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

We promise according to our hopes; we fulfill according to our fears.

Prometemos según nuestras esperanzas, y cumplimos según nuestros temores.

Nous promettons selon nos espérances, et nous tenons selon nos craintes.

We tend to live up to our expectations.

If there is a hell, perhaps it consists in living up to all one’s promises.

An intense anticipation itself transforms possibility into reality; our desires being often but precursors of the things which we are capable of performing.

Our greatest fears lie in anticipation.

Sometimes we are afraid because success puts pressure on us to continue to succeed.

We're born dying but we're compelled to fancy our chances.

Because we fear the responsibility for our actions, we have allowed ourselves to develop the mentality of slaves. Contrary to the stirring sentiments of the Declaration of Independence, we now pledge ‘our Lives, our Fortunes and our sacred Honor’ not to one another for our mutual protection, but to the state, whose actions continue to exploit, despoil, and destroy us.

Our limited perspective, our hopes and fears become our measure of life, and when circumstances don't fit our ideas, they become our difficulties.

Our aspirations are our possibilities.

Whatever we hold as being possible, and whatever values and principles we live by, determine the actions that we take.