I Wish Quotes

We must prepare and study truth under every aspect, endeavoring to ignore nothing, if we do not wish to fall into the abyss of the unknown when the hour shall strike.

Volumes are now written and spoken upon the effect of the mind upon the body. Much of it is true. But I wish a little more was thought of the effect of the body on the mind.

You who wish to conquer pain, you must learn what makes one kind.

I wish to thank Steinway for its wonderful pianos which I've been privileged to play in all my concerts. There is no piano like it in the world.

I wish someone would give me one shred of neutral evidence that financial innovation has led to economic growth — one shred of evidence.

Souls do not wish to be bullied, but gently brought back; such is the nature of man.

Far from wishing to awaken the artist in the pupil prematurely, the teacher considers it his first task to make him a skilled artisan with sovereign control of his craft.

If you skillfully follow the multidisciplinary path, you will never wish to come back. It would be like cutting off your hands.

The root of happiness is altruism - the wish to be of service to others.

The Jew does not wish to be isolated. He fears being alone, without allies.

"I wish I had never been born," she said. "What are we born for?" "For infinite happiness," said the Spirit. "You can step out into it at any moment..."

Wish that everything should come about just as it does.

I wish to die knowing that I took a fleeting instant of eternity and fashioned from it a lifetime.

Better to accept the wretched truth than struggle, twisting to make a wish a reality.

You dont have to get beat up as many times as I did to come to your senses. Certainly I wish Id come to mine earlier than I did.

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.

If you do not wish a man to do a thing, you had better get him to talk about it; for the more men talk, the more likely they are to do nothing else.

I'd always thought the world was a wish-granting factory.

Increase your joy by doing the good you wish to have done to you.

Sometimes I wish I were a cannibal – less for the pleasure of eating someone than for the pleasure of vomiting him.

The state of mind must be belief, not mere hope or wish. Open-mindedness is essential for belief. Closed minds do not inspire faith, courage, and belief.

Any one who wishes to become a good writer should endeavour, before he allows himself to be tempted by the more showy qualities, to be direct, simple, brief, vigorous, and lucid.

I wish people were all trees and I think I could enjoy them then.

If I had my way, I'd remove January from the calendar altogether and have an extra July instead.

The purpose that you wish to find in life, like a cure you seek, is not going to fall from the sky. ...I believe purpose is something for which one is responsible; it's not just divinely assigned.

I'd say to myself: "This is my dream, this is my wish." Because a wish is more than a wish. It is a goal. It is something your conscious and subconscious can help make reality.

It is said that those whom the gods wish to destroy they first make mad. It may well be that a war neurosis stirred up by propaganda of fear and hatred is the prelude to destruction.

I wish to go on living even after my death.

​To go where you're wishing you could go, first you must tie your shoes and step off the porch.

We must pray to God everyday to show we don't forget that all gifts come from Him. But if some wishes remain unfulfilled we must show our confidence in Him, for He knows best.

Nothing fixes a thing so intensely in the memory as the wish to forget it.

Love - is when you wish all the best to the people you love, when you put their interests and well-being above their own. Always.

How seek the way which leadeth to our wishes? By renouncing our wishes. The crown of excellence is renunciation.

I just do what I want to do without hurting other people and you know, I wish other people would do the same.

Books are for people who wish they were somewhere else.

If we wish not to go backwards, we must run.

You can’t help someone just by making a wish to do so, you have to take action.

Living in the limelight: the universal dream for those who wish to SEEM. Those who wish to BE, must put aside the alienation, get on with the fascination, the real relation, the underlying theme.

Much of my experience of life has cost me a great price and I wish to use it for strengthening and comforting other souls.

At the moment, most customers do not wish to pay the extra money for connection to the Internet, and for some customers, connection procedures to the Internet are still not easy.

Peace with all the world is my sincere wish. I am sure it is our true policy, and am persuaded it is the ardent desire of the government.

It is precisely because our present life is so inseparably linked with desire that we must make use of desire's tremendous energy if we wish to transform our life into something transcendental.

I don't feel guilt. Whatever I wish to do, I do.

I would advise him who wishes to imitate well, to look closely into life and manners, and thereby to learn to express them with truth.

Wish I could take your tears and replace them with laughter.

I wish I could have built without destroying things.

Wish you would learn to love people and use things and not the other way around

I made a wish on a sliver of moonlight A sly grin and a bowl full of stars

Learn to become still. And to take your attention away from what you don't want, and all the emotional charge around it, and place your attention on what you wish to experience.

We have fought long and hard to escape from medieval superstition. I, for one, do not wish to go back.