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Getting What You Want Quotes

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

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

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

Happiness isn't getting what you want, it's wanting what you got.
- Garth Brooks

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.
- H Jackson Brown Jr

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

I've always thought there are two ways of getting what you wanted in life.Forcing people to give it to you,or making them want to give it to you.
- Candace Bushnell

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.
- Alan Cohen

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.
- David Levithan

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

Ultimately, he's never been within reach. That's the key to why I'm so caught up on him I know that. I'm obsessed. And what feeds an obsession is not getting what you want.
- Kirsty Eagar

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 what you once wanted.
- Neil Gaiman

The price of getting what you want is getting what once you wanted.
- Neil Gaiman

Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get.
[Eddie Scissons]
- W P Kinsella

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

Sometimes not getting what you want is a brilliant stroke of luck.
- Lorii Myers

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

A real life doesn't mean getting what you want; the achievement, the privilege, too is knowing what you love.
- Marisa De Los Santos

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

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

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

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