Quotes About Wishing You Were Good Enough

#1. But for half a minute she wished it was a different sort of day, even though she knew that nothing good could come from wanting at the world.

Patrick Rothfuss

#2. People say, oh it's a shame, you're not nostalgic about the '60s. Well actually, it's quite good, when you think of it. Wouldn't it be sad if I was sitting here wishing it back?

Robert Wyatt

#3. It is part of the human experience that we are constantly gripping a good fellow by the shoulders and wishing him well, taking comfort from the notion that we will hear word of him soon enough. But

Amor Towles

#4. I raise a glass, to make a toast wishing everything good for you, so happy birthday for today and health and happiness too.

Susan Smith

#5. Then he put in a call for Nicole in Zurich, remembering so many things as he waited, and wishing he had always been as good as he had intended to be.

F Scott Fitzgerald

#6. A monk should surely love his books with humility, wishing their good and not the glory of his own curiosity; but what the temptation of adultery is for laymen and the yearning for riches is for secular ecclesiastics, the seduction of knowledge is for monks.

Umberto Eco

#7. It is a good life we lead, brother,' said Federico with uncharacteristic solemnity.
'The best,' Ezio agreed.'And may it never change.'
They both paused - neither wishing to break the perfection of the moment - but after a while Federico quietly spoke.'May it never change us either, fratellino.

Oliver Bowden

#8. I've only ever looked at Marissa and seen an elegant, statuesque, gorgeous woman. But this morning, I find myself wishing she was a cute, rumpled, fiery brunette instead.
Shit! That's not good!

M. Leighton

#9. She settled for patting him vaguely on the back and wishing she was anywhere but there. Although he did smell good.

Stacia Kane

#10. The act of wishing someone a good life even if it means us not being a part of it is the purest act of love. To know what is best for someone.

Monique Gold

#11. It's no good wishing for the impossible. Don't wish. Remember. Remembrances are real.

Michael Morpurgo

#12. Uncomfortable thoughts must be got rid of by good intentions for the future,

George Eliot

#13. I wish I knew the good of wishing.

Henry Sambrooke Leigh

#14. And sometimes, sometimes, wanting things, wishing for, working for them, is a good thing. Otherwise, we become nothing but spoiled boys and girls frustrated that we don't get every new toy we see.

Lisa Tawn Bergren

#15. It's easy to let the assholes, the jerks, the bullies, the green-eyed monsters occupy all your mental headlines but look around, you've got friends and there are even more people who want you to do well, wishing you nothing but good cheer. Let them have all the publicity in your mental media.

Ezekiel Tyrus

#16. Worrying about something is like wishing for it to happen. Just pretend it's all good. Pretend enough and it becomes real.

Jill Shalvis

#17. It is no good wishing for what was not to be.

Celia Rees

#18. In order to be kind, one must do. There is no point in thinking good thoughts and not acting on them. There is no currency in wishing things were better but not rolling up one's sleeves and helping to change them.

Ingrid Newkirk

#19. Be careful what you wish for. It may turn out that making the wish was the only good part.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#20. I don't drink much anymore, because it's supposedly not good for me. I still have gallons of it around though. I smell the cork and do a lot of wishing.

Anton Szandor LaVey

#21. Then we realized that your Kind like to make laws. Like to decree what's what, and whether it's good or not. And the world, being a loving thing, and not wishing to disappoint you or distress you, indulges you. Behaves as though your doctrines are in some way absolute.

Clive Barker

#22. When I had woken up the next morning, I'd stared at my ceiling for a good ten minutes, reliving the dream, committing it to memory ... wishing it was real, wishing I could crawl back inside that dream and disappear
stay there forever.

S.C. Stephens

#23. People around you that you feel you're close to, are they really wishing you good things, you know?

Julie Delpy

#24. As the blinding lights of heaven in a slow march approach, to caress the earth to wake her up, I too would like to be a part of the legacy by wishing you,
"Happy Good Morning".

Harshada Pathare

#25. I got a call this morning, and it was from Nancy Kerrigan, wishing me luck. She wished me luck and sent me all her good wishes.

Michelle Kwan

#26. Rosalind: "So you don't want me either?" Rosalind flung up her hands. "Good! Because I am tiered of dealing with men. I really don't need any of you!"
Rhys: "That's the spirit, my lady. Keep that up and we'll all be wishing you to the devil very shortly.

Kate Pearce

#27. Poetry has been to me its own exceeding great reward; it has given me the habit of wishing to discover the good and beautiful in all that meets and surrounds me.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

#28. One good wish changes nothing. But one good decision changes everything. Your power to choose, to make a good decision, spells the difference between wishing and making real life changes.

Steve Goodier

#29. Alex pushed open the door to Sewell Hall and rushed inside, breathing heavily and wishing she hadn't worn her corset stays quite so tight this morning. "Vanity be damned," she huffed to herself. "Loveliness will do me no good with Blackmoor if I drop dead from lack of air before he sees me.

Sarah MacLean

#30. Maybe that's all that praying was, she thought, just wishing good outcomes on other people.

Katharine McGee

#31. It seems to me we can never give up longing and wishing while we are still alive. There are certain things we feel to be beautiful and good, and we must hunger for them.

George Eliot

#32. I wish you fair winds and following sea." And I explain that this is our way of wishing a person the best of luck and a long, good journey through life.

Nick Popaditch

#33. I, Lexi Anderson, am proud to say that I do, indeed, have a great personality.
And it's only a matter of time before the Beautiful People will be wishing they had great personalities, too.
Good luck with that, oh Beautiful Ones.
Because we Great Girls are the rarest breed.

Elizabeth Eulberg

#34. We bring champagne to Franklin and Jeffrey, and I offer a final toast, 'Wishing you all good things in your life together.' Short, simple, to the point.
I look at Meredith, relaxed in her ivory gown, my sister is all grown up. I'm grateful we did our growing up together.

Steven Rowley

#35. I wish it hadn't happened; but what good does this do? I can wish it wouldn't happen again - but here too, if I'm wishing the impossible, it will do no good at all.

Claire Messud

#36. Wishing for the impossible in the future is a good exercise, I think, especially for children; wishing for it in the past is surely the emptiest and saddest of occupations.

Edgar Pangborn

#37. [In the theatre] Thanks.' He paused on the stairs. "And good-
"Don't say it!" yelled Helena. "No whistling, no well-wishing."
"I thought you weren't superstitious."
"I'm not,' she said defiantly, 'but obviously there are limits.

Christopher Fowler

#38. Sitting still and wishing
Makes no person great;
The good Lord sends the fishing,
But you must dig the bait!

Daryl Hoole

#39. fact - no good ever came from just wishing.

Katherine Bayless