Wish Quotes

You must be the change you wish to see in the world.
Mahatma Gandhi

You will know that forgiveness has begun when you recall those who hurt you and feel the power to wish them well.
Lewis B. Smedes

Power, Hurt, Begun

As a single footstep will not make a path on the earth, so a single thought will not make a pathway in the mind. To make a deep physical path, we walk again and again. To make a deep mental path, we must think over and over the kind of thoughts we wish to dominate our lives.
Henry David Thoreau

Mind, Deep, Single

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The wish for healing has always been half of health.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Health, Healing, Half

The art of acceptance is the art of making someone who has just done you a small favor wish that he might have done you a greater one.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

Art, Someone, Acceptance

Some people want it to happen, some wish it would happen, others make it happen.
Michael Jordan

Peace and friendship with all mankind is our wisest policy, and I wish we may be permitted to pursue it.
Thomas Jefferson

Friendship, Peace, May

A lot of people don't realize that depression is an illness. I don't wish it on anyone, but if they would know how it feels, I swear they would think twice before they just shrug it.
Jonathan Davis

Depression, Before, Anyone

I heard a definition once: Happiness is health and a short memory! I wish I'd invented it, because it is very true.
Audrey Hepburn

Happiness, Health, True

The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions that I wish it to be always kept alive.
Thomas Jefferson

Government, Alive, Spirit

My desire to devolve authority has nothing to do with a wish to shirk responsibility.
Dalai Lama

Nothing, Desire, Authority

Every heart sings a song, incomplete, until another heart whispers back. Those who wish to sing always find a song. At the touch of a lover, everyone becomes a poet.
Plato

Heart, Find, Another

If there is anything that we wish to change in the child, we should first examine it and see whether it is not something that could better be changed in ourselves.
Carl Jung

Change, Child, Whether

There is not a truth existing which I fear... or would wish unknown to the whole world.
Thomas Jefferson

Truth, Fear, Whole

Life is a process of becoming, a combination of states we have to go through. Where people fail is that they wish to elect a state and remain in it. This is a kind of death.
Anais Nin

Life, Death, Through

When the gods wish to punish us they answer our prayers.
Oscar Wilde

Answer, Gods, Prayers

I have seen enough of one war never to wish to see another.
Thomas Jefferson

War, Enough, Another

It takes as much energy to wish as it does to plan.
Eleanor Roosevelt

Energy, Plan, Takes

I wish my name was Brian because maybe sometimes people would misspell my name and call me Brain. That's like a free compliment and you don't even gotta be smart to notice it.
Mitch Hedberg

Smart, Brain, Free

Children wish fathers looked but with their eyes; fathers that children with their judgment looked; and either may be wrong.
William Shakespeare

Children, May, Eyes

If you wish to be loved, show more of your faults than your virtues.
Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

Show, Loved, Faults

Desire is the starting point of all achievement, not a hope, not a wish, but a keen pulsating desire which transcends everything.
Napoleon Hill

Hope, Everything, Desire

If you wish to forget anything on the spot, make a note that this thing is to be remembered.
Edgar Allan Poe

Forget, Remembered, Note

Be as you wish to seem.
Socrates

Don't wish it were easier, wish you were better.
Jim Rohn

I wish people would love everybody else the way they love me. It would be a better world.
Muhammad Ali

Love, Else, Everybody

I wish I could write as mysterious as a cat.
Edgar Allan Poe

Write, Mysterious, Cat

I really haven't had that exciting of a life. There are a lot of things I wish I would have done, instead of just sitting around and complaining about having a boring life. So I pretty much like to make it up. I'd rather tell a story about somebody else.
Kurt Cobain

Life, Boring, Done

To be able to give away riches is mandatory if you wish to possess them. This is the only way that you will be truly rich.
Muhammad Ali

Give, Rich, Away

We can change our lives. We can do, have, and be exactly what we wish.
Tony Robbins

Change, Lives, Exactly

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