Getting What You Want Quotes

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

  Dale Carnegie

  Love, Inspirational, Funny

  Dale Carnegie (2017). “How to enjoy your life and your job”, p.102, Diamond Pocket Books Pvt Ltd

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• If you're not actively involved in getting what you want, you don't really want it.

  Peter McWilliams

  Involved, Ifs, Want

  Peter McWilliams (1997). “Life 101: Everything We Wish We Had Learned about Life in School--but Didn't”, Mary Book / Prelude Press

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• The first step to getting what you want is to have the courage to get rid of what you don't.

  Zig Ziglar

  Self, Firsts, Steps

  FaceBook post by Zig Ziglar from May 29, 2014

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

  Dalai Lama

  Inspirational, Life, Spiritual

  "5 Ways to Deal With Rejection" by Karen Naumann, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 6, 2016.

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• Happiness isn't about getting what you want all the time; it's about loving what you have.

  Asher Roth

  Want, What You Want

  Song: G.R.I.N.D

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• For changes to be of any true value, they've got to be lasting and consistent. Any time you sincerely want to make a change, the first thing you must do is to raise your standards... If you don't set a baseline standard for what you'll accept in life, you'll find it's easy to slip into behaviors and attitudes or a quality of life that's far below what you deserve... Whatever happens, take responsibility... The only thing that's keeping you from getting what you want is the story you keep telling yourself.

  Tony Robbins

  Inspirational, Attitude, Responsibility

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

  Tony Robbins

  Sometimes, Valuable, Want

  FaceBook post by Tony Robbins from Jan 21, 2015

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• 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

  Finding Happiness, World, Realizing

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• The first step in getting what you want from life-decide what you want.

  Ben Stein

  Firsts, Steps, Want

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• 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

  Moving On, Dream, Moving Forward

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• Manners are a way of getting what you want without appearing to be an absolute swine.

  Quentin Crisp

  Humor, Way, Manners

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• How is it wrong to put everything you have into getting what you want most in the world?

  Rachel Vincent

  World, Want, What You Want

  Rachel Vincent (2013). “Soul Screamers Volume Three: If I Die\Never to Sleep\Before I Wake”, p.241, Harlequin

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• 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

  Love Is, Making Love, Matter

  Thomas Merton (1979). “Love and Living”, p.40, Macmillan

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• If you’re frustrated because you’re not getting what you want, stop for a second: Have you actually flat-out asked for it? If you haven’t, stop complaining. You can’t expect the world to read your mind. You have to put it out there, and sometimes putting it out there is as simple as just saying, “Hey, can I have that?

  Sophia Amoruso

  Simple, Mind, Frustrated

  Sophia Amoruso (2014). “#Girlboss”, p.110, Penguin UK

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• 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

  Want, What You Want, Findings

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• It's not about getting what you want. It's about experiencing what you really need by becoming more.

  Tony Robbins

  Inner Strength, Needs, Becoming

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• Life always kills you in the end, but first it prevents you from getting what you want.

  Douglas Coupland

  Firsts, Ends, Want

  Douglas Coupland (2011). “The Gum Thief: A Novel”, p.56, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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• The first secret of getting what you want is knowing what you want.

  Arthur D. Hlavaty

  Knowing, Secret, Firsts

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• Nothing makes you realize you don't know what you want more than getting what you want.

  Jane Wagner

  Realizing, Knows, Want

  Jane Wagner (1995). “My Life, So Far: By Edith Ann”, Hyperion

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• 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

  Life, Motivational, Mean

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• I tell you this as a cautionary tale: beware of getting what you want. It's bound to disappoint you.

  Jodi Picoult

  Cautionary Tales, Disappoint, Bounds

  Jodi Picoult (2014). “Sing You Home: A Novel”, p.173, Simon and Schuster

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

  Alex Trebek

  Secret, Courses, Want

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• It's not getting what you want that's the hard part, it's deciding what you want.

  Alexandra Potter

  Deciding What You Want, Hard, Want

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• Happiness is in the doing not in getting what you want.

  Ethan Hawke

  Happiness, Want, What You Want

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• The secret of happiness is simply this... your happiness does NOT depend on getting what you want.

  Michael Neill

  Happiness, Secret, Doe

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