Wish Quotes

You look up when you wish to be exalted. And I look down because I am exalted.

Desire is happiness: satisfaction as happiness is merely the ultimate moment of desire. To be wish and wish alone is happiness, and a new wish over and over again.

The man who does not wish to be one of the mass only needs to cease to be easy on himself.

Instead of imposing new obligations, (Christians) should appear as people who wish to share their joy, who point to a horizon of beauty and who invite others to a delicious banquet.

Let us conduct ourselves so that all men wish to be our friends and all fear to be our enemies.

I would say that one of the things I wish I could do differently would be to be more outgoing.

To all those who have suffered as a consequence of our troubled past I extend my sincere thoughts and deep sympathy. With the benefit of historical hindsight we can all see things which we would wish had been done differently or not at all.

My first wish is to see this plague of mankind, war, banished from the earth.

Lenience will operate with greater force, in some instances than rigor. It is therefore my first wish to have all of my conduct distinguished by it.

I was no party man myself, and the first wish of my heart was, if parties did exist, to reconcile them.

When I was a small boy in Kansas, a friend of mine and I went fishing and... we talked about what we wanted to do when we grew up. I told him that I wanted to be a real major league baseball player, a genuine professional like Honus Wagner. My friend said that he'd like to be President of the United States. Neither of us got our wish.

If you wish to be success in the world, promise everything, deliver nothing.

It is my greatest wish that the Children's Fund should continue to be a beacon of hope and light.

The whole history of the world is summed up in the fact that, when nations are strong, they are not always just, and when they wish to be just, they are no longer strong.

I never really studied business in school. I kind of wish I had, but how boring is that?

It's not what isn't, it's what you wish was that makes unhappiness.

I wish we were all hippies and did yoga, lived in cottages, smoked weed, accepted everyone for who they are, and listened to wonderful music. I wish money didn't make us who we are. I just wish we could redo society.

I wish I could tell you me and my rock band were traveling around, strung out. No, we were a family band. Straight Partridge Family.

Sometimes I wish I could drive a car, but I'm gonna drive a car one day, so I don't worry about that.

I wish I could write easily. I'm one of those guys who's visited by the muse when things are dire.