Top 100 Quotes About Where You Want To Be

#1. Getting where you want to be has everything to do with awareness, and nothing to do with willpower.

Cheri Huber

#2. Whatever the price, identify it now. What will you have to go through to get where you want to be? There is a price you can pay to be free of the situation once and for all. It may be a fantastic price or a tiny one - but there is a price.

Harry Browne

#3. Look forward to where you want to be and spend no time complaining about where you are.

Esther Hicks

#4. Beware of the gap. The gap between where you are and where you want to be. Simply thinking of the gap widens it. And you end up falling through.

Matt Haig

#5. Become the leader of your life. Lead yourself to where you want to be. Breathe life back into your ambitions, your desires, your goals, your relationships.

Steve Maraboli

#6. In my life I have been blessed In my life I have been cursed I have lived the best of times I have suffered the worst Do you know which road you're traveling? Do you know where you want to be? With so many roads to travel, There's just one can set you free.

Ben Harper

#7. Sometimes you have to do what you don't like to get to where you want to be.

Tori Amos

#8. If you're not where you want to be, it's because you're not who you need to be right now.

Eric Thomas

#9. Geographically speaking, you can't get to where you want to be unless you know where you are the begin with. You need a reference point. Similarly, you can't get to where you want to be in life until you are willing to admit where you are to begin with. Self-deception makes that next to impossible.

Andy Stanley

#10. Begin, then, where you are, not where you want to be. Begin stuck in the doldrums of your false story - if that is where you are. Begin there because, in truth, there is no other place to start from. Tell

Florence Falk

#11. If you want to be a rock star or just be famous, then run down the street naked, you'll make the news or something. But if you want music to be your livelihood, then play, play, play and play! And eventually you'll get to where you want to be.

Eddie Van Halen

#12. Know where you have been, where you are now and where you want to be

Jim Valvano

#13. Forget about where you want to be and go out and build stuff. Dodgeball came from being bored at work ... things happen because you make them happen. Stop sketching, and start building.

Dennis Crowley

#14. Let the business take care of itself. If you get involved in the business, every hour that you're involved in business is an hour that you're not practicing. And every hour that you're not practicing is another hour further away from where you want to be.

T Bone Burnett

#15. It may take little time to get where you want to be, but if you pause and think for a moment, you will notice that you are no longer where you were. Do not stop - keep going.

Rodolfo Costa

#16. Train at your current fitness level, or slightly above - not where you want to be.

Scott Jurek

#17. Now, having seen the differences between where you are and where you want to be, begin to change-consciously change-your thoughts, words, and actions to match your grandest vision.

Neale Donald Walsch

#18. But instead of letting yourself go to where you want to be, you beat the drum of what-is, and so you hold yourself apart from your expansion - and you feel terrible while you do it.

Esther Hicks

#19. I always feel I am in the dark. You are never finished ... it is not as if you can look back and think: ah ... I know what I am talking about. You are only as good as your last job and are always struggling and striving and you never quite get to where you want to be ...

Ben Whishaw

#20. You don't have to go where you don't want to be to get where you want to be. You can go from where you are to where you want to be.

Esther Hicks

#21. But what if you don't like Chico?" she asked him, her brow furrowed.
"Will you be there? Because if that's where you want to be, I'll find plenty to like.

Robyn Carr

#22. As a writer, you can't get to where you want to be, coming from the place you started, unless you have something extremely important you want to say to someone who really doesn't want to know.

Billy Marshall Stoneking

#23. You will have fewer regrets in life if you start focusing and taking responsiblity for where you are and where you want to be.

Deborah Day

#24. 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

#25. Many journeys, often ones you didn't plan to make, take you to an unexpected destination that turns out to be exactly where you want to be.

C. Lee McKenzie

#26. The worst kind of loneliness is when you're unable to be where you want to be, where you wouldn't have to be alone.

Jeff Backhaus

#27. Sometimes you just gotta see yourself where you want to be. And then go there.

Cherie Noel

#28. You have to know what you want. And if it seems to take you off the track, don't hold back, because perhaps that is instinctively where you want to be. And if you hold back and try to be always where you have been before, you will go dry.

Gertrude Stein

#29. You're never where you want to be. There's always waiting. There's always some new project that's coming down the road - some new thing you're working on, some creative direction you're wanting to explore.

Laura Allen

#30. If you make sure that you always work as hard as you can, on and off the ice, you will achieve your goals. It might not be instantly, it might not be next week, but you will get to where you want to be.

Phil Hill

#31. Pace doesn't mean speed; it means the right speed. Diagnosis and cure are simple. If you've reached where you want to be in your story too quickly, ask yourself what you've left out. If you've come to a certain point too slowly, ask yourself what kept you so long.

Reginald Hill

#32. I attribute all my success to ignorance. If you don't ever think about not getting where you want to be, I think it helps you out.

