Why spend a lifetime wishing for things a lot of people already possess in their lives? Your greatness lies in persistently going after your desires.
No matter the amount of people who are wishing for your downfall, always remember that God is already busy elevating you to a greater height.
We will receive not what we idly wish for but what we justly earn. Our rewards will always be in exact proportion to our service.
There are not many males, black or white, who wish to get involved with a woman who's committed to her own development.
If you wish to make Pythocles rich, do not add to his store of money, but subtract from his desires.
Some things you'll never know, and some things you'll wish you never knew.
Atlas was permitted the opinion that he was at liberty, if he wished, to drop the Earth and creep away; but this opinion was all that he was permitted.
What? You seek something? You wish to multiply yourself tenfold, a hundredfold? You seek followers? Seek zeros!
In all aspects of life, we take on a part and an appearance to seem to be what we wish to be--and thus the world is merely composed of actors.
It just takes one serious thought to change a person, either to one he always wanted to be or into one he never wished to be.
When you think of the condition the world is in now you sometimes wish that Noah had missed the boat.
Early to bed and early to rise is a bad rule for anyone who wishes to become acquainted with our most prominent and influential people.
Children are not only innocent and curious but also optimistic and joyful and essentially happy. They are, in short, everything adults wish they could be.
When you stop comparing what is right here and now with what you wish were, you can begin to enjoy what is.
A fan will grab you and hug you and will not let go. When that happens, you wish it could be that way all over the world.
That children shall be compelled to receive religious instruction which is in antagonism to the wishes of their parents, is what no man with say sense of justice would suggest.
If one looks at the different problems of the integral calculus which arise naturally when one wishes to go deep into the different parts of physics, it is impossible not to be struck by the analogies existing.
A man's desire for a son is usually nothing but the wish to duplicate himself in order that such a remarkable pattern may not be lost to the world.
Wishes and wants do not transform a person; actions and reactions do so! Show the world your plans by the actions you take progressively and consistently.
Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.
...And talking of the dear family party which would then be restored, of their mutual pursuits and cheerful society, as the only happiness worth a wish.
