Promise Quotes
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I'm so totally future oriented that, for me, I don't know what the future's about, but I can promise you it's gonna be exciting.
Kenny Rogers
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Too many people hold a very narrow view of what motivates us. They believe that the only way to get us moving is with the jab of a stick or the promise of a carrot. But if you look at over 50 years of research on motivation, or simply scrutinize your own behavior, it's pretty clear human beings are more complicated than that.
Dan Pink
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Did you come of age in those sweet summers of the early nineteen-sixties, when the airwaves were full of rock and roll's doo-wop promise of joy and the nation was full of J.F.K.'s eloquent promise of a New Frontier? I did. Life seemed to be laid out before us like a banquet; everything was for the taking, especially hearts.
John Lahr
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When you promise something, you must fulfill it.
Haile Gebrselassie
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When we create hope and opportunity in the lives of others, we allow love, decency and promise to triumph over cowardice and hate.
Kirsten Gillibrand
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Particular care should be taken that every promise made to them the Navajo and Mescalero Apache should be observed to the letter. In this way I am confident that in a few years they would equal if not excel our peaceful and industrious Pueblos, and be a source of wealth to the Territory, instead of being as heretofore its dread and impoverishers.
Kit Carson
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When a politician bends the truth or a CEO breaks a promise, trust takes a beating.
Gary Hamel
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Never make a promise - you may have to keep it.
Neil Jordan
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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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New Year's Eve. It's a promise of a night. Single, married or widowed, in love, loveless or lovelorn, we all leave our apartments and pick through snow in high heels, or descend subway stairs in tuxedos, lured to wherever we're going – whether we know it or not, would deny it or not – by the kiss of a stranger.
Jardine Libaire
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We grew up founding our dreams on the infinite promise of American advertising. I still believe that one can learn to play the piano by mail and that mud will give you a perfect complexion.
Zelda Fitzgerald
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Husbands and wives fight, and when the wife is packing up, the husband says, 'Don't leave! I'm gonna change!' Marriages stay together because people promise to change.
Jerry Della Femina