Billy Bob Thornton

#33. You can get to where you want to be from wherever you are - but you must stop spending so much time noticing and talking about what you do not like about where you are.

Esther Hicks

#34. Love's lengthways splits the heart in two - the heart where you are, the heart where you want to be.

Jeanette Winterson

#35. If you don't have a goal and don't know where you want to be and when you want be there. You are just drifting around. (You'll never get anywhere)

Ahmed Ali Anjum

#36. If you feel like you're not where you want to be in your life, rather than step on someone else's, raise your stature.

Rib Hillis

#37. Never ever STOP progressing forward ... towards where you want to be in life.

Timothy Pina

#38. You can play a particular sport as long as you take good care of your body and you're confident enough and still have that hunger to where you want to be a part of an organization, a group of individuals where you feel you can contribute to the success of that team.

Alonzo Mourning

#39. Don't get depressed about not being where you want to be. This nagging feeling of anxiety is actually called ambition. Ambition is your friend.

Atom Egoyan

#40. Don't block your blessings. Don't let doubt stop you from getting where you want to be.

Jennifer Hudson

#41. Be thankful for the people who have stood by you and cheered you on, but don't forget to be thankful for the ones that said it could not be done. Writing a book is no small task and even the skeptics can help you get where you want to be!

C.K. Webb

#42. You may not be where you want to be, but you can look back and be thankful you're not where you used to be.

Joel Osteen

#43. Weddings are really good for making you feel terrible about yourself if you're not where you want to be in life.

Wendi McLendon-Covey

#44. If it isn't contributing to getting you where you want to be a year from today, then don't put it on this short list (of goals to focus on).

Mani S. Sivasubramanian

#45. Part of what being a great founder is, is being both able to hold the belief, to think about what it is you want to be doing and where ... you want to be going, but also be smart enough that you're essentially listening to criticism, negative feedback, competitive entries.

Reid Hoffman

#46. You can only get to where you want to be, through where you are now.

Catherine Louise Birmingham

#47. Every hour you are not going after your passion, making your dreams a reality or defining your purpose is an hour you can't get back. Is what you're doing right now, this day, this moment getting you closer to where you want to be? If not, readjust your focus. It's your future. Go get it!

Elizabeth Bourgeret

#48. I think in between where you are and where you want to be is a sea of reasons why you can't get there.

Garth Brooks

#49. Only one person can chose where you want to be and that is you.

Debasish Mridha

#50. The business should always be outrunning the processes, so chaos is right where you want to be.

Eric Schmidt

#51. To get to where you want to be in the next 5 years, you are either reading the right books or you're not

Jim Rohn

#52. When you grow up poor, you have to either work really hard to try and get where you want to be, or you'll just stay put.

Dat Phan

#53. And that is where you want to be. Because in His arms, you'll know the beauty of His peace - "the peace of God, which surpasses all comprehension" and which guards our hearts and minds in Christ Jesus (Phil. 4:7).

Priscilla Shirer

#54. The amount of time it takes you to get from where you are to where you want to be, is only the amount of time it takes you to change the vibration within you. Instant manifestation could be yours if you could instantly change the vibration.

Esther Hicks

#55. It takes a lot more than just knowing how to put an outfit together to succeed in the fashion industry, so more power to you if this is where you want to be; just don't expect it to be an extended trip to the mall.

Sophia Amoruso

#56. One of the cardinal rules of joyful living is that judging others takes a great deal of energy and, without exception, pulls you away from where you want to be.

Richard Carlson

#57. In regards to life goals, you need to think about where you are now, and plot out where you want to be a year from now, two years from now, and then five years from now.

Auliq Ice

#58. 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

#59. "Where should I apply Perfume?" a young lady asked. "Where you want to be kissed."

Coco Chanel

#60. Breathing deeply and releasing fear will help you get to where you want to be.

Iyanla Vanzant

#61. Some of y'all are not where you want to be in life, yet you party every weekend. What is it that you're celebrating?

T.I.

#62. We spend too much time keeping up with celebrities. They're living their dreams, what about you? Are you where you want to be in life. Get off the couch, turn off the tv and start achieving your goals.

Bianca Frazier

#63. Focus first on where you want to be, and why, and then on the right path to get there.

Mark Halperin

#64. Remember how far you've come, not just how far you have to go. You are not where you want to be, but neither are you where you used to be.

Rick Warren

#65. If you confidently start to move from where you are to where you want to be, it's only a matter of time before the people around you will accept what you are doing. Or, at the very least, they will realize you will not be deterred, and they'll stop trying to hold you back.

Heidi Tankersley

#66. It is where you want to be in the next five years, not where you are now.

