Best wishes are mostly offered to people on some joyous occasion, like a birthday, anniversary, birth of a baby, or a promotion at work. Whatever the occasion may be, you would like to wish your friend or relative well in some way. Whether you’re buying a greeting card, penning down something on your own, or just wishing them verbally, you would definitely want to personalize it with some meaningful words.
Quotes for Weddings
Love one another and you will be happy. It’s as simple and as difficult as that.
~ Michael Leunig
To love abundantly is to live abundantly, and to love forever is to live forever.
~ Henry Drummond
Getting married is the boldest and most idealistic thing that most of us will ever do.
~ Maggie Gallagher
Marriage is ever made by destiny.
~ George Chapman
A happy marriage is a new beginning of life, a new starting point for happiness and usefulness.
~ Dean Stanley
There is no remedy for love, but to love more.
~ Henry David Thoreau
You were born together, and together you shall be forevermore. You shall be together when the white wings of death scatter your days. Ay, you shall be together even in the silent memory of God. But let there be spaces in your togetherness, and let the winds of the heavens dance between you.
~ Khalil Gibran
To keep your marriage brimming, with love in the wedding cup, whenever you’re wrong, admit it; whenever you’re right, shut up.
~ Ogden Nash
To have and to hold from this day forward, for better or worse, for richer for poorer, in sickness and in health, to love and to cherish till death do us part.
~ Book of Common Prayer
May your marriage be filled with a heap of love, a touch of affection and romance, and a spoonful of understanding. Congratulations!
~ Anonymous
Marriage is a promise, a potential, made in the hearts of two people who love, which takes a lifetime to fulfill.
~ Edmund O’Neill
Quotes for the Future
Just as man cannot live without dreams, he cannot live without hope. If dreams reflect the past, hope summons the future.
~ Elie Wiesel
Do not seek to bring things to pass in accordance with your wishes, but wish for them as they are, and you will find them.
~ Epictetus
Our faith in the present dies out long before our faith in the future.
~ Ruth Benedict
The future depends on what you do today.
~ Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi
The past gives you an identity and the future holds the promise of salvation, of fulfillment in whatever form. Both are illusions.
~ Eckhart Tolle
Sayings for a New Job
Heartiest congratulations on your new job! May God’s guidance and wisdom be with you in all your endeavors.
~ Anonymous
Don’t be afraid to give your best to what seemingly are small jobs. Every time you conquer one it makes you that much stronger. If you do the little jobs well, the big ones will tend to take care of themselves.
~ Dale Carnegie
Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion.
~ C. Northcote Parkinson
Wishing you great success. May your new job be all that you have ever wished for and a whole lot more.
~ Anonymous
By working faithfully eight hours a day you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve hours a day.
~ Robert Frost
To kill time, a committee meeting is the perfect weapon.
~ Anonymous
To find joy in work is to discover the fountain of youth.
~ Pearl S. Buck
Sayings for Birthdays
Whatever with the past has gone, the best is always yet to come.
~ Lucy Larcom
May the good Lord shower you with many blessings on your special day.
~ Anonymous
I want to be an artist to paint pictures just for you. So when each birthday comes around, I can send you quite a few.
~ Anonymous
Because time itself is like a spiral, something special happens on your birthday each year: The same energy that God invested in you at birth is present once again.
~ Menachem Mendel Schneerson
Wishes for a New Baby
A baby is an angel whose wings decrease as his legs increase.
~ Anonymous
Life is filled with lots of things that make it all worthwhile but none is better than the love found in your baby’s smile.
~ Anonymous
Every child begins the world again, to some extent, and loves to stay outdoors, even in wet and cold. It plays house, as well as horse, having an instinct for it…At last we know not what it is to live in the open air, and our lives are domestic in more senses than we think.
~ Henry David Thoreau
A babe in the house is a well-spring of pleasure, a messenger of peace and love, a resting place for innocence on earth, a link between angels and men.
~ Martin Farquhar