Getting What You Want Quotes

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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