Quotes about wishes are expressions that capture the desire for something to happen or come true. These quotes often serve as reminders of our aspirations and dreams. They can inspire us to keep pursuing our goals and encourage us to believe in the power of our desires. Quotes about wishes are a way to convey the importance of having hope and envisioning a better future for ourselves.
Wish that everything should come about just as it does. — Epictetus
Wish' is the most powerful thing in the world. Higher than God. — G. I. Gurdjieff
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
If things are not as you wish, wish them as they are. — Yiddish Proverbs
Dreams do come true, if we only wish hard enough. — James M. Barrie
The more wishes you make, the more magnificent Fantasia will become. — Tami Stronach
I believe in wishes and in a person's ability to make a wish come true, I really do. And a wish is more than a wish.. it's a goal that your conscience and subconscience can help make reality. — Michael Jackson
I'll toss my coins in the fountain,
Look for clovers in grassy lawns
Search for shooting stars in the night
Cross my fingers and dream on. — Tracy Chapman
But wishes are only granted in fairy tales. — Simone Elkeles
And what do you wish?' he said at last. 'That what should be shall be,' she answered. — J. R. R. Tolkien
If I had one wish I would ask for a big enough ass for the whole world to kiss. — Eminem
My wish for you is that you continue. Continue to be who and how you are, to astonish a mean world with your acts of kindness. — Maya Angelou
When you wish someone joy, you wish them peace, love, prosperity, happiness... all the good things. — Maya Angelou
Between the wish and the thing the world lies waiting. — Cormac McCarthy
Short Wish Quotes
A year from now you may wish you had started today. — Karen Lamb
I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately. — Henry David Thoreau
Physical fitness can neither be acquired by wishful thinking nor by outright purchase. — Joseph Pilates
Don't wish it were easier, wish you were better. — Jim Rohn
I wish I could show you...the astonishing light of your own being. — Hafez
People who wish to be offended will always find some occasion for taking offense. — John Wesley
If you wish to know the mind of a man, listen to his words. — Chinese Proverbs
The beautiful is that which we cannot wish to change. — Simone Weil
We would often be sorry if our wishes were gratified. — Aesop
You get whatever you expect to get. The only question is. What do you want? — Mark Victor Hansen
May you live as long as you wish and love as long as you live. — Robert A. Heinlein
It takes as much energy to wish as it does to plan. — Eleanor Roosevelt
I can die when I wish to: that is my elixir of life. — Ernest Renan
If you wish to seduce an angel, you must play the part of a devil. — Eliphas Levi
Death is the wish of some, the relief of many, and the end of all. — Seneca The Elder
Apparently, the world is not a wish granting factory. — Ansel Elgort
A goal without a plan is just a wish. — Larry Elder
Spend time with those you love. One of these days you will say either: "I wish I had" or "I'm glad I did".
Birthday Wishes Quotes
Time may be a great healer, but it's a lousy beautician. — Dorothy Parker
Happiness is like peeing in your pants. Everyone can see it, but only you can feel the warmth. — Jon Foreman
Live your life with arms wide open. Today is where your book begins. The rest is still unwritten. — Natasha Bedingfield
Whatever with the past has gone, The best is always yet to come. — Lucy Larcom
All I want for my birthday is another birthday. — Ian Dury
A birthday is just another day where you go to work and people give you love. Age is just a state of mind, and you are as old as you think you are. You have to count your blessings and be happy. — Abhishek Bachchan
Sometimes you wish it was easier, but if it was, everyone else would do it, then you remember you don't want to be like everyone else.
You're birthday reminds me of the old Chinese scholar..... Yung No Mo — Dana Rosemary Scallon
Valentine cards and birthday wishes?
Please...be on another level of planning, of understanding
The bond between man and woman and child.
The highest elevation, cause we above
All that romance crap, just show your love. — Method Man
If you're not getting older, you're dead. — Tom Petty
Happy birthday greetings and warmest wishes, too May today, tomorrow, everyday Be truly happy for you. — Margaret Brown
Christmas Wishes Quotes
Blessed is the season which engages the whole world in a conspiracy of love. — Hamilton Wright Mabie
Gifts of time and love are surely the basic ingredients of a truly merry Christmas. — Peg Bracken
My idea of Christmas, whether old-fashioned or modern, is very simple: loving others. Come to think of it, why do we have to wait for Christmas to do that? — Bob Hope
Fight me if you wish, but remember I am old for a reason.
