Wish Quotes

If wishes were fishes we'd all be throwing nets. If wishes were horses we'd all ride.

Doug Horton

Beware what you set your heart upon. For it shall surely be yours.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Be the change that you wish to see in the world.

Mahatma Gandhi

DATO'S LAW. Wishes expand in direct proportion to the resources available for their gratification.

Robert Dato

Do not dilute the truth of your potential. We often convince ourselves that we cannot change, that we cannot overcome the circumstances of our lives. That is simply not true. You have been blessed with immeasurable power to make positive changes in your life. But you can't just wish it, you can't just hope it, you can't just want it... you have to LIVE it, BE it, DO it.

Steve Maraboli

A man of the world must seem to be what he wishes to be thought.

Jean de la Bruyere

Then all at once our personal and political quarrels were made very abruptly to converge. In the special edition of the published to mark the events of September 11, 2001, Edward painted a picture of an almost fascist America where Arab and Muslim citizens were being daily terrorized by pogroms, these being instigated by men like Paul Wolfowitz who had talked of 'ending' the regimes that sheltered Al Quaeda. Again, I could hardly credit that these sentences were being produced by a cultured person, let alone printed by a civilized publication.

Christopher Hitchens

Some people develop a wishbone where their backbone should be.

Source Unknown

If wishes were horses then beggars would ride.

Source Unknown

We would often be sorry if our wishes were granted.

Aesop

A prayer in its simplest definition is merely a wish turned Godward.

Phillips Brooks

We are never further from what we wish than when we believe that we have what we wished for.

Johann von Goethe

Wishing of all strategies, is the worst.

Andrew Young

We must not wish anything other than what happens from moment to moment, all the while, however, exercising ourselves in goodness.

St. Catherine of Genoa

The wishing gate opens into nothing.

C. H. (Charles Haddon) Spurgeon