| "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 |
| "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 |
| "My hopes are not always realized, but I always hope." »Ovid |
| "If it were not for hopes, the heart would break." »Erich Fromm |
| "He who desires nothing, hopes for nothing, and is afraid of nothing, cannot be an artist." »Anton Pavlovich Chekhov |
| "We promise according to our hopes, and perform according to our fears." »La Rochefoucauld |
| "Unless commitment is made, there are only promises and hopes... but no plans." »Peter Drucker |
| "Art strives for form, and hopes for beauty." »Rose Elizabeth Bird |
| "I have no money, no resources, no hopes. I am the happiest man alive." »Henry Miller |
| "The trouble with most people is that they think with their hopes or fears or wishes rather than with their minds." »Lady Nancy Astor |
| "Hope...is the companion of power, and the mother of success for who so hopes has within him the gift of miracles." »Samuel Smiles |
| "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 |
| "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 |
| "The free expression of the hopes and aspirations of a people is the greatest and only safety in a sane society." »Emma Goldman |
| "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 |
| "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 |
| "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 |
| "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 |
| "Tomorrow is the most important thing in life. Comes into us at midnight very clean. It's perfect when it arrives and it puts itself in our hands. It hopes we've learned something from yesterday." »John Wayne |
| "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 |
| "Where the world ceases to be the scene of our personal hopes and wishes, where we face it as free beings admiring, asking and observing, there we enter the realm of Art and Science." »Albert Einstein |
| "I knew from the start if I left a woman I really loved -- the Great Society -- in order to fight that bitch of a war in Vietnam then I would lose everything at home. My hopes my dreams." »Lyndon B. Johnson |
| "Be careful to leave your sons well instructed rather than rich, for the hopes of the instructed are better than the wealth of the ignorant." »Epictetus |
| "One hopes to achieve the zero option, but in the absence of that we must achieve balanced numbers. (On Soviet and Allied missiles in Europe)" »Margaret Hilda Thatcher |
| "A good storyteller is a person who has a good memory and hopes other people haven't." »Irvin Shrewsbury Cobb |
| "You never conquer a mountain. Mountains can't be conquered you conquer yourself--your hopes, your fears." »Jim Whitaker |
| "In the midst of hopes and cares, of apprehensions and of disquietude, regard every day that dawns upon you as if it was to be your last then super-added hours, to the enjoyment of which you had not looked forward, will prove an acceptable boon." »Horace |
| "It shouldn't be too much of a surprise that the Internet has evolved into a force strong enough to reflect the greatest hopes and fears of those who use it. After all, it was designed to withstand nuclear war, not just the puny huffs and puffs of politicians and religious fanatics." »Denise Caruso |
| "Half of the American people have never read a newspaper. Half never voted for President. One hopes it is the same half." »Gore Vidal |
| "We stand today on the edge of a new frontier-the frontier of the 1960s-a frontier of unknown opportunities and perils-a frontier of unfulfilled hopes and threats." »John Fitzgerald Kennedy |
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