Top 100 Wish For Quotes
#1. When the wish for peace is genuine, the means for finding it is giving in a form each mind that seeks for it in honesty can understand.
Helen Schucman
#2. A person could wish for one thing and speak of another, and their fate, their kismet, was the thing that could bring the two together. Even
Orhan Pamuk
#3. Should humans conquer the mountain or should they wish for the mountain to possess them?
Kiran Desai
#5. All beings wish for happiness, so extend your compassion to all.
Gautama Buddha
#6. So many wish for magic so many beg for fame, but if you could manifest anything you want life would be a boring game.
Stanley Victor Paskavich
#7. My wish for both of you is that the biggest fight you have is over who is the most forgiving.
Jamie McGuire
#8. 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
#9. It shocks me how I wish for ... what is lost and cannot come back.
Sue Monk Kidd
#11. I hope we win the game tonight." "I hope I pass my final tomorrow." We often use the word hope as a wish for something to happen. But hope in God is something far deeper. It's knowing that he's in control, that he loves us, and that our future is secure in him.
Max Lucado
#12. I'd just love magic. I'd love to be able to just click and transport. I'd be like a fairy little godmother, I think, going round hearing what people wish for and seeing what I could do for them.
Delta Goodrem
#13. But here's the truth: no matter how much you might wish for it, princes don't come around every day, and happy endings don't grow on trees. Take it from me: the sooner you grow up, the less you'll be disappointed.
Jodi Picoult
#14. I imagine I should have told it to you before? I love you, Sejal.I wish for you to become my wife.Recently I've also opened a shop in North Dakota and thinking that, just maybe, you love me too.
Chayada Welljaipet
#15. How did anyone see the stars and not wish for more than the confinement they were born to?
Diana Peterfreund
#16. How exquisitely human was the wish for permanent happiness, and how thin human imagination became trying to achieve it.
Toni Morrison
#17. 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
#18. Brock 'Slim' Lucas looked at his oldest son, his eyes moved to his youngest son and then they slid to his wife.
And when his eyes hit her shining ones he realized he had not one thing to wish for. Not one. There was nothing he wanted.
He had it all right here.
Kristen Ashley
#19. Whoever lights the torch of war in Europe can wish for nothing but chaos.
Adolf Hitler
#20. I strongly wish for what I faintly hope; like the daydreams of melancholy men, I think and think in things impossible, yet love to wander in that golden maze.
John Dryden
#21. The healthy eye ought to see all visible things and not to say, I wish for green things; for this is the condition of a diseased eye.
Marcus Aurelius
#22. Beware what you wish for, unless you have the grace to hope that your luck can be shared.
Christopher Hitchens
#23. Anyone who says they don't enjoy the Army is mad - you can spend a week hating it and the next week it could be the best thing in the world and the best job you could ever, ever wish for. It has got so much to offer.
Prince Harry
#24. Whoever then wishes to be free, let him neither wish for anything nor avoid anything which depends on others: if he does not observe this rule, he must be a slave.
Epictetus
#25. Games I do find interesting for what they say about us, about what we wish for, about the programming. But let it stop there: don't listen to this rubbish about them actually being good for you, helping with hand-eye co-ordination or whatever. They're games. They prepare you for nothing.
Douglas Coupland
#26. 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
#27. When we feel like there isn't enough time in the day for us to get everything done, when we wish for more time," wrote sociologist Christine Carter, "we don't actually need more time. We need more stillness.
Arianna Huffington
#29. Don't wish it was easier wish you were better. Don't wish for less problems wish for more skills. Don't wish for less challenge wish for more wisdom
Jim Rohn
#30. You can't just wish for a better life, you must go out there and create it.
Joel Brown
#31. It's tempting to wish for the perfect boss, the perfect parent, or the perfect outfit. But maybe the best any of us can do is not to quit, play the hand we've been dealt, and accessorize what we've got.
Candace Bushnell
#32. It is expedient for the victor to wish for peace restored; for the vanquished it is necessary.
Seneca The Younger
#33. The basis of all disappointment is the disproportion between what we imagine or wish for to make us happy and what we actually possess.
Fulton J. Sheen
#34. To wish for the happiest days is to wish for a season of sorrow; for it is only after prolonged, wintry darkness that the summer sun appears to shine at its brightest.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#35. Hope for love, pray for love, wish for love, dream for love ... but don't put your life on hold waiting for love
Mandy Hale
#36. I know women are supposed to stand on their own and all. I get that. But every once in a while it doesn't hurt to wish for a fairy godmother, a little magic, and a happy ending.
Jennifer Salvato Doktorski
#37. If your knowledge of fire has been turned to certainty by words alone, then seek to be cooked by the fire itself. Don't abide in borrowed certainty. There is no real certainty until you burn; if you wish for this, sit down in the fire.
