Home / Topics / Wish Quotes

Wish Quotes

Browse 9106 quotes about Wish.

Wish Quotes

“Find the Silver Lining: When things don't work out the way you wish, always look for some positive outcome to the situation working out the way it did. For example, you can always be grateful that things didn't turn out even worse.”

Way Looks Turns Wish Situation Example Gratitude Grateful Work Out Outcomes Silver Be Grateful Positive Outcome

Author:Zelig Pliskin

“Luck is always waiting for something to turn up. Labor, with keen eyes and strong will, always turns up something. Luck lies in bed and wishes the postman will bring news of a legacy. Labor turns out at six o'clock and with busy pen or ringing hammer, lays the foundation of a competence. Luck whines. Labor whistles. Luck relies on chance, labor on character.”

“Love rejoices in good wherever it finds it; envy is pained by good, and the sight of the happiness of others hurts the eyes and the heart of the envious man. Love wishes to give; envy would rather receive. Love creates; envy destroys. Love builds up; envy pulls down. Love helps those in need, comforts the afflicted, and strives to turn all that is evil into good; envy would turn the little happiness to be found in this world into evil, sorrow, and pain.”

Source: The Hidden Power of Kindness: A Practical Handbook for Souls who Dare to Transform the World, One Deed at a Time

“I wish for you to stand up for what you care about by participating in a global art project, and together we'll turn the world inside out. And this starts right now.”

World Art Care Together Turns Wish Projects Participating Art Projects

Author:JR

“But so many books thou readest, But so many schemes thou breedest, But so many wishes feedest, That thy poor head almost turns.”

Book Turns Wish Poor Schemes

Book:Poems: Dramatic and lyric poems

Source: Poems: Dramatic and lyric poems

“What really does work to increase the feeling of having a home and its comforts is housekeeping. Housekeeping creates cleanliness, order, regularity, beauty, the conditions for health and safety, and a good place to do and feel all the things you wish and need to do and feel in your home. Whether you live alone or with a spouse, parents, and ten children, it is your housekeeping that makes your home alive, that turns it into a small society in its own right, a vital place with its own ways and rhythms, the place where you can be more yourself than you can be anywhere else.”

“People seem good while they are oppressed, but they only wish to become oppressors in their turn: life is nothing but a competition to be the criminal rather than the victim.”

People Seems Life Is Turns Wish Victim Competition Criminals Oppressed Oppressors

Book:The Selected Letters of Bertrand Russell: The Public Years, 1914-1970

Source: The Selected Letters of Bertrand Russell: The Public Years, 1914-1970

“Luck lies in bed, and wishes the postman would bring him news of a legacy; labor turns out at six, and with busy pen or ringing hammer lays the foundation of a competence.”

Lying Turns Wish Bed Six News Labor Luck Foundation Lays Busy Legacy Pens Hammers Competence Postman

Book:Thrift

Source: Thrift

“I try to get a feeling of what's going on in the story before I put it down on paper, but actually most of this breaking-in period is one long, fantastic daydream, in which I think about anything but the work at hand. I can't turn out slews of stuff each day. I wish I could. I seem to have some neurotic need to perfect each paragrapheach sentence, evenas I go along.”

Thinking Needs Writing Trying Long I Can Stories Feelings Hands Seems Turns Wish Stuff Perfect Periods Paper Sentences Fantastic Each Day Neurotic Daydreaming Paragraph

Author:William Styron

“The whole visible world is perhaps nothing other than a motivation of man's wish to rest for a moment an attempt to falsify the fact of knowledge, to try to turn the knowledge into the goal.”

Men World Trying Whole Moments Facts Motivation Turns Wish Goal Visible

Book:The Blue Octavo Notebooks

Source: The Blue Octavo Notebooks

“I do not wish upon anyone a descent into hell. But if your life has to be turned inside out in order for you to know yourself--if the shadow of a shaman crosses your path and you turn and follow it down--I pray that you use its force wisely. I hope that you take the ultimate responsibility for your actions and that you consecrate any destruction to the rebuilding of your higher self and a more radiant life.”

Ifs Knows Self Use Action Order Turns Force Wish Responsibility Hell Path Praying Higher Shadow Crosses Destruction Ultimate Know Yourself I Pray Radiant Descent Higher Self Rebuilding

Author:Elizabeth Lesser

“A true warrior does not fight because he wishes to but because he has to. A man who yearns for war, a man who enjoys his killing, he is a brute and a monster. No matter how much glory he wins on the battlefield, that cannot erase the fact that he is no better than a rabid wolf who will turn on his friends and family as soon as his foes.”

Source: The Inheritance Cycle Complete Collection: Eragon, Eldest, Brisingr, Inheritance

“...I wish that I may never think the smiles of the great and powerful a sufficient inducement to turn aside from the straight path of honesty and the convictions of my own mind.”

