We will receive not what we idly wish for but what we justly earn. Our rewards will always be in exact proportion to our service.
Earl Nightingale

Pull the string, and it will follow wherever you wish. Push it, and it will go nowhere at all.
Dwight D. Eisenhower

Our forces saved the remnants of the Jewish people of Europe for a new life and a new hope in the reborn land of Israel. Along with all men of good will, I salute the young state and wish it well.
Dwight D. Eisenhower

I believe totally in a Capitalist System, I only wish that someone would try it.
Frank Lloyd Wright

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

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

The wish to acquire more is admittedly a very natural and common thing; and when men succeed in this they are always praised rather than condemned. But when they lack the ability to do so and yet want to acquire more at all costs, they deserve condemnation for their mistakes.
Niccolo Machiavelli

You must become an old man in good time if you wish to be an old man long.
Marcus Aurelius

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

I have now disposed of all my property to my family. There is one thing more I wish I could give them, and that is the Christian religion.
Patrick Henry

I don't get high, but sometimes I wish I did. That way, when I messed up in life I would have an excuse. But right now there's no rehab for stupidity.
Chris Rock

Men in general are quick to believe that which they wish to be true.
Julius Caesar

Men willingly believe what they wish.
Julius Caesar

What we wish, we readily believe, and what we ourselves think, we imagine others think also.
Julius Caesar

Men are nearly always willing to believe what they wish.
Julius Caesar

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

Even those who write against fame wish for the fame of having written well, and those who read their works desire the fame of having read them.
Blaise Pascal

We view things not only from different sides, but with different eyes; we have no wish to find them alike.
Blaise Pascal

A sound mind in a sound body, is a short, but full description of a happy state in this World: he that has these two, has little more to wish for; and he that wants either of them, will be little the better for anything else.
John Locke

Nothing is so common-place as to wish to be remarkable.
Oliver Wendell Holmes