Despair is the price one pays for setting himself an impossible aim.

Graham Greene
Some Similar Quotes
  1. To wish was to hope, and to hope was to expect - Jane Austen

  2. Set the standard! Stop expecting others to show you love, acceptance, commitment, & respect when you don't even show that to yourself. - Steve Maraboli

  3. Look. I have a strategy. Why expect anything? If you don’t expect anything, you don’t get disappointed. - Patricia McCormick

  4. My expectations were reduced to zero when I was 21. Everything since then has been a bonus.", December 12, 2004)] - Stephen Hawking

  5. Positive expectations are the mark of the superior personality. - Brian Tracy

More Quotes By Graham Greene
  1. It's a strange thing to discover and to believe that you are loved when you know that there is nothing in you for anybody but a parent or a God to love.

  2. Like some wines our love could neither mature nor travel.

  3. If only it were possible to love without injury — fidelity isn’t enough: I had been faithful to Anne and yet I had injured her. The hurt is in the act of possession: we are too small in mind and body to possess another person...

  4. I had to touch you with my hands, I had to taste you with my tongue; one can't love and do nothing.

  5. I don't care a damn about men who are loyal to the people who pay them, to organizations... I don't think even my country means all that much. There are many countries in our blood, aren't there, but only one person. Would the world be...

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