Getting What You Want Quotes

The only thing worse than not getting what you want, is getting it.

The happiness at getting what you want is not usually commensurate with the worry leading up to it.

Satisfaction isn't so much getting what you want as wanting what you have.

Getting what you want is just as difficult as not getting what you want. Because then you have to figure out what to do with it instead of figuring out what to do without it.

Always remember that true happiness is not in getting what you want, but wanting what you already have. He who dies with the most toys is still dead. What is wanted is not the will to believe, but the will to find out, which is the exact opposite.

Morality is how you go about getting what you want without screwing anybody to get it.

Instruction for life: Take into account that great love and great achievements involve great risk. When you lose, don't lose the lesson. Follow the three R's: - Respect for self. - Respect for others. - Responsibility for all your actions. Remember that not getting what you want is sometimes a wonderful stroke of luck. Learn the rules so you know how to break them properly.

Joy is not the result of getting what you want; it is the way to get what you want. In the deepest sense, joy is what you want.

Getting what you want is not nearly as important as giving what you have.

And by letting go of trying to control the uncontrollable...you ironically increase...the probability of getting what you want.

The price of getting what you want, is getting what once you wanted.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

It was so much easier when I didn't want anything. Not getting what you want can make you cruel.

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

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

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.

Getting what you want doesn't make you happy, growth makes you happy, raising your level of consciousness. The problem with most people, they don't know what they want because they start at a very early age being programmed to think that they can't have what they want.

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?

I believe that the voices of fear, both from without and within, can only be dispelled by trusting the voice that comes from the heart. Be still and listen to it. If it speaks of love and compassion for others, for the world itself, it just might be the voice of God - or a reasonable facsimile. If, however, it snarls with fear of the unknown, fear of losing what you have or of not getting what you want, then it just might be the voice of Rupert Murdoch - or a reasonable facsimile.

There is a direct correlation between am increased sphere of comfort and getting what you want.

Getting what you want will not change your life at the Being Level, so don't let what you have determine 'who you are', otherwise you will always feel dissatisfied.

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

With non-professionals, there's a lot of time you have to allocate to getting what you want with them, but also you cast based on who they are, to bring out their real personalities. So it's less about working on character and more about just getting them comfortable in front of the camera to be themselves, and understanding the process.

Buddhism itself is all about empowering yourself, not about getting what you want.

In this age of getting what you want and getting it now, the simple pleasure of browsing is often forgotten.

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.

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.

I've learned that getting what you want gives you a pretty high batting average, and leaves you plenty to struggle for.

The great secret of getting what you want from life is to know whay you want and believe you can have it. Always do something for others, then ask God to help you get at it.

'Fantasy' is one of the fewer tracks where it's more literal than most of our things, but at the same time it's totally open-ended. Clearly it's a song about things not really appearing as you want them to, or things either getting what you want and not being satisfied with it because it wasn't how you hoped it would be, or thinking you want something and not getting it and the realisation of that.

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

What I want to argue for is not that we should give up on our ideas of success, but that we should make sure that they are our own. We should focus in on our ideas and make sure that we own them, that we're truly the authors of our own ambitions. Because it's bad enough not getting what you want, but it's even worse to have an idea of what it is you want and find out at the end of the journey that it isn't, in fact, what you wanted all along.

Great negotiators never lose sight of what they are aiming at, which is not an agreement per se, but a desired outcome....Getting to yes is easy, all you have to do is roll over. It's getting what you want that's hard.

Violence within the context of policing has a sense of control and power to it, whether it is dominance, getting what you want, or acting out of emotion. At the same time, it is not ultimately satisfying and [you are] trapped in the cycle.

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.

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