Wishing Quotes

People forget they have options. And they forget that those things don't really matter. They should concentrate on what they have and not what they don't have. And by the way, wishing and dreaming doesn't mean concentrating on what you don't have, it's positive thinking that encourages hoping and believing, not whinging and moaning.

Cecelia Ahern

Let us act on what we have, since we have not what we wish.

Cardinal J. Newman

My only wish is that my wishes be at rest.

Ruckett

My life changed the day I moved beyond just wishing for things and I started earning them. That is the day I learned that we don't get what we wish for, we get what we work for.

Steve Maraboli

Stop the mindless wishing that things would be different. Rather than wasting time and emotional and spiritual energy in explaining why we don't have what we want, we can start to pursue other ways to get it.

Greg Anderson

Oh, the secret life of man and woman --dreaming how much better we would be than we are if we were somebody else or even ourselves, and feeling that our estate has been unexploited to its fullest.

Zelda Fitzgerald

Men try to run life according to their wishes; life runs itself according to necessity.

Jean Toomer

Between the wish and the thing life lies waiting.

Proverb

To do nothing evil is good; to wish nothing evil is better.

Claudius

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

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

Robert Dato

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

Jean de la Bruyere

Reporters used to be blue-collar at the Globe now, it's practically required that you have a trust fund.

Howie Carr

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