Top 570 Wish Quotes

Regarding fame, fortune and Oregon I do wish I had more money.
John Fahey
I experienced bullying as early as the first day of kindergarten and there were times where I wish could escape out of my body.
Lizzie Velasquez
If you wish to succeed in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother, and hope your guardian genius.
Joseph Addison
If I err in belief that the souls of men are immortal, I gladly err, nor do I wish this error which gives me pleasure to be wrested from me while I live.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
I wish I was a little less… passionate. I’m a very passionate person.
Lil Peep
Everest is not real climbing. It’s rich people climbing. It’s a trophy on the wall, and they’re done… When I say I wish I’d never gone, I really mean that.
Jon Krakauer
‘Pride’ is my first film with a happy ending. Before, I naively thought they were a cop-out, but now I’ve come to believe that happy endings and wish fulfilment are an incredibly important part of our cultural life.
Joe Wright
I wish climate change wasn’t real.
Matt Gaetz
I wish I could say I had this master plan for a career, but I always thought acting was something I’d just do until I had a hit record.
Dean Jones
I wish you would read a little poetry sometimes. Your ignorance cramps my conversation.
Anthony Hope
I wish I was a prolific writing wondrous boy genius – I wish I was Stevie Wonder – but I wasn’t. I was me. I wrote terrible songs about girls I was head-over-heels about. As soon as a pretty girl looks at me, that’s it – I’m in love, and I should probably write a song about it!
Jack Garratt
I used to watch, on television on Sunday nights, they had the Disney hour then and the castle coming up and ‘When you wish upon a star… ‘ That was my very first Disney memory.
Phyllis Smith
Do I wish I had never endured postpartum depression? Absolutely. But to deny the experience is to deny who I am.
Bryce Dallas Howard
I just wish I could understand my father.
Michael Jackson
Thieves respect property. They merely wish the property to become their property that they may more perfectly respect it.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
So Europe needs to be competitive and we also need to be competitive if we wish to remain an interesting economic partner for the United States. This has to be done on the basis of strength, of competitiveness.
Angela Merkel
I decide to go direct to Key West… I know the place quite well, and it’s near the points in Florida that I wish to visit. I have an idea at present of doing some work but do not know how long that will last.
Winslow Homer
We must respect the past, and mistrust the present, if we wish to provide for the safety of the future.
Joseph Joubert
Adolescence represents an inner emotional upheaval, a struggle between the eternal human wish to cling to the past and the equally powerful wish to get on with the future.
Louise J. Kaplan
Roger Revelle died of a heart attack three months after the Cosmos story was printed. Oh, how I wish he were still alive today. He might be able to stop this scientific silliness and end the global warming scam. He might well stand beside me as a global warming denier.
John Coleman
I’d love sloth. I wish sloth would come home and visit me once in a while. I don’t consider laziness a sin at all.
Kajol
People determine the laws. But I do wish they would pass laws that enhance health, not jeopardize it.
Drew Pinsky
With ‘Smoke Signals,’ the character was so much like me growing up. I lost my parents, and I wish I’d had an opportunity to find out where they were. So I was reflecting on how I grew up, that feeling of abandonment. That whole film was a reality that I always held back and kept to myself.
Adam Beach
I wish my 15-year-old self had known about my allure to the opposite sex!
Benedict Cumberbatch
I sit on a man’s back, choking him and making him carry me, and yet assure myself and others that I am very sorry for him and wish to ease his lot by all possible means – except by getting off his back.
Leo Tolstoy
Affectation is a very good word when someone does not wish to confess to what he would none the less like to believe of himself.
Fanny Brice
Sometimes I wish that I was the weather, you’d bring me up in conversation forever. And when it rained, I’d be the talk of the day.
John Mayer
If I have one wish for my birthday, it is that 35 is the end of desperation and the beginning of acceptance. Part of that is believing that if I’m meant to give birth, I will.
Jessi Klein
Doubt is an uneasy and dissatisfied state from which we struggle to free ourselves and pass into the state of belief; while the latter is a calm and satisfactory state which we do not wish to avoid, or to change to a belief in anything else.
Charles Sanders Peirce
I wish I could be elegant.

