Wishful Thinking Quotes
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Wishful Thinking Quotes & Sayings
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You should never wish for wishful thinking.
— David Levithan
Wishful thinking is one thing, and reality another.
— Jalal Talabani
If you have a dream of writing, that's wishful thinking. If you have a commitment to writing, that's the way to make your dreams come true.
— Nancy Pickard
You cannot transform the world by wishful thinking -- you must do something about it.
— Jonathan Black
Mine is not the faith of wishful thinking. It's faith with arms and legs, days and nights, eyes and ears.
— Karen Maezen Miller
There is a great deal of wishful thinking in such cases it is the easiest thing of all to deceive ones self.
— Demosthenes
If coffee were like dreams, then I would be wired in constant bliss, never needing sleep to live out my dreams.
— Anthony Liccione
It makes you wonder if there is anything to astrology after all.' 'Oh, there is,' said Susan. 'Delusion, wishful thinking and gullibility.
— Terry Pratchett
A GOAL THAT IS NOT MEASURABLE IS JUST WISHFUL THINKING.
— Jack Canfield
Some like to understand what they believe in. Others like to believe in what they understand
— Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
The act of speaking our intentions aloud shifts them from wishful thinking into action.
— Michael Thomas Sunnarborg
Providence and Manifest Destiny are synonyms often invoked to support arguments based on wishful thinking.
— Frank Herbert
It was only wishful thinking. And whether wishes were made by blowing out birthday candles or on a shooting star, they never came true.
— Jessica Sorensen
I think this Law, by which I am punished, is both unreasonable in itself, and particularly severe ... Polly Baker — Benjamin Franklin
Wishful thinking does wonders for a wishful mind; but in the end, reality always has the final say.
— Steve Maraboli
You can only live in the world you ken. The rest is just wishful thinking or paranoia.
— Irvine Welsh
Please tell me the truth about yourself.
— Diane Samuels
Faith is not by wishful thinking, it is what takes root in the heart and shows in one's actions.
— Sayyid Qutb
It takes abstract thinking to see how greed can lead to prosperity, but it takes wishful thinking to claim that violence can lead to charity.
— Jakub Bozydar Wisniewski
A goal without real consequences is wishful thinking. Good follow-through doesn't depend on the right intentions. It depends on the right incentives.
— Timothy Ferriss
Black(people) hold onto their God just as the drunken man holds on to the street lamp post - for physical support only.
— Tai Solarin
Wishful thinking doesn't change reality.
— Lee Strobel
I'm not talking to you from the point of view of wishful thinking or imaginary craziness. i'm talking to you from a deeper, basic understanding.
— Fred Alan Wolf
I can no longer tell the difference between memory and dream. They share the same quality of wishful thinking.
— Angela Carter
Unplanned process improvement is wishful thinking.
— Watts Humphrey
Religion is like a blind man looking in a black room for a black cat that isn't there, and finding it.
— Oscar Wilde
I now realize that I should blame myself when men indulge in such wildly wishful thinking that they see a sexual invitation in a simple smile.
— David Lagercrantz
to hope was to expect
— Jane Austen
Home development is about wishful thinking. It's about capturing a dream.
— Barbara Delinsky
If you have one wish, wish for everything to be exactly as it is.
Then wait patiently for your wish to come true. — Stephen Russell
It's not "wishful" thinking.
— Rhonda Byrne
What you wish to do you are apt to think you ought to do.
— Marie Von Ebner-Eschenbach
Don't you wish some people came with a silencer?
— Josh Stern
Wishful thinking, that time might heal - it seldom healed anything, only making scars that were often tender to the touch, and ugly.
— Charles Todd
Where there is life there is wishful thinking.
— Gerald F. Lieberman
With the first drink comes the truth, with the second drink comes wishful thinking, and with the third drink come the lies.
— Douglas Coupland
Don't wish away your problems. They need action, not wishful thinking
— Bangambiki Habyarimana
It is not the same as optimism or wishful thinking, for these imply a denial of reality.
— Philip Yancey
Everything you imagine can come true.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
It had been wishful thinking, plain and simple, dangerous for me to indulge in. Hope, happiness and freedom were not in my future.
— Maria V. Snyder
That kind of thinking is often called wishful, but you need it for a starter. Give me a little more time, and see what I come up with.
— R. G. G. LeTourneau
Someone who operates from a place of wishful thinking is - in essence - a closet pessimist.
— Todd Henry
Common consensus is not thought but wishful thinking.
— Ernst Pawel
I love you, lirsha
— Larissa Ione
The notion that better engineering can solve all our problems is rooted in an ignorance of non-linear systems and selective/wishful thinking.
— Charles Hugh Smith
Don't settle for wishful thinking; make peace in your heart a reality.
— Woodrow M. Kroll
Washington's incessant need for NEW assessments testifies to uncertainty in the capital.
— Barbara W. Tuchman
And while positivity is the seed of many a great thing, wishful thinking alone doesn't make a good foundation for marriage.
— Cecelia Ahern
Wishful thinking is not sound public policy.
— Bjorn Lomborg
The major barrier to understanding is wishful thinking and following that which pleases one.
— Idries Shah
Wishful thinking isn't particularly bad. Without it, how would you paint happy ideas inside your mind? Don't be so cynical.
— B.A. Gabrielle
Physical fitness can neither be achieved by wishful thinking nor outright purchase.
— Joseph Pilates
If history teaches us anything, it teaches that simple-minded appeasement or wishful thinking about our adversaries is folly.
— Ronald Reagan
Any real belief in death is just wishful thinking.
— Chuck Palahniuk
Peace is a militant state, which is not secured by wishful thinking ... If we are to be sure of our liberty, we must be ready to fight for it.
— Jonathan M. Wainwright
Wishful thinking is a powerful force.
— Susan Wiggs
But this is wishful thinking: as the Polis Governor of Bulikov, the capital city of the Continent, it is her duty to preside over all trials,
— Robert Jackson Bennett
Sometimes the truth is so deep that it takes someone with the same depth to see it, while others can't see past the level they have never moved from.
— Shannon L. Alder
Don't be great at wishful thinking, you'll never get anything done.
— Darrick Williams
... the day had been both unprofitable and unsatisfactory, and he was wishing he could live it over again.
— Louisa May Alcott
Without total dedication & discipline, success in any field is just a wishful thinking.
— Subodh Gupta
If something is true, no amount of wishful thinking will change it.
— Richard Dawkins
Control was just wishful thinking, and you controlled things to hedge your bets, to be safe, to guard against loss.
— Deb Caletti
Never wish to be somebody. You never know what they are made up of.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Oh, how I wish I was a woman - his woman.
— A.R. Von
Everyone - black as well as white - thinks it's going to be better over the next jump of land.
— Stephen King
