Shelby Steele Quotes

I believe that I am only at a beginning, only knocking at a door, and I believe that the best is yet to come.

Man is, properly speaking, based upon hope, he has no other possession but hope; this world of his is emphatically the place of hope.

Pleasure disappoints; possibility never.

I always felt like something bigger was waiting for me out there.

While it is important for people to see your promise you must also remember that hope is the keeper of both happiness and disappointment, the father of both progress and failure.

I live for what I haven't done.

The world is full of hopeful analogies and handsome, dubious eggs, called possibilities.

What people want is a sense of a better future to come.

But I certainly know a lot of people that existed at that level and are always kind of pining for more, always thinking that the next big break, the next opportunity, the big role are just around the corner of the next audition.

You never know how things are going to go. I think you hope that people are going to dig what you do and that you're going to get the chance to do it on a really comfortable level.

When we see the face of a child, we think of the future. We think of their dreams about what they might become, and what they might accomplish.

Whatever ought to be, can be.

I was the future once.

All you can ask for is the chance to win.

Pleasure disappoints, possibility never. And what wine is so sparkling, who so fragrant, what so intoxicating, as possibility.

I'm a pessimist about probabilities, I'm an optimist about possibilities.

Chance has never yet satisfied the hope of a suffering people.

Every new invention is like a baby. You think it may cure cancer or become the president, but in the end, you're happy it just stays out of jail.

Our imagination is the only limit to what we can hope to have in the future.

Dreams come true; without that possibility, nature would not incite us to have them.

From these inconsiderable attempts, some idea may be formed with what success, should Fortune afford an opportunity, I am likely to treat matters of greater importance.

We must rediscover the distinction between hope and expectation.

You never know what the future brings.

An expectation is a future object, recognised as belonging to me.

In America, all things are possible.