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Wish Quotes

1.
If you wish the sympathy of the broad masses, you must tell them the crudest and most stupid things.
Adolf Hitler

If you seek acceptance from the populous, you must communicate the simplest and most ignorant notions.
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2.
I don't really care so much what people say about me because it usually is a reflection of who they are. For example, if people wish I would sound like I used to sound, then it says more about them than it does me.
Prince

3.
Let us conduct ourselves so that all men wish to be our friends and all fear to be our enemies.
Alexander the Great

Let us comport ourselves in a manner that all desire to be our allies and all tremble at the thought of being our adversaries.
4.
Much success to you, even if you wish me the opposite.
Nas

Best of luck to you, even if you hope for the contrary.
5.
Any who may wish to profit himself alone from the knowledge given him, rather than serve others through the knowledge he has gained from learning, is betraying knowledge and rendering it worthless
Haile Selassie

Whoever attempts to exploit the knowledge they possess for personal gain, instead of utilizing it to aid others, is squandering their education and rendering it pointless.
6.
If someone wishes for good health, one must first ask oneself if he is ready to do away with the reasons for his illness. Only then is it possible to help him.
Hippocrates

If someone desires well-being, they must first examine if they are prepared to eradicate the sources of their sickness. Only then can assistance be provided.
7.
Sometimes I wish I could go back in life, not to change things but just to feel things twice
Drake

Sometimes I wish I could re-experience life, not to alter anything but merely to savor moments twice.
8.
Selfishness is not living your life as you wish to live it. Selfishness is wanting others to live their lives as you wish them to.
Oscar Wilde

'Selfishness is not following your own desires, but instead demanding that others adhere to yours.'
9.
I don't do regrets. Regrets are pointless. It's too late for regrets. You've already done it, haven't you? You've lived your life. No point wishing you could change it.
Lemmy Kilmister

I eschew remorse. Remorse is fruitless. It's too late for ruefulness. You've already acted, correct? You've lived your existence. No purpose desiring you could alter it.
10.
If I could wish for immortality on earth, it would only be for the power of relieving the distressed.
Maria Theresa

If I could desire eternal life on earth, it would only be for the capability of alleviating the afflicted.
11.
One of the Enemy's most effective strategies is to get you to focus on what you don't have, what you used to have, or what someone else has that you wish you had. He does this to keep you from looking around and asking, "God, what can You do through what I have?
Steven Furtick

12.
I wish to show those who deny us Patriotism that we know how to die for our country and convictions.
Jose Rizal

I hope to demonstrate to those who discredit our loyalty to the nation that we are willing to sacrifice ourselves for our homeland and beliefs.
13.
We are not what happened to us, we are what we wish to become.
Carl Jung

We aren't defined by our past, but rather the future we strive to create.
14.
Paul never glamorized the gospel! It is not success, but sacrifice! It's not a glamous gospel ,but a bloody gospel, a gory gospel, and a sacrificial gospel! 5 minutes inside eternity and we will wish that we had sacrificed more!!! Wept more, bled more, grieved more, loved more, prayed more, given more!!!
Leonard Ravenhill

15.
I do not sleep; I wish to meet my death awake.
Maria Theresa

16.
I never wish to be easily defined. I’d rather float over other people’s minds as something strictly fluid and non-perceivable; more like a transparent, paradoxically iridescent creature rather than an actual person.
Franz Kafka

17.
Do not interrupt the flight of your soul; do not distress what is best in you; do not enfeeble your spirit with half wishes and half thoughts. Ask yourself and keep on asking until you find the answer, for one may have known something many times, acknowledged it; one may have willed something many times, attempted it - and yet, only the deep inner motion, only the heart's indescribable emotion, only that will convince you that what you have acknowledged belongs to you, that no power can take it from you - for only the truth that builds up is truth for you.
Soren Kierkegaard

18.
There is who loves you quietly, and respects you quietly, and wishes you privately, and walks away when he sees you busy with someone other than him, and his ego restrains him from getting near you, and contents himself with the love for the sake of love
Nizar Qabbani

19.
People who wish to be offended will always find some occasion for taking offense.
John Wesley

Those who are determined to take affront will always find a pretext for being incensed.
20.
I love Nature partly because she is not man, but a retreat from him. None of his institutions control or pervade her. There a different kind of right prevails. In her midst I can be glad with an entire gladness. If this world were all man, I could not stretch myself, I should lose all hope. He is constraint, she is freedom to me. He makes me wish for another world. She makes me content with this.
Henry David Thoreau

21.
I wish you music to help with the burdens of life ,and to help you release your happiness to others.
Ludwig van Beethoven

I wish you melodic serenity to ease the struggles of life, and to spread your joy to those around you.
22.
If you wish to check how much you love Allah, then see how much your heart loves the Quran, and you will know the answer.
Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyya

If you want to measure the depth of your devotion to Allah, examine how deeply your heart connects with the Quran, and you shall discover the response.
23.
Colombians! My last wish is for the happiness of the patria. If my death contributes to the end of partisanship and the consolidation of the union, I shall be lowered in peace into my grave.
Simon Bolivar

My ultimate desire is for the joy of my nation. If my passing aids in the termination of division and strengthens our unity, I will be laid to rest contentedly.
24.
Why do you live in your body like you will be given another? As if it were temporary. You starve it, you let anyone touch it, you berate it. Tell it that it should be completely different. You tug at your soft flesh, wish it thinner, wish it gone. You fall in love with those who praise the way it sighs under their hands, but who praises the way it holds up your weight, even when you are falling apart?
Warsan Shire