Bless us Lord, this Christmas, with quietness of mind; Teach us to be patient and always to be kind. — Helen Steiner Rice
A little smile, a word of cheer, A bit of love from someone near, A little gift from one held dear, Best wishes for the coming year. These make a merry christmas! — John Greenleaf Whittier
To your enemy, forgiveness. To an opponent, tolerance. To a friend, heart. To a customer, service. To all, charity. To every child, a good example. To you, respect. — Oren Arnold
Give away what you most wish to receive.
I send my thoughts afar, and let them paint your Christmas Day at home. — Edward Rowland Sill
I sent my Christmas wishes to him, but he didn't answer. He's the world's best coach, but as a man he still has to learn manners and respect. — Mario Balotelli
It is Christmas in the heart that puts Christmas in the air. — William Thomas Ellis
Today, as we wish each other a Happy New Year, let us determine to be more sincere, compassionate, warm-hearted human beings, trying to make our world a more equal place. That way we'll actually make it a happy year. — Dalai Lama
I would say happy new year, but it's not happy; it's exactly the same as last year except colder. — Robert Clark
May the New Year bring you courage to break your resolutions early! — Aleister Crowley
A goal without a plan is just a wish.
Never tell your resolution beforehand, or it's twice as onerous a duty. — John Selden
The merry year is born Like the bright berry from the naked thorn. — Hartley Coleridge
Each new day is a blank page in the diary of your life. — Douglas Pagels
Great minds have purposes; others have wishes.
Hey everybody, this is Rob Halford from Fight wishing you all a crazy heavy metal Christmas and an insane, wild manic New Year! — Rob Halford
We meet today To thank Thee for the era done, And Thee for the opening one. — John Greenleaf Whittier
Each new day is a blank page in the diary of your life. The secret of success is in turning that diary into the best story you possibly can. I wish you Happy New Year and diary full of best stories ever written in your life. — Lao Tzu
Approach the New Year with resolve to find the opportunities hidden in each new day. — Michael Josephson
Wedding Wish Quotes
If I had a box just for wishes and dreams that had never come true, the box would be empty, except for the memory of how they were answered by you. — Jim Croce
What I do know is that I can't hurt a ghost. I wish I could fall in love with Ann Stuart. I wish I could wed her and bed her and have children with her. I wish I could fill that huge house with little spirit children who would live forever and never die. — Jude Deveraux
I wish I had thought of Velcro muscles myself. I didn't have to go to the gym for all those years, all the hours wedded to the iron game, as we call it. — Sylvester Stallone
Those who wish to sing... always find a song.
There's nothing like a Catholic wedding to make you wish life had a fast forward button. — Daniel Chopin
I dreamed of a wedding of elaborate elegance; a church filled with flowers and friends. I asked him what kind of wedding he wished for; he said one that would make me his wife. — Unknown
I wish to be put away in a western dress I designed, with my daughter's little gold cross necklace and my son's small white testament in my hands, and my wedding band on. — Patsy Cline
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I wish I could wear 10 dresses to my wedding. It's so sad that you put it in storage and then never see it again. I am going to sleep in mine after I wear it. — Eva Longoria
I sewed good wishes and thoughts into my garments, especially so if they were wedding or graduation dresses. — Anne Ellis
When Joe and I got married two years ago, we were both super strictly Paleo and we were shredded for the wedding! All of our wedding pictures consequently turned out fantastic. I wish I could say I was as thin now as I was then! — Eva LaRue
Whoever, fleeing marriage and the sorrows that women cause, does not wish to wed comes to a deadly old age. — Hesiod
Wish You Quotes
If you wish to leave much wealth to your children, leave them in God's care. Do not leave them riches, but virtue and skill. For if they learn to expect riches, they will not mind anything besides, and their abundant riches shall give them the means of screening the wickedness of their ways. — Saint John Chrysostom
I don't do regrets. Regrets are pointless. It's too late for regrets. You've already done it, haven't you? You've lived your life. No point wishing you could change it. — Lemmy Kilmister
If you wish to glimpse inside a human soul and get to know a man ... just watch him laugh. If he laughs well, he's a good man. — Fyodor Dostoevsky
Never wish life were easier, wish that you were better.
