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  But I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep, and miles to go before I sleep.

  Robert Frost

  Love, Inspirational, Tattoo

  "Stopping byWoods on a Snowy Evening" l. 13 (1923)

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• Those who promise us paradise on earth never produced anything but a hell.

  Karl Popper

  Paradise On Earth, Kept Promises, Hell

  "In Passing: Condolences and Complaints on Death, Dying, and Related Disappointments". Book by Jon Winokur, p. 144, 2005.

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• Most of us are pretty good at keeping promises to others and pretty bad at keeping promises to ourselves.

  Lawrence LeShan

  Promise

  Lawrence LeShan (1995). “Meditating to Attain a Healthy Body Weight”, Bantam

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• As we make and keep commitments, even small commitments, we begin to establish an inner integrity that gives us the awareness of self-control and the courage and strength to accept more of the responsibility for our own lives. By making and keeping promises to ourselves and others, little by little, our honor becomes greater than our moods.

  Stephen Covey

  Integrity, Commitment, Responsibility

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• When a man takes an oath... he's holding his own self in his own hands. Like water.

  Robert Bolt

  Men, Self, Hands

  Robert Bolt (2013). “A Man For All Seasons”, p.87, A&C Black

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• Thou oughtest to be nice, even to Superstition, in keeping thy Promises; and therefore thou shouldst be equally cautious in making them.

  Thomas Fuller

  Nice, Broken Promises, Kept Promises

  "An Introduction to Prudence".

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• This is the first convention of the space age - where a candidate can promise the moon and mean it.

  David Brinkley

  Mean, Moon, Space

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• Oft expectation fails, and most oft there where most it promises; and oft it hits where hope is coldest, and despair most fits.

  William Shakespeare

  Hope, Failure, Expectations

  William Shakespeare (1833). “The plays and poems of William Shakspeare”, p.216

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• I'm convinced that we can write and live our own scripts more than most people will acknowledge. I also know the price that must be paid. It's a real struggle to do it. It requires visualization and affirmation. It involves living a life of integrity, starting with making and keeping promises, until the whole human personality the senses, the thinking, the feeling, and the intuition are ultimately integrated and harmonized.

  Stephen Covey

  Integrity, Real, Struggle

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• Making promises to myself, in my personal writing practice, has been important to me all my life. In practical application it is so much easier for me to make promises to others, and keep them, than it is to make promises to myself. "Why is that?" and the answer I gave myself is that in making promises to others I create a model of accountability and reinforcement. I duplicate that in my writing and have grown increasingly better at making and keeping promises to myself.

  Mary Anne Radmacher

  Writing, Practice, Accountability

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