Quote by Francois de La Rochefoucauld

We promise according to our hopes and perform according to our fears.

We promise according to our hopes and perform according to o

Summary

This quote emphasizes the impact of our hopes and fears on our actions and behavior. It suggests that we tend to make promises and set goals based on what we hope to achieve or desire, but our actions are often determined by our fears and insecurities. It implies that our fears can overpower our hopes, leading to a discrepancy between our intentions and our actions. In essence, this quote highlights the influence of our emotions and mentality in shaping our behavior and ultimately determining our success or failure in fulfilling our promises.

Topics

Motivational

By Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Liked the quote? Share it with your friends.

Random Quotations

Our first scene is sort of a reunion between the X-Men chara

Our first scene is sort of a reunion between the X-Men characters, which establishes everyone's relationship to one another, sort of like a recap for all those who have forgotten since the last movie.

Relationship

It would be better for us to have some doubts in an honest p

It would be better for us to have some doubts in an honest pursuit of truth, than it would be for us to be certain about something that was not true.

Science Skepticism

A book might be written on the injustice of the just.

A book might be written on the injustice of the just.

Reading

To meet the expectations of the majority of our people, and

To meet the expectations of the majority of our people, and to open up new vistas of economic opportunity so that the aspirations of Nigerians can stand a fair chance of being fulfilled in a lifetime, there must be a truly committed leadership in a democratic Nigeria.

Ibrahim Babangida

Leadership

The British are supposed to be particularly averse to intell

The British are supposed to be particularly averse to intellectuals, a prejudice closely bound up with their dislike of foreigners. Indeed, one important source of this Anglo-Saxon distaste for highbrows and eggheads was the French revolution, which was seen as an attempt to reconstruct society on the basis of abstract rational principles.

Despair ruins some, presumption many

Despair ruins some, presumption many

Benjamin Franklin

Despair

There is something haunting in the light of the moon; it has

There is something haunting in the light of the moon; it has all the dispassionateness of a disembodied soul, and something of its inconceivable mystery.

Moon

You have no idea how humiliating it was, as a boy, to sudden

You have no idea how humiliating it was, as a boy, to suddenly have all your clothes, your toys, snatched by the bailiff. I mean we were a middle-class family, it's not as if it was happening up and down the street. It made me ashamed, I felt dirty.

Family

Great men hallow a whole people, and lift up all who live in

Great men hallow a whole people, and lift up all who live in their time.

Greatness & Great Things

From the point of view of photography, I'll smite the pictur

From the point of view of photography, I'll smite the picture with sun rays. I'll take old stock shots and scratch them; I'll claw at them so that unknown beauty sees the light of day. I shall sculpt flowers upon the film stock.

Beauty Light

The young are permanently in a state resembling intoxication

The young are permanently in a state resembling intoxication.

Georgian architecture respected the scale of both the indivi

Georgian architecture respected the scale of both the individual and the community.

Stephen Gardiner

Architecture