Well Wishes Quotes

• A tough lesson in life that one has to learn is that not everybody wishes you well.

  Dan Rather

  Inspirational, Life Lesson, Negative People

  FaceBook post by Dan Rather from Jul 21, 2014

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• When you wish someone joy, you wish them peace, love, prosperity, happiness... all the good things.

  Maya Angelou

  Happiness, Laughter, Blessing

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• My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake.

  Aristotle

  Friendship, Best Friend, Fake Friends

  Aristotle (1953). “Ethics: The Nicomachean Ethics”

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• I just want you to be happy. If that’s with me or with someone else or with nobody. I just want you to be happy.

  John Green

  Happiness, Happy, Best Wishes

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• You can search the world over and you will find no one who is more deserving of your kindness and well wishing than you yourself.

  Gautama Buddha

  Kindness, Wish, World

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• Diligence is the mother of good fortune, and idleness, its opposite, never brought a man to the goal of any of his best wishes.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Mother, Perseverance, Men

  "Don Quixote de la Mancha". Book by Miguel de Cervantes, part II, book IV, chapter 38., 1605-1615.

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• We have reiterated on many occasions that China wishes to establish and develop long-term, good-neighbourly and friendly relations with all countries in south Asia.

  Li Peng

  Country, Long, Wish

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• One may as well dam for water tanks the people's cathedrals and churches, for no holier temple has ever been consecrated by the heart of man.

  John Muir

  Heart, Men, People

  John Muir (2017). “The Yosemite: John Muir's quest to preserve the wilderness”, p.8, Vertebrate Publishing

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• A wise unselfishness is not a surrender of yourself to the wishes of anyone, but only to the best discoverable course of action.

  David Seabury

  Wise, Best Wishes, Selfishness

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• That is ever the way. Tis all jealousy to the bride and good wishes to the corpse.

  James M. Barrie

  Jealousy, Wedding, Wish

  Quality Street (performed 1901, pubd. 1913) act 1

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• I have very poor and unhappy brains for drinking: I could well wish courtesy would invent some other custom of entertainment.

  William Shakespeare

  Drinking, Alcohol, Brain

  'Othello' (1602-4) act 2, sc. 3, l. [34]

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• We are like a wishing well And a bolt of electricity

  Fiona Apple

  Wish, Electricity, Wells

  Song: Werewolf, Album: The Idler Wheel..., 2012

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• You can want and want and want, but if he doesn't want you back ... you might as well wish the sky were red.

  Sophie Kinsella

  Want You Back, Sky, Wish

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• Testing oneself is best when done alone.

  Jimmy Carter

  Done, Testing, Oneself

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• If a man wishes to truly not be written about, he would do well not to write letters to 18-year-old girls, inviting them into his life.

  Joyce Maynard

  Girl, Writing, Men

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• Yeah, well, wish in one hand, crap in the other, and see which fills up first

  S.A. Bodeen

  Hands, Wish, Firsts

  S. A. Bodeen (2008). “The Compound”, p.15, Feiwel & Friends

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• All of you are aware of the journey I've taken this past year and I just want to relay to all of the people that sent along their prayers and well wishes, my heartfelt thanks. It was truly overwhelming to me and my family the outpouring that we received from the Twin Cities community and from across the Midwest.

  Fred Hoiberg

  Prayer, Taken, Past

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• How often I have tried to tell writing students that the first thing a writer must do is love the reader and wish the reader well. The writer must trust the reader to be at least as intelligent as he is. Only in such well wishing and trust, only when the writer feels he is writing a letter to a good friend, only then will the magic happen.

  Ellen Gilchrist

  Writing, Good Friend, Intelligent

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• I got a call this morning, and it was from Nancy Kerrigan, wishing me luck. She wished me luck and sent me all her good wishes.

  Michelle Kwan

  Morning, Luck, Wish

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• My mother-in-law fell down a wishing well. I was amazed; I never knew they worked.

  Les Dawson

  Mother, Law, Wish

  Les Dawson (2012). “Les Dawson's Joke Book”, p.12, Michael O'Mara Books

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• My officers and men understood wishes so well that this movement was executed under fire, the right wing keeping up fire, without giving the enemy any occasion to seize or even to suspect their advantage.

  Joshua Chamberlain

  Men, Fire, Wings

  Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain (1994). “Bayonet! Forward: my Civil War reminiscences”, Butternut & Blue

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• I felt stuck in the bottom of a wishing well. I was desperate to shout what I wanted, but I didn’t know what that was. I knew only what it wasn’t. The Hundred Secret Senses by Amy Tan

  Amy Tan

  Secret, Wish, Amy

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• Eddie and I are overwhelmed by the amount of lovely well wishes. We are blessed and.... I'm Mrs. Cibrian!

  LeAnn Rimes

  Blessed, Lovely, Wish

  "LeAnn Rimes Goes From 'Fiancée' to 'WIFE, Bonus Mom' on Twitter" by Aaron Parsley, people.com. April 23, 2011.

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• Every day, every birthday candle I blow out, every penny I throw over my shoulder in a wishing well, every time my daughter says, 'Let's make a wish on a star,' there's one thing I wish for: wisdom.

  Rene Russo

  Birthday, Daughter, Mother

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• But darling, I wish you well On your way to the wishing well

  Patty Griffin

  Wish, Way, Darling

  Song: Nobody's Crying, Album: 1000 Kisses

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