First Wishes Quotes

#1. I never mean, unless some particular circumstances should compel it, to possess another slave by purchase, it being among my first wishes to see some plan adopted, by which slavery in this country may be abolished by law.

George Washington

#2. When it occurs to a man that nature does not regard him as important, and that she feels she would not maim the universe by disposing of him, he at first wishes to throw bricks at the temple, and he hates deeply the fact that there are no bricks and no temples.

Stephen Crane

#3. To the frivolous Christianity is certainly not glad tidings, for it wishes first of all to make them serious.

Soren Kierkegaard

#4. My first rule of war, Cat-never give the enemy his wish

George R R Martin

#5. He who wishes to fight must first count the cost. When you engage in actual fighting, if victory is long in coming, then men's weapons will grow dull and their ardor will be dampened. If you lay siege to a town, you will exhaust your strength.

Sun Tzu

#6. This however is my teaching: he who wishes one day to fly, must first learn standing and walking and running and climbing and dancing:- one does not fly into flying!

Friedrich Nietzsche

#7. Whom God wishes to destroy, He first makes successful in show business.

Francis Ford Coppola

#8. who wishes to fight must first count the cost

Sun Tzu

#9. Every parent craves for a child, and once their wishes come true, they feel that it's not possible for them to love anyone more that the first born. But the fact is, after you have the second issue, the feeling is, how can I not love the kid?

Kajol

#10. The first right on earth is the right of the ego. Man's first duty is to himself. His moral law is never to place his prime goal within the persons of others. His moral obligation is to do what he wishes, provided his wish does not depend primarily upon other men.

Ayn Rand

#11. Letting yourself simply experience your difficulties without getting caught up in thoughts about how much you dislike them and in wishes that you didn't have to deal with them in the first place will change your experience of difficulties.

John Daishin Buksbazen

#12. I get the sense that his word is always the last spoken and his wishes the first ones to be fulfilled. He doesn't ask, he demands. He doesn't hope, he expects.

Mia Asher

#13. The best way to check what you want is to first imagine that you have nothing and then check if the thing you want really matters to you. Your priorities would change; your wishes would change for sure.

Vikrmn

#14. Every man who accomplishes things sees first in his mind what he wishes to do. He puts away all doubt. It makes no difference how small or how large the thing you want to do may be; if you have an unlimited confidence in your ability to do it, you will do

Charles Fillmore

#15. Best wishes for a great marathon. Be sure to savor it. The first marathon is something special. Run long and healthy.

Amby Burfoot

#16. The first principle of my own philosophy is that wisdom is meant for anyone who wishes to reach for it. It is the servant of commoner and king alike and should never be regarded with awe.

L. Ron Hubbard

#17. By taking a second wife he pays the highest compliment to the first, by showing that she made him so happy as a married man, that he wishes to be so a second time.

Samuel Johnson

#18. Anyone who wishes to combine domestic responsibilities and paid employment with the least stress and most enjoyment might start by pondering this paradox: the first step to better functioning is to stop blaming herself for not functioning well enough.

Faye J Crosby

#19. Similarly, anyone who wishes to understand the mind of the sacred writers must first cleanse his own life, and approach the saints by copying their deeds.

Athanasius

#20. Every dandelion blown,
each 'Star light, star bright
The first star I see tonight'.
My wish is always the same.
Every fallen eyelash
and first firefly of the summer
The dream remains

Jacqueline Woodson

#21. It's kind of a reflex for me to ignore my own wishes and think about other people first.

Etgar Keret

#22. Whoever wishes to hold the fortress of contemplation must first of all train in the camp of action.

Pope Gregory I

#23. Whoever wishes to go down a long path, must learn that the first lesson is to overcome early disappointments.

Paulo Coelho

#24. Be slow to speak, and only after having first listened quietly, so that you may understand the meaning, leanings, and wishes of those who do speak. Thus you will better know when to speak and when to be silent.

Saint Ignatius

#25. have written my first grateful thanks for a fresh new day in a new year.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#26. Convince yourself that you are working in clay, not marble, on paper not eternal bronze: Let that first sentence be as stupid as it wishes.

Jacques Barzun

#27. The first step to be taken by everyone who wishes to act morally is to decide not to act according to the general customs and doings of his fellow-men.

Jacques Maritain

#28. Whom fortune wishes to destroy she first makes mad

Publilius Syrus

#29. Consider the implications. We think we know what we want, but we can never really know until we've got it. And sometimes when we have, we discover we never really wanted it in the first place - but then it's too late

Alexandra Potter

#30. If I had Aladdin's lamp and the usual three wishes, the first would always be, 'Give me the first day of June.

