Quotes of Wish - somelinesforyou

“ We would often be sorry if our wishes were gratified. ”

- Aesop

“ When you are kind to someone in trouble, you hope they'll remember and be kind to someone else. And it'll become like a wildfire. ”

- Whoopi Goldberg

“ Hope, of all ills that men endure, The only cheap and universal cure. ”

- Abraham Cowley

“ Hold your head high, stick your chest out. You can make it. It gets dark sometimes, but morning comes. Keep hope alive. ”

- Jesse Jackson

“ Hope is like a hairball trembling from its birth… ”

- Christina Rossetti

“ What we truly and earnestly aspire to be, that in some sense, we are. The mere aspiration, by changing the frame of the mind, for the moment realizes itself. ”

- Anna Jameson

“ Hope is a waking dream. ”

- Aristotle

“ Never deprive someone of hope - it may be all they have. - Unknown. ”

- Unknown

“ Courage is like love; it must have hope to nourish it. ”

- Napoleon Bonaparte

“ Things start out as hopes and end up as habits. ”

- Lillian Hellman

“ The first principle of success is desire — knowing what you want. Desire is the planting of your seed. ”

- Robert Collier

“ When your desires are strong enough you will appear to possess superhuman powers to achieve. ”

- Napoleon Hill

“ Whoever, in middle age, attempts to realize the wishes and hopes of his early youth, invariably deceives himself. Each ten years of a man's life has its own fortunes, its own hopes, its own desires. ”

- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“ Unless commitment is made, there are only promises and hopes… but no plans. ”

- Peter Drucker

“ Humor is something that thrives between man's aspirations and his limitations. There is more logic in humor than in anything else. Because, you see, humor is truth. ”

- Victor Borge

“ Hope is the companion of power, and mother of success; for who so hopes strongly has within him the gift of miracles. ”

- Samuel Smiles

“ A taste for simplicity cannot endure for long. ”

- Eugene Delacroix

“ He who has health has hope, and he who has hope has everything. ”

- Unknown

“ We are long before we are convinced that happiness is never to be found; and each believes it possessed by others, to keep alive the hope of obtaining it for himself. ”

- Samuel Johnson

“ Man wants but little here below nor wants that little long. ”

- Oliver Goldsmith

“ Hope is a good thing, maybe the best of things, and no good thing ever dies. ”

- Stephen King

“ Our greatest good, and what we least can spare, is hope. ”

- John Armstrong

“ Therefore if thine enemy hunger, feed him; if he thirst, give him drink: for in so doing thou shalt heap coals of fire on his head. ”

- Bible

“ We waited too long to resolve this,... Negotiations went sideways, and then up and down. ”

- Jeff Koons

“ The very least you can do in your life is to figure out what you hope for. And the most you can do is live inside that hope. Not admire it from a distance but live right in it, under its roof. ”

- Barbara Kingsolver

“ Hope springs eternal in the human breast; Man never Is, but always To be blest: The soul, uneasy and confin'd from home, Rests and expatiates in a life to come. ”

- Alexander Pope

“ We must accept finite disappointment, but we must never lose infinite hope. ”

- Martin Luther King Jr.

“ Every other author may aspire to praise; the lexicographer can only hope to escape reproach, and even this negative recompense has been yet granted to very few. ”

- Samuel Johnson

“ To persevere, trusting in what hopes he has, is courage. The coward despairs. ”

- Euripides

“ If wishes were fishes, we'd all be throwing nets. If wishes were horses, we'd all ride. ”

- Doug Horton
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