25.
I wish it to be remembered that I was the last man of my tribe to surrender my rifle.
Sitting Bull

26.
I came to Him because I did not know which way to turn. I remained with Him because there is no other way I wish to turn. I came to Him longing for something I did not have. I remain with Him because I have something I will not trade. I came to Him as a stranger. I remain with Him in the most intimate of friendships. I came to Him unsure about the future. I remain with Him certain about my destiny. I came amid the thunderous cries of a culture that has 330 million deities. I remain with Him knowing that truth cannot be all-inclusive.
Ravi Zacharias

27.
It is legal because I wish it.
Louis XIV

It is permissible because I desire it.
28.
There was a wish to get something exceptional, ... I also wanted to deliver something technically unique.
Santiago Calatrava

Desiring something remarkable, I also sought to provide something technologically unprecedented.
29.
All the smart money got they bets on me / And all the real niggas wish the best for me
Nipsey Hussle

All the savvy investors have faith in me / And all authentic people wish success for me.
30.
Leadership does not mean domination. The world is always well supplied with people who wish to rule and dominate others.
Haile Selassie

Guidance rather than control is what leadership implies. There will always be those seeking to impose their authority on others.
31.
If you wish to know God, you must know his Word. If you wish to perceive His power, you must see how He works by his Word. If you wish to know His purpose before it comes to pass, you can only discover it by His Word.
Charles Spurgeon

32.
I wish I could live underwater. Maybe then my skin would absorb the sea’s consoling silence.
Cristina Garcia

I yearn to dwell underwater so that my flesh may take in the calming stillness of the ocean.
33.
Somewhere inside, we hear a voice. It leads us in the direction of the person we wish to become. But it is up to us whether or not to follow.
Pat Tillman

Within us, there is a guiding whisper. It beckons us towards the individual we hope to be. But it is our decision if we opt to heed its call.
34.
I wish coke was still cola and a joint was a bad place to be.
Merle Haggard

I wish soda was still pop and a hangout was an undesirable spot.
35.
I wish I could say everything in one word. I hate all the things that can happen between the beginning of a sentence and the end.
Leonard Cohen

I desire to succinctly express all that I'm thinking; yet, so much can be misunderstood amidst the words of a phrase.
36.
it is the nature of human beings, and especially of the mediocre ones, to wish to change everything. They desire it all the more because they know popularity will accrue rather to those who disturb than to those who maintain order.
Marie Antoinette

37.
If I had one wish I would ask for a big enough ass for the whole world to kiss.
Eminem

If I had one desire, I would request a sufficiently large posterior for the entire planet to smooch.
38.
I could only achieve success in my life through self-discipline, and I applied it until my wish and my will became one.
Nikola Tesla

I attained success in my life only through rigorous self-control, and I persisted until my ambition and determination coalesced into a unified force.
39.
I just wish the world was twice as big and half of it was still unexplored.
David Attenborough

I desire that the planet was twice its size and half of it remained undiscovered.
40.
Be to Allah as He wishes, and He will be to you more than you can wish for.
Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyya

Live according to Allah's will, and He will exceed your expectations.
41.
Do not be afraid of your difficulties.Do not wish you could be in other circumstances than you are. For when you have made the best of an adversity, it becomes the stepping stone to a splendid opportunity.
H. P. Blavatsky

42.
I wish that we had much more of the Spirit of Christ and a great deal less self, and less of human opinions. If we err, let it be on the side of mercy rather than on the side of condemnation and harsh dealing.
Ellen G. White

43.
Observe the reality as it is. As it is, not as you wish it to be. Perhaps your breath is deep. Perhaps your breath is shallow. Perhaps you breathed in through the left nostril. Perhaps you breathed in through the right nostril. It makes no difference.
S. N. Goenka

44.
The enemy often tries to make us attempt and start many projects so that we will be overwhelmed with too many tasks, and therefore achieve nothing and leave everything unfinished. Sometimes he even suggests the wish to undertake some excellent work that he foresees we will never accomplish. This is to distract us from the prosecution of some less excellent work that we would have easily completed. He does not care how many plans and beginnings we make, provided nothing is finished.
Saint Francis de Sales

45.
If you wish to know how civilized a culture is, look at how they treat it's women.
Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan

If you wish to gauge the level of refinement in a society, observe how they regard its female population.
46.
Confidence is only born out of one thing ­ demonstrated ability. It is not born of anything else. You cannot dream up confidence. You cannot fabricate it. You cannot wish it. You have to accomplish it.
Bill Parcells

47.
Our repeated failure to fully act as we would wish must not discourage us. It is the sincere intention that is the essential thing, and this will in time release us from the bondage of habits which at present seem almost insuperable.
Thomas Troward

48.
Except a man be born again, he will wish one day he had never been born at all.
J. C. Ryle

Unless a person experiences spiritual rebirth, they will regret ever coming into existence.
49.
I wish I could show you what a small marihuana cigarette can do to one of our degenerate Spanish-speaking residents. That's why our problem is so great; the greatest percentage of our population is composed of Spanish-speaking persons, most of who are low mentally, because of social and racial conditions.
Harry J. Anslinger

50.
A goal without a plan is a wish. What's your plan? It's on you, because you have to do all the work.
Herman Edwards

A target without a strategy is a longing. What's your strategy? It lies in your hands, since you must perform all the labor.