180 What You Want Quotes

Following is our list of what you want quotations and slogans full of insightful wisdom and perspective about go after what you want.

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Famous What You Want Quotes

You get whatever you expect to get. The only question is. What do you want? - Mark Victor Hansen

You get whatever you expect to get. The only question is. What do you want? — Mark Victor Hansen

The big thing is that you know what you want. — Earl Nightingale

Tell me what you want to buy and I will tell you what you are. — Mexican Proverbs

You can have anything you want, if you want it badly enough. — Abraham Lincoln

Everything that you want, you are already that. — Rumi

Whatever it is your heart desires, please go for it, it's yours to have. — Gloria Estefan

What do you want from me?" he asks. What I want from every person in my life, I want to tell him. More. — Melina Marchetta

Want what you have. Do what you can. Be who you are. — Forrest Church

Everything you want is out there waiting for you to ask. Everything you want also wants you. But you have to take action to get it. — Jack Canfield

Ask for what you want and be prepared to get it! — Maya Angelou

Decide what you want ... believe you can have it, believe you deserve it, believe it's possible for you. — Rhonda Byrne

You can do what you want to do. You can be what you want to be. — David Thomas

Tell everyone what you want to do and someone will want to help you do it. - W. Clement Stone

Tell everyone what you want to do and someone will want to help you do it. — W. Clement Stone

When you know what you want, and want it bad enough, you will find a way to get it. — Jim Rohn

You can have anything you want if you want it desperately enough. You must want it with an inner exuberance that erupts through the skin and joins the energy that created the world — Sheilah Graham Westbrook

Short What You Want Quotes

  • Don't let other people tell you what you want. — Pat Riley
  • Make sure you visualize what you really want, not what someone else wants for you. — Jerry Gillies
  • Pick your one overwhelming desire. — Naval Ravikant
  • If you want it, and the more you keep hearing you can’t have it, you just go and get it. — Cardi B
  • Get clear on what you want. Then find the people to support you to get it. — Lewis Howes
  • Nobody knows what you want except you, and no one will be as sorry as you if you don't get it. — Lillian Hellman
  • Be patient and you’ll get what you want. — Arabic Proverbs
  • You want some? Come get some! — John Cena
  • I hope you find what you're looking for. — Steve McQueen
  • You attract what you are, not what you want. So if you want it then reflect it! — Tony Gaskins

Top 10 What You Want Quotes

Get out of your own way… stop the paralysis by analysis… decide what you want, create a simple plan, and get moving! — Steve Maraboli

Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down. — Oprah Winfrey

For what it's worth, it's never too late to be whoever you want to be. I hope you live a life you're proud of and if you find that you're not, I hope you have the strength to start over. — F. Scott Fitzgerald

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

Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary. — Steve Jobs

Pay attention to the people God puts in your path if you want to discern what God is up to in your life. — Henri Nouwen

Just don't give up trying to do what you really want to do. Where there is love and inspiration, I don't think you can go wrong. — Ella Fitzgerald

Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get. - Dale Carnegie

Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get. — Dale Carnegie

If you don't go after what you want, you'll never have it. If you don't ask, the answer is always no. If you don't step forward, you're always in the same place. — Nora Roberts

Those who tell the Truth love you. Those who tell you what you want to hear love themselves. — Mother Angelica

What You Want Image Quotes

Worrying is praying for what you don't want. - J. R. R. Tolkien quote

Worrying is praying for what you don't want. — J. R. R. Tolkien

Be who you want to be and not care about what others think. - Andy Biersack quote

Be who you want to be and not care about what others think. — Andy Biersack

Do what you have to do, to do what you want to do. - Denzel Washington quote

Do what you have to do, to do what you want to do. — Denzel Washington

Don't let anyone ever make you feel you don't deserve what you want. - Heath Ledger quote

Don't let anyone ever make you feel you don't deserve what you want. — Heath Ledger

Just don't give up trying to do what you really want to do. - Ella Fitzgerald quote

Just don't give up trying to do what you really want to do. — Ella Fitzgerald

Learn how to be happy with what you have while you pursue all that you want. - Jim Rohn quote

Learn how to be happy with what you have while you pursue all that you want. — Jim Rohn

Say what you want about the deaf. - Jimmy Carr quote

Say what you want about the deaf. — Jimmy Carr

People aren't always what you want them to be - Libba Bray quote

People aren't always what you want them to be — Libba Bray

Be suspicious of what you want. - Rumi quote

Be suspicious of what you want. — Rumi

What you want quote For what it's worth: it's never too late to be whoever you want to be. I hope you live a life you're
For what it's worth: it's never too late to be whoever you want to be. I hope you live a life you're proud of, and, if you find that you're not, I hope you have the strength to start over.