I wish I could be elegant.
Robert Mapplethorpe
In real life, I’m so goofy and super weird. I’m never mean, but people don’t see the weird side of me. Like, I’ll be dancing around. My best friends will always say that they wish others saw that side of me, when I’m doing a weird dance or weird faces or voices.
Gigi Hadid
Some people wish above all to conform to the rules, I wish only to render what I can hear. There is no theory. You have only to listen. Pleasure is the law.
Claude Debussy
Be not angry that you cannot make others as you wish them to be, since you cannot make yourself as you wish to be.
Thomas a Kempis
The brain is the cornerstone of virtually every facet of our lives. I wish we knew more.
Tan Le
People wish to be poets more than they wish to write poetry, and that’s a mistake. One should wish to celebrate more than one wishes to be celebrated.
Lucille Clifton
Every family should have the right to spend their money, after tax, as they wish, and not as the government dictates. Let us extend choice, extend the will to choose and the chance to choose.
Margaret Thatcher
The Golden Rule of Parenting is; do unto your children as you wish your parents had done unto you!
Louise Hart
I wish that the arts were better supported, and you can’t say that enough times, but I also believe that whatever happens, artists will keep going.
Ben Whishaw
I wish I had more hair on my head. Maybe if I sprinkled fertilizer on it, it would grow.
Kylie Bax
I’m not sure what I want to do when I grow up, or if I’m sure I ever want to grow up. I’m sure there are people that wish I would, but you know, my mom will get over it.
Jerry Doyle
Trump is kind of fascinating. I wish he was only seen in black-and-white ’cause he’s like a character from the 1890s.
Ad-Rock
One of my first records that I heard was ‘Wish You Were Here’ by Pink Floyd.
Dave Mustaine
One of the downsides of being famous is that folks pay far more attention to you than they should. American celebrities are constantly under surveillance, and every word they say is subject to scrutiny. So, be careful what you wish for if you desire fame. No human being should be a goldfish.
Bill O’Reilly
In a real sense, people who have read good literature have lived more than people who cannot or will not read. It is not true that we have only one life to live; if we can read, we can live as many more lives and as many kinds of lives as we wish.
S. I. Hayakawa
The wish for healing has always been half of health.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Laziness never arrived at the attainment of a good wish.
Miguel de Cervantes
The one who cannot restrain their anger will wish undone, what their temper and irritation prompted them to do.
Horace
I spent a lot of time protecting myself. I mean, I’ve met a lot of extraordinary people over the years – and I just wish I had been able to open myself up to them more.
Diane Keaton
I really haven’t had that exciting of a life. There are a lot of things I wish I would have done, instead of just sitting around and complaining about having a boring life. So I pretty much like to make it up. I’d rather tell a story about somebody else.
Kurt Cobain
I played tennis. My older brother, Joseph, was a cello player, and I played the cello, but he was better than me at the cello, and he was also a better tennis player than me, so I was always like, ‘I wish there was something that only I did!’
Diana Silvers
I wish I could walk around with no make-up on, but I have big angry red marks all down the side of my cheeks. Some people don’t understand how badly it affects my confidence and upsets me.
Georgia Toffolo
I wouldn’t wish overnight success on anyone. You have no real friends. Everyone works endless hours at different studios, so far apart. Even on your own lot, relationships were formal and often competitive.
Olivia De Havilland
When I was a kid, I was surrounded by girls: older sisters, older girl cousins just down the street… except for an older boy named Vito who threw rocks. Each year I would wish for a baby brother. It never happened.
Wally Lamb
Plenty of people wish to become devout, but no one wishes to be humble.
Joseph Addison
Architecture will always express the technical and social progress of the country in which it is carried out. If we wish to give it the human content that it lacks, we must participate in the political struggle.
Oscar Niemeyer
The facts are plain: Religious leaders who preside over marriage ceremonies must and will be guided by what they believe. If they do not wish to celebrate marriages for same-sex couples, that is their right. The Supreme Court says so. And the Charter says so.
Paul Martin
I have a wish. It as a fear as well – that in my end will be my beginning.
Che Guevara
Every wish, every dream, every idea comes to existence only through blood, sweat and sacrifice.
Ivan Moody
Give to everyone who begs from you; and of him who takes away your goods do not ask them again. And as you wish that men would do to you, do so to them.
Jesus Christ
I wish my national team all the best.
Ada Hegerberg
I wish my deadly foe no worse Than want of friends, and

I wish my deadly foe no worse Than want of friends, and empty purse.
Nicholas Breton
I wish that young people, most of all, would learn to cut ties with those who make them feel bad about themselves or about the other people they love and care for.
Kimberly Guilfoyle