Top 1200 Best Wishes Quotes & Sayings

Diligence is the mother of good fortune, and idleness, its opposite, never brought a man to the goal of any of his best wishes.

How seek the way which leadeth to our wishes? By renouncing our wishes. The crown of excellence is renunciation.

We don't read people's wishes. The wishes are suppose to be direct communication to the Universe. Your interception will weaken the power of the wish.

The lazy ox wishes for horse-trappings, and the steed wishes to plough. [Lat., Optat ephippia bos piger, optat arare caballus.]

One who no longer wishes to laugh had best marry in France; they will soon find that it is no laughing matter.

But a man's best friend is the one who not only wishes him well but wishes it for his own sake (even though nobody will ever know it): and this condition is best fulfilled by his attitude towards himself - and similarly with all the other attributes that go to define a friend. For we have said before that all friendly feelings for others are extensions of a man's feelings for himself.

My best wishes are with Indian cricket in general. I wish each one of our cricketers success at the international and domestic level.

we might also call vertigo the intoxication of the weak. aware of his weakness, a man decides to give in rather than stand up to it. he is drunk with weakness, wishes to grow even weaker, wishes to fall down in the middle of the main square in front of everybody, wishes to be down, lower than down.

Man's best friend is one who wishes well to the object of his wish for his sake, even if no one is to know of it.

My anxious recollections, my sympathetic feeling, and my best wishes are irresistibly excited whensoever, in any country, I see an oppressed nation unfurl the banners of freedom.

If I could have three wishes, one would be to take an '88 and shove that barrel up Hitler's ass so that cocksucker can cry like the little god-damned girl he is. And hell, after that, I wouldn't need two more wishes.

I am not unaware of the saying that more tears have been shed over wishes granted than wishes denied.

In modern society, where most people live in cities, and where both needs and wishes are absolved through the same remote agency - money - the distinction between wishes and needs has altogether vanished.

Destiny grants us our wishes, but in its own way, in order to give us something beyond our wishes.

He wishes he had never entered the funhouse. But he has. Then he wishes he were dead. But he's not. Therefore he will construct funhouses for others and be their secret operator -- though he would rather be among the lovers for whom funhouses are designed.

Artists and religionists are never far apart, they go to the sources of revelation for what they choose to experience and what they report is the degree of their experiences. Intellect wishes to arrange — intuition wishes to accept.

Conflict may be defined as a situation of competition in which the parties are aware of the incompatibility of potential future positions, and in which each party wishes to occupy a position that is incompatible with the wishes of the other.

Some people do politics, let them, my best wishes to them.

Through practice he has accustomed himself to wish for nothing, and for a person with no wishes, everything goes just as he wishes, explains the Abbot Dorotheus. His will has coincided with God's will, and whatever he asks, he will receive.

What is common in all these dreams is obvious. They completely satisfy wishes excited during the day which remain unrealized. They are simply and undisguisedly realizations of wishes.

God's work is freedom. Freedom is dear to his heart. He wishes to make man's will free, and at the same time wishes it to be pure, majestic, and holy.

What the artist wishes to do — as far as you are concerned — is to take you out of yourself. As far as he is concerned, he wishes to express himself.

The bereaved had never any doubt about their dear ones' wishes and those wishes usually squared with their own inclinations.

Unattainable wishes are often "pious." This seems to indicate that only profane wishes are fulfilled.

We owe our troops the opportunity to serve in the best-planned, best-equipped, and best-led military force in the world, and we owe them the peace of mind that comes from knowing that they and their families will be taken care of if they sacrifice life, limb or the ability to sleep without war's nightmares. We owe them not just thanks and best wishes, but action, and action in our nation's capital.

The best friend is he that, when he wishes a person's good, wishes it for that person's own sake.

Whoever wishes to be delivered from the Fire and enter the Garden should die with faith in God and the Last Day and should treat the people as he wishes to be treated by them.

A wise unselfishness is not a surrender of yourself to the wishes of anyone, but only to the best discoverable course of action.

