Wishing Quotes


"Rather than wishing for change, you first must be prepared to change."

"While wishing and hoping makes you a dreamer, acting and doing makes you someone who can turn dreams into reality." Nan S. Russell

"A necessary skill for achieving that which you desire in your life is the ability to give the task at hand that one last go around." Josh Hinds

"Wishing does not make a poor man rich." Wisdom of an Arabian Proverb

"Not for any grand cause, necessarily-but for something that tugs at your heart, something that's your aspiration, something that's your dream." Author Unknown, Dream Big

"When we get older, some of us lose our dreams and our ambitions, and are content to accept mediocrity." Catherine Pulsifer, What We Believe

"Great minds have purposes, others have wishes." Washington Irving

"A man of the world must seem to be what he wishes to be thought." Jean De La Bruyère

"A man will sometimes devote all his life to the development of one part of his body - the wishbone." Robert Frost

"Stop the mindless wishing that things would be different. Rather than wasting time and emotional and spiritual energy in explaining why we don't have what we want, we can start to pursue other ways to get it." Greg Anderson

"A wish is a desire without an attempt." Farmer Digest

"Set aside a fraction of your time to carry out your dreams and ambitions." Michael Lee, Use Your Time Wisely!



"Wishing consumes as much energy as planning." Author Unknown

"You can't cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water. Don't let yourself indulge in vain wishes." Rabindranath Tagore

"Many of us spend half our time wishing for things we could have if we didn't spend half our time wishing." Alexander Woollcott

"Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting difficulties, passing from one step of success to another, forming new wishes and seeing them gratified. " Samuel Johnson

"The trouble with most people is that they think with their hopes or fears or wishes rather than with their minds." Will Durant

"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

"You must go after your wish. As soon as you start to pursue a dream, your life wakes up and everything has meaning." Barbara Sher

"If wishes were horses beggars might ride." Wisdom of a English Proverb

"If a man could half his wishes he would double his Troubles." Benjamin Franklin

"Don't be afraid of missing opportunities. Behind every failure is an opportunity somebody wishes they had missed." Lily Tomlin

"Strong lives are motivated by dynamic purposes; lesser ones exist on wishes and inclinations." Kenneth Hildebrand

"Never grow a wishbone, daughter, where your backbone ought to be." Clementine Paddleford

"The failure wishes he could do things he could never do. He thinks little of what he can do." Mark Caine



"If things are not as you wish, wish them as they are." Yiddish Proverb

"There is always a light at the end of each tunnel, but it is only visible and obtainable to those who wish to see it." Michelle C. Ustaszeski

"You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it come true. You may have to work for it, however." Richard Bach

"What is hope? Hope is wishing for a thing to come true; faith is believing that it will come true." Wisdom of Norman Vincent Peale

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

"Wishes won't wash dishes." Wisdom of a American Proverb

"Work while others are wishing." William Arthur Ward

"To wish for changes in your life is no better than playing that long shot at the gaming table, the horse races, or the lottery pool. If you think that positive and needed changes in your life will happen this way then your chances to experience those changes are remote if not impossible." Byron Pulsifer, Nothing Ventured, Nothing Gained

"So many people make wishes, and that is all they do - wish. They never take action; they think and talk about it, start a few things but not finish anything. A saying that is worthy to note: Never confuse motion with action." Catherine Pulsifer, Quote of The Year



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"Great souls have wills;
feeble ones have
only wishes."

Chinese Proverb



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"If your wishes are
turned into goals,
then your wishes
may come true!"

Catherine Pulsifer


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