Getting What You Want Quotes

Getting What You Want Quote of the day

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Being the boss of your own career, you get used to having veto power and getting what you want, or as close to what you want as you have mapped out.

...there are two ways of being unhappy: One is not getting what you want, and the other is getting what you want.

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

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

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

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.

Sometimes the only thing to do is to take the thing that you must have. Even if someone gets hurt.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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