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A Select Collection of Quotes about Wishes

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Unknown Author: Quotes about Wishes
We are told never to cross a bridge until we come to it, but this world is owned by men who have "crossed bridges" in their imagination far ahead of the crowd.

Eric Hoffer: Quotes about Wishes
We are told that talent creates its own opportunities. But it sometimes seems that intense desire creates not only its own opportunities, but its own talents.

Ralph Waldo Emerson: Quotes about Wishes
We but half express ourselves, and are ashamed of that divine idea which each of us represents.

Christian Nevell Bovee: Quotes about Wishes
We trifle when we assign limits to our desires, since nature hath set none.

Basil S. Walsh: Quotes about Wishes
What we need is to use what we have.

John Lubbock: Quotes about Wishes
What we see depends mainly on what we look for.

Edwin Hubbel Chapin: Quotes about Wishes
Whatever touches the nerves of motive, whatever shifts man's moral position, is mightier than steam, or calorie, or lightening.

Paul J. Meyer: Quotes about Wishes
Whatever you vividly imagine, ardently desire, sincerely believe, and enthusiastically act upon... must inevitably come to pass!

Kathleen A. Sutton: Quotes about Wishes
When you can't have what you want, it's time to start wanting what you have.

Marian Anderson: Quotes about Wishes
When you stop having dreams and ideals - well, you might as well stop altogether.

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