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

Perhaps he does not want to be friends with you until he knows what you are like. With owls, it is never easy-come-easy-go. — T.H. White

Holiness is not to love Jesus and do whatever you want. Holiness is to love God and do what He wants. — C. Wagner

Do what you want to do, when you want to do it ... and not a moment sooner. — Oprah Winfrey

Knowing that one thing you want is a great step. Sure, whether you prefer or not, you'll get offers, and many will seem that one thing you want. — Ufuoma Apoki

I will not take what you need to give me. I will take what you want to give me. — Grace Hopper

Suffering is getting what you do not want while wanting what you do not get. — J.I. Packer

It is better to vote for what you want and not get it than to vote for what you don't want and get it. — Eugene V. Debs

I think the good thing about my face is it has always been expressive. With Botox that goes - not what you want as an actress. — Jane Seymour

What makes you so certain?"
"But I am not certain," I told him. "Nothing is certain. You want certainty?"
"Yes!"
"Then you want death. — Stephen R. Lawhead

Do what you want, not what people want you to do. — Michelle A. Valentine

I don't know what to do, I want to die but you're making me stay alive, I'm not sure if I should betray you and do it or move on and push through it. — Lindzz

Desire is when you do what you want, will is when you can do what you do not want. — P.D. Ouspensky

You do not merely want to be considered just the best of the best. You want to be considered the only one who does what you do. — Jerry Garcia

We all dream a lot - some are lucky, some are not. But if you think it, want it, dream it, then it's real. You are what you feel. — Tim Rice

i will not have you
build me into your life
when
what i want is to
build a life with you
- the difference — Rupi Kaur

The only reason you should move to a new job is if you are not getting the opportunity to do what you want to do and what you believe you can do. — Lee Clow

No matter what you say to yourself, you do want to win. You try to look casual, like you're not thinking, 'oh, please pick me.' — Whoopi Goldberg

Oh, come on. I want to see the big-spiky-ball thing."
"You do not need a flail." Kanin scowled, as though imagining what I could do with it. — Julie Kagawa

Abigail, it's not what you think. I want you, I do, but I'm not willing to risk messing up what we have. It's not worth it for a quick f**k. — Gabbie S. Duran

Once you know what you want, narrow the options, make your choices, and go for it. But until you do, embrace not knowing. — Jen Doll

You go through things in life where you're not always going to get what you want, but if God feels it's supposed to happen, it's going to happen. — Kevin Ware

If you want to know what a man's like, take a good look at how he treats his inferiors, not his equals. — J.K. Rowling

Love is not about what you want. It's about finding happiness for the one you love. — Terry Goodkind

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

When your life is changed by Jesus, you are a new creature. God not only changes what you do, He also changes what you want to do. — Ravi Zacharias

Every actor wants to change things up a bit. You don't want to be pigeonholed, and not just because of what the industry might think. — Aidan Turner

This may seem simple, but you need to give customers what they want, not what you think they want. And, if you do this, people will keep coming back. — John Ilhan

If you do not feel natural about what you want to be, you will not be it. — Neville Goddard

What do you want from me?"
"Own up to it. I can live with a cheater, but not with a coward. — Aleksandr Voinov

Happiness is in the doing not in getting what you want. — Ethan Hawke

That's what being free means - not the right to do whatever you want, but the right to take a stand and say what you'll die for. — Sebastien De Castell

I am not a weapon. I don't want to be a weapon!
"You are what you are. I am what I am. It matters little what we want. — Amy Harmon

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

Most do not understand what sight is. The mind isn't free. If you don't want to see something, you simply just need to open your eyes. — Lionel Suggs

I want you to remember what was good in me, not what was most awful. The people you love should be allowed to keep their worst to themselves. — Joe Hill

What I want you to know is that this is not your fault, even if it is ultimately your responsibility. — Ta-Nehisi Coates

If you want to know whether or not you have had a successful life, think about what people would say about you at your own funeral. — Lindsey Rietzsch

I do not mind when you tell me what you want and put that first instead of last. — John Scalzi

Why not risk your life, if you don't want to live anyway? Why not risk your life if you'll never be happy no matter what you do? — Cassandra Clare

If you want to be told what to think, well, I'm not in that business. — Larry Poons

People will say that Canada, unlike America, was not birthed from violence. But I want to say, "What are you talking about?" It's just not true. — Joseph Boyden

What's your name?"
"What do you want it to be?"
"Are you a vampire?"
"Not the last time I checked. — Kresley Cole

You owe me and you know what I want in return."
He scowled at me. "Not the pants."
I nodded gravely. "Give me your pants. — Jennifer Echols

There are two ways of being unhappy. Not getting what you want is one. Getting what you want is the other. — Eckhart Tolle

What people need to know is that if you don't eat what you want, then you'll just continue to eat, because you're not fulfilled. — Jennifer Hudson

You know what I want to do? Wake up one weekend and not have to go anywhere and do nothing. — Derek Jeter

