Ralph Waldo Emerson
Essayist, Philosopher, Poet
"Every sunset brings the promise of a new dawn"
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Promise
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J. Cole
Rapper, songwriter
"Promise to my momma I'ma make it to the Top.. So I'ma keep climbing til my heartbeat drop"
George Bernard Shaw
Playwright, Critic
"Don't lose faith. Promise yourself that you will be a success story, and I promise you that all the forces of the universe will unite to come to your aid; you might not feel today or for a while, but the longer you wait the bigger the prize."
Peter the Great
Tsar
"Soldiers' bellies are not satisfied with empty promises and hopes."
Michelle Obama
Lawyer, Author, First Lady
"Every girl, no matter where she lives, deserves the opportunity to develop the promise inside of her."
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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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"There is a dance only you can do, that exists only in you, here and now, always changing, always true. Are you willing to listen with fascination? If you are, it will deliver you unto the self you have always dreamed you could be. This is a promise."
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"Never forgetting from where I came and no matter where I'm headed I promise to stay the same"
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"Commitment is what transforms a promise into reality."
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"Instead of concentrating on your problems and getting discouraged, focus on God and meditate on His promises for you. You may have fallen down, but you don't have to stay down. God is ready, willing and able to pick you up."
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"So go out and live real good and I promise you'll get beat up real bad. But, in a little while after you're dead, you'll be rotted away anyway. It's not gonna matter if you have a few scars. It will matter if you didn't live."
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""Love me or hate me, I promise it won't make or break me.""
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"The child is both a hope and a promise for mankind."
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"To be responsible, keep your promises to others. To be successful, keep your promises to yourself."
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"No matter what has happened to you in the past or what is going on in your life right now, it has no power to keep you from having an amazingly good future if you will walk by faith in God. God loves you! He wants you to live with victory over sin so you can possess His promises for your life today!"
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"Government has no wealth, and when a politician promises to give you something for nothing, he must first confiscate that wealth from you -- either by direct taxes, or by the cruelly indirect tax of inflation."
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"I can promise you that women working together - linked, informed and educated - can bring peace and prosperity to this forsaken planet."
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"The surest way to work up a crusade in favor of some good cause is to promise people they will have a chance of maltreating someone. To be able to destroy with good conscience, to be able to behave badly and call your bad behavior 'righteous indignation' — this is the height of psychological luxury, the most delicious of moral treats."
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"I don't know where I'm going from here, but I promise it won't be boring."
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"There's a big, wonderful world out there for you. It belongs to you. It's exciting and stimulating and rewarding. Don't cheat yourselves out of this promise."
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"Liberation is an ever shifting horizon, a total ideology that can never fulfill its promises. It has the therapeutic quality of providing emotionally charged rituals of solidarity in hatred - it is the amphetamine of its believers."
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"10 ways to love: listen, speak, give, pray, answer, share, enjoy, trust, forgive, promise."
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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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"Truth of a modest sort I can promise you, and also sincerity. That complete, praiseworthy sincerity which, while it delivers one into the hands of one's enemies, is as likely as not to embroil one with one's friends."
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"I promise you, if you have a plan, you can accomplish everything you ever wanted"
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