Sayings about Wishes
Treat thoughts as guests and wishes as children. ~ Chinese Proverb
Those who wish to sing always find a song. ~ Swedish Proverbs
He who does not wish for little things does not deserve big things. ~ Belgian Proverbs
Between the wish and the thing life lies waiting. ~ Traditional Proverb
If you wish to know what a man is, put him in authority. ~ Yugoslavian Proverb
If you wish for peace be ready for war. ~ Traditional Proverb
To wish to know is to wish to doubt. ~ French Proverbs
When God wishes a man well, He gives him insight into his faults. ~ Islamic Proverb
Whom God wishes to destroy, he first makes mad. ~ Traditional Proverb
If wishes were horses then beggars would ride. ~ English Proverbs
If every day was a sunny day, who would not wish for rain? ~ Japanese Proverbs
Shadows are formed all along the wishes of the sun. ~ Chinese Proverb
If you wish to be good, first believe that you are bad. ~ Greek Proverbs
Marriage is like a besieged castle; those who are on the outside wish to get in; and those who are on the inside wish to get out. ~ Arabian Proverb
Young people tell what they are doing, old people what they have done, and fools what they wish to do. ~ French Proverb
Your dog wishes you a long life. ~ Russian Proverbs
If you wish to know the mind of a man, listen to his words. ~ Chinese Proverb
Not to know is bad; not to wish to know is worse. ~ African Proverb
The horse may wish to do one thing, but he who saddles him another. ~ Spanish Proverbs
Do you wish people to think well of you? Don’t speak. ~ French Proverb
Speak little and well if you wish to be esteemed a person of merit. ~ French Proverb
If you wish to know what most occupies a man’s thoughts, you have only to listen to his conversation. ~ Chinese Proverb
Our wishes are like little children — the more you indulge the more they want from you. ~ Chinese Proverb
He that flatters you more than you desire either has deceived you or wishes to deceive. ~ Italian Proverbs
If things are not as you wish, wish them as they are. ~ Yiddish Proverb
If you wish good advice, consult an old man. ~ Romanian Proverb
I wish that he would sink as deep in the ground as a hare can run in ten years. ~ Dutch Proverb
It is not good for all our wishes to be filled; through sickness we recognize the value of health; through evil, the value of good; through hunger, the value of food; through exertion, the value of rest. ~ Greek Proverb
Great souls have wills; feeble ones have only wishes. ~ Chinese Proverb
If you wish to drown, do not torture yourself with shallow water. ~ Bulgarian Proverb
He who wishes to barter, does not like his belongings. ~ Nigerian Proverb
Who wishes to travel far spares his steed. ~ French Proverb
If you wish to learn the highest truth, begin with the alphabet. ~ Japanese Proverb
Be honorable yourself if you wish to associate with honorable people. ~ Welsh Proverb
A woman is as old as she wishes to tell you. ~ Luxembourg Proverb
If you wish to succeed, consult three old people. ~ Chinese Proverb
If you wish your merit to be known, acknowledge that of other people. ~ Oriental Proverb
Never ask of him who has, but of him who wishes you well. ~ Spanish Proverb
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Quotations about Wishes
No more war! Never again war! If you wish to be brothers, drop your weapons. ~ Pope Paul VI
You must be the change you wish to see in the world. ~ Mohandas Gandhi
I know God will not give me anything I can’t handle. I just wish that He didn’t trust me so much. ~ Mother Teresa
Do not wish to be anything but what you are, and try to be that perfectly. ~ Saint Francis de Sales
Face reality as it is, not as it was or as you wish it to be. ~ Jack Welch
To do nothing evil is good; to wish nothing evil is better. ~ Claudius
It would not be better if things happened to men just as they wish. ~ Vance Havner
He who wishes to secure the good of others has already secured his own. ~ Confucius
He who has no wish to be happier is the happiest of men. ~ William R. Alger
It is great folly to wish to be wise all alone. ~ Francois de La Rochefoucauld
A man of the world must seem to be what he wishes to be thought. ~ Jean De La Bruyere
A man, when he wishes, is the master of his fate. ~ Jose Ferrer
Everyone wishes to have truth on his side, but not everyone wishes to be on the side of truth. ~ Richard Whately
We can change our lives. We can do, have, and be exactly what we wish. ~ Tony Robbins
Do you wish to be great? Then begin by being. Do you desire to construct a vast and lofty fabric? Think first about the foundations of humility. The higher your structure is to be, the deeper must be its foundation. ~ Saint Augustine
A wish is a desire without an attempt. ~ Farmer Digest
If you wish to be brothers, drop your weapons. ~ Pope John Paul II
Great minds have purposes; others have wishes. ~ Washington Irving
If you wish to reach the highest, begin at the lowest. ~ Publilius Syrus
I don’t wish to be everything to everyone, but I would like to be something to someone. ~ Javan
