Backbone Wishbone Quotes & Sayings

When admins have faults, they do not fear to ignore them — Confucius

Stop wearing your wishbone where your backbone ought to be. — Elizabeth Gilbert

Never grow a wishbone, daughter, where you backbone ought to be. — Clementine Paddleford

I'm an early-morning owl. — Patrick Wilson

It is the stain and disgrace of the age to envy virtue, and to be anxious to crush the very flower of dignity. — Marcus Tullius Cicero

You don't need a wishbone, you need a backbone. — Caroline Myss

Some people develop a wishbone where their backbone should be. — Shannon L. Alder

Put your backbone where your wishbone is. — Vikram Seth

There are too many people that try to change us, and not enough people who want us to be who we really are. Someone once made me see that, and i wanted to give that to you. — Penelope Douglas

To succeed in life, you need three things: a wishbone, a backbone and a funnybone. — Reba McEntire

Years later I read a statement that said, "A tot of people have a wishbone, but they don't have a backbone." I thought, That's the truth. Wishing won't get us anything. We have got to dig in and do whatever we have to do to get — Joyce Meyer

Many a man has failed because he had his wishbone where his backbone should have been. — Ronald Reagan

We like them big ... but we'll settle for players with three kinds of bones - a funnybone, a wishbone and a backbone. The funnybone is to enjoy a laugh, even at one's own expense. The wishbone is to think by, set one's goals high and have dreams and ambitions. And the backbone - well, that's what a player needs to get up and go to work and make those dreams come true. — Duffy Daugherty

It is said that history turns on small hinges. A human career, too, results from an accumulating series of decisions about large and small matters over a period of years. But the catch is that you can never know when a seemingly small decision may prove to be, from the vantage of later years, the big decision of your life. — Norman Vincent Peale

If we're all living in ourselves and mistaking it for life, then we're devaluing and desensitizing life. — Thandie Newton

The wishbone will never replace the backbone — Will Henry

Dream big ... don't let anybody or anything break your wishbone. Stay strong, full of faith, and courageous ... keep that backbone straight. And along the way, don't forget to laugh and enjoy the journey. — Charles R. Swindoll

We need a backbone, not a wishbone. — Joyce Meyer

Repression does for a true man or a nation what fire does for gold. — Mahatma Gandhi

When I got fired, I had a feeling of loss because Viacom had been a passionate long-term relationship. But I got my balance back. I guess it's like getting jilted by a girlfriend, a serious girlfriend. You move on. — Tom Freston

The individual activity of one man with backbone will do more than a thousand men with a mere wishbone. — William J.H. Boetcker

Get a backbone, not a wishbone, — Caroline Myss

You're wishin' too much, baby. You gotta stop wearing your wishbone where your backbone oughtta be. — Elizabeth Gilbert

I smoked for many years like a total idiot. — Jami Attenberg

The [Liberal] federal government's trouble is that they have a wishbone where they should have a backbone. — Tommy Douglas

Life is a great gift, and as we reach years of discretion, most of us naturally ask ourselves what should be the main object of our existence. — John Lubbock

Do not serve time, let time serve you. — Willie Sutton

You only have to have two loves in your life: for God, and for the person in front of you at any particular time. — Jimmy Carter