Wish Quotes

9049 Wish quotes by 4630 unique authors

I wish to work miracles... — Leonardo da Vinci
When running up a hill, it is all right to give up as many times as you wish-as long as your feet keep on moving. — Dan Millman
To be a warrior is not a simple matter of wishing to be one. It is rather an endless struggle that will go on to… — Carlos Castaneda
If your knowledge of fire has been turned to certainty by words alone, then seek to be cooked by the fire itself. Don't abide in… — Unknown Author
It is indeed a singular thing that people wish to pass laws to nullify the disagreeable consequences that the law of responsibility entails. Will they… — Frederic Bastiat
The highwayman takes solely upon himself the responsibility, danger, and crime of his own act. He does not pretend that he has any rightful claim… — Lysander Spooner
The foundation of any and every civilization, including our own, is private ownership of the means of production. Whoever wishes to criticize modern civilization, therefore,… — Ludwig von Mises
However, if we wish to be compassionate with our fellow man, we must learn to engage in dispassionate analysis. In other words, thinking with our… — Walter E. Williams
Wishing will not bring riches. But desiring riches with a state of mind that becomes an obsession, then planning definite ways and means to acquire… — Napoleon Hill
If one really wishes to know how justice is administered in a country, one does not question the policemen, the lawyers, the judges, or the… — James A. Baldwin
The leviathan state, that monster devouring civilization in this century, is in the throes of death. This is not a wish or a prediction, but… — Llewellyn Rockwell
The future inhabitants of [both] the Atlantic and Mississippi states will be our sons. We think we see their happiness in their union, and we… — Thomas Jefferson
If there be any among us who wish to dissolve the Union or to change its republican form, let them stand undisturbed, as monuments of… — Thomas Jefferson
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… — Thomas Troward
Stars are good too. I wish I could get some to put in my hair. But I suppose I never can. You would be surprised… — Mark Twain
The man who is wise enough to know the right thing to do, who is good enough to wish to do only the right thing,… — Wallace D. Wattles
Fix upon your ideal of what you wish to make of yourself. — Wallace D. Wattles
One should not wish to enjoy where one does not give joy. — Friedrich Nietzsche
When one studies strongly radioactive substances special precautions must be taken if one wishes to be able to take delicate measurements. The various objects used… — Marie Curie
How is it that there are so many minds that are incapable of understanding mathematics? ... the skeleton of our understanding, ... and actually they… — Henri Poincare
Our confused wish finds expression in the confused question as to the nature of force and electricity. But the answer which we want is not… — Heinrich Hertz
You seek for knowledge and wisdom as I once did; and I ardently hope that the gratification of your wishes may not be a serpent… — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
My young friend, I wish that science would intoxicate you as much as our good Göttingen beer! Upon seeing a student staggering down a street. — Carl Friedrich Gauss
Mr Hooke sent, in his next letter [to Sir Isaac Newton] the whole of his Hypothesis, scil that the gravitation was reciprocall to the square… — John Aubrey
I wish that one would be persuaded that psychological experiments, especially those on the complex functions, are not improved [by large studies]; the statistical method… — Alfred Binet

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