Eleanor Smeal Quotes

You can get it if you really want

It doesn't matter how much you want. What really matters is how much you want it.

If we aren't actively pursuing what we want, we don't really want it.

Wanting is the beginning of getting.

I am still full of ambition.

Ambition never comes to an end.

I have discovered in life that there are ways of getting almost anywhere you want to go, if you really want to go.

I really chase the things that I want.

Cats seem to go on the principle that it never does any harm to ask for what you want.

When you know what you want, and want it bad enough, you will find a way to get it.

Charlene has a very strong personality and I have no doubt of her desire to get involved in things alongside me.

You just need the freedom to dream big and a whole lot of hard work.

Success, in my view, is the willingness to strive for something you really want

To get hwat you want out of life, all you really need to do is be honest about it, don't be afraid to go for it, and have fun while you do it -- and you'll eventually get it.

All that matters is, how big do you want to dream, and how hard do you want to work?

We live by action—by acting on desire. Those of us who don't know how to want—whether geniuses or beggars—are related by impotence.

I've learned from my experience that desire is 80% of achievement. That if you really, really want something, if you really, really, really want to do something, that the vast majority of achieving it is wanting it. I mean, really wanting it. Not a preference, and not, "Gee, I hope this." I mean really wanting it. It is the desire that makes you do what you have to do to achieve.

Whatever a man wants badly and persistently enough will determine the man's character.

If I put my mind to something and really want it, I'll go after it and get it.

You aim for what you want and if you don't get it, you don't get it, but if you don't aim, you don't get anything.

You have to know what you want to get it.

You go beyond 'I want it. I want to have it' - to - 'I'm going to have it

The things are mighty few on earth that wishes can attain. Whate'er we want of any worth, we've got to work to gain.

It doesn't matter if you want to be in the NFL or do something else. If you want something great, you won't get it sitting around.

Sometimes you just have to reach out and grab what you want, even when they tell you not to. This is something that I've struggled with my whole life long.