Quotes About Hopes

Cities, like dreams, are made of desires and fears.

That vague, crepuscular time, the time of regrets that resemble hopes, of hopes that resemble regrets, when youth has passed, but old age has not yet arrived.

it is the function of mass agitation to exploit all the grievances, hopes, aspirations, prejudices, fears, and ideals of all the special groups that make up our society, social, religious, economic, racial, political. Stir them up. Set one against the other. Divide

If you're going to have delusions, you might as well go for the really satisfying ones.

Probably nothing in the world arouses more false hopes than the first four hours of a diet.

Unless commitment is made, there are only promises and hopes... but no plans."  -- Peter Drucker

Regrets. Sure you think about regrets, but it's not regret for the things you've done that occupy you, as much as it is a longing for the things you'll never have a chance to do.

James believed that scientific inquiry, like any other form of inquiry, is an activity inspired and informed by our tastes, values, and hopes. But this does not, in his view, confer any special authority on the conclusions it reaches. On the contrary: it obligates us to regard those conclusions as provisional and partial, since it was for provisional and partial reasons that we undertook to find them.

There was a time when I prayed to saints. What I liked about them were their humble beginnings: they were human, once, and so you knew that they just got it in a way Jesus never would. They understood what it meant to have your hopes dashed or your promises broken or you feelings hurt.

Life was what happened when all the what-if's didn't, when what you dreamed or hoped or—in this case—feared might come to pass passed by instead

When I want to really get to know someone, I ask three questions. People's answers to these give me great insight into someone's heart. The questions are: What do you dream about? What do you sing about? What do you cry about?

What do they cry about? To know where people truly want to go, you've got to know what touches their hearts. What do they sing about? In the long run, people need to focus a lot of energy on what gives them joy. What do they dream about? If you can help people discover their dreams and truly believe in them, you can help them become who they were designed to be. Becoming a Person of Influence

As long as we have memories, yesterday remains. As long as we have hopes, tomorrow awaits. As long as we have friendship, each day is never a waste.

First our pleasures die - and then Our hopes and then our fears - and when These are dead the debt is due Dust claims dust - and we die too.

The brain is not the mind. It is probably impossible to look at a map of brain activity and predict or even understand the emotions, reactions, hopes and desires of the mind.

[Reality] isn't simply the so-called world that you're in. Your reality is a much larger one that takes in all matter of identification and desires and hopes.

Meanwhile spring arrived. My old dejection passed away and gave place to the unrest which spring brings with it, full of dreams and vague hopes and desires.

Designing renders visible our hopes and dreams. It is the first signal of human intentions.

What distinguishes us one from another is our dreams, and what we do to make them come about.

We all have our dreams.

And our dreams are who we are.

Out into the cool of the evening strolls the pretender. He knows that all his hopes and dreams begin and end there.

Do you have plans or dreams? Why not have both?

Still, we're less betrayed by others, it seems, than by our own hopes and dreams.