Put your backbone where your wishbone is.

We need a backbone, not a wishbone.

— Joyce Meyer

Get a backbone, not a wishbone,

— Caroline Myss

Many a man has failed because he had his wishbone where his backbone should have been.

— Ronald Reagan

The wishbone will never replace the backbone.

— Anonymous

Stop wearing your wishbone where your backbone ought to be.

— Elizabeth Gilbert

You don't need a wishbone, you need a backbone.

— Caroline Myss

Never grow a wishbone, daughter, where you backbone ought to be.

— Clementine Paddleford

Dream big . . . don't let anybody or anything break your wishbone. Stay strong, full of faith, and courageous... keep that backbone straight.…

— Charles R. Swindoll

“Never grow a wishbone where your backbone ought to be.”

— Clementine Paddleford

Good luck with your wishbone; You'll still need a backbone.

— Paula Abdul

“Some people develop a wishbone where their backbone should be.”

— Shannon L. Alder

We don't need a wishbone...we need a backbone.

— Joyce Meyer

The [Liberal] federal government's trouble is that they have a wishbone where they should have a backbone.

— Tommy Douglas

We like them big ... but we'll settle for players with three kinds of bones - a funnybone, a wishbone and a backbone. The…

— Duffy Daugherty

The Travises who had survived were the most purely stubborn people on earth, the kind who relied on their backbones when their wishbones were…

— Lisa Kleypas