Getting What You Want Quotes

Remember that not getting what you want is sometimes a wonderful stroke of luck.

Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get.

If you have a lot of what people want and can't get, then you can supply the demand and shovel in the dough.

You can search the world over, but you won’t find happiness until you realize that happiness isn’t getting what you want. It’s being content with what you already have.

Success is getting and achieving what you want. Happiness is wanting and being content with what you get.

The issue for my character, and the issue of the show is, how dirty do your feet have to get without suffocating yourself in the mud in order to get an inch of what you really want done?

If you really want peace of mind and inner calm, you will get it.

Regardless of how unjustly you have been treated, or how unfair the boss has been, or what a mean scoundrel someone has proved to be, all this makes no difference to you when you awaken to your mental and spiritual powers.

With a defeat, when you lose, you get up, you make it better, you try again.

That's what I do in life, when I get down, when I get sick, I don't want to just stop. I keep going and I try to do more. Everyone always says never give up but you really have to take that to heart and really do never definitely give up. Keep trying.

The greatest test of faith is when you don't get what you want, but still you are able to say Thank You Lord.

I want you to get excited about who you are, what you are, what you have, and what can still be for you. I want to inspire you to see that you can go far beyond where you are right now.

I've said consistently that no employer ever really accepts a union.

They tolerate the unions. The very minute they can get a pool of unemployment they'll challenge the unions and try to get back what they call managements prerogatives, meaning hire, fire, pay what you want.

With 300 Marines, you could probably take over Iraq if you wanted to and get rid of ISIS completely. Make no mistake about it, Marines are war fighters. I mean they are really good at what they do. The only time they are not good at what they do is when someone puts the shackles on them.

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.

There's several ways of saying what's on your mind.

And in states and counties where it ain't too healthy to talk too loud, speak your mind, or even vote like you want to, folks have found other ways of getting the word around. One of the mainest ways is by singing.

Don't think about what can happen in a month.

Don't think about what can happen in a year. Just focus on the 24 hours in front of you and do what you can to get closer to where you want to be!

Ric Flair, you once called me a woman.

Well, what I want to know is, how does it feel to get beat by a woman?

The indispensable first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: decide what you want.

If you help enough people get what they want, you will get everything that you want. Zig Ziglar and the Importance of Helping Others

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.

If you are complaining about things in your life, you are on the complaining frequency, and you are not in a position to attract what you want. Get on to the frequency of good with your thoughts and words. Firstly you will feel good, and secondly you will be on the frequency of receiving more good.

You get whatever you expect to get. The only question is. What do you want?

Fear has only two causes: the thought of losing what you have or the thought of not getting what you want.

We never get upset over what happens.

Never. We get upset because of preconceived ideas as to what we think should happen, what we want to happen. When our preference clashes with the reality, we get hurt. Rid yourself of all preconceived ideas as to what should happen. You are then at peace whatever happens.

You can't always get what you want, but if you try sometimes, you might find, you get what you need.

It is a good idea to be ambitious, to have goals, to want to be good at what you do, but it is a terrible mistake to let drive and ambition get in the way of treating people with kindness and decency. The point is not that they will then be nice to you. It is that you will feel better about yourself.

One-half of knowing what you want is knowing what you must give up before you get it.

Directing ain't about drawing a neat little picture and showing it to the cameraman. I didn't want to go to film school. I didn't know what the point was. The fact is, you don't know what directing is until the sun is setting and you've got to get five shots and you're only going to get two.

I was getting tired of hearing the complaint, "My kid could do this," and "We don't get it. What's modern art? Blah, blah, blah." And I wondered what would really happen if you gave people what they wanted, something they always look at.

There are only three requirements for success.

First, decide exactly what it is you want in life. Second, determine the price that you are going to have to pay to get the things you want. And third, and this is most important, resolve to pay that price.

After you get what you want you don't want it.

If you think that by threatening me you can get me to do what you want.

.. well, that's where you're right. But - and I am only saying this because I care - there's a lot of decaffeinated brands on the market that are just as tasty as the real thing.

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 achieve the second.

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.

When I get ready to talk to people, I spend two thirds of the time thinking what they want to hear and one third thinking about what I want to say.