Top 100 Quotes About Getting What You Want
#1. Getting what you want will not change your life at the Being Level, so don't let what you have determine 'who you are', otherwise you will always feel dissatisfied.
Robert Anthony
#2. Not getting what you want either means you don't want it enough, or you have been dealing too long with the price you have to pay.
Rudyard Kipling
#3. There is no greed in knowing what you want, getting what you want, to then having what you want. The only greed in it will be to expect what you want to fall into your lap.
Sarah Pussell
#4. Getting what you want is just as difficult as not getting what you want. Because then you have to figure out what to do with it instead of figuring out what to do without it.
David Levithan
#5. The goal of living a life of faith is never to go against God, but to go with Him. It isn't just about getting what you want, it's about seeking God's best, then trusting Him with His answer." - Linda Evans Shepherd
Cherie Hill
#6. Life always kills you in the end, but first it prevents you from getting what you want.
Douglas Coupland
#7. The price of getting what you want, is getting what once you wanted.
Neil Gaiman
#8. If you find you're not getting what you want, stop and think about what it is you really need. If there is a lesson to be learned, learn it. Getting what you need, will often lead to what you truly want ...
James A. Murphy
#9. Happiness is not about getting what you want--it is about wanting what you've got.
Michael Brodeur
#10. The first step to getting what you want is to have the courage to get rid of what you don't.
Zig Ziglar
#12. How is it wrong to put everything you have into getting what you want most in the world?
Rachel Vincent
#13. It's not about getting what you want. It's about experiencing what you really need by becoming more.
Tony Robbins
#14. The only thing worse than not getting what you want, is getting it.
Sonya Sones
#15. But in the end, financial decisions aren't about getting rich. They're about getting what you want - getting happy.
Carl Richards
#16. Nothing makes you realize you don't know what you want more than getting what you want.
Jane Wagner
#17. I tell you this as a cautionary tale: beware of getting what you want. It's bound to disappoint you.
Jodi Picoult
#18. Manners are a way of getting what you want without appearing to be an absolute swine.
Quentin Crisp
#19. It's terrifying, to be on the verge of finally getting what you want.
Y.S. Lee
#20. Happiness isn't about getting what you want all the time; it's about loving what you have.
Asher Roth
#21. I don't know exactly what drove me to stray, but I think there's a certain sadness to finally getting what you want.
Jessica Pan
#22. Morality is how you go about getting what you want without screwing anybody to get it.
Henry David Thoreau
#23. The great secret of getting what you want from life is to know whay you want and believe you can have it. Always do something for others, then ask God to help you get at it.
Norman Vincent Peale
#24. The key to happiness is not getting what you want but wanting what you get
Jane Green
#25. Sometimes, almost getting what you want is worse than never coming close.
Jennifer R. Hubbard
#26. In this age of getting what you want and getting it now, the simple pleasure of browsing is often forgotten.
Tom Hodgkinson
#27. The first secret of getting what you want is knowing what you want.
Arthur D. Hlavaty
#28. Getting what you want is a serious matter. It is far more transformative than frustration.
Bruce Sterling
#29. If you're not actively involved in getting what you want, you don't really want it.
Peter McWilliams
#30. I'm ambitious. I do think you have a tendency to be less happy sometimes when you're a seeker. You can be disenchanted because you're not getting what you want, and you're always striving and looking ahead instead of just being in the moment.
Matt Dillon
#31. The first step in getting what you want from life-decide what you want.
Ben Stein
#32. I've learned that getting what you want gives you a pretty high batting average, and leaves you plenty to struggle for.
Loretta Young
#33. Happiness doesn't come from getting what you want. It doesn't come from within, either. Happiness comes from *between*
from finding the right relationship between yourself and others, between yourself and your work, and between yourself and something larger than yourself.
Jonathan Haidt
#34. Fear has only two causes: the thought of losing what you have or the thought of not getting what you want.
Byron Katie
#35. Beauvoir knew that the root of all evil wasn't money. No, what created and drove evil was fear. Fear of not having enough money, enough food, enough land, enough power, enough security, enough love. Fear of not getting what you want, or losing what you have.
Louise Penny
#36. Success is getting what you want; happiness is wanting what you get.
Ingrid Bergman
#37. Sometimes not getting what you want is a brilliant stroke of luck.
Lorii Myers
#38. Buddhism itself is all about empowering yourself, not about getting what you want.
