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"Leaders who win the respect of others are the ones who deliver more than they promise, not the ones who promise more than they can deliver." »Mark A. Clement
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"Never promise more than you can perform." »Publilius Syrus
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"Life is a promise fulfill it." »Mother Theresa
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"We promise according to our hopes and perform according to our fears." »Author Unknown
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"If you wish to be a sucess in the world, promise everything, deliver nothing." »Napoleon Bonaparte
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"A promise made is a debt unpaid." »Robert W. Service
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"We promise according to our hopes, and perform according to our fears." »La Rochefoucauld
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"He who is slowest in making a promise is most faithful in its performance." »Jean Jacques Rousseau
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"What the people want is very simple. They want an America as good as its promise." »Barbara Charline Jordan
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"Our lives are like the course of the sun. At the darkest moment there is promise of daylight." »The London Times
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"Politicians are the same all over. They promise to build a bridge even where there is no river." »Nikita Khrushchev
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"It is only rarely that one can see in a little boy the promise of a man, but one can almost always see in a little girl the threat of a woman." »Alexandre Dumas
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"Please give me some good advice in your next letter. I promise not to follow it." »Edna St. Vincent Millay
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"Politicians are the same the world over: they promise to build a bridge even when there is no river." »Nikita Khrushchev
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"It is by its promise of a sense of power that evil often attracts the weak." »Eric Hoffer
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"There is just one thing I can promise you about the outer-space program: your dollar will go further." »Wernher Von Braun
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"Parents are sometimes a bit of a disappointment to their children. They don't fulfill the promise of their early years." »Anthony Powell
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"The very first law in advertising is to avoid the concrete promise and cultivate the delightfully vague." »Bill Cosby
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"Leaders are the ones who keep faith with the past, keep step with the present and keep the promise to posterity." »Harold J. Seymore
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"What is politics but persuading the public to vote for this and support that and endure these for the promise of those" »Gilbert Highet
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"War is always the same. It is young men dying in the fullness of their promise. It is trying to kill a man that you do not even know well enough to hate. Therefore, to know war is to know that there is still madness in the world." »Lyndon B. Johnson
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"You can't trust a promise someone makes while they're drunk, in love, hungry, or running for office." »Joe Moore
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"Tonight we are launching an effort which holds the promise of changing the course of human history." »Ronald Reagan
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"If someone cheats you, get your money back. If someone slanders you, call him to account. If someone makes a promise, see that it is kept If you have to be a pest, then be one, and be proud of it." »Donald G. Smith
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"Frank Wilma, I promise you whatever scum did this, not one man on this force will rest one minute before until he's behind bars. Now, let's grab a bite to eat." »Naked Gun From the Files of Police Squad
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"Study the situation thoroughly, go over in your imagination the various courses of action possible to you and the consequences which can and may follow from each course. Pick out the course which gives the most promise and go ahead." »Dr. Maxwell Maltz
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"In the frank expression of conflicting opinions lies the greatest promise of wisdom in governmental action." »Louis D. Brandeis
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"The pleasures of the world are deceitful; they promise more than they give. They trouble us in seeking them, they do not satisfy us when possessing them and they make us despair in losing them." »Madame de Lambert
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"Los Angeles seems endlessly held between these extremes: of light and dark - of surface and depth. Of the promise, in brief, of a meaning always hovering on the edge of significance." »Graham Clarke
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"To break a promise is to deny the reality of the past Therefore it is to deny the hope of a real future...." »Ursala Lequin
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