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"I often wonder whether we do not rest our hopes too much upon constitutions, upon laws and upon courts. These are false hopes believe me, these are false hopes. Liberty lies in the hearts of men and women when it dies there, no constitution, no law, no court can save it..." »Learned Hand
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"A subtle-witted man is like an arrow, which, rending little surface, enters deeply, but they whose minds are dull resemble stones dashing with clumsy force, but never piercing." »Magha
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"Whoever, in middle age, attempts to realize the wishes and hopes of his early youth, invariably deceives himself. Each ten years of a man's life has its own fortunes, its own hopes, its own desires." »Johann von Goethe
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"My hopes are not always realized, but I always hope." »Ovid
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"We must always have old memories and young hopes." »Arsene Houssaye
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"If it were not for hopes, the heart would break." »Erich Fromm
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"Tomorrow hopes we have learned something from yesterday" »John Wayne
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"Art strives for form, and hopes for beauty." »Rose Elizabeth Bird
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"He who desires nothing, hopes for nothing, and is afraid of nothing, cannot be an artist." »Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
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"We promise according to our hopes and perform according to our fears." »Author Unknown
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"We promise according to our hopes, and perform according to our fears." »La Rochefoucauld
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"I have no money, no resources, no hopes. I am the happiest man alive." »Henry Miller
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"An atheist is one who hopes the Lord will do nothing to disturb his disbelief." »Franklin P. Jones
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"Unless commitment is made, there are only promises and hopes... but no plans." »Peter Drucker
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"The first thing a girl hopes for from the garden of love is at least one carat." »S. S. Biddle
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"The trouble with most people is that they think with their hopes or fears or wishes rather than with their minds." »Lady Nancy Astor
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"The central struggle of parenthood is to let our hopes for our children outweigh our fears." »Ellen Goodman
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"Hope...is the companion of power, and the mother of success for who so hopes has within him the gift of miracles." »Samuel Smiles
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"The hopes of the Republic cannot forever tolerate either undeserved poverty or self-serving wealth." »Franklin D. Roosevelt
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"I believe that everyone is the keeper of a dream - and by tuning into one another's secret hopes, we can become better friends, better partners, better parents, and better lovers." »Oprah Winfrey
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"There is hardly any activity, any enterprise, which is started out with such tremendous hopes and expectations, and yet which fails so regularly, as love." »Erich Fromm
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"Consult not your fears but your hopes and your dreams.Think not about your frustrations, but about your unfulfilled potential. Concern yourself not with what you tried and failed in,but with what it is still possible for you to do." »Pope John XXIII
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"The free expression of the hopes and aspirations of a people is the greatest and only safety in a sane society." »Emma Goldman
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"Hope is the companion of power, and mother of success; for who so hopes strongly has within him the gift of miracles." »Samuel Smiles
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"No place affords a more striking conviction of the vanity of human hopes than a public library." »Samuel Johnson
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"If we could only share our hopes, our dreams, our disappointments, our fears, our achievements, and our discoveries.... the world would be a little kinder and a lot more forgiving." »Robert Anthony, Great American Poets 2002
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"What is a husband He is the one who, with a touch, can bring back the starlight and glow of years long ago. At least he hopes he can-don't disappoint him." »Alan Marshall Beck
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"Having the world's best idea will do you no good unless you act on it. People who want milk shouldn't sit on a stool in the middle of a field in hopes that a cow will back up to them." »Curtis Grant
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"He that visits the sick in hopes of a legacy, but is never so friendly in all other cases, I look upon him as being no better than a raven that watches a weak sheep only to peck out its eyes." »Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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"I steer my bark with hope in the head, leaving fear astern. My hopes indeed sometimes fail, but not oftener than the forebodings of the gloomy." »Thomas Jefferson
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