Humor is laughing at what you haven't got when you ought to have it ... what you wish in your secret heart were not funny, but it is, and you must laugh. Humor is your own unconscious therapy. Like a welcome summer rain, humor may suddenly cleanse and cool the earth, the air, and you. — Langston Hughes
Believe in a love that is being stored up for you like an inheritance, and have faith that in this love there is a strength and a blessing so large that you can travel as far as you wish without having to step outside it. — Rainer Maria Rilke
Do you wish people to think well of you? Don't speak well of yourself. — Blaise Pascal
Some see a weed, some see a wish.
If you wish to know God, you must know his Word. If you wish to perceive His power, you must see how He works by his Word. If you wish to know His purpose before it comes to pass, you can only discover it by His Word. — Charles Spurgeon
If you wish to check how much you love Allah, then see how much your heart loves the Quran, and you will know the answer. — Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyya
I wish you music to help with the burdens of life ,and to help you release your happiness to others. — Ludwig van Beethoven
The spirit of complaint is born out of an unwillingness to trust God with today.
Like the Israelites, it means you are spending your time looking back toward Egypt or wishing for the future all the while missing what God is doing right now. — Priscilla Shirer
My Wish Quotes
Mr. Blair, I look upon secession as anarchy. If I owned the four millions of slaves in the South, I would sacrifice them all to the Union; but how can I draw my sword upon Virginia, my native State? — Robert E. Lee
If the Great Spirit had desired me to be a white man he would have made me so in the first place. He put in your heart certain wishes and plans, and in my heart he put other and different desires. It is not necessary for eagles to be crows. — Sitting Bull
I wish I could live underwater. Maybe then my skin would absorb the sea’s consoling silence. — Cristina Garcia
As an artist I have always tried to be faithful to my vision of life, and I have frequently been in conflict with those who wanted me to paint not what I saw but what they wished me to see. — Diego Rivera
Colombians! My last wish is for the happiness of the patria. If my death contributes to the end of partisanship and the consolidation of the union, I shall be lowered in peace into my grave. — Simon Bolivar
I could only achieve success in my life through self-discipline, and I applied it until my wish and my will became one. — Nikola Tesla
All these non-singing, non-dancing, wish-I-had-me-some-clothes fools who tell me my albums suck. Why should I pay any attention to them? — Prince
I wish I could remember where I put things. I spend half my life looking for my keys. With the other half I look for my glasses. — Sara Paretsky
My weaknesses... I wish I could come up with something. I'd probably have the same pause if you asked me what my strengths are. Maybe they're the same thing. — Al Pacino
Make A Wish Quotes
Much as we might wish to believe otherwise, universal love and the welfare of the species as a whole are concepts which simply do not make evolutionary sense. — Richard Dawkins
As a single footstep will not make a path on the earth, so a single thought will not make a pathway in the mind. To make a deep physical path, we walk again and again. To make a deep mental path, we must think over and over the kind of thoughts we wish to dominate our lives. — Henry David Thoreau
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 the very last moment of our lives. Nobody is born a warrior, in exactly the same way that nobody is born an average man. We make ourselves into one or the other. — Carlos Castaneda
As a single footstep will not make a path on the earth, so a single thought will not make a pathway in the mind. — Henry David Thoreau
No matter how beautiful and well crafted a coffin might look, it will not make anyone wish for death. — African Proverbs
I'd make a White Stripes record right now. I'd be in the White Stripes for the rest of my life. That band is the most challenging, important, fulfilling thing ever to happen to me. I wish it was still here. It's something I really, really miss. — Jack White
I like cinnamon rolls, but I don't always have time to make a pan. That's why I wish they would sell cinnamon roll incense. After all I'd rather light a stick and have my roommate wake up with false hopes. — Mitch Hedberg
Much as we may wish to make a new beginning, some part of us resists doing so as though we were making the first step toward disaster. — William Bridges
I Wish You Would Quotes
Anybody who wants religion is welcome to it, as far as I'm concerned--I support your right to enjoy it. However, I would appreciate it if you exhibited more respect for the rights of those people who do not wish to share your dogma, rapture, or necrodestination. — Frank Zappa
I wish my name was Brian because maybe sometimes people would misspell my name and call me Brain. That's like a free compliment and you don't even gotta be smart to notice it. — Mitch Hedberg
If they say "you have your last chance to look at the world", I wish that look would from Çamlıca of Istanbul. — Alphonse De Lamartine
And when the Old Man wished to kill someone, he would take him and say: "Go and do this thing. I do this because I want to make you return to paradise." And the assassins go and perform the deed willingly. — Marco Polo
I wish you would recollect that Painting and Punctuality mix like Oil and Vinegar, and that Genius and regularity are utter Enemies and must be to the end of time. — Thomas Gainsborough