Pema Chodron
#39. Listen, you're a powerful woman and you're used to getting what you want out of life, and you didn't get what you wanted in your last few relationships and it's got you all jammed up. Your
Elizabeth Gilbert
#40. Joy is not the result of getting what you want; it is the way to get what you want. In the deepest sense, joy is what you want.
Alan Cohen
#41. The hardest thing about getting what you want is knowing what to do with it.
Patrick Hennessey
#42. The happiness at getting what you want is not usually commensurate with the worry leading up to it.
Ann Brashares
#43. SUCCESS is getting what you want, but HAPPINESS is wanting what you get.
Various
#44. Happiness is not in getting what you want, but in learning to want what you get. Don't waste your time crying over what you're not given. When you have tears in your eyes, you can't see all the beautiful things around you.
Lisa Wingate
#45. Joy is not getting what you want. It's fully appreciating what you have. And it starts with the basics, like water.
Mark Batterson
#46. Remember that sometimes not getting what you want is a wonderful stroke of luck.
Dalai Lama XIV
#47. There are two ways of being unhappy. Not getting what you want is one. Getting what you want is the other.
Eckhart Tolle
#48. It was so much easier when I didn't want anything. Not getting what you want can make you cruel.
David Levithan
#49. Getting what you want is not nearly as important as giving what you have.
Tom Krause
#50. A real life doesn't mean getting what you want; the achievement, the privilege, too is knowing what you love.
Marisa De Los Santos
#51. It's not getting what you want that's the hard part, it's deciding what you want.
Alexandra Potter
#52. Love is not a matter of getting what you want. Quite the contrary. The insistence on always having what you want, on always being satisfied, on always being fulfilled, makes love impossible.
Thomas Merton
#53. Satisfaction isn't so much getting what you want as wanting what you have.
David Myers
#54. The secret to a happy life is not in getting what you want. It is in learning to want what you get.
Lisa Wingate
#55. Great negotiators never lose sight of what they are aiming at, which is not an agreement per se, but a desired outcome ... Getting to yes is easy, all you have to do is roll over. It's getting what you want that's hard.
Robert Gallucci
#56. The hard thing isn't getting what you want, it's knowing what you want.
Marty Rubin
#57. Remember that not getting what you want is sometimes a wonderful stroke of luck.
Matthew Quick
#58. Happiness is in the doing not in getting what you want.
Ethan Hawke
#59. Remember: There is a direct correlation between an increased sphere of comfort and getting what you want.
Timothy Ferriss
#60. When you achieve one dream, dream another. Getting what you want is only a problem if you have nowhere to go next. Dreaming is a lifetime occupation.
Rudy Ruettiger
#61. But you know, sometimes not getting what you want is getting exactly what you need.
Stephanie Evanovich
#63. Joy is not getting what you want; it's appreciating what you have.
Mark Batterson
#64. The secret of happiness is simply this ... your happiness does NOT depend on getting what you want.
Michael Neill
#65. The secret to happiness, of course, is not getting what you want; it's wanting what you get,
Alex Trebek
#66. Happiness isn't getting what you want, it's wanting what you got.
Garth Brooks
#67. My mother wanted a conservative, secure life, and she has been married to my father since she was 18 ... A lot of hard work went into that marriage and a lot of not getting what you want.
Kimberly Quinn
#68. And by letting go of trying to control the uncontrollable ... you ironically increase ... the probability of getting what you want.
Michael Neill
#69. But he did not understand the price. Mortals never do. They only see the prize, their heart's desire, their dream ... But the price of getting what you want, is getting what you once wanted.
Neil Gaiman
#70. The only thing that holds you back from getting what you want is paying attention to what you don't want.
Abraham Hicks
#71. Getting what you want doesn't make you happy, growth makes you happy, raising your level of consciousness. The problem with most people, they don't know what they want because they start at a very early age being programmed to think that they can't have what they want.
Bob Proctor
#72. Violence within the context of policing has a sense of control and power to it, whether it is dominance, getting what you want, or acting out of emotion. At the same time, it is not ultimately satisfying and [you are] trapped in the cycle.
Keanu Reeves
#73. If you want to make money and have action, you need to work from like, 10 p.m. to 6 a.m. Those are the hours. That just doesn't fit with a lot of people's schedules. And that's just the start of it. You've got to realize what you are getting into.
Chris Moneymaker
#74. I always think of my films within the context of where aesthetics meet economics. That's the nature of making art - not being naive about what is possible and getting what you need to tell the story you want to tell.
