Wish Quotes

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  Don't wish it were easier, wish you were better.

  Jim Rohn

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from Apr 12, 2016

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• If wishes would prevail with me, my purpose should not fail with me.

  William Shakespeare

  Purpose, Failing, Should

  William Shakespeare, John Payne Collier (1858). “Winter's tale. King John. King Richard II. King Henry IV, part 1. King Henry IV, part 2. Henry V. King Henry VI, part 1”, p.577

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• If you skillfully follow the multidisciplinary path, you will never wish to come back. It would be like cutting off your hands.

  Charlie Munger

  Cutting, Hands, Would Be

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• If you wish to seduce an angel, you must play the part of a devil.

  Eliphas Levi

  Angel, Play, Devil

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• Nothing is so common as the wish to be remarkable.(attributed to)

  William Shakespeare

  Criminals, Criminal Mind, Common

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• What our contempts do often hurl from us,
  We wish it ours again.

  William Shakespeare

  Contempt

  William Shakespeare, James Boswell, Edmond Malone, Samuel Johnson, Mr. Theobald (Lewis) (1821). “The Plays and Poems of William Shakspeare: With the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators”, p.185

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• I 'gin to be aweary of the sun,
  And wish th' estate o' th' world were now undone.

  William Shakespeare

  World, Sun, Undone

  William Shakespeare (2015). “Macbeth: Third Series”, p.290, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• In Heaven the good God will do all I wish, because I have never done my own will upon earth.

  Therese of Lisieux

  Heaven, Done, Earth

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• All I want for my birthday is another birthday.

  Ian Dury

  Funny, Birthday, Honesty

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• Do not wish evil for others. Do not speak ill of others. Do not obstruct anyones activities.

  Guru Nanak

  Evil, Speak, Ill

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• You get whatever you expect to get. The only question is. What do you want?

  Mark Victor Hansen

  Inspirational, Expectations, Want

  FaceBook post by Mark Victor Hansen from Aug 08, 2015

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• Great minds have purposes; others have wishes.

  Washington Irving

  Inspirational, Positive, Meaningful

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• Be as you wish to seem.

  Socrates

  Inspirational, Integrity, Hypocrisy

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• If a man could have half of his wishes, he would double his troubles.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Life, Men, Half

  Benjamin Franklin “Poor Richard Day by Day”, Lulu.com

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• The only thing keeping you from what you want is your story about why you can't have it.

  Tony Robbins

  Inspirational, Motivational, Dream

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• My wish isn't to mean
  everything to everyone
  but something to someone.

  Oscar Wilde

  Mean, My Wish

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• Imagine for a moment your own version of a perfect future. See yourself in that future with everything you could wish for at this very moment fulfilled. Now take the memory of that future and bring it here into the present. Let it influence how you will behave from this moment on.

  Deepak Chopra

  Time, Memories, Perfect

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• Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.

  Steve Jobs

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  Commencement Address at Stanford University, delivered 12 June 2005, Palo Alto, CA

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• I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Inspirational, Life, Death

  Walden ch. 2 (1854)

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• If you wish to succeed in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother, and hope your guardian genius.

  Joseph Addison

  Inspirational, Life, Success

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  It takes as much energy to wish as it does to plan.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• If you wish to experience peace, provide peace for another. If you wish to know that you are safe, cause another to know that they are safe. If you wish to better understand seemingly incomprehensible things, help another to better understand. If you wish to heal your own sadness or anger, seek to heal the sadness or anger of another.

  Dalai Lama

  Peace, Sadness, Meditation

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  Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for.

  Epicurus

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• We are never further from what we wish than when we believe that we have what we wished for.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Believe

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• Tomorrow is the first blank page of a 365-page book. Write a good one.

  Brad Paisley

  Motivational, New Year, Inspiration

  Twitter post from Dec 31, 2009

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