Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes, Commitment Quotes, Promise Quotes

All promise outruns performance.

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Being of no power to make his wishes good: His promises fly so beyond his state That what he speaks is all in debt; he owes For every word.

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...Promises are more dangerous then secrets.

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We remain a young nation, but in the words of Scripture, the time has come to set aside childish things. The time has come to reaffirm our enduring spirit; to choose our better history; to carry forward that precious gift, that noble idea, passed on from generation to generation: the God-given promise that all are equal, all are free, and all deserve a chance to pursue their full measure of happiness.

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Everything a politician promises at election time has to be paid for either by higher taxation or by borrowing.

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Negroes, like other people, act upon motives. Why should they do anything for us, if we will do nothing for them? If they stake their lives for us, they must be prompted by the strongest motive, even the promise of freedom. And the promise being made, must be kept.

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Lightly given promises must meet with little trust.

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Gambling promises the poor what property performs for the rich-something for nothing.

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Impartial - unable to perceive any promise of personal advantage from espousing either side of a controversy.

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Why didst thou promise such a beauteous day And make me travel forth without my cloak, To let base clouds o'ertake me in my way, Hiding they brav'ry in their rotten smoke?

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The earth does not argue, Is not pathetic, has no arrangements, Does not scream, haste, persuade, threaten, promise, Makes no discriminations, has no conceivable failures, Closes nothing, refuses nothing, shuts none out.

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I will You, in all, Myself, with promise to never desert you, To which I sign my name.

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That virtue therefore which is but a youngling in the contemplation of evil, and knows not the utmost that vice promises to her followers, and rejects it, is but a blank virtue, not a pure; her whiteness is but an excremental whiteness.

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Managers that always promise to 'make the numbers' will at some point be tempted to make up the numbers.

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The god on the cross is a curse on life, a signpost to seek redemption from life; Dionysus cut to pieces is a promise of life: it will be eternally reborn and return again from destruction

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A clean confession combined with a promise never to commit the sin again, when offered before one who has the right to receive it, is the purest type of repentance.

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I promise you that one day you will stand aside and look at your difficult times, you will realize that he was always there beside you.

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In every life, no matter how full or empty ones purse, there is tragedy. It is the one promise life always fulfills. Thus, happiness is a gift, and the trick is not to expect it, but to delight in it when it comes, and to add to other peoples store of it.

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There is something so ludicrous in promises of good or threats of evil a great way off as to render the whole subject with which they are connected easily turned into ridicule.

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God expects us to measure the church not against tradition but against the standards & promises of His Word.

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