Top 100 Quotes About Knowing What You Want
#1. A lot of success in life and business comes from knowing what you want to avoid: early death, a bad marriage, etc.
Charlie Munger
#2. 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
#3. Success is what you envisage it to be. You have to go into any profession knowing what you want because people will place expectations on you and their idea of success could taint yours.
Trey Songz
#4. Fact is, knowing what you want and knowing who you are ... those are two separate things. One is complicated. The other isn't. You're trying to take something simple and make it hard, and there's enough hard things in life without you adding more for yourself.
Cora Carmack
#5. To write a love letter, you have to start, without knowing, what you want to say, and end, without knowing what you have said.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
#6. Everything's in the mind. That's where it all starts. Knowing what you want is the first step toward getting it.
Mae West
#7. Boundaries protect the things that are of value to you. They keep you in alignment with what you have decided you want in life. That means the key to good boundaries is knowing what you want.
Adelyn Birch
#8. I think leadership is knowing what you want to achieve and then purposefully and sensibly taking steps to achieve it, remembering always that you have got to bring people with you if you are seeking to be a successful political leader.
Tony Abbott
#9. The truly terrible thing about this life, was not knowing what you want, but only able to recognize what you do not want. You have to spend so much time and energy trying to find it out, time that other people spent in pursuing of their desires.
Whitney Otto
#10. One of the joys of being in love is that it clarifies your priorities. Complication arises from not knowing what you want.
Philip Sington
#11. My favorite thing about being engaged is your partner knowing what you want. For us, we love going out to eat.
Waka Flocka Flame
#12. Making a decision isn't about knowing every potential consequence. It's about knowing what you want and chasing a path that takes you in that direction
Malinda Lo
#13. The first principle of success is desire - knowing what you want. Desire is the planting of your seed.
Robert Collier
#15. The first secret of getting what you want is knowing what you want.
Arthur D. Hlavaty
#16. True power arises in knowing what you want, knowing what you don't want, expressing it clearly and lovingly without attachment to the outcome.
Leonard Jacobson
#17. Energy is the essence of life. Every day you decide how you're going to use it by knowing what you want and what it takes to reach that goal, and my maintaining focus.
Oprah Winfrey
#18. But as much as life is sometimes about knowing what you want and going after it and finishing, maybe other times it's about slowing down and shutting up and waiting. There's not always a clear beginning and obvious end. Sometimes we're in the middle . . . and it's okay to camp out there for a while.
Melissa Tagg
#20. With documentaries, you go in with an open-mind but knowing what you want.
Chris Metzler
#21. One half of knowing what you want is knowing what you must give up before you get it.
Sidney Howard
#22. Can really rescue you, and you have to do something. Not knowing what you want to
Meg Jay
#23. Live with energy
Energy is the essence of life. Every day you decide how you're going to use it by knowing what you want and what it takes to reach that goal, and by maintaining focus.
Oprah Winfrey
#24. I am not without fear, but courage is taking action despite the fear. Knowing what you want, what you are meant to do, and proceeding despite any knots in your stomach or rocks stuck in your throat. It is walking boldly into the unknown with your chin held high ... even if it quivers.
Rachel Harris
#25. Knowing what you want to do and then what you have to do to make it happen is one big difference between adult creativity and child's play.
Rob Bevan
#26. The secret of success isn't knowing what you want - that will come; it is knowing what you don't want.
Chloe Thurlow
#27. The hard thing isn't getting what you want, it's knowing what you want.
Marty Rubin
#28. Leadership is knowing what you want and making it happen.
Miriam Colon
#29. I think that as a young lady, you start off not knowing what you want to do, and then you kinda arrive at yourself by the time you're 17 or 18, hopefully. And that's what I did.
Rutina Wesley
#30. You don't want to be starting a film not knowing what you want to do.
Russell Crowe
#32. Do you really want to know what it's like, being a spy? Never sure to whom you're giving your allegiance, and knowing that most of your colleagues will die gruesomely, often by your hand? Fine. Let me show you.
