wish quotes

• Every gift from a friend is a wish for your happiness. (Richard Bach) [wish/happiness]
• Firmness in enduring and exertion is a character I always wish to possess. I have always despised the whining yelp of complaint and cowardly resolve. (Robert Burns) [character/wish]
• You must pay the price if you wish to secure the blessing. (Andrew Jackson) [price/wish]
• Old minds are like old horses; you must exercise them if you wish to keep them in working order. (John Adams) [exercise/wish/order]
• I wish Frank Sinatra would just shut up and sing. (Lauren Bacall) [wish]
• Every gift from a friend is a wish for your happiness... (Richard Bach) [wish/happiness]
• Like dreams, statistics are a form of wish fulfillment. (Jean Baudrillard) [statistics/form/wish]
• The wish to pray is a prayer in itself. God can ask no more than that of us. (Georges Bernanos) [wish/prayer/god/more]
• If you wish to be success in the world, promise everything, deliver nothing. ( Napoleon I) [wish]
• Self knowers always dwell in El Dorado; they drink from the fountain of youth, and at all times owners of all they wish to enjoy. (Claude M. Bristol) [/youth/wish]
• Firmness in enduring and exertion is a character I always wish to possess. I have always despised the whining yelp of complaint and cowardly resolve. (Robert Burns) [character/wish]
• Conscience is thoroughly well-bred and soon leaves off talking to those who do not wish to hear it. (Samuel Butler) [conscience/wish]
• If you do not wish a man to do a thing, you had better get him to talk about it; for the more men talk, the more likely they are to do nothing else. (Thomas Carlyle) [wish/thing/more/men]
• There are always three speeches, for every one you actually gave. The one you practiced, the one you gave, and the one you wish you gave. (Dale Carnegie) [wish]
• Laziness never arrived at the attainment of a good wish. (Miguel De Cervantes) [wish]
• Thieves respect property. They merely wish the property to become their property that they may more perfectly respect it. (Gilbert K. Chesterton) [respect/property/wish/property]
• The whole history of the world is summed up in the fact that, when nations are strong, they are not always just, and when they wish to be just, they are no longer strong. (Winston Churchill) [wish]
• He cannot be strict in judging, who does not wish others to be strict judges of himself. (Marcus Cicero) [wish]
• You must become an old man in good time if you wish to be an old man long. (Marcus Cicero) [time/wish]
• Frank and explicit--that is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and confuse the minds of others. (Benjamin Disraeli) [right/take/wish/mind]
• Frank and explicit -- that is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and to confuse the minds of others. (Benjamin Disraeli) [right/take/wish/mind]
• People wish to be settled. It is only as far as they are unsettled that there is any hope for them. (Ralph Waldo Emerson) [people/wish]
• Is not marriage an open question, when it is alleged, from the beginning of the world, that such as are in the institution wish to get out, and such as are out wish to get in? (Ralph Waldo Emerson) [marriage/question/wish/wish]
• Leave this hypocritical prating about the masses. Masses are rude, lame, unmade, pernicious in their demands and influence, and need not to be flattered, but to be schooled. I wish not to concede anything to them, but to tame, drill, divide, and break them up, and draw individuals out of them. (Ralph Waldo Emerson) [influence/wish]
• There is no beautifier of complexion or form of behavior like the wish to scatter joy, and not pain, around us. (Ralph Waldo Emerson) [form/behavior/wish/joy]
• Industry need not wish. (Benjamin Franklin) [wish]
• You must be the change you wish to see in the world. (Mahatma Gandhi) [change/wish]
• It is open to a war resister to judge between the combatants and wish success to the one who has justice on his side. By so judging he is more likely to bring peace between the two than by remaining a mere spectator. (Mahatma Gandhi) [war/wish//more]
• The older we get the more we must limit ourselves if we wish to be active. (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe) [more/wish]
• We are never further from what we wish than when we believe that we have what we wished for. (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe) [wish]
• Our friends are generally ready to do everything for us, except the very thing we wish them to do. (William Hazlitt) [thing/wish]

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