Promise Quotes - because I said I would.

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“One moment of patience may ward off great disaster. One moment of impatience may ruin a whole life. .”
– Chinese Proverb

“Nothing so needs reforming as other people’s habits.”
– Mark Twain

“The essence of immorality is the tendency to make an exception of myself.”
– Jane Addams

“The chains of habit are generally too small to be felt until they are too strong to be broken.”
– Samuel Johnson

“A leader leads by example whether he intends to or not.”
– Author Unknown

“Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going.”
– Jim Ryun

“Live truth instead of professing it.”
– Elbert Hubbard

“If passion drives you, let reason hold the reigns.”
– Benjamin Franklin

“You can accept reality, or you can persist in your purpose until reality accepts you.”
– Robert Brault

“You have to decide what your highest priorities are and have the courage – pleasantly, smilingly, unapologetically – to say “no” to other things. And the way to do that is by having a bigger “yes” burning inside. The enemy of the “best” is often the good.”
– Stephen Covey

“Relationship is an art. The dream that two people create is more difficult to master than one.”
– Don Miguel Ruiz

“It makes my heart sick when I remember all the good words and the broken promises.”
– Chief Joseph

“Promises are the uniquely human way of ordering the future, making it predictable and reliable to the extent that this is humanly possible.”
– Hannah Arendt

“Disipline weighs ounces, regret weighs tons.”
– Unknown

“Don’t be afraid to celebrate a promise when kept. In doing so, you’re embracing the potential for a better world.”
– Unknown

“Those that are most slow in making a promise are the most faithful in the performance of it .”
– Jean-Jacques Rousseau

“Love is not a feeling of happiness, love is a willingness to sacrifice.”
– Michael Novak

“When the world says, “Give up,” Hope whispers, “Try it one more time.””
– Unknown

“Hope is like a road in the country; there was never a road, but when many people walk on it, the road comes into existence.”
– Lin Yutang

“If you chase two rabbits, you will not catch either one.”
– Russian Proverb

“I will not let anyone walk through my mind with their dirty feet.”
– Mohandas Gandhi

“Talk doesn’t help someone out of poverty. That takes doing.”
– Manoj Bhargava

“The heights by great men reached and kept were not attained by sudden flight, but they, while their companions slept, were toiling upward in the night”
– Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

“Darkness cannot drive out darkness: Only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: Only love can do that.”
– Martin Luther King, Jr.

“With lies you may get ahead in the world — but you can never go back”
– Russian Proverb

“You cannot plow a field by simply turning it over in your mind”
– Unknown

“Being responsible sometimes means pissing people off.”
– Colin Powell

“Sometimes to do the right thing, we must keep a promise we never made.”
– Robert Breault

“A good player never stops until he’s actually out, running as hard for first base on the almost-certain-to-be-caught fly or grounder as he would if he were sprinting the 100 yard dash”
– Babe Ruth

I would end up having to go to the back of the bus with my body, but every time I got on that bus I left my mind up on the front seat. And I said to myself, “One of these days, I’m going to put my body where my mind is.”
– Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

I’m not upset that you lied to me. I’m upset that from now on I can’t believe you.
– Friedrich Nietzsche

Whatever course you decide upon, there is always someone to tell you that you are wrong. There are always difficulties arising which tempt you to believe that your critics are right. To map out a course of action and follow it to an end requires courage.
– Ralph Waldo Emerson

It is better to offer no excuse than a bad one.– George Washington

The most effective way to do it, is to do it.
– Amelia Earhart

The first and best victory is to conquer self…
– Plato

The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why.
– Mark Twain

I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. ‘Tis the business of little minds to shrink; but he whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct, will pursue his principles unto death.
– Thomas Paine

It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.
– Confucius

I belong to the people I love, and they belong to me – they, and the love and loyalty I give them, form my identity far more than any word or group ever could.
– Veronica Ruth

One can pay back the loan of gold, but one dies forever in debt to those who are kind.
– Mayan Proverb

A little more persistence…A little more effort…and what seemed hopeless failure…may turn to glorious success.
– Elbert Hubbard

One-half of knowing what you want is knowing what you must give up before you get it.
– Sydney Howard

Habits are first cobwebs, then cables.
– Spanish Proverb

No union is more profound than marriage, for it embodies the highest ideals of love, fidelity, devotion, sacrifice, and family. In forming a marital union, two people become something greater than once they were.

As some of the petitioners in these cases demonstrate, marriage embodies a love that may endure even past death. It would misunderstand these men and women to say they disrespect the idea of marriage. Their plea is that they do respect it, respect it so deeply that they seek to find its fulfillment for themselves. Their hope is not to be condemned to live in loneliness, excluded from one of civilization’s oldest institutions.

They ask for equal dignity in the eyes of the law. The Constitution grants them that right. The judgement of the Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit is reversed. It is so ordered.
– Justice Anthony M. Kennedy

Better break your word than do worse in keeping it.
– Thomas Fuller

Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do.
– Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Cheers to a new year and another chance for us to get it right.
– Oprah Winfrey

Human progress is neither automatic nor inevitable. Even a superficial look at history reveals that no social advance rolls in on the wheels inevitability.

Every step towards the goal of justice requires sacrifice, suffering, and struggle; the tireless exertions and passionate concern of dedicated individuals.
– Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

Continuous effort – not strength or intelligence – is the key to unlocking your potential.
– Winston Churchill

You can pretend to care, but you can’t pretend to show up.
– George L. Bell

Commitment is an act, not a word.
– Jean-Paul Sartre

Setting an example is not the main means of influencing others; it is the only means.
– Albert Einstein

You can’t build a reputation on what you are going to do.
– Henry Ford

Once you learn to quit, it becomes habit.
-Vince Lombardi

Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone.
– Pablo Picasso

There is no substitute for hard work.
– Thomas Edison

When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it.
– Henry Ford

Do or do not. There is no try.
– Yoda

Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.
– Benjamin Franklin

There are no traffic jams along the extra mile.
– Roger Staubach

The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be.
– Ralph Waldo Emerson

I am not the product of my circumstances. I am the product of my decisions.
– Stephen Covey

If the wind will not serve, take to the oars.
– Latin Proverb

People with good intentions make promises. People with good character keep them.
– Unknown

Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.
– Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

Few things can help an individual more than to place responsibility on him, and to let him know that you trust him.
– Booker T. Washington