Thinking Mind May Turns Wish My Own Powerful Path Honesty Conviction Sufficient Straight Path

Book:Works and Correspondence: Letters, 1816-1818

Source: Works and Correspondence: Letters, 1816-1818

“Mutability is the badge of infirmity. It is seldom that a man continues to wish and design the same thing two days alike. Now he is for marrying; and now a mistress is preferred to a wife. Now he is ambitious and aspiring; presently the meanest servant is not more humble than he. This hour he squanders his money away; the next he turns miser. Sometimes he is frugal and serious; at other times profuse, airy, and gay.”

Men Two Sometimes Turns Next Wish Hours Wife Design Serious Gay Humble Servant Ambitious Mistress Two Days Marrying Badges Infirmity Misers Airy Frugal Mutability

Author:Pierre Charron

“Our mythology tells us so much about fathers and sons. ... What do we know about mothers and daughters? ... Our power is so oblique, so hidden, so ethereal a matter, that we rarely struggle with our daughters over actual kingdoms or corporate shares. On the other hand, our attractiveness dries as theirs blooms, our journey shortens just as theirs begins. We too must be afraid and awed and amazed that we cannot live forever and that our replacements are eager for their turn, indifferent to our wishes, ready to leave us behind.”

“I don't want to turn into one of those pathetic creatures who are always homesick, always saying I wish I were still in Beirut. I don't want to become like you, split between here and there. I know I'm not happy here, but why should I be unhappy in two countries?”

Knows Want Should Stills Two Country Turns Wish Like You Creatures Unhappy Splits Should I Pathetic Here And There Not Happy Homesick Two Countries Beirut

Book:Beirut Blues

Source: Beirut Blues

“I was thinking, I could turn him into a fly and drop him into a spider's web and watch him tangled and helpless and struggling, shut into the body of a dying buzzing fly; I could wish him dead until he died.I could fasten him to a tree and keep him there until he grew into the trunk and bark grew over his mouth. if he was under the ground I could walk over him stamping my feet.”

Source: Novels and Stories: The Lottery, The Haunting of Hill House, We Have Always Lived in the Castle, Other Stories and Sketches

“Love is the reason why my mother and father stick together in a hard life when they might each have an easier one apart; love is the reason why you choose a life with someone, and you don't turn back although your heart cries sometimes and your children see you cry and you wish out loud that things were easier. Love is getting up each day and fighting the same fight only to sleep that night in the same bed beside the same person because long ago, when you were younger and you did not see so clearly, you had chosen them.”

“On today's athletes: I wish I could turn back the clock a little bit so I'd have a chance to cut it up with those guys.”

Littles Today Guy Turns Wish Bits Sports Chance Cutting Little Bit Athlete Clock

Author:Eric Heiden

“The sweets we wish for, turn to loathed sours, Even in the moment that we call them ours.”

Moments Turns Wish Sweet Possession

Book:The Works: The Text Formed from an Entirely New Collation of the Old Editions: with the Various Readings, Notes, a Life of the Poet, and a History of the Early English Stage

Source: The Works: The Text Formed from an Entirely New Collation of the Old Editions: with the Various Readings, Notes, a Life of the Poet, and a History of the Early English Stage

“In beginning the world, if you don't wish to get chafed at every turn, fold up your pride carefully, put it under lock and key, and only let it out to air upon grand occasions. Pride is a garment all stiff brocade outside, all grating sackcloth on the side next to the skin.”

Ifs World Turns Next Wish Sides Air Pride Keys Skins Occasions Locks Folds Garments Lock And Key

Author:Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

“One of the most horrible, yet most important, discoveries of our age has been that, if you really wish to destroy a person and turn him into an automaton, the surest method is not physical torture, in the strict sense, but simply to keep him awake, i.e., in an existential relation to life without intermission.”

Ifs Persons Has Beens Important Age Turns Wish Discovery Relation Method Horrible Awake Torture Existential Strict Intermission

Author:W. H. Auden

“On the other end of the spectrum, we can't use this permission to sometimes say no and use it as a wand to wish away all our responsibilities. We also must remember not to use our "no" answers as a weapon. We can't turn into No! ninjas, karate-chopping anyone who even comes close to asking us for something.”

Ends Sometimes Use Remember Turns Wish Answers Responsibility Weapons Asking Permission Spectrum Karate Wands Ninja Chopping

Author:Lysa TerKeurst

“Whenever I am on camera or doing anything on mic, I don't have any process at all. I just do it and, when I'm finished, it goes away. There is no process. I wish there were some techniques to it. I just turn it on and off, and then I go home.”

Home Turns Wish Process Cameras Finished Technique Just Do It And Off Mics

Author:Eddie Murphy

“The little Plumpuppets are fairies of beds; They have nothing to do but watch sleepyheads; They turn down the sheets and they tuck you in tight, And dance on your pillow to wish you good night!”

Littles Night Turns Wish Watches Bed Fairy Sheets Pillow Wish You Faerie Good Night Tooth Fairy

Book:The Rocking Horse

Source: The Rocking Horse