912 Quotes About Wish

If wishes were stories, beggars would read...

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

I wish to confess my sins, and I wish Christ to come into my life. . .

I wish you would add an index rerum, that when the reader recollects any incident he may easily find it.

Such is the state of life, that none are happy but by the anticipation of change: the change itself is nothing; when we have made it, the next wish is to change again.

Difficult do you call it, Sir? I wish it were impossible.

The whole world is put in motion by the wish for riches and the dread of poverty.

I do most anxiously wish to see the highest degrees of education given to the higher degrees of genius and to all degrees of it, so much as may enable them to read and understand what is going on in the world and to keep their part of it going on right; for nothing can keep it right but their own vigilant and distrustful superintendence.

If you only care enough for a result, you will almost certainly attain it. Only you must, then, really wish these things, and wish them exclusively, and not wish at the same time a hundred other incompatible things just as strongly.