Quotes about wish and wishing

"We would often be sorry if our wishes were granted."

Aesop on wish and wishing
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"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."

Anderson, Greg on wish and wishing
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"A prayer in its simplest definition is merely a wish turned Godward."

Brooks, Phillips on wish and wishing   

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

Bruyere, Jean De La on wish and wishing   

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

Catherine of Genoa, St. on wish and wishing   

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

Claudius on wish and wishing
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"DATO'S LAW. Wishes expand in direct proportion to the resources available for their gratification."

Dato, Robert on wish and wishing   

"A wish is a desire without an attempt."

Digest, Farmer on wish and wishing   

"When we get to wishing a great deal for ourselves, whatever we get soon turns into mere limitation and exclusion."

Eliot, George on wish and wishing   

"There is no beautifier of complexion or form of behavior like the wish to scatter joy, and not pain, around us."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on wish and wishing   

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on wish and wishing
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"A man, when he wishes, is the master of his fate."

Ferrer, Jose on wish and wishing
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"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."

Fitzgerald, Zelda on wish and wishing   

"If a man could have half of his wishes, he would double his troubles."

Franklin, Benjamin on wish and wishing
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"Industry need not wish."

Franklin, Benjamin on wish and wishing   

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on wish and wishing
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"If wishes were fishes we'd all be throwing nets. If wishes were horses we'd all ride."

Horton, Doug on wish and wishing
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"Let us act on what we have, since we have not what we wish."

Newman, Cardinal J. on wish and wishing   

"Between the wish and the thing life lies waiting."

Proverb on wish and wishing
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"My only wish is that my wishes be at rest."

Ruckett on wish and wishing
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"The wishing gate opens into nothing."

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon on wish and wishing   

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

Toomer, Jean on wish and wishing   

"If wishes were horses then beggars would ride."

Unknown, Source on wish and wishing   

"Some people develop a wishbone where their backbone should be."

Unknown, Source on wish and wishing
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"Wishing of all strategies, is the worst."

Young, Andrew on wish and wishing