Best Wishful Quotes

104 Wishful quotes by 89 unique authors

Real hope is much more than wishful musing. It stiffens, not slackens, the spiritual spine. — Neal A. Maxwell
The continual looking forward to the eternal world is not a form of escapism or wishful thinking, but one of the things a Christian is… — C.S. Lewis
So Republican candidates bash Obamacare and move up in the polls. Given that public opinion remains firmly against the health care law - as it… — Byron York
It's not "wishful" thinking. — Rhonda Byrne
Scriptural hope is not wishful thinking. It's rock-solid assurance! — Adrian Rogers
We live in a time of global transformation. The power on Earth no longer lies with the forces of imperialistic globalisation, but with those groups… — Dieter Duhm
Faith is not by wishful thinking, it is what takes root in the heart and shows in one's actions. — Sayyid Qutb
Hope, for the Christian, is not wishful thinking or mere blind optimism. It is a mode of knowing, a mode within which new things are… — N. T. Wright
Unplanned process improvement is wishful thinking. — Watts Humphrey
Comics speak, without qualm or sophistication, to the innermost ears of the wishful self. The response is like that of a thirsty traveler who suddenly… — William Moulton Marston
To be a good trader, you need to trade with your eyes open, recognize real trends and turns, and not waste time or energy on… — Alexander Elder
Any belief in Creators or Purpose is wishful thinking. And when you point out that perhaps ALL thinking is wishful, reactions of intense irritation give… — William S. Burroughs
I am not talking to you from the point of view of just wishful thinking, or imaginary craziness. I'm talking to you from a deeper… — Fred Alan Wolf
The article goes on later to say, "Hope is not then something for the future alone, a sort of wishful thinking aout what might be;… — Raymond J. de Souza
We are repeatedly left, in other words, with no further focus than ourselves, a source from which self-pity naturally flows. Each time this happens I… — Joan Didion
A goal without real consequences is wishful thinking. Good follow-through doesn't depend on the right intentions. It depends on the right incentives. — Tim Ferriss
Wishful thinking is not sound public policy. — Bjorn Lomborg
Wishful thinking is one thing, and reality another. — Jalal Talabani
I am encouraged that there's going to be much better dialogue between the federal government and the state of Arizona. I mean, I hope that's… — Jan Brewer
Let us use our energy and our initiative to solve our problems without relying on prayers and wishful thinking. When we have faith in ourselves,… — Ruth Hurmence Green
The investment business has taught me – increasingly as the years have passed – that people, especially investors (and, I believe, Americans), prefer good news… — Jeremy Grantham
If history teaches us anything, it teaches that simple-minded appeasement or wishful thinking about our adversaries is folly. — Ronald Reagan
Violence, naked force, has settled more issues in history than has any other factor, and the contrary opinion is wishful thinking at its worst. Breeds… — W. E. B. Du Bois
Theorems often tell us complex truths about the simple things, but only rarely tell us simple truths about the complex ones. To believe otherwise is… — Marvin Minsky
Sanity ... had it ever been more than a convention -- a comfortable set of blinkers, an agreed mode of wishful thinking, which excluded from… — C.S. Lewis

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