These wand quotes will inspire you. Wand a long, thin stick or rod or a stick or rod thought to have magic properties, held by a magician, fairy, or conjuror and used in casting spells or performing tricks.
A collection of motivating, happy, and encouraging wand quotes, wand sayings, and wand proverbs.
Famous Wand Quotes
- “Family, work, familiarity. Listen, if I had a magic wand and I could make myself really be happy, I’d zap me onto a farm. And I know nothing about farming.” ~ Scott Baio
- “The wand chooses the wizard.” ~ J. K. Rowling
- “People are always coming up to me, thinking I’ve got some magic wand that can make them a star and I want to tell them that no one can do that. Making hit records is not that easy. But it took me time to realize that myself.” ~ Dr. Dre
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“God is not a demiurge [demigod] or a magician, but the Creator who gives being to all entities.” ~ Pope Francis
- “Style is a magic wand, and turns everything to gold that it touches.” ~ Logan Pearsall Smith
- “Better beware of notions like genius and inspiration; they are a sort of magic wand and should be used sparingly by anybody who wants to see things clearly.” ~ Jose Ortega y Gasset , Magic wand quotes
- “Ah well… wand still in your jeans? Both buttocks still on? Okay, let’s go.” ~ J. K. Rowling
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“There was a lot more to magic, as Harry quickly found out, than waving your wand and saying a few funny words.” ~ J. K. Rowling
- “Christmas waves a magic wand over this world, and behold, everything is softer and more beautiful.” ~ Norman Vincent Peale
- “If I had a magic wand, I would live in a building in New York, big enough so my friends, my family could all have apartments in it. We’d raise our kids in the same space and have backyard barbecues and get old and fat together.” ~ Liz Murray
- “I remember every wand I’ve ever sold, Mr. Potter. Every single wand. It so happens that the phoenix whose tail feather is in your wand, gave another feather — just one other. It is very curious indeed that you should be destined for this wand when its brother — why, its brother gave you that scar.” ~ J. K. Rowling
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“I intend to do the Penn & Teller show until they pry my cheesy magic wand from my cold dead fingers.” ~ Penn Jillette
- “Eating lighter makes you lighter. No one can wave a magic wand.” ~ Martine McCutcheon
- “Dumbledore was on his feet again, pale as any of the surrounding Inferi, but taller than any too, the fire dancing in his eyes; his wand was raised like a torch and from its tip emanated the flames, like a vast lasso, encircling them all with warmth.” ~ J. K. Rowling
- “Labor is the fabled magician’s wand, the philosophers stone, and the cap of good fortune.” ~ James Weldon Johnson
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“There is no magic wand that can resolve our problems. The solution rests with our work and discipline.” ~ Jose Eduardo Dos Santos
- “I beg you I no magician. I can’t just wave a magic wand.” ~ Ellen Johnson Sirleaf
- “We dont have a good legal justification for breaking up the banking system. But if I could wave a magic wand, Id break up the banking system.” ~ Kenneth C. Griffin
- “Evolution in nature is not opposed to the notion of Creation, because evolution presupposes the creation of beings that evolve.” ~ Pope Francis
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“Wands are only as powerful as the wizards who use them. Some wizards just like to boast that theirs are bigger and better than other people’s.” ~ J. K. Rowling
- “No matter who you are, no matter where you are, no matter what your circumstances or desires, if you make a gratitude list every day of the things you’re grateful for, you will see your life take off! GRATITUDE is your MAGIC WAND! Whatever you point gratitude at increases, expands, and escalates, but you have to pick up that magic wand, and use it! Got it?” ~ Rhonda Byrne
- “No waving of enchanted wands but heightened perception. No magic objects, but a transformed and enhanced reality. No spells or chants, but the raw power of the human will to enact supernatural change upon the universal fabric. This is the kind of “magic” that fills Lords of Rainbow – elemental, organic, humanistic – an extension of reality.” ~ Vera Nazarian
- “There in seclusion and remote from men The wizard hand lies cold, Which at its topmost speed let fall the pen, And left the tale half told. Ah! who shall lift that wand of magic power, And the lost clew regain? The unfinished window in Aladdin’s tower Unfinished must remain!” ~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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“Appellate review is not a magic wand and we undermine public confidence in the judicial process when we make it look like it is.” ~ Alex Kozinski
- “Here when the labouring fish does at the foot arrive, And finds that by his strength but vainly he doth strive; His tail takes in his teeth, and bending like a bow, That’s to the compass drawn, aloft himself doth throw: Then springing at his height, as doth a little wand, That, bended end to end, and flerted from the hand, Far off itself doth cast. so does the salmon vaut. And if at first he fail, his second sommersault He instantly assays and from his nimble ring, Still yarking never leaves, Until himself he fling Above the streamful top of the surrounded heap.” ~ Michael Drayton
