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

“…it was in her refusal to allow any of us to indulge in self-pity of any kind…through a maddening style of argument, in which the following three statements were repeated in various sequences:
A. It's your life + social commentary.
B. What you want and what you get are usually two entirely different things.
C. No one ever said that life was fair.”

“Sometimes the things we want most are the hardest to get. That means you need to be even more determined to succeed. That's what it takes to be a winner. You have to want it bad enough to stick with it no matter how tough things get.”

“… there are two ways of being unhappy. Not getting what you want is one. Getting what you want is the other.”

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

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

“There are two things to aim at in life: first, to get what you want; and, after that, to enjoy it. Only the wisest of mankind achieve the second.”

“You cannot get through a single day without having an impact on the world around you. What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make.”

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

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