Wishes Quotes

Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe to assure the survival and the success of liberty.
John F. Kennedy

Success, Friend, Liberty

Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.
John Adams

May, Cannot, Whatever

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My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake.
Aristotle

Best, Friend, Wishing

The way for a young man to rise is to improve himself in every way he can, never suspecting that anybody wishes to hinder him.
Abraham Lincoln

Him, Young, Himself

Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live.
Oscar Wilde

Live, Living, Others

If the human race wishes to have a prolonged and indefinite period of material prosperity, they have only got to behave in a peaceful and helpful way toward one another.
Winston Churchill

Human, Another, Race

A young man who wishes to remain a sound atheist cannot be too careful of his reading.
C. S. Lewis

Cannot, Young, Reading

An enemy generally says and believes what he wishes.
Thomas Jefferson

Enemy, Says, Believes

God sometimes does try to the uttermost those whom he wishes to bless.
Mahatma Gandhi

God, Try, Sometimes

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

Half, Troubles, Double

Men admire the man who can organize their wishes and thoughts in stone and wood and steel and brass.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Men, Thoughts, Admire

The best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake.
Aristotle

Best, Friend, Wishing

All political thinking for years past has been vitiated in the same way. People can foresee the future only when it coincides with their own wishes, and the most grossly obvious facts can be ignored when they are unwelcome.
George Orwell

Future, Past, Political

No matter how happily a woman may be married, it always pleases her to discover that there is a nice man who wishes that she were not.
H. L. Mencken

Nice, Woman, May

He that humbleth himself wishes to be exalted.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Himself, Exalted

Destiny has two ways of crushing us - by refusing our wishes and by fulfilling them.
Henri Frederic Amiel

Two, Destiny, Ways

I can only say that there is not a man living who wishes more sincerely than I do to see a plan adopted for the abolition of slavery.
George Washington

Living, Plan, Slavery

It's so hard to know what to do when one wishes earnestly to do right.
George Bernard Shaw

Hard, Earnestly

The trouble with lying and deceiving is that their efficiency depends entirely upon a clear notion of the truth that the liar and deceiver wishes to hide.
Hannah Arendt

Truth, Liar, Trouble

He who wishes to be obeyed must know how to command.
Niccolo Machiavelli

Command, Obeyed

Destiny grants us our wishes, but in its own way, in order to give us something beyond our wishes.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Give, Destiny, Order

Where there is great love, there are always wishes.
Willa Cather

Man is free at the moment he wishes to be.
Voltaire

The megalomaniac differs from the narcissist by the fact that he wishes to be powerful rather than charming, and seeks to be feared rather than loved. To this type belong many lunatics and most of the great men of history.
Bertrand Russell

Great, Men, History

The will is a beast of burden. If God mounts it, it wishes and goes as God wills; if Satan mounts it, it wishes and goes as Satan wills; Nor can it choose its rider... the riders contend for its possession.
Martin Luther

God, Goes, Choose

Whoever wishes to keep a secret must hide the fact that he possesses one.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Keep, Fact, Secret

Conservative, n: A statesman who is enamored of existing evils, as distinguished from the Liberal who wishes to replace them with others.
Ambrose Bierce

Others, Liberal, Evils

Who is the wisest man? He who neither knows or wishes for anything else than what happens.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Else, Happens, Knows

One of the great attractions of patriotism - it fulfills our worst wishes. In the person of our nation we are able, vicariously, to bully and cheat. Bully and cheat, what's more, with a feeling that we are profoundly virtuous.
Aldous Huxley

Great, Patriotism, Feeling

One must change one's tactics every ten years if one wishes to maintain one's superiority.
Napoleon Bonaparte

Change, Ten, Tactics

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