Quotes of Wishing - somelinesforyou

“ We would often be sorry if our wishes were gratified. ”

- Aesop

“ Wishing of all strategies, is the worst. ”

- Andrew Young

“ When we get to wishing a great deal for ourselves, whatever we get soon turns into mere limitation and exclusion. ”

- George Eliot

“ The wishing gate opens into nothing. ”

- Charles Haddon Spurgeon

“ If wishes were horses then beggars would ride. ”

- Unknown

“ Many of us spend half our time wishing for things we could have if we didn't spend half our time wishing. ”

- Alexander Woollcott

“ Let us act on what we have, since we have not what we wish. ”

- John Henry Cardinal Newman

“ Let us act on what we have, since we have not what we wish. ”

- Cardinal Newman

“ Beware what you set your heart upon. For it shall surely be yours. ”

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

“ If wishes were horses, then beggars would ride. ”

- Unknown

“ My only wish is that my wishes be at rest. ”

- Unknown

“ Some people develop a wishbone where their backbone should be. ”

- Unknown

“ Some people develop a wishbone where their backbone should be. ”

- Unknown

“ There is no beautifier of complexion or form of behavior like the wish to scatter joy, and not pain, around us. ”

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

“ We are never further from our wishes than when we imagine that we possess what we have desired. ”

- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“ 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 wise man is content with his lot, whatever it be — without wishing for what he has not. ”

- Lucius Anneaus Seneca

“ If a man could have half of his wishes, he would double his troubles. ”

- Benjamin Franklin

“ DATO'S LAW. Wishes expand in direct proportion to the resources available for their gratification. ”

- Robert Dato

“ A wish is a desire without an attempt. ”

- Farmer Digest

“ Men try to run life according to their wishes; life runs itself according to necessity. ”

- Jean Toomer

“ A man, when he wishes, is the master of his fate. ”

- Jose Ferrer

“ I didn't get there by wishing for it or hoping for it, but by working for it. ”

- Estee Lauder

“ A man of the world must seem to be what he wishes to be thought. ”

- Jean de la Bruyere

“ We must not wish anything other than what happens from moment to moment, all the while, however, exercising ourselves in goodness. ”

- St. Catherine of Genoa

“ To do nothing evil is good; to wish nothing evil is better. ”

- Claudius

“ If wishes were fishes, we'd all be throwing nets. If wishes were horses, we'd all ride. ”

- Doug Horton

“ Industry need not wish. ”

- Benjamin Franklin

“ Leave off wishing to deserve any thanks from anyone, thinking that anyone can ever become grateful. ”

- Gaius Valerius Catullus

“ To a resolute mind, wishing to do is the first step toward doing. But if we do not wish to do a thing it becomes impossible. ”

- South
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