Quotes with promise

Quotes 61 till 80 of 106.

  • James Russell Lowell Some day the soft Ideal that we wooed confronts us fiercely, foe-beset, pursued, and cries reproachful: ''Was it then my praise, and not myself was loved? Prove now thy truth; I claim of thee the promise of thy youth.''
    James Russell Lowell
    American Romantic poet, critic, editor, and diplomat (1819 - 1891)
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  • Maxwell Maltz 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.
    Maxwell Maltz
    American surgeon and author (1889 - 1975)
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  • Henry Ward Beecher Success is full of promise till one gets it, and then it seems like a nest from which the bird has flown.
    Henry Ward Beecher
    American Congregationalist clergyman, social reformer, and speaker (1813 - 1887)
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  • Gerda Lerner The appeal of the New Right is simply that it seems to promise that nothing will change in the domestic realm. People are terrified of change there, because it's the last humanizing force left in society, and they think, correctly, that it must be retained.
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  • Morris Hite The headline is the most important element of an ad. It must offer a promise to the reader of a believable benefit. And it must be phrased in a way to make it memorable.
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  • Wyndham Lewis The male has been persuaded to assume a certain onerous and disagreeable role with the promise of rewards - material and psychological. Women may in the first place even have put it into his head. BE A MAN! may have been, metaphorically, what Eve uttered at the critical moment in the garden of Eden.
    Wyndham Lewis
    British painter and author (1882 - 1957)
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  • Jean-Jacques Rousseau The person who is slowest in making a promise is most faithful in its performance.
    Jean-Jacques Rousseau
    French writer and philosopher (1712 - 1778)
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  • Machiavelli The promise given was a necessity of the past: the word broken is a necessity of the present.
    Machiavelli
    Florentine state philosopher (1469 - 1527)
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  • Bobby Scott The promise of equal educational opportunity envisioned by the Brown decision remains unfulfilled.
    Bobby Scott
    American politician (1947 - )
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  • Bernard De Voto The rat stops gnawing in the wood, the dungeon walls withdraw, the weight is lifted your pulse steadies and the sun has found your heart, the day was not bad, the season has not been bad, there is sense and even promise in going on.
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  • Ben Shapiro The story of Detroit's bankruptcy was simple enough: Allow capitalism to grow the city, campaign against income inequality, tax the job creators until they flee, increase government spending in order to boost employment, promise generous pension plans to keep people voting for failure. Rinse, wash and repeat.
    Ben Shapiro
    American conservative political commentator and attorney (1984 - )
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  • Ban Ki-moon The true measure of success for the U.N. is not how much we promise, but how much we deliver for those who need us most.
    Ban Ki-moon
    South Korean politician and diplomat (1944 - )
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  • A. N. Wilson The United States is the ultimate land of optimistic promise, but it also gave birth to quintessentially pessimistic tragedy: 'Moby-Dick.
    A. N. Wilson
    English writer and columnist (1950 - )
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  • Bill Cosby The very first law in advertising is to avoid the concrete promise and cultivate the delightfully vague.
    Bill Cosby
    American actor, comedian, producer (1937 - )
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  • Wernher Von Braun There is just one thing I can promise you about the outer-space program - your tax-dollar will go further.
    Wernher Von Braun
    German-American rocket scientist and scientist (1912 - 1977)
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  • Bella Abzug They are a very extensive minority who have suffered discrimination and who have the same right to participation in the promise and fruits of society as every other individual.
    Bella Abzug
    American lawyer and politician (1920 - 1998)
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  • Jean-Jacques Rousseau Those that are most slow in making a promise are the most faithful in the performance of it.
    Jean-Jacques Rousseau
    French writer and philosopher (1712 - 1778)
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  • Karl Popper Those who promise us paradise on earth never produced anything but a hell.
    Karl Popper
    Austrian-British philosopher and professor (1902 - 1994)
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  • Abdallah II Together, we can create a world in which peace is real; in which every human being can thrive; in which all share the promise of our century. I believe we can succeed.
    Abdallah II
    Jordan King (1962 - )
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  • James T. Mccay Tomorrow, you promise yourself, will be different, yet, tomorrow is too often a repetition of today.
    James T. Mccay
    American author
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