Rumi
#38. What's "God"? Well, you know, when you want something really bad and you close your eyes and you wish for it? God's the guy that ignores you.
Steve Buscemi
#39. When I was a kid, I was surrounded by girls: older sisters, older girl cousins just down the street ... except for an older boy named Vito who threw rocks. Each year I would wish for a baby brother. It never happened.
Wally Lamb
#40. She wondered again about her inclination to wish for things that made her so deeply unhappy.
Ann Brashares
#41. Most people wish for riches, but few people provide the definite plan and burning desire which pave the road to wealth.
Napoleon Hill
#42. I look at the world and my own life as if I were a stranger. I wish for nothing, except perhaps that time would stop.
Amin Maalouf
#43. Character is a wish for a perfect education.
Novalis
#44. Have you no wish for others to be saved? Then you're not saved yourself, be sure of that!
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
#45. Mortals always want something more- they wish for money, but what they're really after is to be carefree. Power when what they really want is control. Beauty when they want love. Sometimes they know it, sometimes they don't
Jackson Pearce
#46. We are partners in our own deception. The lies we tell ourselves. The life we have settled for, when we yearn for the life we wish for. We become our own worst enemy as we yearn for the things we don't have and discredit the gifts we have.
Tony Curl
#47. He thought about his long life and gave thanks for all the bounty and joy that he had been given. To want more, to wish for yet more, he knew, would be petty. He sighed happily, and listened to the wind sweeping down from the mountains, to the chirping of night birds.
Khaled Hosseini
#48. I do not wish for anyone's downfall. The world needs successful people. I just think of ways to add more value to myself, and wish that my adversaries would do the same.
Innocent Mwatsikesimbe
#49. When faced with a problem, we have two options: solve it or wish for it to go away. If you don't solve it, it will never go away.
Vinita Kinra
#50. Political correctness is just tyranny with manners. I wish for you the courage to be unpopular. Popularity is history's pocket change. Courage is history's true currency.
Charlton Heston
#51. Control is an illusion. No one has it. I don't even have it. You can't wish for control; you can only learn to play your part in a world where nothing is truly certain. And you do have a part to play.
Susan Meissner
#53. I wish for you a life of wealth, health and happiness; a life in which you give to yourself the gift of patience, the virtue of reason, the value of knowledge, and the influence of faith in your own ability to dream about and achieve worthy rewards.
Jim Rohn
#54. Success is the number one wish for everyone wishing to prosper.
Auliq Ice
#55. Nearly all of us have a deep rooted wish for peace-peace on earth; but we shall never attain the true peace-the peace of love, and not the uneasy equilibrium of fear-until we recognize the place of animals in the scheme of things and treat them accordingly.
Hugh Dowding, 1st Baron Dowding
#56. If people perceive you as a good actor then they'll wish for you to be a good actor and they'll root for you when they watch you, but if you come out and you're going to clubs every night people don't root for you anymore.
Shia Labeouf
#57. 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
#58. For the most part, we should pray rather in aspiration than petition, rather by hoping than requesting; in which spirit also we may breathe a devout wish for a blessing on others upon occasions when it might be presumptuous to beg it.
Leigh Hunt
#59. The Filipino mind is always imagining new and exciting ideas while his/her spirit gets the vision for the ultimate victory. It's not that what they wish for is so extraordinary, but that their faith adds to its realization.
Tim Liwanag
#60. If I could wish for my life to be perfect, it would be tempting; but
I would have to decline, for life would no longer teach me
anything.
Allyson Jones
#61. If you were given one wish, what would you wish for? To wish no more.
J.R. Rim
#62. Agatha wondered what these girls' souls would wish for. Depth, perhaps.
Soman Chainani
#63. If you could wish on a star right now, what would you wish for?"I ask him.
"For time to stop.
"Why?"
He shrugs.
"Cause I could live forever at this moment.
Simone Elkeles
#64. When I go to a restaurant, yeah, I know that a line is probably going to form in front of the table, but didn't I always wish for that? Yeah, I did.
Taylor Swift
#65. And that is my wish for you: flourish and prosper!
L. Ron Hubbard
#66. And how do you really feel?
Like I'll never recover. Like I'll never draw another breath without half of it being a wish for him.
Jane Seville
#67. Daydreams were dangerous because they made her wish for things she could never have.
Julie Garwood
#68. Not a tie hold me to human society at this moment - not a charm or hope calls me where my fellow-creatures are - none that saw me would have a kind thought or a good wish for me. I have no relative but the universal mother, Nature.
Charlotte Bronte
#69. You wish for what's called wooing. This customary game, where the man shows the woman that resistance is impractical, strikes me as quite pointless.
Tara West
#70. I wish for her to have love, and just enough heartbreak to appreciate it.
