Instead Of Wishing Quotes

#1. Instead of wishing to see more doctors made by women joining what there are, I wish to see as few doctors, either male or female, as possible. For, mark you, the women have made no improvement they have only tried to be "men" and they have only succeeded in being third-rate men.

Florence Nightingale

#2. With this in mind, Ava tells herself to be present and celebrate the holiday instead of wishing it was over. After all, one is given only a certain number of Christmases in one's life.

Elin Hilderbrand

#3. Instead of wishing things would change, I'm asking God for His strength to make a change.

Lysa TerKeurst

#4. When the army doesn't come for you, when no one chooses to fight for you, when no one dives in after you with fairy tales and promises, you write a different story. You write a tale of adventure and chaos, of survival and fortitude, and instead of wishing to be saved, you save yourself.

Kelton Wright

#5. Just watching people's ability to adapt, especially young people's, inspires me to accept more in life instead of wishing things were different all the time.

Rhea Seehorn

#6. If I had my life to live over, instead of wishing away nine months of pregnancy, I'd have cherished ever moment and realized that the wonderment growing inside me was the only chance in life to assist God in a miracle.

Erma Bombeck

#7. Even when we were standing in the church and I was getting ready to take my vows, I can remember wishing that you were standing there, instead of him. Because I not only still loved you, but loved you beyond measure.

Nicholas Sparks

#8. I think ... the secret is to just settle for the shape of your life takes ... Instead of you know, always waiting and wishing for what might make you happy.

Wally Lamb

#9. Magrat said she could never make the wand do that and Esme said no because, she wasted time wishing for thinges to happen instead of working out how to make them happen.

Terry Pratchett

#10. You have to have a plan. This isn't wishing. Instead of always being in a hopeful situation - like, 'I hope one day ... ' - let's claim it now.

D'Brickashaw Ferguson

#11. I remember that I stood on the library steps holding my books and looking for a minute at the soft hinted green in the branches against the sky and wishing, as I always did, that I could walk home across the sky instead of through the village.

Shirley Jackson

#12. I reach for the book on my nightstand instead. Immersed in the story of a guy and a girl so entwined, so perfectly made for each other, their love transcends time. Wishing I could climb inside those pages and live there forever, preferring their story to mine.

Alyson Noel

#13. Change is constant, and we have to evolve or we wind up bitter and resentful, wishing to be with ghosts instead of the living.

Nancy K. Duplechain

#14. Work and pray rather instead of watching and wishing.

Anonymous

#15. The devil frequently fills our thoughts with great schemes, so that instead of putting our hands to what work we can do to serve our Lord, we may rest satisfied with wishing to perform impossibilities.

Teresa Of Avila

#16. Maybe instead of buying myself another Barbie, I could donate that to the Kmart Wishing Tree ...

Hamish Blake

#17. Most boys have seasons of wishing they could die gloriously instead of just being grocery clerks and going on with their humdrum lives.

Sherwood Anderson

#18. When you're trading well, you have a better mental attitude. When you're trading poorly, you start wishing and hoping. Instead of getting into trades you think will work, you end up getting into trades you hope will work.

Randy McKay

#19. I don't think we ever really live in the present; instead, we're either just this side of the past or future, wavering anxiously between anticipation and recollection. That's where I lived my life, always wanting, longing, wishing.

Jonathan Hull

#20. I definitely connected to the fact that life gets out of control and you end up doing things and wishing you were doing other things instead.

Adam Sandler

#21. ... wishing that I were one of those people who say all the right things at all the right times. But I'm not. Instead, I think of them hours later and only wish that I'd said them.

K. Bromberg

#22. For everyone now strives most of all to seperate his person, wishing to experience the fullness of life within himself, and yet what comes of all his efforts is not the fullness of life, but full suicide, for instead of the fullness of self-definition, they fall into complete isolation.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#23. Instead of complaining about how things should be, I embraced how things were. I stopped putting energy into wishing my life were any different - into wishing bad things didn't happen to me - and instead focused 100% on making the best of what I had. Since I

Hal Elrod

#24. I know you love the way I fuck you, Aubrey ... " He looked into my eyes, forcing his cock even deeper into my pussy. "And I know you've touched yourself every night this week, wishing it was my cock inside of you instead of your fingers.

Whitney Gracia Williams

#25. Now, late at night, she lay in bed alone, wishing the feel of the sheets on her body were the feel of a mans hands instead.

Lauren Royal

#26. A choice which confronts every one of us at every moment is this: Shall we permit our fellow men to know us as we now are, or shall we seek instead to remain an enigma, an uncertain quantity , wishing to be seen as something we are not?

Sidney Jourard

#27. Even when we were standing in church and I was getting ready to take my vow I can remember wishing that you were standing there instead of him.

Nicholas Sparks

#28. Knowing how to make a life mean something, to wring out its worth when it was right there in one's hands instead of just wishing about it afterward, or imagining how it could have been, or should have been, different.

Deborah Reed

#29. I wish people used wishes to modify themselves instead of others. Wish to be low maintenance. Wish to be autonomous, even.

Dan Harmon

#30. Esme said no because, she wasted time wishing for thinges instead of working out how to make them happen. What

Terry Pratchett