- “The beauty that men seek is half a dream– Where’er we wander, yet it lies afar; It touches with its wand a setting star, It stirs the ripple of an ebbing stream. And though we run beyond the dawning gleam, Or kneel to worship at an altar bright, We may not know the soul of its delight, Or more than marvel at its palest beam.” ~ Kenneth Rand
- “Who has a book of all that monarchs do, He’s more secure to keep it shut than shown; For vice repeated is like the wand’ring wind, Blows dust in others’ eye, to spread itself; And yet the end of all is bought thus dear, The breath is gone, and the sore eyes see clear To stop the air would hurt them.” ~ William Shakespeare
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“Every private in the French army carries a Field Marshall wand in his knapsack.” ~ Napoleon Bonaparte
- “If we want justice for minorities and cooled wars with our natural enemies, whether human or non-human, we must first come to terms with the minority and the enemy in ourselves and in our own hearts, for the rascal is there as much as anywhere in the “external” world – -especially when you realize that the world outside your skin is as much yourself as the world inside.” ~ Alan Watts
- “What a wonderful work Wagner has done for humanity in translating the toil of life into the readable script of music! For those who seek the tale of other worlds his magic is silent; but earth-travail under his wand becomes instinct with rhythmic song to an accompaniment of the elements, and the blare and crash of the bottomless pit itself.” ~ Richard Wagner
- “It is a strange feeling for a girl when first she finds the power put into her hand of influencing the destiny of another to happiness or misery. She is like a magician holding for the first time a fairy wand, not having yet had experience of its potency.” ~ Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley , Fairy wand quotes
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“The plow is to the farmer what the wand is to the sorcerer. Its effect is really like sorcery.” ~ Thomas Jefferson
- “Getting the call to be in The Goblet of Fire was like being welcomed into the most exclusive upper circle of some elite actors’ club. You sit on set with the cream of the National Theatre and the RSC, all clutching wands or wearing witches’ hats.” ~ David Tennant
- “Clear focus is the mind’s magic wand. It points your creativity in a particular direction and channels your experience behind it. Wherever you clearly focus, you create.” ~ Sonia Choquette
- “You can’t wish for more wishes or for vague generalities like happiness that are impossible to grant. Your wish has to be something specific enough that I can use my wand to make it happen. Oh, and recently there’s been a ban on inserting yourself into the Twilight series. The Cullens are tired of different teenage girls pinging into their story every time they turn around.” ~ Janette Rallison
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“No mighty king, no ambitious emperor, no pope, or prophet ever dreamt of such an awesome pulpit, so potent a magic wand.” ~ Fred W. Friendly
- “And what did the banks do to earn this perpetually flowing river of wealth? Did they lend out their own capital obtained through investment of stockholders? Did they lend out the hard-earned savings of their depositors? No, neither of these were their major source of income. They simply waved the magic wand called fiat money.” ~ G. Edward Griffin
- “Let me offer you, metaphorically, two magic wands that have sweeping powers to change society. With one wand you could wipe out all racism and discrimination from the hearts and minds of white America. The other wand you could wave across the ghettoes and barrios of America and infuse the inhabitants with Japanese or Jewish values, respect for learning, and ambition. … I suggest that the best wand for society and for those who live in the ghettoes and barrios would be the second wand.” ~ Richard Lamm
- “Let me offer you, metaphorically, two magic wands that have sweeping powers to change society. With one wand you could wipe out all racism and discrimination from the hearts and minds of white America. The other wand you could wave across the ghettoes and barrios of America and infuse the inhabitants with Japanese or Jewish values, respect for learning, and ambition. … I suggest that the best wand for society and for those who live in the ghettoes and barrios would be the second wand.” ~ Richard Lamm
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“The mines of knowledge are often laid bare by the hazel-wand of chance.” ~ Martin Farquhar Tupper
- “Mistress of love or of hate, occult science can dispense paradise or hell at its pleasure to human hearts; it disposes of all forms and confers beauty or ugliness; with the wand of Circe it changes men into brutes and animals alternately into men.” ~ Eliphas Levi
- “Beneath our feet a fairy pathway flows, The grass still glitters in the summer breeze, The dusky wood, and distant copse appear, And that lone stream, upon whose chequerd face We mused, when noon-rays made the pebbles gleam, Is mirrord to the mind: though all around Be rattling hoofs and roaring wheels, the eye Is wandring where the heart delights to dwell.” ~ Robert Montgomery
- “In discourse more sweet; For eloquence, the soul, song charms the sense. Others apart sat on a hill retir’d, In thoughts more elevate, and reason’d high Of providence, foreknowledge, will, and fate, Fix’d fate, free-will, foreknowledge absolute; And found no end, in wand’ring mazes lost.” ~ John Milton
