New Year's Wish

A goal without a plan is just a wish. - Antoine de Saint-Exupery

I wish he would explain his explanation. - Lord Byron

We live, not as we wish to, but as we can. - Menander

When I go I'll take New Year's Eve with me. - Guy Lombardo

It takes as much energy to wish as it does to plan. - Eleanor Roosevelt

Nothing is so commonplace as to wish to be remarkable. - Olive Wendell Holmes Sr.

We are no longer happy, so soon as we wish to be happier. - Walter Savage Landor

Cheers to a New Year and another chance for us to get it right. - Oprah Winfrey

It wouldn't be New Year's if I didn't have regrets. - William Thomas

I wish she would be able to take responsibility for her failure. - Donald Trump

Fears are educated into us, and can, if we wish, be educated out. - Karl Augustus Menninger

Men in general are quick to believe that which they wish to be true. - Julius Caesar

In critical moments, men sometimes see exactly what they wish to see. - Leonard Nimoy

He who breaks a resolution is a weakling. He who makes one is a fool. - F.M. Knowles

And now we welcome the new year. Full of things that have never been. - Rainer M. Rilke

Many people look forward to the new year for a new start on old habits. - Unknown

Nothing fixes a thing so intensely in the memory as the wish to forget it. - Michel de Montaigne

Your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other one thing. - Abraham Lincoln

With a little study you'll go a long ways, and I wish you'd start now. - Groucho Marx

Sometimes you just got to give yourself what you wish someone else would give you. - Dr. Phil

My uncle's dying wish was to have me sitting in his lap; he was in the electric chair. - Rodney Dangerfield

Most people can bear adversity. But if you wish to know what a man really is, give him power. - Robert G. Ingersoll

One resolution I have made, and try always to keep, is this: To rise above the little things. - John Burroughs

Will you look back on life and say, 'I wish I had,' or 'I'm glad I did it'? - Zig Ziglar

Someone sent me a postcard picture of the earth. On the back it said, "Wish you were here." - Steven Wright

Be always at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let each new year find you a better man. - Benjamin Franklin

I wish I could stand on a busy street corner, hat in hand and beg people to throw me all of their wasted hours. - Bernard Berenson

Madam, you're making history, in fact, you're making me, and I wish you'd keep my hands to yourself. - Groucho Marx

An individual starts off by facing his problem with resolution, but a convention saves the resolution for the end. - Unknown

The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes and inspires his listener with the wish to teach himself. - Edward Bulwer-Lytton

From New Year's on the outlook brightens; good humor lost in a mood of failure returns. I resolve to stop complaining. - Leonard Bernstein

The family, that dear octopus from whose tentacles we never quite escape, nor in our innermost hearts never quite wish to. - Dodie Smith

New Year's Resolution: To tolerate fools more gladly, provided this does not encourage them to take up more of my time. - James Agate

Peace is not something you wish for; it's something you make, something you do, something you are, something you give away. - Unknown

If I had one wish for my children, it would be that each of them would reach for goals that have meaning for them as individuals. - Lillian Carter

Desire is the starting point of all achievement, not a hope, not a wish, but a keen pulsating desire which transcends everything. - Napoleon Hill

This, then, is the test we must set for ourselves; not to march alone but to march in such a way that others will wish to join us. - Hubert H. Humphrey

Try your best to treat others as you would wish to be treated yourself, and you will find that this is the shortest way to benevolence. - Mencius

There are always three speeches, for every one you actually gave. The one you practiced, the one you gave, and the one you wish you gave. - Dale Carnegie

Love easily confuses us because it is always in flux between illusion and substance, between memory and wish, between contentment and need. - Tom Robbins