Do What You Want Quotes

We need to have music that contributes to the well-being of the spirit. Music that cradles people's lives and makes things a little easier. That's what I try to do, and what I want to do. You don't want to close the door on hope. — Merle Haggard

Everything happens for a reason, and everything has a story, and if you take time to realise what your dream is and what you really want in life... whether it's sports, whether it's in other fields, you have to realise that there's always work to do. — Stephen Curry

I want to show everyone that if you pursue your dreams, they can come true no matter what. That's what I want to do. — Martin Garrix

Do you know what you are? You are a manuscript oƒ a divine letter. You are a mirror reflecting a noble face. This universe is not outside of you. Look inside yourself; everything that you want, you are already that. — Rumi

I say what I want to say and do what I want to do. There's no in between. People will either love you for it or hate you for it. — Eminem

They can crack jokes. They can sit back and analyze and criticize and make all the fun they want. But I'm living my life, I'm doing it. What are you doing? — Kai Greene

Do it because it's in your heart. Not because you want something in return. Employ your time in improving yourself by other men's writings, so that you shall gain easily what others have labored hard for. — Socrates

What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make. — Jane Goodall

Don't aim for success if you want it; just do what you love and believe in, and it will come naturally. — David Frost

I will bring you flowers from the mountains, bluebells, dark hazels, and rustic baskets of kisses. I want to do with you what spring does with the cherry trees. — Pablo Neruda

Go After What You Want Quotes

Don't be afraid to go after what you want to do, and what you want to be. But don't be afraid to be willing to pay the price. — Lane Frost

It’s in how you carry yourself. I’ve always been a very mature person, and I’ve always known what I wanted. And I go after it no matter what. — Sayings

Have the backbone to go after what you want in life. It's too easy to settle. — Robert Kiyosaki

I'm not worried about what's going to happen when I'm thirty, because I am never going to make it to thirty. You know what life is like after thirty - I don't want that. — Kurt Cobain

When you have a sense of your own identity and a vision of where you want to go in your life, you then have the basis for reaching out to the world and going after your dreams for a better life. — Stedman Graham

If believing in yourself and going after what you want in life and realising your worth is ruthless and selfish, then I'm definitely ruthless and selfish. — Nicole Scherzinger

The real problem is usually two or three questions deep. If you want to go after someone's problem, be aware that most people aren't going to reveal what the real problem is after the first question. — Jim Rohn

You tell yourself that you aren't something or that you can't be something, and you know what? It will become true. You have to decide who you are and what you can do and then go after what you want. Because believe me, no one is going to give it to you. — Elizabeth Scott

You want to know the truth about drugs? You can only go one or two ways. You can go up, or you can go down. That's it. After a certain point, though, no matter what you do, what you take, you don't go anywhere, and that's when you've got to sit down and face yourself. — RuPaul

You can determine what your future holds based on how much time and energy you spend working on yourself now. Find out what it is you want, and go after it as if your life depends on it. Why? Because it does. — Les Brown

Work For What You Want Quotes

Stop waiting for what you want, and start working what you've got. Your greatest limitation is God's greatest opportunity. — Steven Furtick

I was 18 years old, and it was a dream come true for me to work out and eat great food for free. What else do you want in life? People think that is what it is like to be in a SEAL team, but it is less than a fraction of your career as a real SEAL. — Jocko Willink

Decide what you want, decide what you are willing to exchange for it. Establish your priorities and go to work. — H. L. Hunt

I don't mind if after the job is done you put me in front of a Nuremberg Trial and then jail me for life. Hang me if you want, as a war criminal. What you don't understand is that the dirty work of Zionism is not finished yet, far from it. — Ariel Sharon