I wish you could be kissed, Jane,' he said. 'Because I would beg just one off you. Under all this.' He flailed an arm toward the stars. — Maggie Stiefvater
I saw them with my bodily eyes as clearly as I see you. And when they departed, I used to weep and wish they would take me with them. — Joan of Arc
I was kind of joking about this with Andrew Huberman the other day, which was I wish they would just create a rule that says, you're not even allowed to argue on Twitter about a molecule until you're exercising 10 hours a week. — Peter Attia
Sometimes I wish that I was a bong hit, you'd let me in and you would love every minute. — John Mayer
My Wish For You Quotes
As for me, to love you alone, to make you happy, to do nothing which would contradict your wishes, this is my destiny and the meaning of my life. — Napoleon Bonaparte
When your beauty struck me, it dissolved me. Deep down, I am not different from you. I dreamed you, I wished for your existence. I see in you that part of me which is you. I surrender my sincerity because if I love you it means we share the same fantasies, we share the same madness. — Anais Nin
Despite all expectations, the time of my last campaign and of my passing is near. I wish to die at home. Let not my end disarm you, and on no account weep for me, lest the enemy be warned of my death. — Genghis Khan
Oh, Eva." He rubbed his cheek against my damp face. "I must've wished for you so hard and so often you had no choice but to come true. — Sylvia Day
My point is, if you want to achieve anything in life, it is not enough to merely wish for it. You must develop that kind of 4:30 AM discipline that distinguishes you from others. — Armstrong Williams
I thank you for my friends, for those who understand me better than I understand myself. For those who know me at my worst, and still like me. For those who have forgiven me when I had no right to expect to be forgiven. Help me to be as true to my friends as I would wish them to be to me. — William Barclay
My wish is that you may be loved to the point of madness. — Andre Breton
My most cherished possession I wish I could leave you is my faith in Jesus Christ, for with Him and nothing else you can be happy, but without Him and with all else you'll never be happy. — Patrick Henry
Where the world comes in my way - and it comes in my way everywhere - I consume it to quiet the hunger of my egoism. For me you are nothing but - my food, even as I too am fed upon and turned to use by you. We have only one relation to each other, that of usableness, of utility, of use. — Max Stirner
It takes getting everything you ever wanted and then losing it, to know what true freedom is. — Lana Del Rey
Wish Fulfilled Quotes
Destiny has two ways of crushing us -- by refusing our wishes and by fulfilling them. — Henri Frederic Amiel
Destiny has two ways of crushing us - by refusing our wishes and by fulfilling them. — Henri Frederic Amiel
Assume the feeling of your wish fulfilled and observe the route that your attention follows. — Neville Goddard
Human beings can attain a worthy and harmonious life only if they are able to rid themselves, within the limits of human nature, of the striving for the wish fulfillment of material kinds. The goal is to raise the spiritual values of society. — Albert Einstein
I believe that nothing that happens to me is meaningless and that it is good for us all that it should be so, even if it runs counter to our own wishes. As I see it, I'm here for some purpose, and I only hope I may fulfill it. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Art can be a kind of therapeutic, or kind of a fantasy life, or wish fulfillment...o r creating this alternate universe. Art gives me the freedom to do that. — Raymond Pettibon
One of the great attractions of patriotism - it fulfills our worst wishes. In the person of our nation we are able, vicariously, to bully and cheat. Bully and cheat, what's more, with a feeling that we are profoundly virtuous. — Aldous Huxley
You wanted God's ideas about what was best for you to coincide with your ideas, but you also wanted him to be the almighty Creator of heaven and earth so that he could properly fulfill your wish. And yet, if he were to share your ideas, he would cease to be the almighty Father. — Soren Kierkegaard
The accumulation of genetic mutations were touted to be enough to change one species to another….No. It wasn’t dishonesty. I think it was wish fulfillment and social momentum. Assumptions, made but not verified, were taught as fact. — Lynn Margulis
Those who wish to forget painful thoughts do well to absent themselves for a while from, the ties and objects that recall them; but we can be said only to fulfill our destiny in the place that gave us birth. — William Hazlitt
Careful What You Wish For Quotes
Be careful what you wish for, you may receive it. — W. W. Jacobs
Don't think your dreams don't come true, because they do. You'd better be careful what you wish for. And I truly and honestly - one day I am doing the 'Beaver' show and I said, 'This is the show I have always wanted to do.' — Barbara Billingsley
The devil doesn't come dressed in a red cape and pointy horns. He comes as everything you've ever wished for. — Tucker Max
You should be careful what you wish for, as the reasons for war get confused. One person can be very clear in their motives, but others can have different agendas. — Dougray Scott
Be careful what you wish for. I know that for a fact. Wishes are brutal, unforgiving things. They burn your tongue the moment they're spoken and you can never take them back. — Alice Hoffman
And from the moment that I saw you, I knew you was trouble,
But I disregarded detour signs,
And did not stop til you was mine.