No, that is not what I want for you, my little girl. I want you to be a woman with a wise and understanding heart, healthy in body and honest in mind. — Carol Ryrie Brink

A wicked curve appears on his lips. No, you're wrong. I'm allowed to say whatever I want. What I'm not allowed to do is what I want. — Alex Rosa

I don't want to hear about what you can't do. That's not the point, it is what God can do through you. — Michelle Lynn Brown

It's not what you want in this life, it's what you get that you have to do with. — Elizabeth Aston

The key to happiness is not getting what you want but wanting what you get — Jane Green

The best thing about search is you always find what you want. The worst thing about search is you never find what you do not want. — Joshua Cohen

There is no worse tyranny than to force a man to pay for what he does not want merely because you think it would be good for him. — Robert A. Heinlein

Truth is not what you want it to be; it is what it is, and you must bend to its power or live a lie. — Miyamoto Musashi

You know what love means? It means loving the person you are now and not the person you want someone to be or the person they will be. — Samantha Stroh Bailey

If you want to capitulate to what commercial needs are, you can always be commercially valuable, but I'm not interested in being that. — Ken Hensley

In the end, it's about what you want to be, not what you want to have. — Derek Sivers

You don't want to let go, but don't want to be hurt, either. It's not a great place to be but what can I tell you? — Junot Diaz

My Father, if there is any way, get me out of this. But please, not what I want. You, what do you want? — Anonymous

Toughness isn't about you and what you want, it's about not quitting because others need you. — Marc MacYoung

It's okay to not know completely what you want or what you should be doing and to stumble a little bit. — Milo

Focus on what you want, not on what you don't want. — T. Harv Eker

Prayer is not the cunning art of using God, subjecting Him to one's selfish ends in an effort to get out of Him what you want. — F. Huegel

Do what you want, not what you think people want you to do. — Michelle A. Valentine

Intent not followed by action is an insult to your design. Decide what you want, create a plan, and get your ass out there! — Steve Maraboli

When in doubt, wear what you want to wear. Not what you think the dress code is. — Annabel Tollman

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

What do you want meaning for? Life is desire, not meaning. — Charlie Chaplin

It doesn't take objectivity to know what you want, and you're not objective enough to know what you need. — Amy Neftzger

She's everything I'm not and everything I want to be."
Sebastian Irons - Life's What You Make It — Theresa Troutman

Freedom is not the ability to do whatever you want. Freedom is the strength of character to do what is good, true, noble, and right. — Matthew Kelly

The secret to a happy life is not in getting what you want. It is in learning to want what you get. — Lisa Wingate

Not getting what you want can make you curel — David Levithan

Materialize what you want with cooperation of other people not by depriving them. — Hina Hashmi

Be what you want to be,not what your parents want. — Faraz

What are you doing?"
"Playing house" said Felix
"Do you want to come and pour the tea?"
Ella's not stupid. "You are not. — Sally Nicholls

Style is knowing who you are, what you want to say, and not giving a damn — Orson Welles

People want to believe you are sincerely interested in them as a person, not just what they can do for you. — John Wooden

Sometimes you get what you want not because it's right or fair or even smart, but because you just don't know any better. — Gayle Lynds

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

Make your siren's call and sing all you want. I will not hear what you have to say. — Mumford

The devil wants to convince you that dying is the worst thing. It is very much easier to do what god made you for than not. — Jackie Pullinger

I'm not too bothered about what category my music goes in and there's no point in limiting in who you can reach, but I want it to be respected. — Emeli Sande

Times are not what they were, and we cannot be, either. If you sit and wish for what you want, you may not see it this side of the grave. — Robert Jordan

Sometimes, loyalty gets in the way of what you want to do. Sometimes, it's not your secret to tell. — Stephenie Meyer

Contentment is not the fulfillment of what you want, but the realization of how much you already have. — Anonymous

Remembering what you want about the past, even if it's not entirely true, keeps you from giving up on the present. — Susan Meissner

You will get what you want but you must want it and not just wish it. — Vikram Seth

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

Don't do what you want. Do what you don't want. Do what you're trained not to want. Do the things that scare you the most. — Chuck Palahniuk

What I want from you, those are just things like this. Not hot things, but warm things. — Lee Mi-sook

Do what the client wants, not what you want. — Elliott Erwitt

If what you want to do is write, then it's madness not to do it. — Joseph O'Neill

One more thing: Philippe, you are not a coward-so what I want to hear from you is the ecstatic truth about the twin towers. — Werner Herzog

It's a great feeling to do what you want and do what you love. Everyone should try it sometime if you're not doing it already. — Jason Landry

I think people don't like when you're not confident about what you're pitching, and they don't want to invest in you or get behind you. — Lori Greiner

But sometimes, we just have to be happy with what people can offer us. Even if it's not what we want, at least it's something. You know? — Sarah Dessen

Be careful not to compromise what you want most for what you want now. — Zig Ziglar

It's not enough to know what you want to do. You have to do it to be what you want to be. — Paulo Coelho