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“[T]he myth that there was somehow a magic wand in the early 1980s to cure AIDS – a wand that Reagan deliberately refused to wave – is now almost conventional wisdom.” ~ Andrew Sullivan
- “Don’t fall for a magic wand, we humans got it all, we perform the miracles.” ~ Kate Bush
- “While there used to be one or two Pops orchestras, now there are all kinds of European orchestras that suddenly look upon this as a golden wand that can enable them to make money recording this music.” ~ Skitch Henderson
- “If you had a magic wand today, and you had one wish – to wipe out all the drug dealers, take them all off the streets and put them in jail, no trial, everybody who sold drugs would automatically be convicted. You know what’s going to happen? There’s going to be new ones. Why? Because the drug users are going to create them.” ~ Rick Ross
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“Tal doesn’t move the pieces by hand; he uses a magic wand.” ~ Viacheslav Ragozin
- “I think there is an element of magic in photography – light, chemistry, precious metals – a certain alchemy. You can wield a camera like a magic wand almost. Murmur the right words and you can conjure up proof of a dream. I believe in wonder. I look for it in my life every day; I find it in the most ordinary things.” ~ Keith Carter
- “If you have never tried a plant-based diet, start. If you’ve never juiced vegetables, start. If you’ve never taken vitamin C to saturation, start. If you have never done a half-hour fitness workout each day, start. But, there is no such thing as a free lunch, a quick fix or a magic wand to cure illness.” ~ Andrew Saul
- “I stood in Venice, on the Bridge of Sighs; A palace and a prison on each hand; I saw from out the wave of her structure’s rise As from the stroke of the enchanter’s wand: A thousand years their cloudy wings expand Around me, and a dying Glory smiles O’er the far times, when many a subject land Look’d to the winged Lion’s marble pines, Where Venice sate in state, throned on her hundred isles.” ~ Lord Byron
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“So that every wand or staff of empire is forsooth curved at top.” ~ Francis Bacon
“Music alone with sudden charms can bind The wand’ring sense, and calm the troubled mind.” ~ William Congreve
- “All writers know that on some golden mornings they are touched by the wand; they are on intimate terms with poetry and cosmic truth. I have experienced these moments myself. Their lesson is simple: It’s a total illusion. And the danger in the illusion is that you will wait for those moments.” ~ John Kenneth Galbraith
- “The government does not have some magic wand that can ‘bring down the cost of health care.’ It can buy a smaller quantity or lower quality of medical care, as other countries with government-run medical care do.” ~ Thomas Sowell
- “Meanwhile someone is shining my head to get it dry to attach my top-hat to my head with toupee tape. I get into microphone and get back up into my dressing room for the rest of my costume. I get snapped into all these things and layers and bundled up. I walk downstairs to the pit. Someone hands me my baton (which lights up like a wand) and I watch the first three minutes of the show. Then I come up out of the pit and there I am.” ~ Tituss Burgess
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“I don’t think somebody can just, like, wave a magic wand and make you a star.” ~ Sandra Bernhard
- “If I had a wand and could put statues in different places, one of the statues would go to a man who just died, called Norman Borlaug, who came up with the Green Revolution.” ~ Juan Enriquez
- “Writing is the act of creation. Put words on page. Words to sentences, sentences to paragraphs, paragraphs to 7-book epic fantasy cycles with books so heavy you could choke a hippo. But don’t give writing too much power, either. A wizard controls his magic; it doesn’t control him. Push aside lofty notions and embrace the workmanlike aesthetic. Hammers above magic wands; nails above eye-of-newt. The magic will return when you’re done. The magic is what you did, not what you’re doing.” ~ Chuck Wendig
- “Wine has been to me a firm friend and wise counselor. Often…wine has shown me matters in their true perspective, and has, as though by the touch of a magic wand, reduced great disasters to small inconveniences.” ~ Duff Cooper
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“I wish that we did have a magic wand which we could wave and hey presto! Magic! Unfortunately, life is not like that.” ~ Desmond Tutu
- “You can’t help some increase from this point. I don’t want any viewer to go away think a magic wand exists in Congress. So they’re going to see some more bad news. But if we do this, we’re doing the right thing.” ~ Warren Buffett
- “Imagine if you were a drummer, and you accidentally picked up two magic wands instead of sticks. There you are, keeping the beat, the next thing you know, your bass player turns into a can of soup.” ~ Mitch Hedberg
- “Soft fantasy worlds have a much looser cause-and-effect relationship. Alchemists can turn lead into gold and nobody wonders about how it will impact the currency system. Someone waves a wand and turns an elephant into a mouse and nobody worries about conservation of mass.” ~ Patrick Rothfus
- “Music is the elixir of life. It can mimic the heartbeats of our bodies and heal like a magic wand… The resonance it creates in our bodies cannot be replicated by any medicine.” ~ Walter Mikac
Wand a slender staff carried in a procession or a slender rod used by conjurers and magicians.
