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161 quotesBe content to be what you are, and prefer nothing to it, and do not fear or wish for your last day.
Individuality
Marcus Valerius Martial
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Stop the habit of wishful thinking and start the habit of thoughtful wishes.
Habit
Mary Martin
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I wish I was as cocksure of anything as Tom Macaulay is of everything.
Self-confidence
Lord Melbourne
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We live, not as we wish to, but as we can.
Life and Living
Menander of Athens
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Work will win when wishy washy wishing won t.
Work
Thomas S. Monson
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I know God will not give me anything I can't handle. I just wish that He didn't trust me so much.
God
Mother Teresa
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Let us act on what we have, since we have not what we wish.
Wish and Wishing
Cardinal J. Newman
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He that humbleth himself wishes to be exalted.
Humility
Friedrich Nietzsche
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If any person wish to be idle, let them fall in love.
Love
Ovid
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If you wish to marry suitably, marry your equal.
Marriage
Ovid
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Do you wish people to think well of you? Don't speak well of yourself.
Speakers and Speaking
Blaise Pascal
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I present myself to you in a form suitable to the relationship I wish to achieve with you.
Relationships
Luigi Pirandello
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People wish to learn to swim and at the same time to keep one foot on the ground.
Risk
Marcel Proust
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Things don't change, but by and by our wishes change.
Change
Marcel Proust
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Between the wish and the thing life lies waiting.
Wish and Wishing
Proverb
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Choose your wife as you wish your children to be.
Marriage
Proverb
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If you wish for peace be ready for war.
Peace
Proverb
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Whom God wishes to destroy, he first makes mad.
Insanity
Proverb
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I can die when I wish to: that is my elixir of life.
Death and Dying
Ernest Renan
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We can change our lives. We can do, have, and be exactly what we wish.
Choice
Anthony Robbins
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Don't wish it were easier, wish you were better.
Hope
Jim Rohn
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It takes as much energy to wish as it does to plan.
Planning
Eleanor Roosevelt
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I wish to preach, not the doctrine of ignoble ease, but the doctrine of the strenuous life.
Dedication
Theodore Roosevelt
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The world is full of genies waiting to grant your wishes.
Ask
Percy Ross
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There are certain moments when we might wish the future were built by men of the past.
The future
Jean Rostand
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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun