My Wish Quotes

'I wish for a better life. I wish for food for my children. I wish that sexual abuse and exploitation in schools would stop.' This is the dream of the African girl.

People who soar, are those who refuse to sit back and wish things would change

No one is ready for a thing until he believes he can acquire it. The state of mind must be BELIEF, not mere hope or wish.

It is a fault, not a virtue, to wish your humility recognized and applauded.

We must meet the challenge rather than wish it were not before us.

If we wish to keep peace with our neighbours, we should never remind any one of his natural defects.

Dost thou wish to receive mercy? Show mercy to thy neighbor.

Those who wish to base their morality literally on the Bible have either not read it or not understood it.

We believe that visa quotas should be lifted and people should visit anywhere they wish freely.

I don't believe that wishing works. I think we get the things we work for.

Whenever your feeling is in conflict with your wish, feeling will be the victor.

If any man wish to write in a clear style, let him be first clear in his thoughts; and if any would write in a noble style, let him first possess a noble soul.

We will work with any Administration and with any President in whom the American people have placed their trust. That is, of course, if they wish to cooperate with Russia.

Life is a daily cleansing. Negativity must be washed away, if you wish to attract positive experiences to your life.

I wish to avenge myself against the One who rules above.

I wish, as well as everybody else, to be perfectly happy; but, like everybody else, it must be in my own way.

You make me wish that birth control was retroactive.

I release all criticism. I only give out that which I wish to receive in return. My love and acceptance of others is mirrored to me in every moment.

I was convinced that luck was a matter of knowing what one wanted and then being willing to work to make the wish come true.

Every day, I wish to make the world more beautiful than I found it.

Hope is wishing for something to come true. Faith is belief that it will come true. Believe that for every problem God gives you, He will also provide you with a solution.

Is it not excessively ridiculous to seek the good opinion of those whom you would never wish to be like?

The past is necessarily inferior to the future. That is how we wish it to be. How could we acknowledge any merit in our most dangerous enemy: the past, gloomy prevaricator, execrable tutor?

The real secret of magic is that the world is made of words, and that if you know the words that the world is made of you can make of it whatever you wish.

Like icebergs, people normally expose only a small part of themselves, and generally just the part they wish to show.

Let us treat them [children], therefore, with all the kindness which we would wish to help to develop in them.

I'm going to win it for my country. I'm the first Aboriginal to win this. Isn't that something? I wish my Dad was alive to see it. He'd be as proud as I am.

My eyes, I have filled with Jesus upon Whom I have fixed them at the Elevation of the Host at Holy Mass and I do not wish to replace Him with any other image

We are responsible for what we are, and whatever we wish ourselves to be, we have the power to make ourselves.

I really do wish people could understand me some day.

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 wish the state of enthusiasm I am in may last, for to-day I have felt that there is a God; I have been devotional, and my mind has bben led away from the follies that it is mostly wrapped up in.

But we wish to give the Jews a Homeland. Not by dragging them ruthlessly out of their sustaining soil, but rather by removing them carefully, roots and all, to a better terrain.

I wish you all good things. Live your life, live your life, live your life.

If I had time in a bottle, if words could make wishes come true, I'd save everyday for eternity passes. And then I would spend them with you.

We are always more afraid than we wish to be, but we can always be braver than we expect.

Paradise is hidden in each one of use, it is concealed within me too, right now, and if I wish, it will come for me in reality, tomorrow even, and for the rest of my life.

Thieves respect property. They merely wish the property to become their property that they may more perfectly respect it.

I wish that all of nature's magnificence, the emotion of the land, the living energy of place could be photographed.

I do wish I could tell you my age but it's impossible. It keeps changing all the time.

[Malipiero's advice to Casanova.] If you wish your audience to cry, you must shed tears yourself, but if you wish to make them laugh you must contrive to look as serious as a judge.

'O Tiger-lily,' said Alice... 'I wish you could talk!' 'We can talk,' said the Tiger-lily: 'when there's anybody worth talking to."

Out of a very intimate acquaintance with D.L. Moody, I wish to testify that he was a far greater pray-er than he was preacher.

The first step to be taken by everyone who wishes to act morally is to decide not to act according to the general customs and doings of his fellow-men.

My most cherished possession I wish I could leave you is my faith in Jesus Christ, for with Him and nothing else you can be happy, but without Him and with all else you'll never be happy.

If you're 50, you're never going to be 50 ever again, so enjoy being 50. If you sit through the year wishing you were younger, before you know it, it's going to be over, and you're going to be 51.

The spectacle is the bad dream of a modern society in chains and ultimately expresses nothing more than its wish for sleep. The spectacle is the guardian of that sleep.

But then I realize there is never going to be a day when I stand before God and He looks at me and says, 'I wish you would have kept more for yourself.' I'm confident that God will take care of me.

The soldier does not wish to appear a coward, disloyal, or un-American. The situation has been so defined that he can see himself as patriotic, courageous, and manly only through compliance.

The very reason for the First Amendment is to make the people of this country free to think, speak, write and worship as they wish, not as the Government commands.