Shannon L. Alder

#67. Progress isn't about how fast or how far you are moving, it's about the direction your heart and body is pointed. Keep those aimed at your truest north and you'll get to where you want to be.

Toni Sorenson

#68. The emotion you feel is always about the vibrational variance between where you want to be and where you are. If you're out of balance, there are only two ways to bring yourself into alignment: Either raise your expectation to match your desire -or lower your desire to match your expectation.

Abraham Hicks

#69. What lies between where you are and where you want to be sometimes requires traveling through the Twilight Zone.

Shannon L. Alder

#70. There is no magical reason why I am where I am. And there is absolutely no reason why you can't be where you want to be. If it can happen for me, it can happen for you, too. And it would be a privilege for me to help you get there.

Robin Roberts

#71. Reading is the Magic key,
To take you where you want to be.

Alice Joyce Davidson

#72. Perseverance, not jealousy, will get you where you want to be.

Stevie Turner

#73. I think it's very important to know what you want to do next versus just leave it up to chance, really position yourself in the right footings to get to where you want to be.

Kellan Lutz

#74. I have a simple algorithm, which is, wherever you see paid researchers instead of grad students, that's not where you want to be doing research.

Larry Page

#75. Life is like a theatre, but the question is not whether you are in the audience or on the stage but rather, are you where you want to be?

A.B. Potts

#76. If you don't go talk to your boss, if you don't go talk to your mentors, if you don't go talk to people who can influence where you want to be, then they don't know. And they're not mind readers.

Brian Krzanich

#77. You are wherever your thoughts are, make sure your thoughts are where you want to be.

Nachman Of Breslov

#78. On a spiritual level, on a place where you want to be a better human being and listen more, I try. I joke, but it has. I mean, I don't consider myself a card-carrying Buddhist, you know. But I do believe deeply in the ideas, and I think anytime you have interest in anything, it somehow humbles you.

Jake Gyllenhaal

#79. * If your reality doesn't match where you want to be, you need to change your beliefs and get out of your comfort zone.

Abbie Widin

#80. If you are not where you want to be DO NOT QUIT, instead reinvent yourself and change your habits.

Eric Thomas

#81. You have made some mistakes and you may not be where you want to be, but that has nothing to do with your future.

Zig Ziglar

#82. My advice is find fuel in failure. Sometimes failure gets you closer to where you want to be.

Michael Jordan

#83. Walk through your sorrow, my daughter, it hardly matters as long as you walk to where you want to be.

Paula McLain

#84. Start with a picture of your goal as already achieved in the future, and work back to the present. Imagine the steps that you would have taken to get from where you are now to where you want to be.

Brian Tracy

#85. Success is about dedication. You may not be where you want to be or do what you want to do when you're on the journey. But you've got to be willing to have vision and foresight that leads you to an incredible end.

Usher

#86. They were playing old Bob Dylan, more than perfect for narrow Village streets close to Christmas and the snow whirling down in big feathery flakes, the kind of winter where you want to be walking down a city street with your arm around a girl like on the old record cover

Donna Tartt

#87. To get the Nickelodeon award? That's like 'it.' It's one of the best. It's definitely where you want to be in your career.

Nelly

#88. If you don't know where you want to be in five years, how do you ever expect to get there?

Jay Samit

#89. Once you start thinking more about where you want to be than about making the best product, you're screwed.

Linus Torvalds

#90. If you are ending up where you want to be, what difference does it make whether you went fast or slow? Or what difference does it make whether it was painful before it got really good? Isn't that the point of free will? You get to choose.

Esther Hicks

#91. It's stupid. There are maps to show you how to get to the place where you want to be but no maps that show you how to get to the time when you want to be.

Anthony Marra

#92. It's a very weird thing to know where you want to be in life and all of a sudden to actually have taken some real steps is a very strange feeling. I've really done something that I'm proud of.

Sophia Bush

#93. Recognizing that you are not where you want to be is a starting point to begin changing your life.

Deborah Day

#94. To dream of success is to set a goal of where you want to be; to wake up, take action, and achieve it is what true success is all about.

Idowu Koyenikan

#95. They kind of want to write, but they really want to be published. You'll never get to where you want to be that way, I tell them.

Anne Lamott

#96. If you want to wallow in self pity, then do so. Just admit that you are where you want to be. Don't be blaming everyone else for you being there because you are tough enough to crawl out of it.

Carolyn Brown

#97. Reading is the magic key that takes you where you want to be.

Alice Joyce Davidson

#98. Train where your fitness is NOW, not where you want to be.

Scott Jurek

#99. You have to change things in order to get to where you want to go. And things might get worse. But if you're not getting where you want to be, already, in a sense, it's as bad as it can get.

Alberto Salazar

#100. Imagine, as realistically as possible, the place where you want to be in the near future, the state you wish to reach and the Universe will help you and guide you

Napoleon Hill

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