Promise Quotes

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  Promise me you'll always remember: You're braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.

  A. A. Milne

  Love, Inspirational, Friendship

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• I know what it's like to have these big multinational corporations invade your land and promise jobs and promise it's gonna be safe, and then you see the consequences.

  Mark Ruffalo

  Jobs, Land, Safe

  "Mark Ruffalo, the Incredible Hunk". Interview with Kate Sheppard, www.motherjones.com. March/April 2012.

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• See that you promise: what harm is there in promise? In
  promises anyone can be rich.

  Ovid

  Rich, Harm

  Ovid, John Henry Mozley (1979). “Ovid”, Loeb Classical Library

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• The way to transmute your iron duty into gold in everyone's eyes is this: always deliver more than you promise.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Eye, Iron, Gold

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• Commitment is what transforms a promise into reality.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Commitment, Reality

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  The best way to keep one's word is not to give it.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  War, Communication, Keeping Promises

  Napoleon Bonaparte “Napoleon in his own words from the French of Jules Bertaut”, Рипол Классик

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  A promise made is a debt unpaid.

  Robert W. Service

  Trust, Truth, Honesty

  Songs of a Sourdough (1907) "Cremation of Sam McGee"

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  Losers make promises they often break. Winners make commitments they always keep.

  Denis Waitley

  Inspirational, Motivational, Integrity

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  Among the things you can give and still keep are your word, a smile, and a grateful heart.

  Zig Ziglar

  Positive, Smile, Thankful

  FaceBook post by Zig Ziglar from Nov 22, 2014

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• Show business offers more solid promises than Catholicism.

  John Guare

  Business, Catholic, Shows

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

  Karl Popper

  Paradise On Earth, Keeping Promises, Kept Promises

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

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• Magnificent promises are always to be suspected.

  Theodore Parker

  Magnificent

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• Being of no power to make his wishes good: His promises fly so beyond his state That what he speaks is all in debt; he owes For every word.

  William Shakespeare

  Wish, Debt, Speak

  William Shakespeare, John Britton, Samuel Johnson, Charles Whittingham (1813). “The dramatic works of William Shakspeare”

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• Where there is an unknowable, there is a promise.

  Thornton Wilder

  Thornton Wilder (2009). “The Bridge of San Luis Rey and Other Novels, 1926-1948”

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• A promise must never be broken.

  Alexander Hamilton

  Trust, Integrity, Commitment

  Alexander Hamilton (1903). “Works”

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• Better a broken promise than none at all.

  Mark Twain

  Inspiration, Commitment, Broken

  Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.383, Courier Corporation

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• When did the future switch from being a promise to a threat?

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Future, Literature, Invisible Monsters

  Chuck Palahniuk (2011). “Invisible Monsters”, p.103, Random House

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• The man who promises everything is sure to fulfil nothing, and everyone who promises too much is in danger of using evil means in order to carry out his promises, and is already on the road to perdition.

  Carl Jung

  Leadership, Mean, Men

  Carl Gustav Jung (1968). “The collected works”

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• In the frank expression of conflicting opinions lies the greatest promise of wisdom in governmental action.

  Louis D. Brandeis

  Wisdom, Lying, Expression

  "Gilbert v. Minnesota, 254 U.S. 325, 338". Dissenting opinion, 1920.

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• Hypocrisy can afford to be magnificent in its promises, for never intending to go beyond promise, it costs nothing.

  Edmund Burke

  Hypocrisy, Broken Promises, Cost

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• The very first law in advertising is to avoid the concrete promise and cultivate the delightfully vague.

  Bill Cosby

  Funny, Humor, Law

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• Love always creates, it never destroys. In this lie's man's only promise.

  Leo Buscaglia

  Love, Lying, Men

  Leo F. Buscaglia (1972). “Love”, Fawcett

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• Love is keeping the promise anyway.

  John Green

  Life, Love Is, Keeping Promises

  John Green (2012). “The Fault in Our Stars”, p.42, Penguin

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  If you wish to be a success in the world, promise everything, deliver nothing.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Success, Power, Broken Promises

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• I also believe our country made a promise to veterans and their families. Veterans have kept their end of the bargain, and now, the VA is looking to pull out the rug.

  Ellen Tauscher

  Country, Believe, Veteran

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