You can not be the judge of another's wishes. If you love someone, you must believe that they know what is best for themselves.

Not everyone is a debtor who wishes to be; not everyone who wishes makes creditors.

If a man wishes to ensure the bad opinion of others, his best course probably is to be honest about himself.

Overcoming fear is a critical factor for anyone who wishes to be really happy, or anyone who wishes to become enlightened

There is sorrow, but I hope one can see that it is sorrow for the people who died so young and so crazy, for nothing. I have respect for them, but also for their wishes, or for the power of their wishes. Because they tried to change the stupid things in the world.

some wishes come true. some wishes dont. sometimes you find out you were wishing for the completely wrong thing.

The angry man wishes the object of his anger to suffer in return; hatred wishes its object not to exist.

The French are always reticent to surrender to the wishes of their friends and always more than willing to surrender to the wishes of their enemies.

If wishes were fishes we'd all be throwing nets. If wishes were horses we'd all ride.

Your goal is to achieve the best results by following their wishes. If they want you to build a house upside down standing on its chimney, it's up to you to do it.

Collectivism answers: The power of society is unlimited. Society may make any laws it wishes, and force them upon anyone in any manner it wishes.

We get our facts from Wiki-something or the other, which at the best of times, is generalised information gathered and submitted by anyone who wishes to!

It so happens that after a certain stage, we have to give in to the wishes of the people rather than your own satisfaction. I look at it as my responsibility to satisfy the wishes of the people more than mine.

Love wishes to perpetuate itself. Love wishes for immortality.

HUMORIST, n. A plague that would have softened down the hoar austerity of Pharaoh's heart and persuaded him to dismiss Israel with his best wishes, cat-quick.

Wishes of one's old life wither and shrivel like old leaves if they are not replaced with new wishes when the world changes. And the world always changes. Wishes get slimy, and their colors fade, and soon they are just mud, like all the rest of the mud, and not wishes at all, but regrets. The trouble is, not everyone can tell when they ought to launder their wishes. Even when one finds oneself in Fairyland and not at home at all, it is not always so easy to remember to catch the world in it's changing and change with it.

We often tend to think that the executive wishes to maintain standard, wishes to reach a certain quality of production, and that the worker has to be goaded in some way to do this. Again and again we forget that the worker is often, usually I think, equally interested, that his greatest pleasure in his work comes from the satisfaction of worthwhile accomplishment, of having done the best of which he was capable.

Every mother wishes the best for her children.

But nothing is more insidious than the evolution of wishes from mere fancies, and of wants from mere wishes.

I'm suprised he doesn't send Christmas cards," Antonio said. "I can see them now. Tasteful, embossed veilum cards, the best he can steal. Little notes in perfect penmanship,"Happy holidays. Hope everyone is well. I sliced up Ethan Ritter in Miami and scattered his remains in the Atlantic. Best wishes for the new year. Karl.

When the painter wishes to represent an event, he cannot place before us too great a number of personages; but he cannot employ too few when he wishes to portray an emotion.

In life, it's best not to take anything for free - unless it's from someone who wishes you well.

A reactionary is fixed on the past and wanting to return to it; a conservative wishes to adapt what is best in the past to the changing circumstances of the present.

I am honest; I try to be truthful. I like people and wish us well. We are not always deserving of our own best wishes.

I sent my Christmas wishes to him, but he didn't answer. He's the world's best coach, but as a man he still has to learn manners and respect.

The President wishes the Japanese to be very prudent about the introduction of opium, and if a treaty is made, he wishes that opium may be strictly prohibited.

Best wishes for a great marathon. Be sure to savor it. The first marathon is something special. Run long and healthy.

God wishes to be seen, wishes to be sought, wishes to be expected, and wishes to be trusted.

My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake.

I will be praying with my best wishes that the Orthodox move ahead because they are brothers and their bishops are bishops like us.

Lots of birthday wishes Are sent to you today Hope your day will be One of the best You've ever had!

The typical Westerner wishes to be the cause of as many changes as possible in his environment; the typical Chinaman wishes to enjoy as much and as delicately as possible.