Gladys Taber

#31. Sylvie wishes the anti-depressants had been around when she was in her early twenties, not only to rescue her from the dark tunnels that came when her brother first got sick, but also to keep her from fucking all those assholes.

Francesca Lia Block

#32. Employing your imagination is the first step to the fulfillment of any dream.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#33. My heart was tightening painfully, as it had after our first parting. Oh, how I was glad of this feeling! Could it be that youth wishes to return to me with its wholesome storms, or is this only its departing glance, its last gift, as a keepsake ... ?

Mikhail Lermontov

#34. There are two kinds of genius. The first and highest may be said to speak out of the eternal to the present, and must compel its age to understand it; the second understands its age, and tells it what it wishes to be told.

James Russell Lowell

#35. I thought I was pretty damn clever. She said that was all right, she'd make three wishes. The first was that I wouldn't piss this money away being an idiot and forgetting I had

Nora Roberts

#36. The person who wishes to attain human perfection should study logic first, next mathematics, then physics, and, lastly, metaphysics.

Maimonides

#37. I have only two wishes," said Jean. "The first is for strong coffee, and the second is for stronger coffee.

Scott Lynch

#38. If someone said to me that you can have three wishes, my first would have been to get into racing, my second to be in Formula 1, my third to drive for Ferrari.

Gilles Villeneuve

#39. My first husband, yes, I eloped with him from Hungary against my mother's wishes.

Eva Gabor

#40. If a dog doesn't put you first where are you both? In what relation? A dog needs God. It lives by your glances, your wishes. It even shares your humor. This happens about the fifth year. If it doesn't happen you are only keeping an animal.

Enid Bagnold

#41. My grand baby is growing so fast, I can't believe she's already celebrating her first birthday in this month of October 2016. Happy Birthday Norah Grace, grandma loves you.

Euginia Herlihy

#42. Jo's breath gave out here, and wrapping her head in the paper, she bedewed her little story with a few natural tears, for to be independent and earn the praise of those she loved were the dearest wishes of her heart, and this seemed to be the first step toward that happy end.

Louisa May Alcott

#43. Those whom God wishes to destroy, he first makes angry.

Euripides

#44. It is quite clear to me that the religious paradise of youth, which [I] lost, was a first attempt to free myself from the chains of the 'merely personal,' from an existence which is dominated by wishes, hopes, and primitive feelings.

Albert Einstein

#45. He who wishes to gain understanding, must first depart from devilish ways.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#46. Welcome to apartment life," Cash breathed.
"I sure know how to make a great first impression," I muttered, following Cash as he laughed. I didn't see what was so funny. I'd been yearning for that kiss for months.
"No welcome cookies for you then.

Shaye Evans

#47. If someone wishes for good health, one must first ask oneself if he is ready to do away with the reasons for his illness. Only then is it possible to help him.

Hippocrates

#48. If government wishes to see a depression ended as quickly as possible and the economy returned to normal prosperity, what course should it adopt? The first and clearest injunction is: Don't interfere with the market's adjustment process.

Murray Rothbard

#49. Whoever wishes to investigate medicine should proceed thus: In the first place, consider the seasons of the year and what effect each of them produces.

Hippocrates

#50. If you truly want to help the poor, first become rich yourself.

Stephen Richards

#51. They told us not to wish in the first place, not to aspire, not to try; to be quiet, to play nice, to shoot low and aspire not at all. They are always wrong. Follow your dreams. Make your wishes. Create the future. And above all, believe in yourself.

J. Michael Straczynski

#52. A teacher should, above all things, first induce a desire in the pupil for the acquisition he wishes to impart.

Horace Mann

#53. If a man wishes to become a hero, then the serpent must first become a dragon: otherwise he lacks his proper enemy.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#54. T h e C o n t e x t Anyone who wishes to master an activity must first understand its tools and rules

Anonymous

#55. Three things are required of you: the wishes you made when you first knew the breadth of this life; the contract you signed when you decided your wishes were not true or possible; and the exacting of the punishment you agreed to when you knew you would break the contract of your life.

Jesse Ball

#56. Wish on everything. Pink cars are good, especially old ones. And stars of course, first stars and shooting stars. Planes will do if they are the first light in the sky and look like stars. Wish in tunnels, holding your breath and lifting your feet off the ground. Birthday candles. Baby teeth.

Francesca Lia Block