"Want what you have and you will always get what you want."
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"We do not know what we want and yet we are responsible for what we are - that is the fact."
"When you pray be sure that you listen as well as talk. You have things you want to say to God but He also has things He wants to say to you."
"Nobody likes to fail. I want to succeed in everything I do, which isn't much. But the things that I'm really passionate about, if I fail at those, if I'm not successful, what do I have?"
"The certain pathway to all things that you want is through the corridor of joy."
"I’m tired of doing what I don’t want to do to live the way I don’t want to live."
"I always ask God to work through me and let me be a light of some kind and help in this world, so I always pray for that, and I always want to do good."
"If you yourself desire establishment, then help others to get establishment; if you yourself want success, then help others to attain success."
"You forget what you want to remember, and you remember what you want to forget."
"If you want to soar like an eagle in life, you can't be flocking with the turkeys."
"My teaching, if that is the word you want to use, has no copyright. You are free to reproduce, distribute, interpret, misinterpret, distort, garble, do what you like, even claim authorship, without my consent or the permission of anybody."
"Have the backbone to go after what you want in life. It's too easy to settle."
"The eye goes blind when it only wants to see why."
"Yes -- or rather, it's not so much that I want to die as that I'm tired of living."
"You got to use what you got to get just what you want."
"I want you to back yourself into a corner. Give yourself no choice but to succeed. Let the consequences of failure become so dire and so unthinkable that you’ll have no choice but to do whatever it takes to succeed."
"We want to make it socially, morally, politically and religiously unacceptable to have substandard housing and homelessness."
"When you don't want to be interesting, you are free."
"I'm not worried about what's going to happen when I'm thirty, because I am never going to make it to thirty. You know what life is like after thirty - I don't want that."
"We're breaking protocol here. That's the good thing about being President - I can do whatever I want."