Every heart sings a song, incomplete, until another heart whispers back. Those who wish to sing always find a song. At the touch of a lover, everyone becomes a poet.
—Plato
I only wish that ordinary people had an unlimited capacity for doing harm; then they might have an unlimited power for doing good.
—Socrates
Never wish to see a just cause defended with unjust means
—Immanuel Kant
Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit.
—Aristotle
If things do not turn out as we wish, we should wish for them as they turn out.
—Aristotle
If in rage you wish to harm someone, whether you succeed or not, as a result of your rage you’re certainly committing evil against yourself.
—Leo Tolstoy
When you wish to instruct, be brief; that men’s minds take in quickly what you say, learn its lesson, and retain it faithfully. Every word that is unnecessary only pours over the side of a brimming mind.
—Cicero
Thou art my Stony Rock
Thou standest very high,
And yet Thou art accessible,
My God, yea very nigh:
A thought, a wish, an infant’s cry,
And I, in Thee, am set on high.
—Amy Carmichael
It is a mistake to look for grace to visit us as a kind of benign magic, or to expect God’s help to come as a windfall apart from conditions known & met. To desire revival, for instance, and at the same time to neglect prayer & devotion is to wish one way and walk another.
—Tozer
If you wish to possess love for God’s Word, study it diligently and so become like an artesian well – overflowing with the water of life to refresh thirsty souls.
—D. L. Moody
The terrible thing, the almost impossible thing, is to hand over your whole self — all your wishes and precautions — to Christ. – C.S. Lewis
The Celts were fearless warriors because they wish to inculcate this as one of their leading tenets, that souls do not become extinct, but pass after death from one body to another.
—Julius Caesar
Do you wish people to think well of you? Don’t speak well of yourself.
—Blaise Pascal
“If your proud flesh should rebel, pray it down; for, rest assured that, if you were so selfish as only to wish to do that which would promote your own happiness, it would be the path of wisdom to be obedient to your Lord and Master.”
Not only dreams are wish fulfillments, so are hysterical attacks.
—Sigmund Freud
You need not wish for the wings of a dove that you may fly afar off, and be at rest, but Christ is night at hand, if you were but sensible of it.
—Jonathan Edwards
I only wish, that I may have grace given me to preach the truth, as it is in JESUS; and then, come what will, I hope I shall (as I do, blessed be GOD) rejoice.
—George Whitefield
A sound mind in a sound body, is a short, but full description of a Happy state in this World: he that has these two, has little more to wish for; and he that wants either of them, will be little better for anything else.
—John Locke
A sound mind in a sound body, is a short, but full description of a Happy state in this World: he that has these two, has little more to wish for; and he that wants either of them, will be little better for anything else.
—John Locke