wish Quotes

“It is great folly to wish to be wise all alone.”

“Be not angry that you cannot make others as you wish them to be, since you cannot make yourself as you wish to be.”

“The one who cannot restrain their anger will wish undone, what their temper and irritation prompted them to do.”

“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.”

“The art of acceptance is the art of making someone who has just done you a small favor wish that he might have done you a greater one.”

“What I wish I had, is that I wish I was a little more Greek, in that I wish I could lose my North American driven attitude and that I could be a little bit more poetic and laissez faire.”

“The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with the wish to teach himself.”

“To my surprise, my 70s are nicer than my 60s and my 60s than my 50s, and I wouldn't wish my teens and 20s on my enemies.”

“Every day, every birthday candle I blow out, every penny I throw over my shoulder in a wishing well, every time my daughter says, 'Let's make a wish on a star,' there's one thing I wish for: wisdom.”

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