That's what you work all season for, to get into the playoff games, and you don't want to blow it. — Ray Nitschke

And if you're going to be a leader, you know what I ask myself? Would I want to work for you in this job? Would I let my children work for you? Would I give you this job if I wasn't there to provide oversight? If you went to run another company, would I, as an investor, invest in that company? — Jamie Dimon

The wave of the future is on the local level. Don't waste your heart and mind trying to pull down what is already destroying itself. But come into where you're almost below the radar and reorganize life. We want communities where we live and work and fight for the future. — Joanna Macy

Anybody can say they want to be the greatest ever. I take pride in it. If you're around me long enough and watch me work, that's what I'm striving for. I won't stop until I am. — Deshaun Watson

I don't believe in dieting, I don't believe in having certain moments in your life where you're healthy and then moments when you're like, "I'm going to eat whatever I want." It's just finding what works for your body and always eating healthy. — Misty Copeland

And Barack and I were raised with so many of the same values, like you work hard for what you want in life. That your word is your bond; that you do what you say you're going to do. That you treat people with dignity and respect, even if you don't know them and even if you don't agree with them. — Michelle Obama

Fight For What You Want Quotes

Being Slow means that you control the rhythms of your own life. You decide how fast you have to go in any context. If today I want to go fast, I go fast. If tomorrow I want to go slow, I go slow. What we are fighting for is the right to determine our own tempos. — Carlo Petrini

Kinda pointless to fight for what you want when what you want continues to break your heart — Molly McAdams

Pause and remember - When you fight reality, you will lose every time. Once you accept the situation for what it truly is, not what you want it to be, you are then free to move forward. — Jennifer Young

Someone is always going to try to knock you down and take your place. It is up to you to fight for what you want. — Teresa Mummert

Our sainted aunts prate of living for others while our rich uncles call us mollycoddles for not fighting for what we want. Murder is a patriotic act if you commit it in a uniform; it is the blackest sin if you kill someone while wearing a gray flannel suit. — Nicholas Samstag

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

Oh my God, you're serious. Honey, I am a six time Women's Champion, if you get into the ring with me it will not be for a Lingerie Pillow Fight, it will not be to shoot t-shirts. If you get into the ring with me I will end your career just like that. Are you sure that's what you want? — Trish Stratus

I want some help on this. I'm being very honest, i want some ideas, as somebody who was arrested 50 years ago fighting for Civil Rights trying to desegregate schools in Chicago, who spent his whole life fighting against racism, I want your ideas. What do you think we can do? What can we do? — Bernie Sanders

Life is a fight for territory and once you stop fighting for what you want, what you don't want will automatically take over. — Les Brown

People are even more wary of politicians and they are realizing that democracy isn't just about putting a cross on a ballot every four years, it's about deciding what you want and fighting for it. — Mark Thomas

You Make Time For What You Want Quotes

Their gunnin' for me, want to see me fall, you know my story, been through it all, times I felt like dyin', but I ain't cryin', what didn't kill me, makes me strong as iron. — Jay-Z

The only way to find true happiness is to risk being completely cut open. Sure, everybody wants to play God, but for me it's a full-time job. What you don't understand, you can make mean anything. — Jeffree Star

I think it always makes for great television when two characters actually take time to realize that they want to be with each other. You have to leave it to the writers to know what makes great television. — Candice Patton

...every time you make a decision to be less than what God wants for you, you're denying yourself some of God's blessings. It's up to you. You can live a life with God's blessings, or just exist with all the consequences of choosing wrong. — Terri Blackstock

Every time I make another record and every time I get a year older, I become more and more confident in who I am and more in tune with what I want as a person. I think it's the same for anyone in any walk of life. You just grow with experience and become more confident in exploring new things. — Charli XCX

That's what I strive for every time I'm in the studio, to make sure that y'all love it and that I'm not giving y'all something I'm expecting you to buy. I want y'all to want to buy it and want to hear it again. If you like it, go get it, if you don't, throw it out. — Willie Taylor

An important part of any focusing regimen is to set aside time at the end of the day - just before going to sleep - to acknowledge your successes, review your goals, focus on your successful future, and make specific plans for what you want to accomplish the next day. — Jack Canfield

