Below you will find our collection of inspirational, wise, and humorous
old wishing quotes, wishing sayings, and wishing proverbs, collected over the years from a variety
of sources.
While wishing and hoping makes you a dreamer, acting and doing makes you someone who can turn dreams into reality.Nan S. Russell
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Wishing does not make a poor man rich.Arabian Proverb
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Great minds have purposes, others have wishes.Washington Irving
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A man will sometimes devote all his life to the development of one part of his body - the wishbone.Robert Frost
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A wish is a desire without an attempt.Farmer Digest
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Wishing consumes as much energy as planning.unknown
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You can't cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water. Don't let yourself indulge in vain wishes.Rabindranath Tagore
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Many of us spend half of our time wishing for things we could have if we didn't spend half our time wishing.Alexander Woollcott
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Wishes won't wash dishes.American Proverb
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Work while others are wishing.William Arthur Ward
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If wishes were horses beggars would ride.Joanne Harris
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The wishing gate opens into nothing.Charles Haddon Spurgeon
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Wishing of all strategies, is the worst.Andrew Young
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Work will win when wishy washy wishing won't.Thomas S. Monson
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To a resolute mind, wishing to do is the first step toward doing. But if we do not wish to do a thing it becomes impossible.Robert Southey
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I don't believe that wishing works. I think we get the things we work for.Brendan Fraser
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Wishing of all employments is the worst.Edward Young
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Wishing of all strategies, is the worst.Andrew Young
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A man, when he wishes, is the master of his fate.Jose Ferrer
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My only wish is that my wishes be at rest.Ruckett
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Some people develop a wishbone where their backbone should be.Anonymous
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We are never further from what we wish than when we believe that we have what we wished for.Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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When we get to wishing a great deal for ourselves, whatever we get soon turns into mere limitation and exclusion.George Eliot
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We would often be sorry if our wishes were granted.Aesop
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For adults, wishing is a sign of thinking something is not possible.Alan Robert Neal
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Don't waste too much time wishing, hoping, and being envious; it'll make you bugnutty.Penn Jillette
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Wanting and wishing are very different.Jonathan Friesen
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Wishing for something without tirelessly working for it, is like trying to drive a car that has no fuel in it.Edmond Mbiaka
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I don't have the time to wish for the things that I positively desire in life because I am always busy working to attain them.Edmond Mbiaka
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The habit of wishing is only for those who aren't hungry enough for success.Edmond Mbiaka