“Nor dread nor hope attend a dying animal a man awaits his end dreading and hoping all.”– William Butler Yeats Related Quotes “Things start out as hopes and end up as habits.”– Lillian Hellman “Desire is the starting point of all achievement, not a hope, not a wish, but a keen pulsating desire which transcends everything.”– Napoleon Hill “Our human compassion binds us the one to the other – not in pity or patronizingly, but as human beings who have learnt how to turn our common suffering into hope for the future.”– Nelson Mandela