“The happiness at getting what you want is not usually commensurate with the worry leading up to it.”

“Success is getting what you want; happiness is wanting what you get.”

Ingrid Bergman (1915–1982) Film actress from Sweden

“Success is getting what you want.
Happiness is wanting what you get.”

Andrew Carnegie (1835–1919) American businessman and philanthropist

“Success is getting what you want. Happiness is liking what you get.”

H. Jackson Brown, Jr. (1940) American writer

“Happiness isn't wanting what you can get, but wanting what you have.”

Beverly Lewis (1949) American writer

“Tough toenails, tiger. What you want and what you get are usually two entirely different things.”

Nicholas Sparks (1965) American writer and novelist

“If you can't sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there and worrying. It's the worry that gets you, not the loss of sleep.”

Dale Carnegie (1888–1955) American writer and lecturer

“You can't always get what you want, but if you really need something, you usually find it.”

Keith Richards (1943) British rock musician, member of The Rolling Stones

“Cerebus: The valuable lesson is that you can get what you want and still not be very happy…”

Dave Sim (1956) Canadian cartoonist, creator of Cerebus

“In the end, it's never what you worry about that gets you.”

Chuck Palahniuk book Guts