Jenny Lawson
#71. It's strange. Home. How I could wish for it so long, only to come back and find it gone.
Stephanie Perkins
#72. If you are not now in a relationship, our wish for you is that reading these stories gives you hope - that love will come to you at just the right time; that even now, your soul mate is looking for you, and that destiny will bring you together.
Jack Canfield
#73. You mustn't wish for another life. You mustn't want to be somebody else. What you must do is this:
"Rejoice evermore.
Pray without ceasing.
In everything give thanks."
I am not all the way capable of so much, but those are the right instructions.
Wendell Berry
#74. Energise your desires utilising your heart energy to create the things that you wish for in your life.
Steven Redhead
#75. If he had to wish, what would he wish for, he asked himself. What was there to wish for ... a wish asked for the unattainable. The impossible.
Dalene Matthee
#76. Tendai remembered his last birthday. It seemed one shouldn't make wishes idly. Who knew which spirits were listening. He considered a moment and then thought, I wish for courage. Because with courage, you weren't afraid to look at the truth. You weren't afraid to ask questions or do the right thing.
Nancy Farmer
#77. I'm the kind of person that when I really want something, I wish for it. I wish on shooting stars. I wish on lots of things.
Picabo Street
#78. Read a book without thinking about finishing it. Just read it. Enjoy every word, sentence, and paragraph. Don't wish for it to end, or for it to never end.
Matt Haig
#79. That's the truth, I guess. We don't catch moments in the passing. We don't catch them at all. We just reach and scramble and wish for fairy godmothers and Prince Charmings. It's too bad none of it is real. It really is too bad.
Amy Zhang
#80. They seemed happy and contented, though," remarked the Wizard, "and those who are contented have nothing to regret and nothing more to wish for.
L. Frank Baum
#81. Be careful. You may get exactly what you wish for.
Campbell Black
#82. In sickness and in sickness. That is what I wish for you. Don't seek or expect miracles. There are no miracles. Not anymore. And there are no cures for the hurt that hurts most. There is only the medicine of believing each other's pain, and being present for it.
Jonathan Safran Foer
#83. No matter how much kids beg to be treated like adults, nobody likes to let go of their childhood. You wish for it and dream of it and the second you have it, you wonder what you've done. You wonder what it is you've become.
Daniel H. Wilson
#85. I wish for many reasons flying had never been invented.
Stanley Baldwin
#86. That is how you know you've left childhood behind-when you wish for time to go backward.
Alice Hoffman
#87. Be careful what you wish for,her mind thundered.
Julia Quinn
#88. I'm not sure why the saying goes ... "be careful what you wish for" ... it should be, "prepare yourself for your wishes". We need to know ahead of time to prepare for what we wish for, so that when our wishes come true, we don't regret the wish or have them turn into nightmares.
C. Nzingha Smith
#89. We forget that despite the superficial differences between us, people are equal in their basic wish for peace and happiness.
Dalai Lama
#90. Many, I fear, would like glory, who have no wish for grace. They would [want to] have the wages, but not the work; the harvest, but not the labor; the reaping, but not the sowing; the reward, but not the battle. But it may not be.
J.C. Ryle
#91. If I have one wish for my birthday, it is that 35 is the end of desperation and the beginning of acceptance. Part of that is believing that if I'm meant to give birth, I will.
Jessi Klein
#92. Our suffering, as well as our joy, shapes who we are and who we will become. We may wish for all of our trials to be taken away, but to do so would be a great disservice to our personal growth.
Callie Kanno
#93. What could I wish for the present but to take the greatest pleasure in being what I am?
Raoul Vaneigem
#94. President Obama said in an interview over the weekend that he really misses being anonymous. He said, 'I miss Saturday mornings rolling out of bed and not shaving, going to the market ... ' Be careful what you wish for, 2012 is just around the corner!
Jay Leno
#95. It is in no man's power to have whatever he wants, but he has it in his power not to wish for what he hasn't got, and cheerfully make the most of the things that do come his way.
Seneca.
#96. Every day, every birthday candle I blow out, every penny I throw over my shoulder in a wishing well, every time my daughter says, 'Let's make a wish on a star,' there's one thing I wish for: wisdom.
Rene Russo
#97. Mariam knew that life for the most part had been unkind to her. But as she walked the final twenty paces, she could not help but wish for more of it.
Khaled Hosseini
#98. Whoever then would be free, let him wish for nothing, let him decline nothing, which depends on others; else he must necessarily be a slave.
Epictetus
#99. I try to live without interfering in the lives of others because I have no wish for them to interfere in mine.
Rabih Alameddine
#100. I've been accused of having a death wish but I think it's life that I wish for, terribly, shamelessly, on any terms whatsoever.
Tennessee Williams
