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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 
"Never promise more than you can perform." »Publilius Syrus 
"Life is a promise fulfill it." »Mother Theresa 
"We promise according to our hopes, and perform according to our fears." »La Rochefoucauld 
"If you wish to be a sucess in the world, promise everything, deliver nothing." »Napoleon Bonaparte 
"Politicians are the same all over. They promise to build a bridge even where there is no river." »Nikita Khrushchev 
"What the people want is very simple. They want an America as good as its promise." »Barbara Charline Jordan 
"Please give me some good advice in your next letter. I promise not to follow it." »Edna St. Vincent Millay 
"It is by its promise of a sense of power that evil often attracts the weak." »Eric Hoffer 
"Leaders are the ones who keep faith with the past, keep step with the present and keep the promise to posterity." »Harold J. Seymore 
"What is politics but persuading the public to vote for this and support that and endure these for the promise of those" »Gilbert Highet 
"The very first law in advertising is to avoid the concrete promise and cultivate the delightfully vague." »Bill Cosby 
"Parents are sometimes a bit of a disappointment to their children. They don't fulfill the promise of their early years." »Anthony Powell 
"Tonight we are launching an effort which holds the promise of changing the course of human history." »Ronald Reagan 
"You can't trust a promise someone makes while they're drunk, in love, hungry, or running for office." »Joe Moore 
"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 
"In the frank expression of conflicting opinions lies the greatest promise of wisdom in governmental action." »Louis D. Brandeis 
"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 
"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 
"Dream lofty dreams, and as you dream, so you shall become. Your vision is the promise of what you shall one day be your ideal is the prophecy of what you shall at last unveil." »James Allen 
"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 
"Love is a promise, love is a souvenir, once given never forgotten, never let it disappear." »John Lennon 
"In order to become successful, you must only promise what you can deliver and deliver more than what you've promised." »Beau K. Ly 
"Thirty-the promise of a decade of loneliness, a thinning list of single men to know, a thinning brief-case of enthusiasm, thinning hair." »F Scott 
"President Reagan was elected on the promise of getting government off the backs of the people and now he demands that government wrap itself around the waists of the people." »Ralph Nader 
"Swiftly arose and spread around me the peace and knowledge that pass all the argument of the earth, And I know that the hand of God is the promise of my own, And I know that the spirit of God is the brother of my own, And that all the men ever born are also my brothers, and the women my sisters and lovers, And that a kelson of the creation is love." »Walt Whitman 
"I promise to keep on living as though I expected to live forever. Nobody grows old by merely living a number of years. People grow old by deserting their ideals. Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up wrinkles the soul." »Douglas MacArthur 
"The new frontier of which I speak is not a set of promises-it is a set of challenges. It sums up not what I intend to offer the American people, but what I intend to ask of them. It appeals to their pride, not their pocketbook-it holds out the promise of more sacrifice instead of more security." »John Fitzgerald Kennedy 
"My strong point, if I have a strong point, is performance. I always do more than I say. I always produce more than I promise." »Richard Milhous Nixon 
"A girl becomes a wife with her eyes wide open. She knows that those sweetest words, 'I take thee to be my wedded husband,' really mean, 'I promise thee to cook three meals a day for 60 years thee will I clean up after thee will I talk to even when thou art not listening thee will I worry about, cry over and take all manner of hurts from.'" »Alan Marshall Beck 
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