One must not hope to be more than one can be.
Nicolas Chamfort
More from: Nicolas Chamfort
DOWNLOAD
You are free to use this picture for any purpose including commercial. A credit linking back to this page is appreciated.
Similar Quotes:
-
If the United Nations once admits that international disputes can be settled by using force, then we will have destroyed the foundation of the organization and our best hope of establishing a world order. -
If we become too scared to confront the chief problems of our time, there is no hope of ever solving them. -
The mind is never satisfied with the objects immediately before it, but is always breaking away from the present moment, and losing itself in schemes of future felicity... The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope. -
I hope to stand firm enough to not go backward, and yet not go forward fast enough to wreck the country's cause. -
I hope that seeing the excitement of solving this problem will make young mathematicians realize that there are lots and lots of other problems in mathematics which are going to be just as challenging in the future.
More quotes by Nicolas Chamfort
- Man arrives as a novice at each age of his life.
- It is commonly supposed that the art of pleasing is a wonderful aid in the pursuit of fortune but the art of being bored is infinitely more successful.
- The art of the parenthesis is one of the greatest secrets of eloquence in Society.
- Most of those who make collections of verse or epigram are like men eating cherries or oysters: they choose out the best at first, and end by eating all.
- Change of fashion is the tax levied by the industry of the poor on the vanity of the rich.