Wish Quotes

Watch your manner of speech if you wish to develop a peaceful state of mind. Start each day by affirming peaceful, contented and happy attitudes and your days will tend to be pleasant and successful.
Norman Vincent Peale

Happy, Successful, Mind

Industry need not wish.
Benjamin Franklin

I realize that I'm black, but I like to be viewed as a person, and this is everybody's wish.
Michael Jordan

Person, Black, Realize

When we quarrel, how we wish we had been blameless.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Quarrel, Blameless

Perfect friendship is the friendship of men who are good, and alike in excellence; for these wish well alike to each other qua good, and they are good in themselves.
Aristotle

Friendship, Good, Men

If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe.
Carl Sagan

Universe, Apple, Pie

Don't wish me happiness - I don't expect to be happy it's gotten beyond that, somehow. Wish me courage and strength and a sense of humor - I will need them all.
Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Humor, Happiness, Strength

I do not know what the spirit of a philosopher could more wish to be than a good dancer. For the dance is his ideal, also his fine art, finally also the only kind of piety he knows, his 'divine service.'
Friedrich Nietzsche

Good, Art, Dance

I wish I knew why I am so anguished.
Marilyn Monroe

Why, Knew, Anguished

Success makes so many people hate you. I wish it wasn't that way. It would be wonderful to enjoy success without seeing envy in the eyes of those around you.
Marilyn Monroe

Success, Hate, Envy

I used to get the feeling, and sometimes I still get it, that I was fooling somebody - I don't know who or what - maybe myself. I have feelings some days where there are scenes with a lot of responsibility, and I'll wish, 'Gee, if only I had been a cleaning woman.'
Marilyn Monroe

Woman, Feeling, Feelings

What? You seek something? You wish to multiply yourself tenfold, a hundredfold? You seek followers? Seek zeros!
Friedrich Nietzsche

Yourself, Seek, Followers

Do you wish to rise? Begin by descending. You plan a tower that will pierce the clouds? Lay first the foundation of humility.
Saint Augustine

Humility, Plan, Rise

I sit on a man's back, choking him and making him carry me, and yet assure myself and others that I am very sorry for him and wish to ease his lot by all possible means - except by getting off his back.
Leo Tolstoy

Sorry, Him, Others

I did not wish to take a cabin passage, but rather to go before the mast and on the deck of the world, for there I could best see the moonlight amid the mountains. I do not wish to go below now.
Henry David Thoreau

Best, Before, Rather

I only wish that ordinary people had an unlimited capacity for doing harm; then they might have an unlimited power for doing good.
Socrates

Good, Power, Might

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Do you wish people to think well of you? Don't speak well of yourself.
Blaise Pascal

Yourself, Speak

My first wish is to see this plague of mankind, war, banished from the earth.
George Washington

War, Earth, Mankind

I am neither bitter nor cynical but I do wish there was less immaturity in political thinking.
Franklin D. Roosevelt

Political, Thinking, Less

I wish they'd had electric guitars in cotton fields back in the good old days. A whole lot of things would've been straightened out.
Jimi Hendrix

Good, Old, Whole

Money is only a tool. It will take you wherever you wish, but it will not replace you as the driver.
Ayn Rand

Money, Wherever, Tool

Truly fertile Music, the only kind that will move us, that we shall truly appreciate, will be a Music conducive to Dream, which banishes all reason and analysis. One must not wish first to understand and then to feel. Art does not tolerate Reason.
Albert Camus

Music, Art, Understand

All of us might wish at times that we lived in a more tranquil world, but we don't. And if our times are difficult and perplexing, so are they challenging and filled with opportunity.
Robert Kennedy

Difficult, Times, Might

Lenience will operate with greater force, in some instances than rigor. It is therefore my first wish to have all of my conduct distinguished by it.
George Washington

Force, Greater, Conduct

May you live as long as you wish and love as long as you live.
Robert A. Heinlein

Love, Live, Long

Do you wish to be great? Then begin by being. Do you desire to construct a vast and lofty fabric? Think first about the foundations of humility. The higher your structure is to be, the deeper must be its foundation.
Saint Augustine

Great, Humility, Desire

I wish I had an answer to that because I'm tired of answering that question.
Yogi Berra

Tired, Question, Answer

I wish to preach, not the doctrine of ignoble ease, but the doctrine of the strenuous life.
Theodore Roosevelt

Life, Preach, Ease

When freedom does not have a purpose, when it does not wish to know anything about the rule of law engraved in the hearts of men and women, when it does not listen to the voice of conscience, it turns against humanity and society.
Pope John Paul II

Women, Men, Freedom

Be content with what you are, and wish not change; nor dread your last day, nor long for it.
Marcus Aurelius

Change, Long, Last

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