Top 100 What You Wish Quotes
#1. Tell me what you wish for, and if it's any part of my body, your wish will come true at the Regency Hotel in forty minutes." She'd giggled and turned her face to the sunlight. "Free, Jonathan. I wish to be free.
C.D. Reiss
#2. You don't get what you wish for; you get what you work for.
Daniel Milstein
#3. Never let yourself be diverted, either by what you wish to believe, or what you think could have beneficent social effects if it were believed; but look only and solely at what are the facts.
Bertrand Russell
#4. You cannot have everyone else's happiness in mind as well when you go out seeking your own. It's not as if what you wish to of with your life is going to take away anything from theirs.
Musharraf Ali Farooqi
#6. Hence the reason I encourage you to believe what you wish. The heaven of teh Pastafarians is supposed to have beer volcanoes, which sounds like a fantastic idea to me. Imagine eruptions of a mellow chocolaty stout. There might be all-you-can-eat hot wings."~Atticus
Kevin Hearne
#7. Don't sacrifice what you wish for most for what you wish for now
Curtis Martin
#9. We have a fair on our farm every year - a gymkhana and a dog show and a funfair and a heavy-horse show. It was my idea. Be careful what you wish for - it's a monster.
Martin Clunes
#10. Be careful what you wish for. It may turn out that making the wish was the only good part.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#11. That's just the first part. What others call you, you become. It's a terrible magic that everyone can do - so do it. Call yourself what you wish to become.
Catherynne M Valente
#13. You are a very real person when that is what you wish you weren't most.
Sam Pink
#14. feel as if I'm visiting home in a dream, where everything yet nothing is the way it should be, where the best of what you have and what you wish for are briefly, tantalizingly united. Tealing
Julia Glass
#15. Sometimes when you get what you wish for, it's not what you want at all.
M.K. Schiller
#16. Expression is saying what you wish to say, Impression is saying what others wish to hear.
Krishna Saagar
#17. Stop throwing away days, weeks, months, and years by simply day-dreaming about what you wish your life would be.
Steve Maraboli
#19. You know what makes me stop crying?"
"What, darlin'?"
"Kisses. Lots and lots of kisses."
"Careful what you wish for, beautiful.
J.T. Geissinger
#21. I couldn't tell you why the carnival lured me with its sticky fingers and bright, whirling colors, except to say that it was different, and that excited me. I'd only read about 'different' in books, never experienced it for myself. Perhaps it was a case of be careful what you wish for.
Jane Harvey-Berrick
#22. You don't always get what you wish for. Especially in Nazi Germany
Markus Zusak
#26. Be careful what you wish for, people. You just might get it.
Liz Fenton
#27. Call it vanity, call it arrogant presumption, call it what you wish, but I would grope for the nearest open grave if I had no newspaper to work for, no need to search for and sometimes find the winged word that just fits, no keen wonder over what each unfolding day may bring.
Bob Considine
#28. The nearest way to glory a shortcut, as it were is to strive to be what you wish to be thought to be.
Socrates
#30. You learn to ride on the path and keep your eyes open so you can see what is there, not what you wish were there ... And then after all you might discover that what is there is what you wished for all along.
Kate Elliott
#31. Draw the attention of those who do things out of spite, to something else, away from what you wish to avoid.
Nabil N. Jamal
#32. Pay attention to what you wish you were doing when you're doing something else.
Joyce Rachelle
#33. Life is made up of chances to make choices, decisions of what you wish to do; the accumulated result of those choices is what you call your life.
Steven Redhead
#35. What you wish for in life someone already has
what you already have, someone else needs
What you take for granted, someone else is wishing for
Steven Aitchison
#36. Be careful of what you wish for because sometimes it just might come untrue.
Jonathan Dunne
#37. You are in a pitiable condition if you have to conceal what you wish to tell.
Publilius Syrus
#38. I had rather face wild beasts and diseases than the perils of civilization.
