Get What You Want

“The best way to get what you want is by deserving it.”
--Miyamoto Musashi

Prepare for War

“If you want peace, prepare for war.”
--Roman Proverb

Focus your Focus

“Focus on where you want to go, not on what you fear.”
--Anthony Robbins

Stinging Criticism

“If you and I want to stir up a resentment tomorrow that may rankle across the decades and endure until death, just let us indulge in a little stinging criticism.”
--Dale Carnegie

Great Players

“Average players want to be left alone. Good players want to be coached. Great players want the coach to tell them the truth.”
--Nick Saban

Food for a Lifetime

“If you want food for a year, grow rice; if you want food for a decade, grow trees; if you want food for a lifetime, grow people.”
--Chinese Proverb

Intelligent Self

“The intelligent want self-control; children want candy.”
--Jalal ad-Din Rumi

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No Constitutional Protection

“The Constitution cannot protect you if you do not protect the Constitution with your votes against anyone who violates it. Those government officials who want more power are not going to stop unless they get stopped.”
--Thomas Sowell

Fear Death

“It’s not that we fear death, it’s that we fear not living the life we want.”
--Naval Ravikant

Truth Is What It Is

“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

Who to Help

“When you want to help people, you tell them the truth. When you want to help yourself, you tell them what they want to hear.”
--Thomas Sowell

Cruel Mistress

“Believe what you want to but know reality is a cruel mistress.”
--Jeffrey Fry

Want Security?

“If all that Americans want is security, they can go to prison. They will have enough to eat, a bed and a roof over their heads. But if an American wants to preserve his dignity and his equality as a human being, he must not bow his neck to any dictatorial government.”
--Dwight D. Eisenhower

Through The Wall

“Brick walls are there to give us a chance to show how badly we want something.”
--Randy Pausch

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Goldrush

“In a goldrush, you want to be selling picks and shovels.”
--American Proverb

Big Government

“A government big enough to give you everything you want, is strong enough to take everything you have.”
--Gerald Ford

Immortality

“I don't want to achieve immortality through my work, I want to achieve it through not dying."
--Woody Allen

Control Emotions

“It is amazing how often people who cannot control their own emotions always want to control other people’s behaviors.”
--Jeffrey Fry

Address Problems

“The reason people do not want to see or address problems is because it often takes time and effort to fix them and most of us are lazy.”
--Jeffrey Fry

Why People Fail

“The reason most people fail instead of succeed is they trade what they want most for what they want at the moment.”
--Napoleon Bonaparte