I don't make my music for just me or a few people. Hopefully everybody that makes music wants to be embraced by the people they tryna make it for, you know what I'm saying. It's just a matter of time before everybody gets the message that I'm tryna send out. — Bun B

[The greatest barriers to forming alliances] are not figuring out what would make others want to join with you. Assuming that what excites you excites others. Spend more time assuming people have good reasons for what they do or say and then figure out those good reasons. — John Daly

Writing is hard work, not magic. It begins with deciding why you are writing and whom you are writing for. What is your intent? What do you want the reader to get out of it? What do you want to get out of it. It's also about making a serious time commitment and getting the project done. — Suze Orman

Go For What You Want Quotes

You're going to come across a lot of shitty band, and a lot of shitty people. And if anyone of those people call you names beacause of what you look like or they don't accept you for who you are, I want you to look right at that motherf*****, stick up your middle finger, and scream F*** YOU! — Gerard Way

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. — Virginia Satir

Let's go to Brunch. What a great idea! Why would you want to sleep in on a Sunday when you can go pay $18 for eggs? Now, you're thinking. — Bill Burr

Have confidence in who you are and don’t be afraid to go for what you really want in life. — Holland Roden

Being the best means engineering your life so you never stop until you get what you want, and then you keep going until you get what’s next. And then you go for even more. — Tim Grover

Don't listen to what anybody says except the people who encourage you. If it's what you want to do and it's within yourself, then keep going and try to do it for the rest of your life. — Jake Gyllenhaal

Cats seem to go on the principle that it never does any harm to ask for what you want. — Joseph Wood Krutch

The breezes at dawn have secrets to tell you Don't go back to sleep! You must ask for what you really want. Don't go back to sleep! People are going back and forth across the doorsill where the two worlds touch, The door is round and open Don't go back to sleep! — Rumi

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. — H. L. Hunt

Be who you want to be and not care about what others think." -Andy Sixx Rock n roll isn't meant to be taken so seriously, I think sometimes people forget it's meant to be fun. A rock show is meant to be a time for people to have fun and let go of the drudgeries of life. — Andy Biersack

Know What You Want Quotes

I heard what you said. I’m not the silly romantic you think. I don’t want the heavens or the shooting stars. I don’t want gemstones or gold. I have those things already. I want…a steady hand. A kind soul. I want to fall asleep, and wake, knowing my heart is safe. I want to love, and be loved. — Shana Abe

The most important thing is to have a good relationship with the bike... you have to understand what she wants. I think of a motorcycle as a woman, and I know that sounds silly, but it's true. — Valentino Rossi

If you want to know what a man's like, take a good look at how he treats his inferiors, not his equals. — J. K. Rowling

Sky is the limit and you know that you keep on, Just keep on pressin on. Sky is the limit and you know that you can have what you want, be what you want. — The Notorious B.I.G.

Jesus, in His earth walk, was the will of God in action. If you want to know what God thinks about sickness - look at Jesus! He went about healing the sick! — Kenneth E. Hagin

If you ask me how I want to be remembered, it is as a winner. You know what a winner is? A winner is somebody who has given his best effort, who has tried the hardest they possibly can, who has utilized every ounce of energy and strength within them to accomplish something. — Walter Payton

I know where I'm going and I know the truth, and I don't have to be what you want me to be. I'm free to be what I want. — Muhammad Ali

This past Christmas, I told my girlfriend for months in advance that all I wanted was an Xbox. That's it. Beginning and end of list, Xbox. You know what she got me? A homemade frame with a picture of us from our first date together. Which was fine. Because I got her an Xbox. — Anthony Jeselnik

If you want to be successful, it's just this simple. Know what you are doing. Love what you are doing. And believe in what you are doing. — Will Rogers

My dear heart, never think you are better than others. Listen to their sorrows with compassion. If you want peace, don't harbor bad thoughts, do not gossip and don't teach what you do not know. — Rumi

Believe What You Want Quotes

It is not what you want that you attract, you attract what you believe to be true. — Neville Goddard