I guess God was like, 'Aight, fine.'
Careful what you wish for, cause you just might get it in heaps.
Try to give it back, He be like, 'Nah, that's yours to keep.' — Mos Def
Be careful what you wish for. You never know who will be listening. — Terry Pratchett
Revenge is just a really good drive for drama and good action. — Niels Arden Oplev
I wish for you to stand up for what you care about by participating in a global art project, and together we'll turn the world inside out. And this starts right now. — JR
You know, one thing I've learned in my time on this earth Be careful what you wish for. — Elijah
Wish List Quotes
Top of my wish list is to play for a club that wants me to be their goalkeeper. — Joe Hart
We're going to start with the injury report, obviously. Manning, Clark, Addai, Reggie Wayne, Freeney, Mathis, Brackett - all those guys will not play. Oh, hold up. That was my wish list for Santa Claus. — Rex Ryan
I like the idea of putting your Christmas wish list up and letting people share it. — Bill Gates
Resume: a written exaggeration of only the good things a person has done in the past, as well as a wish list of the qualities a person would like to have. — Bo Bennett
Some people are absolutely funny and you want to wish them Happy Thanksgiving in funniest way possible. Here is the list of Funny Thanksgiving sayings. Just chose the quote you want to wish that person. Vegetables are a must on a diet. I suggest carrot cake, zucchini bread and pumpkin pie. — Jim Davis
It's fun when you start a movie, because it's kind of like you get to go Christmas shopping... you get to make your wish list and you start thinking about what each character needs. — Spike Jonze
I've got a long list of books I wish I'd never written-and I've kept them all out of print for the past 20 years. — Dean Koontz
I don't have a bucket list because it is my dedication to live every day of my life there. I don't have a bucket list because I'm doing it that day. I don't want to go to bed and say, 'Oh, I wish I had done this. — Melissa Etheridge
I started off just trying to make a wish list for myself. I wanted to work with people I really admire myself. I wanted to work with other artists from other scenes so they could make my songs improve in a different way - people who have artistically different things to say. — Tiesto
When I went to Philadelphia I was 26 years old and really sitting on top of the world. Family life, a professional career, plenty of friends and associates, and a good reputation, a wish list that could be the envy of many. — Julius Erving
I wish that every human life might be pure transparent freedom. — Simone de Beauvoir
But now I wish I could back to Stockholm to make international films there. — Lasse Hallstrom
Long ago I learned nothing gets done by just wishing it. You have to do it. — Louis L'Amour
Man is free at the instant he wants to be. — Voltaire
My motto is: Contented with little, yet wishing for more. — Charles Lamb
When you love someone all your saved-up wishes start coming out. — Elizabeth Bowen
If souls could be mated with wishes, ours would be inextricably entwined. — Sylvia Day
When you love someone all your saved up wishes start coming out. — Elizabeth Bowen
I wish to God that Apple and Google were partners in the future. — Steve Wozniak
In Conclusion
The essence of quotes about wishes lies in their ability to convey the longing for something that is not yet realized. They express the yearning for a different reality or an outcome that is beyond our current circumstances. These quotes emphasize the power of intention and the belief that wishes have the potential to shape our lives. Whether they are about personal goals, dreams, or aspirations, quotes about wishes remind us of the importance of holding onto our desires and never giving up on them.
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