Wish Quotes

I never wish to be easily defined. I’d rather float over other people’s minds as something strictly fluid and non-perceivable; more like a transparent, paradoxically iridescent creature rather than an actual person.

Franz Kafka
- Transparent
- Fluid
- Float
When the gods wish to punish us they answer our prayers.

Oscar Wilde
- Gods
- Answer
- Prayers

You must be the change you wish to see in the world.

Mahatma Gandhi
- World
- Change
- Wish
Desire is the starting point of all achievement, not a hope, not a wish, but a keen pulsating desire which transcends everything.

Napoleon Hill
- Hope
- Desire
- Achievement
In fact, Mr. Watson, it's a queer world, and the longer I live in it the queerer I find it. Once I thought it would be a good idea to regulate things myself and run the world as it ought to be run; but I gave it up long ago. The world's a stage, they say; but the show ain't always amusing, by a long chalk, and sometimes I wish I didn't have a reserved seat.

L. Frank Baum
- Up
- World
- Good
I tell the story of these philosophers in simplified form: I merely wish to bring out in each system that point which represents a piece of the personality, and which history must preserve as a part of what is irrefutable and indisputable.

Friedrich Nietzsche
- History
- Wish
- Personality
At long last I am able to say a few words of my own... You must believe me when I tell you that I have found it impossible to carry the heavy burden of responsibility and to discharge my duties as King as I would wish to do without the help and support of the woman I love.

Edward VIII
- Believe
- Long
- Help
Face reality as it is, not as it was or as you wish it to be.

Jack Welch
- Reality
- Wish
- Face