Delilah S. Dawson
#33. Few realizations are as demoralizing as knowing that the only thing standing between you and what you want is yourself,
Kate Bolick
#34. I could point out that it isn't always easy knowing who you are and what you want, because then you have no excuse for not trying to get it.
David Levithan
#35. I'm constantly thinking about design, shapes, patterns and colors, so I just want to be more of a blank canvas. But there is a comfort in knowing what you're going to wear, and that probably comes from Catholic school, where I wore a uniform for 10 years.
Prabal Gurung
#36. Tiny but determined, I navigated the confusing and unstable path of being what you are while knowing that it's more than people want to see. Back
Hope Jahren
#37. Some people say, "How can you live without knowing?" I do not know what they mean. I always live without knowing. That is easy. How you get to know is what I want to know.
Richard P. Feynman
#38. I don't want to ruin our friendship and what we have but I cannot for another minute stand in front of you without you knowing exactly how I feel. Because I can't see past you. You are everything to me.
Elizabeth Eulberg
#39. Style is knowing who you are, what you want to say, and not giving a damn
Orson Welles
#40. People can say whatever they want about you without knowing the facts. They can criticize you without even knowing you, and hate you when they don't even know you. All of a sudden, you're, like, the bin Laden of America. Osama bin Laden is the only one who knows exactly what I'm going through.
R. Kelly
#41. The world is yourself pushed out. Ask yourself what you want and then give it to yourself! Do not question how it will come about; just go your way knowing that the evidence of what you have done must appear, and it will.
Neville Goddard
#42. Be happy with who you are and what you do, and you can do anything you want.
Steve Maraboli
#43. Once you establish a foundation of knowing what the greatest recording artists of all time were ... Wouldn't you want your kids to know this stuff?
Robbie Robertson
#44. I don't like this, he said. I don't like knowing you can't forgive me, Claire. Please, I said I was sorry, what do you want me to do? Beg?I will. I'll get on my knees right here if you want.
Rachel Caine
#45. Clarity is essential. Knowing exactly what you want builds your self-confidence immeasurably.
Brian Tracy
#46. Once you know what you want, narrow the options, make your choices, and go for it. But until you do, embrace not knowing.
Jen Doll
#47. The most crippling part of my personality is that as much as I want to know something, I can't bear admitting I'm ignorant. It's as if I think I should have been born knowing and understanding all. As if when I say out loud, what are you talking about? the world will point and jeer.
Caroline B. Cooney
#48. Find out for yourself what are the possesions and ideals that you do not desire. By knowing what you do not want, by elimination, you will unburden the mind, and only then will it understand the essential which is ever there.
Jiddu Krishnamurti
#49. When you get used to that kind of life - of never having anything you want - then you stop knowing what it is you want.
Haruki Murakami
#50. I came from battling, knowing about the lyrics. All that's cool, but if you want people to love you, you have to talk to them about what they go through.
French Montana
#51. There is nothing for you to go back and live over, or fix, or feel regret about now. every part of your life has unfolded just right. And so -now- knowing all that you know from where you now stand, now what do you want? The answers are now coming forth to you. Go forth in joy, and get on with it.
Abraham Hicks
#52. I just want fans to walk away knowing that no matter what's going on, no matter how happy you are, no matter how sad you are, we did it. We're strong in this. We've come a long way, and life is not just one thing.
Mary J. Blige
#53. Knowing that one thing you want is a great step. Sure, whether you prefer or not, you'll get offers, and many will seem that one thing you want.
Ufuoma Apoki
#54. Good music comes out of people playing together, knowing what they want to do and going for it. You have to sweat over it and bug it to death. You can't do it by pushing buttons and watching a TV screen.
Keith Richards
#55. People use what you want against you... without you knowing it.
Deyth Banger
#56. It's knowing I'll never have what she has
a beauty so powerful it brings things to you. I fear I will always have to chase things I want. I'll always have to wonder whether I'm truly wanted or whether I've just been settled for.
Libba Bray
#57. Who we are is what comes out when shit goes bad. You can't tell anything about a person when things are great. If you want to really know someone, be there when everything goes to hell.
