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Alexander Woollcott
Many of us spend half our time wishing for things we could have if we didn't spend half our time wishing.
Barbara Sher
You must go after your wish. As soon as you start to pursue a dream, your life wakes up and everything has meaning.
Catherine Pulsifer
If your wishes are turned into goals, then your wishes may come true!
Catherine Pulsifer
Rather than wishing for change, you first must be prepared to change.
Chinese Proverb
Great souls have wills; feeble ones have only wishes.
Clementine Paddleford
Never grow a wishbone, daughter, where your backbone ought to be.
Farmer Digest
A wish is a desire without an attempt.
Franklin
If a man could half his wishes he would double his Troubles.
Greg Anderson
Stop the mindless wishing that things would be different. Rather than wasting time and emotional and spiritual energy in explaining why we don't have what we want, we can start to pursue other ways to get it.
Kenneth Hildebrand
Strong lives are motivated by dynamic purposes; lesser ones exist on wishes and inclinations.
Lily Tomlin
Don't be afraid of missing opportunities. Behind every failure is an opportunity somebody wishes they had missed.
Mark Caine
The failure wishes he could do things he could never do. He thinks little of what he can do.
Rabindranath Tagore
You can't cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water. Don't let yourself indulge in vain wishes.
Robert Frost
A man will sometimes devote all his life to the development of one part of his body - the wishbone.
Samuel Johnson
Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting difficulties, passing from one step of success to another, forming new wishes and seeing them gratified.
Washington Irving
Great minds have purposes, others have wishes.
Will Durant
The trouble with most people is that they think with their hopes or fears or wishes rather than with their minds.
 
 
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