There is a proverb, which Tom was kind enough not to voice: be careful what you wish for. Unfortunately, not only did I get it, but so did those around me.
Marie Brennan
#39. Careful what you wish for, lad, Rob thought. Blood's not so easy to put back in, once you let it flow. Your own no more than anybody else's.
Victor Milan
#40. Every day you have the freedom to pursue what you wish to become.
Steven Redhead
#41. With your own wish and desires, never accept alternative offered chances, only stand strong to making your own choice into reality. You will stand a chance to be what you wish to be with your own words.
Auliq Ice
#42. But that's how the tree works, ain't it? It gives you what you wish for but not in a way that makes things better. I suppose that's the difference between what you want and what you need." Molly
Jonathan Auxier
#43. Patriotism, nationalism,' she said impatiently. 'Call it what you wish. Mine the only flag, mine the only way. All else is inferior, trample it underfoot. Despise it, detest it.
Ausma Zehanat Khan
#44. Beware what you wish for, unless you have the grace to hope that your luck can be shared.
Christopher Hitchens
#45. The schools must fashion the person, and fashion him in such a way that he simply cannot will otherwise than what you wish him to will.
Johann Gottlieb Fichte
#47. I'm sorry you never got to live the life you wanted. Or see the world. Have an adventure." He chuckled low in his throat. "Oh, no? I'd say we were having quite the adventure, you and I. They always said to be careful what you wish for, but I wouldn't listen.
Julie Klassen
#48. You have exactly the same number of hours per day that were given to any of your heroes. Become what you wish to be.
Andy Biersack
#49. Life is not what you wish it to be, rather it's what you make it.
Steven Redhead
#50. Live as if you already are what you wish to become.
William Jones
#51. When you are studying any matter or considering any philosophy, ask yourself only: what are the facts, and what is the truth that the facts bear out. Never let yourself be diverted by what you wish to believe, but look only and surely at what are the facts.
Bertrand Russell
#52. Be what you wish your children to be. Parents have perpetuated by precept and example their own stamp of character to their posterity.
Ellen G. White
#53. you will need to figure out what you wish to do with your time." He said in a sickening and patronizing tone. He might as well have been talking to an aimless teenager flailing to launch into the world.
K.J. Kilton
#54. Be careful what you wish for because you will get it. Be even more careful what you work for because you will get it even more quickly.
Colin Cunningham
#55. The strength and clarity of the picture you envision at the start will tell you when you are done. You are finished when you have said what you wish to say, when nothing added can make it better.
Richard Schmid
#56. If fear is holding you back in life, you must attack it, Kate. Not make excuses about why you cannot attempt what you wish to do. That you can't because you're a woman. Especially you, given that your parents educated you as a son.
Gaelen Foley
#57. Do for one what you wish you could do for everyone.
Andy Stanley
#58. Utilise each moment to achieve what you wish to experience.
Steven Redhead
#59. Honor is honesty to what is, not blind duty to what you wish to be.
Terry Goodkind
#63. Life at home is at a pace which allows you to appreciate what it has to offer. Simultaneously you get a chance to reflect on what you wish from it. Our development also goes at the same pace, which is not something that everyone appreciates.
Gloria D. Gonsalves
#64. Look to see what you are doing today. Is this how you choose to define yourself? Look to see what you are thinking today. Is this what you wish to create?
Neale Donald Walsch
#65. Be careful. You may get exactly what you wish for.
Campbell Black
#67. So long as you write what you wish to write, that is all that matters; and whether it matters for ages or only for hours, nobody can say.
Virginia Woolf
#68. Be careful what you wish for,her mind thundered.
Julia Quinn
#69. Careful what you wish for; the darkness in my heart is kept in check by the smallest amount of light.
Liberty Stone
#70. Be careful what you wish for - getting to be a successful business and maintaining it is so hard. Anyone can be good one night; being good over several years is incredibly difficult.