Eileen Cook
#58. Knowing exactly what you want to do, with unwavering conviction, is the spark that generates everything.
Deepak Chopra
#59. Most people who make threats don't follow through. The most dangerous people are often those who never make threats. But 'most' and 'often' aren't what you are looking for when you're dealing with a scary person. You want to 'know.' And there is no knowing.
Susan Estrich
#60. And when all feels hopeless, remember that you are in charge of what goes into your body, you don't answer to anyone, and you are allowed to eat anything you want. Often just knowing we can eat whatever we want is enough to keep us from eating whatever we want. We're so rebellious.
Rory Freedman
#61. If there's one thing I hate, it's not knowing what's wrong with someone and all you want to do is make them feel better.
Pleasefindthis
#62. It is surprising that people are snapping photos and stuff and then putting them on the internet. For me, it is like, "Why would you want to do that?" It would be like knowing what your Christmas presents were before Christmas morning.
Michael Shannon
#63. There is freedom in being a writer and writing. It is fulfilling your function. I used to think freedom meant doing whatever you want. It means knowing who you are, what you are supposed to be doing on this earth, and then simply doing it.
Natalie Goldberg
#64. Knowing what you don't want in life is almost as helpful as having a five year plan. Vision doesn't always mean you know exactly what you want to do or where you want to be in life; sometimes, vision is knowing where you don't want to be in order to find where you should end up!
Amanda Bernardo
#65. I described the CEO job as knowing what to do and getting the company to do what you want. Designing a proper company culture will help you get your company to do what you want in certain important areas for a very long time.
Ben Horowitz
#66. Thinking of someone else is what got me damned. It's a mistake I don't want to repeat. (Xypher)
You know sometimes it's by repeating our mistakes that we realize what went wrong the first time. Knowing that, we're able to fix the mistake and move past it. (Acheron)
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#67. Gray texted me a joke the other day. Want to hear it?"
"Knowing Gray's terrible jokes, probably not. But okay."
He rubs the back of his neck. "What do you call a cow with no legs?"
I caress his waist where muscles ripple. "What?"
"Ground beef.
Kristen Callihan
#68. Embodiment begins with knowing yourself - who you are, what cultures you belong to, and what you want to create in the world.
Bruce Nussbaum
#69. The feeling of not being enough for someone, of knowing you would do anything for them and they not the same for you. I didn't want to, but I felt bad for her. I wanted to hate her, but I couldn't. I couldn't blame her for what she didn't know.
Courtney Giardina
#70. Champions get what they want because they know what they want. They have a vision that keeps them motivated and efficiently on track. They see it, feel it, and experience it in their minds and hearts. What is success for you? You won't get there without knowing what it feels and looks like.
Phil McGraw
#71. 'You like jealousy. You like knowing people want you.'
He wasn't talking about sex, and my heart slowed a little. 'Is it not natural to want to be liked?'
'That ain't what you want. It's like you got to have everybody's heart, and if they don't give it, you rip it out and watch it bleed.'
Sarah Monette
#72. The unknown is exciting. Not knowing what you really want to do is an adventure. It's a chance to go out there and find out what you want, to learn about yourself. Not everyone has it figured out, you know.
R.K. Ryals
#73. You write who you are. But you also cheat, and youwrite what you want to be. It's embarrasing to be the guy who madethe movie, knowing you're not exactly who you want to be.
Paul Thomas Anderson
#74. The hardest thing about getting what you want is knowing what to do with it.
Patrick Hennessey
#75. The simple question 'What color do you want to paint that upstairs room?' might, if we follow things to their logical conclusions, be stated: 'How do I live, knowing that I will one day die and leave you?
Donald Antrim
#76. Once you realize that you're in something that you've always wanted and you don't want to lose it, you behave differently. And that means the integrity, the professionalism, and knowing what's right from wrong and still making choices that you probably wouldn't have made.
Paul Anka
#77. Yes, it's true, what I said earlier: A real life doesn't mean geting what you want; the achievement, the privilege, too, is knowing what you love.But getting what you love? Having what you love love you back? Oh, my friend, it's miracle: your one tiny life's head-on collision with divinity.