People tell me, "You're such an optimist". Am I an optimist? An optimist says the glass is half full. A pessimist says the glass is half empty. A survivalist is practical. He says, "Call it what you want, but just fill the glass." I believe in filling the glass. — Louis Zamperini

They will always tell you that you can't do what you want to do, but you can do what you want to do. You just have to believe in yourself. The system is to bring you down, but you can rise up. — Bob Marley

If you believe in yourself enough and know what you want, you're gonna make it happen. — Mariah Carey

Truth is relative. Truth is what you can make the voter believe is the truth. If you're smart enough, truth is what you make the voter think it is. That's why I'm a Democrat. I can make the Democratic voters think whatever I want them to. — James Carville

The first step to becoming what God made you to be is to stop worrying about what others want you to be. — Rick Warren

Why should people in a free country be afraid of saying what they believe? Think about that, and you will know the direction that the 'progressives' want to take us. — Gad Saad

Be sure what you want and be sure about yourself. Fashion is not just beauty, it's about good attitude. You have to believe in yourself and be strong. — Adriana Lima

everyone tells you what's good for you. they don't want you to find your own answers. they want you to believe theirs. — Dan Millman

If you have a goal, if you want to be successful, if you really want to do it and become another Estée Lauder, you’ve got to work hard, you’ve got to stick to it and you’ve got to believe in what you’re doing. — Estee Lauder

Not Getting What You Want Quotes

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. — Marcus Luttrell

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

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

You will get rich by giving society what it wants but does not yet know how to get. At scale. — Naval Ravikant

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

When I want to be lectured on strategy, I'll consult someone who's actually won battles," Amelie said. "Not one who ran away from them." "Snap," Eve said. "You know what they're talking about?" Shane asked. "Don't need to know to get that one. She smacked him so hard his momma felt it. — Rachel Caine

Some luck lies in not getting what you thought you wanted but getting what you have, which once you have got it you may be smart enough to see is what you would have wanted had you known. — Garrison Keillor

Sometimes, not getting what you want can be the most valuable experience of your entire life. — Tony Robbins

The secret to happiness, of course, is not getting what you want; it's wanting what you get. — Alex Trebek

Well if you can’t get what you love, You learn to love the things you’ve got .. If you can’t be what you want, You learn to be the things you’re not .. If you can’t get what you need, You learn to need the things that stop you dreaming — Passenger

When You Get What You Want Quotes

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. — Joseph Murphy

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

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

Learn to go first. Introduce yourself. Ask them out. Host the event. Voice an idea. Tell people what you want. You’ll face more rejections when things go wrong, but you’ll get all of the credit when things go right. The world rewards those who go first because so few people do. — Mark Manson

I like to say, ‘Experience is what you got when you didn’t get what you wanted.’ — Howard S. Marks

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. — Abraham Lincoln

When you're experimenting you have to try so many things before you choose what you want, and you may go days getting nothing but exhaustion. — Fred Astaire

There've been many a season where I couldn't get work, and I think that you learn character development and you learn how to really want what you do in life when you can't really do it. — Anthony Michael Hall

It is scary for an actor when you get hired as a lead. No matter what the plot is, it is your job to do something interesting enough to make them want to get inside the lead character's head. — Tom Selleck

But grace can be the experience of a second wind, when even though what you want is clarity and resolution, what you get is stamina and poignancy and the strength to hang on. — Anne Lamott

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More What You Want Quotes

Truth is not what you want it to be; it is what it is, and you must bend to its power or live a lie. — Miyamoto Musashi

Never regret anything because at one time it was exactly what you wanted. — Marilyn Monroe

What is it you want to change? Your hair, your face, your body? Why? For God is in love with all those things and he might weep when they are gone. — St. Catherine of Siena

The easiest thing to be in the world is you. The most difficult thing to be is what other people want you to be. Don't let them put you in that position. — Leo Buscaglia

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

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. — Yasmin Mogahed

Sportsmanship... what a load of crap, don't preach your morality to me. Steve Austin doesn't have any mercy... you want mercy? Take your *ss to church! — Stone Cold Steve Austin

The only way to keep your health is to eat what you don't want, drink what you don't like, and do what you'd rather not. — Mark Twain

Everyone wants to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down. — Oprah Winfrey

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