If a man could have half of his wishes, he would double his troubles. ~ Benjamin Franklin
Like our shadows, our wishes lengthen as our sun declines. ~ Edward Young
My only wish is that my wishes be at rest. ~ Author Unknown
Men’s arguments often prove nothing but their wishes. ~ Charles Caleb Colton
If we wish to free ourselves from enslavement, we must choose freedom and the responsibility this entails. ~ Leo Buscaglia
We are no longer happy so soon as we wish to be happier. ~ Walter Savage Landor
Men try to run life according to their wishes; life runs itself according to necessity. ~ Jean Toomer
The poor wish to be rich, the rich wish to be happy, the single wish to be married, and the married wish to be dead. ~ Ann Landers
Be not angry that you cannot make others as you wish them to be, since you cannot make yourself as you wish to be. ~ Thomas a Kempis
Let us act on what we have, since we have not what we wish. ~ John Henry Newman
When you love someone all your saved-up wishes start coming out. ~ Elizabeth Bowen
I wish people would love everybody else the way they love me. It would be a better world. ~ Muhammad Ali
Industry need not wish. ~ Benjamin Franklin
If wishes were fishes, we’d all be throwing nets. If wishes were horses, we’d all ride. ~ Doug Horton
Men in general are quick to believe that which they wish to be true. ~ Julius Caesar
Nothing is so common-place as to wish to be remarkable. ~ Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
Wishes expand in direct proportion to the resources available for their gratification. ~ Robert Dato
If you wish to be loved, show more of your faults than your virtues. ~ Robert Bulwer-Lytton
Pull the string, and it will follow wherever you wish. Push it, and it will go nowhere at all. ~ Dwight D. Eisenhower
If any man wishes to write a clear style, let him first be clear in his thoughts. ~ Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
Don’t wish it were easier, wish you were better. ~ Jim Rohn
If you wish to succeed in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother, and hope your guardian genius. ~ Joseph Addison
When the gods wish to punish us they answer our prayers. ~ Oscar Wilde
I have seen enough of one war never to wish to see another. ~ Thomas Jefferson
If you wish to travel far and fast, travel light. Take off all your envies, jealousies, unforgiveness, selfishness and fears. ~ Cesare Pavese
The world is full of genies waiting to grant your wishes. ~ Percy Ross
If you fall then that’s not all… if you wish to be down then stay down… if you wish to be up then get up. ~ Janice Markowitz
We would often be sorry if our wishes were granted. ~ Aesop
If suffering brings wisdom, I would wish to be less wise.~ William Butler Yeats
People wish to be settled: only as far as they are unsettled is there any hope for them. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
If you do not wish a man to do a thing, you had better get him to talk about it; for the more men talk, the more likely they are to do nothing else. ~ Thomas Carlyle
Some people want it to happen, some wish it would happen, others make it happen. ~ Michael Jordan
We cannot wish for that we know not. ~ Voltaire
We are never further from our wishes than when we imagine that we possess what we have desired. ~ Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
If you wish to achieve worthwhile things in your personal and career life, you must become a worthwhile person in your own self-development. ~ Brian Tracy
Do you wish to rise? Begin by descending. You plan a tower that will pierce the clouds? Lay first the foundation of humility. ~ Saint Augustine
The deepest wishes of the heart find expression in secret prayer. ~ George E. Rees
People wish to be poets more than they wish to write poetry, and that’s a mistake. One should wish to celebrate more than one wishes to be celebrated. ~ Lucille Clifton
We all wish to be brave and strong in the face of disaster. We all wish to be looked up to for our endurance and efforts to help others. ~ Clarissa Pinkola Estes
If you wish to be a success in the world, promise everything, deliver nothing. ~ Napoleon Bonaparte
The wishing gate opens into nothing. ~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon
Treat others as you wish to be treated. Don’t just be nice, but be kind to other people. That can be so rewarding. ~ Mary Lambert
Who is the wisest man? He who neither knows or wishes for anything else than what happens. ~ Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
Plenty of people wish to become devout, but no one wishes to be humble. ~ Joseph Addison
If you wish to avoid foreign collision, you had better abandon the ocean. ~ Henry Clay
Do you wish people to think well of you? Don’t speak well of yourself. ~ Blaise Pascal
If you wish to be a writer, write.~ Epictetus
Visualize, “prayerize,” “actionize,” and your wishes will come true. ~ Charles L. Allen
You can do anything you wish to do, have anything you wish to have, be anything you wish to be. ~ Robert Collier
Freedom is the right to live as we wish. ~ Epictetus
