"When one does not have what one wants, one must want what one has."
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"Happiness does not consist in having what you want, but in wanting what you have"
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"I am not what I ought to be, I am not what I want to be, I am not what I hope to be in another world; but still I am not what I once used to be, and by the grace of God I am what I am"
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"You've got to always go back in time if you want to move forward."
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"You can get everything in life you want if you will just help enough other people get what they want."
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"Discipline is choosing between what you want now, and what you want most."
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"Give a man everything he wants and at that moment everything is not everything"
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"If you want to be great, do it. There’s nothing holding you back. It’s all in your control."
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"Align yourself with people that you can learn from, people who want more out of life, people who are stretching and searching and seeking some higher ground in life."
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"My homies used to call me ' ions,' and at the time I didn't have no millions, so I ain't really want to be called 'Millions,' so I just shortened it down to . ' i,' my friends used to call me."
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"A sure way to lose happiness, I found, is to want it at the expense of everything else."
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"Success is not only for the elite. Success is there for those who want it, plan for it, and take action to achieve it."
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"I'm Valentino Rossi. And I want to be a person, not an icon."
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"Do what you have to do, to do what you want to do."
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"Everything we see hides another thing, we always want to see what is hidden by what we see. There is an interest in that which is hidden and which the visible does not show us. This interest can take the form of a quite intense feeling, a sort of conflict, one might say, between the visible that is hidden and the visible that is present."
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"I don’t want to do what my idols did… I want to do more than they did. And I feel like I’m on my way."
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"I am not competing with anyone other than myself. I want to be excellent at whatever I do."
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"They will always tell you that you can't do what you want to do, but you can do what you want to do. You just have to believe in yourself. The system is to bring you down, but you can rise up."
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"Be the kind of person that you want people to think you are."
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"Don't be afraid of what you want. This is your time. The barriers are down."
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