David Chang
#71. Fantastic days are what you wish upon those who have so few sunrises left, those whose lungs are so lesion-spangled with new cancer that they should be embracing as much life as they can. Time's a-wasting, go out and have yourself a fantastic day! Fantastic days are for goners.
David Rakoff
#72. Perhaps it is better not to tell what you wish. if you cannot have it.
J.R.R. Tolkien
#73. Appreciate what 'is' while you nurture what you wish 'to be'!
Soren Sorensen
#74. Everybody that wants to be successful should always be careful of what you wish for. A lot of artists and entertainers want to put the genie back in the bottle and wish they could go back to being what they were.
Ice Cube
#75. There's just something unsettling about studying your reflection. It's not a matter of being dissatisfied with your face or of being embarrassed by your vanity. Maybe it's that when you gaze into your own eyes, you don't see what you wish to see - or glimpse something that you wish weren't there.
Dean Koontz
#77. You know, one thing I've learned in my time on this earth Be careful what you wish for.
Elijah
#78. Thus I urge you to go onto your greatness if you believe it is in you. Think deeply and separate what you wish from what you are prepared to do.
Percy Cerutty
#79. Don't just wish; be passionate about what you wish to see happen. Rise up and make it happen.
Israelmore Ayivor
#80. Sometimes you just got to give yourself what you wish someone else would give you.
Phillip C. McGraw
#81. You are affluent when you buy what you want, do what you wish and don't give a thought to what it costs.
J. P. Morgan
#83. Be careful what you wish for, I guess. I believe - this will sound bloated, but I believe it - that true art, the potent stuff, can take the world down with it, just like religion can. And the opposite of course.
Porochista Khakpour
#85. One of the downsides of being famous is that folks pay far more attention to you than they should. American celebrities are constantly under surveillance, and every word they say is subject to scrutiny. So, be careful what you wish for if you desire fame. No human being should be a goldfish.
Bill O'Reilly
#86. I really would like to be involved in things and to understand things, and in some ways you've got to be careful what you wish for because I feel very, very blessed to have such an interesting life and to be able to have little snapshots of lives of people from many different parts of the world.
Yo-Yo Ma
#87. What you wish for, what you most hope for - that is your greatest illusion.
Christopher Pike
#88. Do now what you wish to have done when your moment comes to die.
St. Angela Merici
#89. Wanting to change your handwriting may be an indication that you are ready, or wanting, to change a whole lot of other things in your life as well. You alone can decide what you wish to change and why.
Rosemary Sassoon
#90. Never say always... Never say never.
***Be careful what you wish for***
Piper Stewart
#91. [ ... ] the first lesson about the nature of memory: what you wish to forget, you may not be able to. What seems to have died, perhaps is just asleep.
Noam Shpancer
#92. You do not get what you wish for, unless it be known to the source of your desire.
T.F. Hodge
#93. Now, that's where you're wrong. You're looking for something you don't see, what you wish you could see, instead of focusing on what you can see.
M. Clarke
#94. Be careful what you wish for or pray for, because whatever you wish for or pray for, you will have to take care of.
Lisa Bedrick
#95. Perhaps it is because my conviction is anyone may believe whatever they wish. Intolerance is a greater offense against God than holding a strange or even inconsistent belief. You have the right to worship what you wish - a pile of stones in your garden - as long as you do not injure others.
Anne Perry
#96. You should be careful what you wish for, as the reasons for war get confused. One person can be very clear in their motives, but others can have different agendas.
Dougray Scott
#97. I mean, you know, sometimes, yeah, you wish for something and you don't get quite what you wish for. But you get something bigger and better.
Rupert Sanders
#98. You have an affair to get for yourself what you wish would come from the person you love the most. And then you have broken her heart and she can never give you any of it ever again.
Ariel Levy
#99. When you stop comparing what is right here and now with what you wish were, you can begin to enjoy what is.
Cheri Huber
#100. Be careful what you wish for. You never know who will be listening.
Terry Pratchett