Promises Quotes
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Politicians make phony promises all the time that they can't deliver.
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First and foremost, be faithful to your superiors, keep all promises, refuse the friendship of all who are not like you; and if you have made a mistake, do not be afraid of admitting the fact and amending your ways.
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Promises are worse than lies. You don't just make them believe, you also make them hope.
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Hypocrisy can afford to be magnificent in its promises, for never intending to go beyond promise, it costs nothing.
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But as the arms-control scholar Thomas Schelling once noted, two things are very expensive in international life: promises when they succeed and threats when they fail.
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I am a very loyal man and always keep my promises when I commit to something.
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In business, words are words; explanations are explanations, promises are promises, but only performance is reality.
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You know, to address crowds and make promises does not require very much brains.
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Everyone's a millionaire where promises are concerned.
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To get Xi Jinping to help with our Pyongyang problem, Trump has dropped all talk of befriending Taiwan, backed off Tillerson's warning to Beijing to vacate its fortified reefs in the South China Sea, and held out promises of major concessions to Beijing in future trade deals.
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An ounce of performance is worth pounds of promises.
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Others may make you promises, once again, and then election after election not deliver. We will not do this.
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The politician's promises of yesterday are the taxes of today.
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What America needs is not just another politician or more promises. What America needs is a revival.
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Always prefer the plain direct word to the long, vague one. Don't implement promises, but keep them.
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He was a man, he always performed his promises.
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Promises are the uniquely human way of ordering the future, making it predictable and reliable to the extent that this is humanly possible.
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There are standards of the game that FIFA governs and promises to uphold.
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Countries have made impressive pledges to cut carbon pollution, but we have to ensure these promises become actions.
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The Clinton, Bush, and Obama administrations all fell victim to chronically relying on Beijing's empty promises with the distant hope that China would finally use its influence to reign in Pyongyang's provocative behavior, to no avail.
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The dissident does not operate in the realm of genuine power at all. He is not seeking power. He has no desire for office and does not gather votes. He does not attempt to charm the public, he offers nothing and promises nothing. He can offer, if anything, only his own skin - and he offers it solely because he has no other way of affirming the truth he stands for. His actions simply articulate his dignity as a citizen, regardless of the cost.
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I've learned that when God promises beauty through the ashes, He means it.
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Every consession gives rise to further concessions, we cannot back down, because behind us there is only an abyss, we must keep our promises and demand that they be kept.
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I think we need to give President Konare and the African Union all the support that they need. It is true that sometimes we promise things to the African Union and then we don't give what the promises are. We have to commit ourselves, within our capacities, of course.
