find it.
Keith Richards
#51. You can get what you want. It depends on the strength of your desire.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#52. Focused will is incredible. If you have a dream and you don't give up no matter what obstacles come up, then life's problems will fall away and you will get what you want. It happens. It works.
Yanni
#53. You do not get what you want. You get what you negotiate.
Harvey MacKay
#54. You will never get what you want if you believe that you are not worthy of having it. God doesn't create us to be defeated.
Shannon L. Alder
#55. Life does not require you to sacrifice or compromise your joy to get what you want. Joy is what you want, so when you choose in harmony with it, you are fulfilling your purpose in living.
Alan Cohen
#56. The [palette] fantasy is always to get what you want, what you wear, and to be able to take it with you, so you don't have to bring all the other stuff. I just started digging through my drawers of my favorites, and I asked myself what is it that I cant live without?
Gwen Stefani
#57. You have to use what you have to get what you want.
RuPaul
#58. On some days you get what you want, and on others, you get what you need.
Hunter S. Thompson
#59. You have to believe in what you do in order to get what you want.
Larry Ellison
#61. You would use your body to get what you want?"
"In a heartbeat."
He was hurt. I could feel it echo through him. He stepped closer again, leveled his face inches from mine, and whispered in the softest of voices, "Whore.
Darynda Jones
#62. Let the mechanics of desire bring your fulfilment without interference.the more you interfere, the less likely you will get what you want.
Deepak Chopra
#63. If you can't get what you want, you end up doing something else, just to get some relief. Just to keep from going crazy. Because when you're sad enough, you look for ways to fill you up.
Laura Pritchett
#64. I can tell you how to get what you want: You've just got to keep a thing in view and go for it and never let your eyes wander to right or left or up or down. And looking back is fatal.
William John Locke
#65. You probably have the ability to get what you want. And you likely have everything you need to be completely satisfied. But do you also have the ability to want what you've got? That just may be one of the most important questions you will ever answer.
Steve Goodier
#66. You have more fun and enjoy more financial success when you stop trying to get what you want and start helping other people get what they want.
Spencer Johnson
#67. The best way to get what you want is to pretend you don't want it.
Chelsea M. Cameron
#68. It is through action that you set the wheels of life in motion to get what you want and be who you want to be.
Innocent Mwatsikesimbe
#69. I think, as written, 'Assassins' simply acknowledges the very human need to be acknowledged. As director, I've got to put aside any particular biases or prejudices that, as a moral human being, this is not an appropriate or acceptable way to get what you want.
Joe Mantello
#70. I like to think of myself as a pirate and you're just walking that person out on the plank. And then you pull them back when you get what you want. Of course, sometimes, in the beginning, you're going to push a little too far.
Bob Johnson
#71. A big part of who I am is just the way I was raised. Nobody is better than anyone else, and if you really work hard, you might get lucky and get what you want.
Martina Mcbride
#72. The big man bent to her ear. "You know you have to gamble, don't you, to get what you want? So what are you prepared to lose?
Anna Hope
#73. I'm not for real revolutions, because they always bring you the opposite of what you want. You very seldom get what you want if you have a violent revolution.
Gore Vidal
#74. Violence was seen by wiseguys as a tool to get what you want and only occasionally to vent your anger. It was not seen as a plus or a minus, it was just part of the landscape.
Nick Apuzzo
#75. 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
#76. When you don't get what you want, it just makes you accept real life.
Bai Ling
#78. Painting has to do with knocking yourself out day after day trying to get what you want to down on canvas. Maybe it works and maybe it doesn't, but every day you try. That's what painting is.
Zibby Oneal
#79. You will get what you want but you must want it and not just wish it.
Vikram Seth
#80. Because there's nothing you can do about other people's reactions. You be yourself and let them be themselves and if you don't get what you want then tough and if you do then good for you and that's it. Everything else is manipulation and I spit on it.
-Zal
Justina Robson
#81. They make you settle for second best."
That's what I like about the movies. There's always some minor character standing round to tell you the moral, just in case you're too dumb to figure it out for yourself.
"You never get what you want.
Connie Willis
#82. When you look for independence and you get what you want, how come you look back thinking what have I done?
Joey Tempest
#83. You can use the same motto for everything in life. If you put that effort in, you'll get what you want.
Kim Kardashian
#84. You will get what you want, but you have to expect it with your open heart.
Debasish Mridha
#85. Take what you need, do what you should, you will get what you want.
Gottfried Leibniz
#88. Politics is a lot like sex - if you want something, you have to ask for it, if they're not doing it right you've got to speak up and show them and if you still don't get what you want, then there is nothing wrong with doing it yourself.
Jennifer Beals
#89. Someday, you'll learn that life isn't always what you want it to be. That you won't always get what you want.
Marie Lu
#90. As if, within their high-pitched cries and songs, there are coded threats. 'Sometimes you get what you want and sometimes you get what you need and sometimes you get what you get.' Extract
Marian Keyes
#91. You have to trust God even when you don't get what you want.
Rick Warren
#92. Ultimate stupidity: Mistakenly thinking you will get what you want by complaining about and focusing on exactly what you don't want.
John Phillips
#94. Woo means the ability to entice someone or something to get what you want. My first solo album was called: All the Woo of the Universe, which was titled by George Clinton.
Bernie Worrell
#95. Being frustrated is disagreeable, but the real disasters of life begin when you get what you want.
Irving Kristol
#96. Ever since I was little, I've felt very comfortable on a set. The time is stressful - being creative under time constraints. But there is an excitement and energy that you only have a certain amount of time to get what you want.
Sofia Coppola
#97. Be honest about what you can get. To make a sacrifice and to get what you want you need to be very certain. In other words: always think about your objective, have a clear goal and commit to it from the heart.
Sophia Loren
#98. Your life is a reflection ... you don't get what you WANT, you get what you ARE. You gotta BE it to SEE it.
Steve Maraboli
#99. Always be prepared if someone asks you what you want for Christmas. Give brand names, the store that sells the merchandise, and, if possible, exact model numbers so they can't go wrong. Be the type who's impossible to buy for, so they have to get what you want.
John Waters
#100. Life is a ripoff when you expect to get what you want. Life works when you choose what you got. Actually what you got is what you chose. To move on, choose it.
Werner Erhard
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