Ira Sachs
#75. The idea of stopping is not unmeaningful to me. I think there might be a time when, in theory at least, you'd say, 'Well I've mostly done what I want to do.' But how could you ever prevent a few years down the line some germ of an idea getting at you and you've got to do it again?
Graham Swift
#76. If you're not looking for the right thing, you can't be disappointed if you don't get it.
Kenneth Eade
#77. FEARLESS is getting back up and fighting for what you want over and over again ... even though every time you've tried before you've lost.
Taylor Swift
#78. I've always believed in the concept of retirement. I retired for the first time at age 18 ... from school. To me, retirement means doing what you want to do without worrying about getting paid for it.
Tommy Chong
#79. You have to have passion for anything you do. Whether it's sports, whether it's music, whether you want to be Mother Theresa, you have to have passion for what it is you do, or what's the point in getting up in the morning and getting out of bed?
Zakk Wylde
#80. Sometimes the only thing to do is to take the thing that you must have. Even if someone gets hurt.
Stephen King
#81. Influence is getting others to do what you want them to do because they want to do it - a take on Eisenhower's famous leadership statement
Phil Harding
#82. I want a more difficult life, that's all. What I really want is a first-rate life. I may not get it, but the only chance I have lies in getting out of a second-rate life. I may fail completely, but I do want to try. It's to do with me, not you; so don't worry.
Julian Barnes
#83. If you want to achieve immortality, see what you can do about getting yourself turned into a Pentagon program.
Rachel Maddow
#84. Discipline is freedom. It is you getting yourself to do what you really want to do.
Patricia Moreno
#85. Interviewing is a lot like talking, but you have to guide the conversation. You have to
know what you want and go about getting it.
Anthony DeCurtis
#86. I think what I do in my acting world and what I do in my standup world is bring up a brand that I want to bring across. Once you figure out your brand and what you do, it's kind of easy at that. You end up getting your audience.
J. B. Smoove
#87. I enjoy playing with a big band occasionally, but it's too restricting; you really don't have a chance to stretch out and do what you want to do. Getting that thing of relating to a large band is great experience; I relate much better, though, if it's a small band.
Art Pepper
#88. You won't want to," he crooned into my ear. "Not after you've had a taste of what I can offer you."
"You're right," I chirped. "I'll probably barf. I'm getting indigestion just thinking about it.
Courtney Allison Moulton
#89. Drive, ego and cocksureness are all essential elements in terms of getting exactly what you want but losing everything you've got.
Dane Cook
#90. Everything's in the mind. That's where it all starts. Knowing what you want is the first step toward getting it.
Mae West
#91. People will always want more immersive ways to express themselves. So if you go back ten years ago on the internet, most of what people shared and consumed was text. Now a lot of it is photos. I think, going forward, a lot of it is going to be videos, getting richer and richer.
Mark Zuckerberg
#92. What I am finding now is that my audience is getting younger as I get older, which is a very good thing as you know - you don't want them to get older as you get older.
Russell Banks
#93. Our entire brand is about transparency. We want that data out there because you know what? If you are only getting one in three messages replied to, you're normal. You're right there in the middle of everything with everyone else.
Sam Yagan
#94. It shows considerable wisdom to know what you want in life and then to direct all your energies towards getting it.
P.D. James
#95. Your ass belongs to me. I've suffered for it. I've loved you forever. I deserve it," Danny went on, his voice a low mixture of anger and desire. "I don't ever want you getting from another man what you can get from me. You hear me, Paul Guy, it's mine.
Kele Moon
#96. I don't want you to write about what you know, because you don't know anything. I don't want to hear about your boyfriend or your grandma ... I'm getting a little tired of 'my life story as fiction'. Please don't tell me about your little life - is there nothing larger? More important?
Toni Morrison
#97. You have to sit with your longing and know that you may not get what you want; you have to encounter the danger of longing for something without the expectation of getting your desire.
Philippa Gregory
#98. Jealous? ... Of what? I don't want a foul scar right across my head, thanks. I don't think getting your head cut open makes you that special, myself.
J.K. Rowling
#99. There's something outrageously simple about extending yourself toward a goal the way a plant seeks the sun's rays or a gopher the crunch of easy soil beneath his paws, and then getting exactly what you want, sunshine or some prized tuber.
Gary Shteyngart
#100. What you find is, you have to deliver a product that has value to the customer. When you do, and I think the wind community is getting much closer to that, customers will want it.
Mike Pompeo
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