Marisa De Los Santos
#78. You will never change, unless you are honest with yourself or you are forced to be authentic by someone that was honest with him or herself.
Shannon L. Alder
#79. One secret of happiness in life is to know the very basic of life economy, deciding what kind of life you want and knowing how much you need to achieve just that. The earlier you know how much is enough the better and happier you will be in life.
Tim I. Gurung
#80. Then why do you want to know?"
"Because learning does not consist only of knowing what we must or we can do, but also of knowing what we could do and perhaps should not do.
Umberto Eco
#81. I will be dying and so will you, and so will everyone here. That's what I want to explore. We're all hurtling towards death, yet here we are for the moment, alive. Each of us knowing we're going to die, each of us secretly believing we won't.
Charlie Kaufman
#82. I don't want the whole world knowing just how extraordinary you are.' I straighten his tie 'Are my eyes what make me special to you?' 'No,' he says. His voice has become soft and dreamy. He pushes the curls from my face. 'They are only a ripple on the surface.
Lauren DeStefano
#83. You feel like a criminal. Knowing you can knock somebody out and know you can put somebody in a temporary coma, that's what you want to go for. It shows how strong, how powerful a person can be to be able to do that.
Henry Cejudo
#84. Knowing what you don't want is the same thing as knowing nothing.
Marty Rubin
#85. Spoilers are cowardly. They're just people who want to anesthetize themselves against the tension and the experience that the director and the artist have set up. If you go in there knowing what's going to happen, it's like reading the last page of the book. It's just cowardly.
Simon Pegg
#86. A real life doesn't mean getting what you want; the achievement, the privilege, too is knowing what you love.
Marisa De Los Santos
#87. If you least understand the essence of timely and courageously saying no to what you have to say no to, when you have to say no, you shall always say yes to what is due no remorsefully and count the cost of never saying no when you had to in pity though shall know your had I know in the end.
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
#88. Stubbornness is knowing exactly what you want courageously living by free will; never to be judged or ridiculed.
Michelle Cruz-Rosado
#89. A wise man doesn't start what he doesn't know to do.
Eraldo Banovac
#90. I learned to put 100 percent into what you're doing. I learned about setting goals for yourself, knowing where you want to be and taking small steps toward those goals. I learned about adversity and how to get past it.
Kristi Yamaguchi
#91. The man of the true religious tradition understands two things: liberty and obedience. The first means knowing what you really want. The second means knowing what you really trust.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
#92. It must be very hard to be a mother. All those years of knowing everything about your daughter, of dressing her and bathing her and being intimately acquainted with her every need and want, and then one day you wake up and realize you don't even know what kind of dress to buy her at Clery's.
Jessie Ann Foley
#93. People always want to know how you know. And knowing in your heart is very hard to describe. I think so often, we're trying to understand something with our mind. But, actually, the Bible teaches us that much of what God does in our life will be difficult to understand with the mind.
Joyce Meyer
#94. It's bad idea to try to prevent people from knowing their own history. If you want to do anything new you must first make sure you know what people have tried before.
E.H. Gombrich
#95. There's a difference between knowing what to do when you're rehearsing it, and being able to do it once you're adrenalized and emotional. That's when the injuries occur. Actors all want to try to pretend that they're experts at everything, but we're not.
Antony Starr
#96. And you really live by the river? What a jolly life!" "By it and with it and on it and in it," said the Rat. . . . "It's my world, and I don't want any other. What it hasn't got is not worth having, and what it doesn't know is not worth knowing." - KENNETH GRAHAME, The Wind in the Willows
Kevin Fedarko
#97. What counts is knowing who you want to be and asking for it.
Bruce Wilkinson
#98. It is better to be alone then to be in a relationship, while you are trying to figure out what love means to you.
Shannon L. Alder
#99. Because what's worse than knowing you want something, besides knowing you can never have it?
James Patterson
#100. Wouldn't you leave a light on? Knowing what I knew and not knowing anything else at all, why would I want the darkness where the monsters hide?
Because killers hide there too.
Rob Thurman
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