Wishes Quotes

Your goal is to achieve the best results by following their wishes. If they want you to build a house upside down standing on its chimney, it's up to you to do it.

All a man's affairs become diseased when he wishes to cure evils by evils.

The world is full of genies waiting to grant your wishes.

A wise unselfishness is not a surrender of yourself to the wishes of anyone, but only to the best discoverable course of action.

If God wants us to do a thing, he should make his wishes sufficiently clear. Sensible people will wait till he has done this before paying much attention to him.

Thank you to all for your prayers and good wishes. It gave me the strength to persevere and warmed my heart.

The will is a beast of burden. If God mounts it, it wishes and goes as God wills; if Satan mounts it, it wishes and goes as Satan wills; Nor can it choose its rider... the riders contend for its possession.

No matter how happily a woman may be married, it always pleases her to discover that there is a really nice man who wishes she were not.

Ideas any one can mould as he wishes.

I am your fairy tale. Your dream. Your wishes and desires, and I am your thirst and your hunger and your food and your drink.

It is the hope of the European Union that Ariel Sharon will keep the peace process alive and continue the dialogue according to the wishes of all the parties involved.

So high do these plants stand in the favour of the Chinese gardener, that he will cultivate them extensively, even against the wishes of his employer; and, in many instances, rather leave his situation than give up the growth of his favourite flower.

An enemy generally says and believes what he wishes.

I mistrust the judgment of every man in a case in which his own wishes are concerned.

We imagined that the mildness of our government and the wishes of the people were so correspondent that we were not as other nations, requiring brutal force to support the laws.

The way for a young man to rise is to improve himself in every way he can, never suspecting that anybody wishes to hinder him.

I am a Senator against my wishes and feelings, which I regret more than any other of my life.

It is hard to contend against one's heart's desire; for whatever it wishes to have it buys at the cost of soul.

There is no requirement that police stop a person who enters a police station and states that he wishes to confess a crime or a person who calls the police to offer a confession because volunteered statements of any kind are not barred by the 5th Amendment.

Early to bed and early to rise is a bad rule for anyone who wishes to become acquainted with our most prominent and influential people.

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.

I'm well aware of the people's wishes.

I pop gum. My parents get so annoyed with me. I know my dad wishes he never taught me how to do that.

At an age when most youngsters are preparing for their GCSEs, I was suddenly a jet-setter, briefly the toast of Hollywood and London's West End. My immature wishes and naive opinions were treated with respect.

And what do Democrats stand for, if they are so ready to defame concerned citizens as the "mob" - a word betraying a Marie Antoinette delusion of superiority to ordinary mortals. I thought my party was populist, attentive to the needs and wishes of those outside the power structure. And as a product of the 1960s, I thought the Democratic party was passionately committed to freedom of thought and speech.

He who receives money in trust to administer for the benefit of its owner, and uses it either for his own interest or against the wishes of its rightful owner, is a thief.

He who wishes to be rich in a day will be hanged in a year.

I am sure my fellow-scientists will agree with me if I say that whatever we were able to achieve in our later years had its origin in the experiences of our youth and in the hopes and wishes which were formed before and during our time as students.

America lives in the heart of every man everywhere who wishes to find a region where he will be free to work out his destiny as he chooses.

Do not seek to bring things to pass in accordance with your wishes, but wish for them as they are, and you will find them.